Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, GARDENS, AND RELATED TOPICS
SYMPOSIA AND ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE
Held 27-30 March 2008. Houston, TX. ANNUAL. The deadline for submitting a paper to a session was September 10, 2007.
BIG BUILDINGS : CONCEPTS OF COMPETITION AND ORDER SINCE THE 19TH CENTURY
27-30 August 2008 Lyon, France. Part of the 9th International Conference on Urban History, organized by the European Association for Urban History (EAUH). "We invite studies on the social-political-economic and cultural context of planning, production and the use of large-scale buildings, to be focussed on architectural-spatial concepts of urban development, economic processes, urban debates, configurations of parties involved etc., covering the period from the 19th century until the recent past. In order to establish and evaluate relationships between spatial architectonic objects and urban structures as well as economic, social-political and cultural conditions, multi-disciplinal accesses are required and warmly invited. Abstracts were due 1 November 2007.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE CULTURE
October 30 - November 2, 2008 Part of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Sheraton Fallsview Hotel & Conference Center, 6755 Fallsview Boulevard. Niagara Falls, Ontario L2G 3W, CANADA) "This area explores the ways that we shape and are shaped by the built environment, individual structures, and architecture culture. It seeks papers treating the theories, personalities, styles, and technologies that influence buildings, city planning, and community design. The material under consideration may be hypothetical or realized, fantastic or practical, controversial or traditional, political or personal or any combination of these. Topics from any time period and any culture are welcome. Undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers, full panels, round table discussions or alternative formats. Deadline June 15, 2008. For conference Information SEE: (http://www.mapacagazette.net)
- Built Environment and Architecture Culture
- Loretta Lorance, Area Chair
- ljlorance@gmail.com
- PO Box 461, Inwood Station
- New York, NY 10034
CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI DI ARCHITETTURA ANDREA PALLADIO
Located in Vicenza, Italy. Sponsors lectures, courses, exhibitions, publications, and travelling seminars. Many opportunities for graduate students of architecture and the history of architecture.
CLONE TOWNS? The High Street in Historical Perspective
10 and 11 September 2008. University of Wolverhampton, UK. "CHORD [sic]invites submissions for a conference devoted to exploring the changing nature of the high street, from the medieval to the contemporary period, in Britain and elsewhere. Proposals are invited for papers exploring any aspect of this topic, and focusing on any geographical area. Proposals were due to the address below 4 April 2008. For further information, please see THE WEB Site [above]. Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK. E-mail: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
THE EMERGENCE OF THE PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECT
25-28 FEBRUARY 2009 Part of the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, CA. "The Italian Renaissance is thought to mark the beginning of the shift from skilled artisan to professional architect. The limited available evidence, however, has not allowed an in-depth analysis of the subject, including the following: How do the changes in intellectual/ cultural paradigms relate to architectural practice? What did the process of design consist of and how did it originate? What is the relationship between architectural design and/or drawing/painting, as well as mathematics? We invite proposals that investigate all aspects of the architectural profession in Early Modern Europe. Abstracts of no more than 150 words and a short CV to Dr. Angeliki Pollali (apollali@acgmail.gr) and Dr. Berthold Hub(berthold.hub@gta.arch.ehtz.ch) were due May 22, 2008.
MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN EAST ASIA
25-28 FEBRUARY 2009 Part of the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, CA. "For abstract submission guideline and CAA form, visit (http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf). Proposals on interdisciplinary, comparative aspects, either between geographical regions or between time-periods, are particularly welcome." >Abstracts were due: May 9, 2008.
- Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Ph.D.
- LDepartment of Art History
- University of Delaware
- Newark, DE 19716
- (during 2008: 8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AF, England)
- E-mail: vimalin@udel.edu
POPULAR ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND DESIGN
8-11 April 2009. Part of the 2009 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, to be held at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. "[This conference] is concerned with the aesthetics of material culture in the everyday world of the past, present and future. Scholars from such disciplines as Architecture, Art History, Fine Art, Industrial Design, and Interior Design are invited to submit proposals. At previous conferences topics have included World Fairs, architectural follies, urban image, baseball parks, fashion design, Buckminster Fuller, urban memory, Disneyland, railroad stations, Frank Lloyd Wright, literary architecture, shop-houses, mobile homes, folk art, Orientalism, and the effect of television on the home. It is truly a broad arena! Please e-mail a cover letter with contact information and 150-word abstract of your proposed paper to both Dr. Loretta Lorance at (llorance@ earthlink.net) and Dr.Derham Groves at (derham@unimelb.edu.au). NO ATTACHMENTS. The deadline for abstracts is November 30, 2008.
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE
The major architectural organization of the U.K. Free membership for students in U.K. architectural programs.
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
Check the Web site for information about the Annual Conference, held in April. Also lists of other chapters which also have conferences, tours, lectures and on and on.
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN
Handsome new site. (2007)
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS OF
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
The 21st Annual Conference was held in Melbourne, 26-29 September, 2004. Seems to be held about
the same time every year.
SOUTHEAST CHAPTER: SOCIETY OF
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
1-4 October 2008 Nashville, TN. Abstracts were due April 1, 2008. Please see the Web site for more
information.
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA [PAPERS]
Offers a number of opportunities--explore.
URBAN PLANNING AND THE PURSUIT
OF HAPPINESS
27 - 30 August 2008 "Call for papers for a session within the 9th International Conference on Urban History,
organised by the European Association for Urban History (EAUH), Lyon, FRANCE." Abstracts were due 1 December 2007.
