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.
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.
THE DREAMLAND PAVILION: BROOKLYN AND DEVELOPMENT
2-3 October 2009 Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York. "How has Brooklyn become what it isÑa place of nostalgia, imagination, or fantasy as much as a territorial space, an "outer borough" of New York City? Isn't it time to assess critically the rapid changes in the borough over the last decade? With tremendous growth comes certain costs, but how do we evaluate the present moment, poised between Brooklyn past and Brooklyn future? How is "development" defined differently by different groups in different contexts? Finally, how do Brooklyn's diverse localities and populations reflect or even shape the future of New York, a global metropolis? This conference aims to be a space within which these and other questions will be addressed, discussed, even answered. The two-day gathering will combine moderated panels (in both traditional academic and roundtable formats), guided visits to local sites, artistic performances and discussion...Please e-mail completed proposals to Dr. Rick Armstrong, Department of English, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, at: (stephen.armstrong@kingsborough.edu.) Proposals were due February 1, 2009." Please see the Web site for more information.
EASTERN ELEMENTS IN QUATTROCENTO ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL THEORY
8-10 April 2010 Venice, Italy. Part of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "The cultural and artistic exchange between East and West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance has been the topic of recent conferences and exhibitions (f.e. Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797, Paris & New York 2007, et al.). Even its architectural aspect has finally received due attention in Deborah Howard's invaluable studies. However, the Quattrocento has received less attention than other periods, and architectural theory less attention than the built architecture. While the influence of Sinan's mosques on Palladio's Il Redentore f.e. has been recognized and analyzed, similar features in several illustrations of Filarete's ideal city "Sforzinda" still are simply attributed to his individual, supposedly fantastic imagination. Venice as the host of the 2010 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America is the ideal place to discuss questions of eastern influence on the west, this section focusing on the architecture and architectural theory of the Quattrocento. Please send abstract of no more than 150 words and curriculum vitae to Berthold Hub/ETH Zurich: (berthold.hub@gta.arch.ethz.ch) Deadline was 10 May 2009.
EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK
17-20 June 2010 EAHN First International Meeting, Guimaraes, Portugal. "Call for Session and Roundtable Proposals due date was 19 December 2008. Proposals in English of no more than 400 words including a session or roundtable title should summarize the subject and the premise. Please include name, professional affiliation (if applicable), address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and a current CV. Proposals and short CVs should be submitted by e-mail, including the text in both the body of the e-mail and in the attachment...Scholars wishing to
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN HISTORY
Held 27-30 August 2008 in Lyon, France. Biennial. Check the Web site. Abstracts were due 1 November 2007.
THE ITALIAN CIVIC PALACE IN THE
AGE OF THE CITY-REPUBLICS
17-20 June 2010. First International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network, Guimaraes, Portugal. "Medieval Italian communes spent lavishly on the construction of their civic palaces, which were typically built on a monumental scale and embellished with expensive materials such as marble and travertine. These impressive edifices, prominently sited in every major city and town north of Rome, were designed to house the various magistracies and officials of the communes that erected them, as well as to project their power and prestige in visual terms. Each city constructed its government headquarters in its own particular fashion, and decorated its exterior surfaces with motifs and ornaments that were distinct from those exhibited in the public architecture of neighboring states. For instance, the Palazzo Vecchio of Florence (1299-1315) and the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena (1297-1348), notwithstanding the close proximity of the two cities, are substantially different, both formally and iconographically. Each of their facades constitutes a fully articulated and unique architectural language...This session invites participants to consider new ways of understanding and interpreting Italian civic palaces, and to propose new avenues of inquiry for deciphering their formal characteristics and symbolic content. Papers addressing questions of historiography, typology, iconography and political ideology are especially welcome. Please send your paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to: Dr. Max E. Grossman, tel: (001) 310-709-2772, maxelijah@hotmail.com. Submission deadline: October 30, 2009. (For the complete call for papers see www.eahn2010.org or http://www.eahn2010.org/EAHN2010_CPF.pdf)
METROPOLITAN DESIRES: CULTURAL RECONFIGURATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN CITY SPACE
8-9 September 2009. Manchester European Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University. "Through the prism of culture (including, but by no means limited to, literature, film, music, art, photography, dance) the conference aims to address the following questions:
