International symposium 1989 “Hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand.”

The symposium entitled “1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand” is organized by the ACS, Architecture, Culture Société/UMR AUSser 3329 Laboratory and will be held on 27 and 28 November at ENSA, Paris Malaquais. The team is asking for contributions from researchers, teachers and practitioners in architecture and in social sciences. Proposed communications should be submitted by 29 June 2020. Bellow is the call for communications and its practical arrangements. For the symposium to take place in the best possible conditions, it may be postponed in the view of the current health situation. Deadline for submitting propositions: 1st…

Call for Papers: Symposium: Remote Practices I: Architect’s tools and the Challenges of Globalization

Architects and critics use different tools to manifest the imagination of the otherwise distant and invisible, to design, describe and appraise future and past constructions in absentia. Beginning already in the ancient world, architecture was often practiced as an itinerant art – architects moving to the location of a building opportunity and consulting on projects away from home. In the fifteenth century, as architects like Leon Battista Alberti began working on drawings and models at a scholar’s table rather than the construction site, they expanded the possible distance between design and building. The printed word and image accompanied these developments…

Call for Papers: Visual Ethics after Communism

The Museum of the Romanian Peasant is seeking contributions for its annual journal Martor 26/2021, on the topic of Visual Ethics after Communism. Martor is a peer-reviewed academic journal, established in 1996, indexed by EBSCO, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, AIO, and MLA International Bibliography, with a focus on cultural and visual anthropology, ethnology and museology. This special issue to appear in 2021 will problematize the often-uncritical use of images in publications and displays about communism. This themed issue will pose a number of questions for anthropologists, historians, museologists and others. When does an image or a museum display present itself as problematic and for whom?…

Call for Papers: 74th Annual International Conference – Society of Architectural Historians

The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 74th Annual International Conference in Montréal, Canada, April 14–18, 2021. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 3, 2020, to one of the 33 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the Open Sessions. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters and partner organizations. Thematic sessions and Graduate Student Lightning Talks are listed below. The thematic sessions have been selected to cover topics across all time periods and architectural styles. If…

Call for Papers: Getty Research Journal, Fall 2021 Issue

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the Getty Research Journal will begin biannual publication in 2021. Submissions are invited for the inaugural fall issue. Published twice a year, in February and in August, the journal will continue to feature the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators around the world as part of the Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles are peer reviewed. We welcome submissions of original scholarship relevant to the Getty’s initiatives, research projects and themes, and collections. The Getty Research Journal is distributed in print and…

Edmonton 2020 Conference: “Hindsight 2020: Conservation, Disruption, and the Future of Heritage” – virtual sessions | Covid-19 disclaimer

[Dear members and Supporters, The difficult decision by the boards of APT and the National Trust for Canada to switch the Edmonton 2020 conference to a virtual event set off two months of intense activity by the joint APT/NT/CAHP planning team. The team has worked hard to reimagine what our annual conference will be like online rather than in-person. First, we focused on modifying the program already developed for Edmonton, adapting it to a remote, digital format. Our goal is to make the content and social events as engaging and interactive as possible. Next we had to evaluate the technology needed to…

Call for Papers: Emotional Objects

Emotional Objects – Northern Renaissance Afterlives in Object, Image and Word, 1890s-1920s A one-day International Symposium, the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 12-13 June 2020. Organizer: Prof. Juliet Simpson In 1920 Louis Gillet, the French art historian and internationalist published a rousing article defending the repatriation of stolen fragments from the Van Eycks’ Ghent Altarpiece from Germany to Belgium as ‘un drapeau’. His ensign of a Northern patrimony pitched as an emotive call for a different cultural ‘belonging’ post-1918 was part of a pattern. Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych was vaunted as both a ‘jewel’, yet the…

Call for Papers: Cultures of Belgian Space, 1850-1924

Dominique Bauer (KULeuven), Laurence Brogniez (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Marjan Sterckx (Universiteit Gent), Hingene, Belgium, 16-17 October 2020. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of a modern city culture within a globalised economy, built on industrial mass production, an early consumer society, and colonial expansion. Both modernism and colonialism led to the creation of otherness. Non-industrial, pre-modern or exotic societies, and furthermore the racial, moral or female other were not just conceived in reaction to the emergence of modernism, but were also interiorised. This conference will bring together a number of papers that focus on how…

Call for Papers: Architectural Aesthetics: An Old Matter Revisited. sITA – studies in History and Theory of Architecture Journal

Trying to highlight the architects’ involvement in topics other than the mere production on form, the heading Less aesthetics, more ethics of the 2000 Venice Architectural Biennale inadvertently opened the way to a specious professional dichotomy. The title has become a tagline encouraging alternative practices of architecture motivated by ethical — environmental and social — concerns, while seemingly dismissing the aesthetic discourse. Yet, concerns about the nature and expression of beauty had proven fundamental for defining architecture as a practice, for writing its theory, for endowing its critique and education with specific instruments even before aesthetics was born. And despite the debunking…

Call for Papers: Architectural Exhibitions. Bitácora Arquitectura Journal, issue 44

In this issue, the editors of Bitácora aim to explore architectural exhibitions as cultural artefacts that have fostered critical reflection and have established aesthetic canons, social patterns, and cultural policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is often overlooked that some noteworthy architectural works achieved this status thanks to exhibitions and that some works were even produced only for exhibition purposes. Influential exhibitions advanced polemical proposals that guided critics and gave rise to canonical works and debates of the past century. Exhibition spaces such as galleries and museums condition the development, reception, and presentation of architecture. In these spaces,…