URBAN CULTURE AREA, MAPACA
October 30th-November 1st, 2008. Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Niagara Falls,
ON, Canada. " Small neighborhood cafes and stores are closing down, giving way to new condo buildings and chain stores;
favorite parks dwindle in size, giving way to various markets and corporate businessesÉPedestrians smile to the tunes
coming from their i-pods but not to each otherÉWhat is becoming of our cities? What is becoming of us, the residents
of these cities? This year, the Urban Culture area of MAPACA aims to understand the production, negotiation, and loss
of public space in the metropolitan city, in light of current conditions such as the proliferation of technology, the
effects of natural disaster, gentrification, and globalization. Presentations about unique, ordinary, temporary, and
permanent public places are welcome as are presentations about the formation, sustenance, and disappearance of public
self, itself a function of public place, in the context of the city. We seek historical or ethnographic studies of
public sites and events, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly
orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city. If interested in participating in a
workshop on "writing the urban," in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so.
"Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta
Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by July 10th, 2008.
URBAN SPACE: THE
EXPERIENCE OF URBAN LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN AGE
1-4 May 2008 Tucson, Arizona. University of Arizona. "Building on a rich corpus of previous research, this
interdisciplinary symposium will address a host of new questions, shedding new light on one of the most complex
cultural-historical phenomena since at least the eleventh century. Deadline for submission was January 31, 2008, but
feel free to send an inquiry even after that date, to aclassen@u.arizona.edu."
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM
10-13 June 2009. Butte, Montana. "The conference theme is "Mining Metropolis: An Island in a Stockman's
Paradise." Deadline is October 1, 200.
THE VIENNESE CAFE AS AN URBAN SITE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE
17-18 Oct 2008 Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, LONDON. "As today, the cafes of
fin-de-siecle Vienna were an important component of modern city life, an extension of both home and workplace. Cafes
were as much to do with intellectual and social interaction as with procuring refreshment. This conference will focus
on the complexities of the Viennese cafë as an urban space in order to better understand wider questions about
Viennese modernism. Through its focus on the cafë, the conference aims to redefine our understanding not only of the
arts in Vienna, but also of modernity more generally. The conference encourages a cross-disciplinary approach to
subjects and welcomes proposals for papers from scholars and practitioners in any field...We invite abstracts of 400
words to be submitted electronically to Dr Charlotte Ashby (charlotte.ashby@rca.ac.uk). The deadline for submissions
was 15th January 2008.
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Black Moon Japanese art and culture.
This Web Page created, owned and updated by: Adrienne DeAngelis
Handsome new site. (2007)
The 21st Annual Conference was held in Melbourne, 26-29 September, 2004. Seems to be held about the same time every year.
1-4 October 2008 Nashville, TN. Abstracts were due April 1, 2008. Please see the Web site for more information.
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA [PAPERS]Offers a number of opportunities--explore.
27 - 30 August 2008 "Call for papers for a session within the 9th International Conference on Urban History, organised by the European Association for Urban History (EAUH), Lyon, FRANCE." Abstracts were due 1 December 2007.
URBAN CULTURE AREA, MAPACAOctober 30th-November 1st, 2008. Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada. " Small neighborhood cafes and stores are closing down, giving way to new condo buildings and chain stores; favorite parks dwindle in size, giving way to various markets and corporate businessesÉPedestrians smile to the tunes coming from their i-pods but not to each otherÉWhat is becoming of our cities? What is becoming of us, the residents of these cities? This year, the Urban Culture area of MAPACA aims to understand the production, negotiation, and loss of public space in the metropolitan city, in light of current conditions such as the proliferation of technology, the effects of natural disaster, gentrification, and globalization. Presentations about unique, ordinary, temporary, and permanent public places are welcome as are presentations about the formation, sustenance, and disappearance of public self, itself a function of public place, in the context of the city. We seek historical or ethnographic studies of public sites and events, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city. If interested in participating in a workshop on "writing the urban," in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so.
"Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by July 10th, 2008.
URBAN SPACE: THE
EXPERIENCE OF URBAN LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN AGE1-4 May 2008 Tucson, Arizona. University of Arizona. "Building on a rich corpus of previous research, this interdisciplinary symposium will address a host of new questions, shedding new light on one of the most complex cultural-historical phenomena since at least the eleventh century. Deadline for submission was January 31, 2008, but feel free to send an inquiry even after that date, to aclassen@u.arizona.edu."
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM10-13 June 2009. Butte, Montana. "The conference theme is "Mining Metropolis: An Island in a Stockman's Paradise." Deadline is October 1, 200.
17-18 Oct 2008 Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, LONDON. "As today, the cafes of fin-de-siecle Vienna were an important component of modern city life, an extension of both home and workplace. Cafes were as much to do with intellectual and social interaction as with procuring refreshment. This conference will focus on the complexities of the Viennese cafë as an urban space in order to better understand wider questions about Viennese modernism. Through its focus on the cafë, the conference aims to redefine our understanding not only of the arts in Vienna, but also of modernity more generally. The conference encourages a cross-disciplinary approach to subjects and welcomes proposals for papers from scholars and practitioners in any field...We invite abstracts of 400 words to be submitted electronically to Dr Charlotte Ashby (charlotte.ashby@rca.ac.uk). The deadline for submissions was 15th January 2008.