In what ways is the city being redefined as its parameters are altered? How do cultural and individual identities shift within reconstructed urban spaces? How does the city contain and/or release the forces of desire, order and disorder? What perspectives are provided of diverse and anarchic city life? How does the metropolis interact with its periphery and with the global, if indeed these are suitable terms for the contemporary nature of urban spaces? In what ways do cultural narratives convey, construct and constitute the fluid and striated spaces of the modern city? Who are the privileged and the underprivileged protagonists of the city and what role do they play in the urban imaginary? Can urban culture and/or the cultural city participate in the construction of future democratic metropolises?"We invite proposals for papers that address some or any of the above questions, as well as those that challenge these issues and/or terminologies. Though the focus of this conference is Europe and European cities, we encourage submissions that illustrate how alternative urban imaginaries interact with(in) the European city or even the way that European urban imaginaries are themselves disrupted in other contexts...Proposals were due 01 May 2009 to: (metdesires@mmu.ac.uk)
Nicoletta DiCiolla James Scorer Edmund Smyth Department of Languages Manchester Metropolitan University
MOGULS, MANSIONS, AND MUSEUMS: ART AND CULTURE IN AMERICA'S FIRST GILDED AGE
10-13 February 2010 Chicago, part of the CAA conference. "Following the Civil War, a new generation of European-trained artists and architects was hired to design some of the countryÕs most important civic buildings-- Albany State Capitol; Trinity Church, Boston; the Boston Public Library-and worked on the architectural and decorative programs of ChicagoÕs WorldÕs Columbian Exposition and the Library of Congress. At the same time these architects built and often oversaw the decoration of houses for a new class of extremely wealthy Americans. Their clients also assembled important art collections, which included contemporary European academic painting and sculpture, and supported the establishment of the countryÕs leading museums. Papers are sought that explore these interconnections and/or document the impact of European art on American culture and are welcome from multiple disciplines including architecture, collecting, museum history, European academic painting, stained glass, public art, exposition history, as well as Gilded Age American sculpture and painting. For questions, please e-mail Sally Webster at: (salweb@nyc.rr.com) Abstracts were due May 8th."
THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPES OF CAPITALS
10-13 February 2010 Part of the College Art Association conference, Chicago. "This session investigates Political Landscapes (A. Smith, 2003) of capital cities as dynamic relations between the natural setting, material elements of buildings and infrastructure, political and governmental processes, power structures, and the lived experience,perception, and imagination. Papers may examine transformations of natural landscape into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political landscapes as a result of urban design of capitals worldwide from antiquity until the 1950s. Presenters may address the design of capitals in previously uninhabited space, the rebuilding and dedication of capitals upon older settlements, the history of use and reuse of sites, as well as the identity of patron(s) and builders who embedded ideological messages into a nascent capital. The goal is to highlight the patterns pertaining to relations between the man-made built environment and the natural landscape in the planning, construction, as well as the display and performance of capitals. Jessica Christie and Jelena Bogdanovic«, East Carolina University; mail to: Jessica Christie, School of Art and Design, Jenkins Building, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858. For queries, contact Jessica Christie at: (CHRISTIEJ@ecu.edu)." DUE DATE NOT LISTED.
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 was 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 FOR AMERICAN CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING HISTORY (SACRPH)
15-18 October 2009 Oakland, California. The 13th National Conference on Planning History. "Papers are cordially invited* on all aspects of urban, regional and community planning history. Particularly welcome are papers or complete sessions addressing architecture, planning, and landscape design in the Bay Area and the West; environmental sustainability, nature and the metropolis; historic preservation; real estate; regions; public art; and studies that consider race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality in planning and the shaping of urban form. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for the *Francois Auguste de Montequin Prize* (best paper in North American colonial planning history) and a *Student Research Prize. *Thursday afternoon sessions will be dedicated to the history and future of planning in the Bay area, and SACRPH wishes to extend a special welcome to practitioners based in (or interested in) the region. Proposals were due February 15, 2009 to (sacrph@history.rutgers.edu). Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to:
- Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Alison Isenberg,
- Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University
- isenberg@history.rutgers.edu
and
- Owen Gutfreund,
- Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Columbia University
- gutfreund@columbia.edu.
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
Held 1-4 October 2008. Nashville, TN. Abstracts were due April 1, 2008. Please see the Web site for more
information.
