Professor Peter Clark (Univ. Helsinki) will be in Lisbon to give a lecture with the theme “Urban Vacant Land and Wasteland 1000-2010”. This is a joint organization between the IEM – Institute of Medieval Studies and CHAM – Humanities Center, which will take place on October 9, 17:30, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – NOVA FCSH (ID Building, Multipurpose 3). Entrance is free and limited to the capacity of the room.

About the speaker:
Peter Clark was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and received a First class degree in Modern History from Oxford University. He was Professor and Director of the Centre for Urban History at Leicester University 1985-1999 and since 2000 Professor of European Urban History at Helsinki University (now Emeritus); he has also taught in the USA and the Czech republic. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, at NIAS Netherlands, and the Royal Belgian Academy. He is a foreign member of the Royal Belgian Academy and the Finnish Society of Arts and Sciences, and in 2012 received an honorary degree from the University of Stockholm. From 1989 to 2012 he was Treasurer of the European Association for Urban History. He has written or edited over twenty books including on European Small Towns (1995), European Cities and Towns (2009) and recently the Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (2013, 2016). He is currently researching on urban wasteland.