SPACES AND PRACTICES OF LEISURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
17-20 June 2010. European Architectural History Network, 1st International Meeting. Guimaraes, Portugal.
"Intersections of shifting practices and spaces of leisure...have been studied primarily for the industrialized
world and have remained split among leisure studies, cultural and social history, and analyses of building types. This
session offers a more synthetic and interdisciplinary approach to early modern leisure; it invites papers concerning
built spaces of leisure, landscape architecture, and visual and written depictions of villa life or other leisure
activities. We particularly seek proposals that suggest new methodological approaches or that aim to re-evaluate
long-standing approaches and arguments Ð for instance, through a new variety of sources or a study of social
alongside architectural context. Themes of especial interest include: city-country connections, the relationship of
interior to exterior leisure spaces, the villaÕs seemingly paradoxical role as working farm and site of elite leisure,
practices of hospitality and their connections to architectural design, changing social and architectural relationships
of public to private, the role of the renewed interest in Classical Antiquity (eg, villa culture, notions of
negotium/otium, and philosophical claims about contemplative v. active life), the commercialization of leisure, the
role of gender, varying ideas of leisure with social class, court culture, and the relationship of regional to
international in circulating ideas of leisure.
"Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words (including applicant's name and affiliation), a short CV, and full
contact information (e-mail and postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers) by October 30, 2009 to:
Dr. Freek Schmidt, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (f.schmidt@let.vu.nl)
tel: 0031 205986372, fax: 0031 205986500, and
Dr. Kimberley Skelton, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA, tel: 001-443-253-5529, fax:
001-781-736-2672, (KCSkelton@aol.com).
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA [PAPERS]
Offers a number of opportunities--explore.
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM
10-13 June 2009. Butte, Montana. "The conference theme is "Mining Metropolis: An Island in a Stockman's
Paradise." Deadline was October 1, 2008.
VISIBILITY OF THE ARCHITECT ACROSS CULTURES
8-10 April 2010 Venice, Italy. Part of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "In all epochs and
cultures patrons and rulers have built cities and buildings. They did want to be considered mainly as builders,
architects or creators. Following the lead of the pioneering study by Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz "Myth, Legend and Magic
in the image of the artist" (1934) the session aims at a revision of commonly held ideas about the figure of the
architect. The literary forms (biography, legendary tales, administrative bookkeeping, novels, etc.) and the visual
means (portrait, inscription, bust, sculpture, etc.) that gave visibility to the persona of the architect in the early
modern period will be of central interest. How can biography, epigraphic inscription and
portrait, just to name only this few instances, be compared across cultures? How did the visibility of architect relate
to the image of the ruler? A particularly fascinating topic seems to be the interpretation of the epigraphic roman
inscriptions that were available to many different cultures in the Mediterranean basin. Their interpretation
varies a great deal from culture to culture. In Italy, for example, they were sometimes (mis-)interpreted as "signatures"
of architects. In Ottoman architecture we find a great deal of epigraphic inscriptions that commemorate the architect.
Contributions on colonial and missionary architecture, Mughal India, the Ottoman Empire, Asia as well as Europe
(but also other geographic regions) are especially welcome. Chair: Alina Payne, Harvard University. Abstracts were
due April 30, 2009 to:
Matteo Burioni, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitŠt MŸnchen,
matteo.burioni@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
THE VISION OF ARCHITECTURE IN RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENTS: (15th-16th
Centuries): A Comparative Assessment
8-10 April 2010 Venice, Italy. Part of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "This panel aims
to compare studies whose topic has been the relationship between architecture and religious reform in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, prior to the Counter-Reformation, including the Observantist movements and the Devotio moderna.
Among the questions we would like to address are: was the aspiration to reinstating the ideal spirit of the
early Christian communities expressed through architecture? To what extent did reform principles affect the appearance
and layout of churches and monasteries? Did reformed orders and congregations contribute to the circulation of new
architectural ideas and models? Eventually, did all'antica architecture constitute a relevant aspect of religious
reform? Topics may include the directives of religious orders and congregations, buildings of given regions (in Italy
and Europe), and also in-depth investigations on relevant cases of churches, monasteries, and patronage.
Papers may be proposed and given either in English or Italian. Abstracts were due to Andrea Guerra (guerra@iuav.it)
and Paola Modesti (paolamodesti@gmail.com) May 20th.
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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.
Held 1-4 October 2008. Nashville, TN. Abstracts were due April 1, 2008. Please see the Web site for more information.
SPACES AND PRACTICES OF LEISURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE17-20 June 2010. European Architectural History Network, 1st International Meeting. Guimaraes, Portugal. "Intersections of shifting practices and spaces of leisure...have been studied primarily for the industrialized world and have remained split among leisure studies, cultural and social history, and analyses of building types. This session offers a more synthetic and interdisciplinary approach to early modern leisure; it invites papers concerning built spaces of leisure, landscape architecture, and visual and written depictions of villa life or other leisure activities. We particularly seek proposals that suggest new methodological approaches or that aim to re-evaluate long-standing approaches and arguments Ð for instance, through a new variety of sources or a study of social alongside architectural context. Themes of especial interest include: city-country connections, the relationship of interior to exterior leisure spaces, the villaÕs seemingly paradoxical role as working farm and site of elite leisure, practices of hospitality and their connections to architectural design, changing social and architectural relationships of public to private, the role of the renewed interest in Classical Antiquity (eg, villa culture, notions of negotium/otium, and philosophical claims about contemplative v. active life), the commercialization of leisure, the role of gender, varying ideas of leisure with social class, court culture, and the relationship of regional to international in circulating ideas of leisure.
"Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words (including applicant's name and affiliation), a short CV, and full contact information (e-mail and postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers) by October 30, 2009 to:
Dr. Freek Schmidt, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (f.schmidt@let.vu.nl) tel: 0031 205986372, fax: 0031 205986500, and Dr. Kimberley Skelton, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA, tel: 001-443-253-5529, fax: 001-781-736-2672, (KCSkelton@aol.com).
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA [PAPERS]Offers a number of opportunities--explore.
10-13 June 2009. Butte, Montana. "The conference theme is "Mining Metropolis: An Island in a Stockman's Paradise." Deadline was October 1, 2008.
8-10 April 2010 Venice, Italy. Part of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "In all epochs and cultures patrons and rulers have built cities and buildings. They did want to be considered mainly as builders, architects or creators. Following the lead of the pioneering study by Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz "Myth, Legend and Magic in the image of the artist" (1934) the session aims at a revision of commonly held ideas about the figure of the architect. The literary forms (biography, legendary tales, administrative bookkeeping, novels, etc.) and the visual means (portrait, inscription, bust, sculpture, etc.) that gave visibility to the persona of the architect in the early modern period will be of central interest. How can biography, epigraphic inscription and portrait, just to name only this few instances, be compared across cultures? How did the visibility of architect relate to the image of the ruler? A particularly fascinating topic seems to be the interpretation of the epigraphic roman inscriptions that were available to many different cultures in the Mediterranean basin. Their interpretation varies a great deal from culture to culture. In Italy, for example, they were sometimes (mis-)interpreted as "signatures" of architects. In Ottoman architecture we find a great deal of epigraphic inscriptions that commemorate the architect. Contributions on colonial and missionary architecture, Mughal India, the Ottoman Empire, Asia as well as Europe (but also other geographic regions) are especially welcome. Chair: Alina Payne, Harvard University. Abstracts were due April 30, 2009 to:
Matteo Burioni, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitŠt MŸnchen, matteo.burioni@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
8-10 April 2010 Venice, Italy. Part of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "This panel aims to compare studies whose topic has been the relationship between architecture and religious reform in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, prior to the Counter-Reformation, including the Observantist movements and the Devotio moderna. Among the questions we would like to address are: was the aspiration to reinstating the ideal spirit of the early Christian communities expressed through architecture? To what extent did reform principles affect the appearance and layout of churches and monasteries? Did reformed orders and congregations contribute to the circulation of new architectural ideas and models? Eventually, did all'antica architecture constitute a relevant aspect of religious reform? Topics may include the directives of religious orders and congregations, buildings of given regions (in Italy and Europe), and also in-depth investigations on relevant cases of churches, monasteries, and patronage. Papers may be proposed and given either in English or Italian. Abstracts were due to Andrea Guerra (guerra@iuav.it) and Paola Modesti (paolamodesti@gmail.com) May 20th.