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.

CITYSCAPES IN HISTORY: CREATING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE

29-30 July 2010. Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany. "The conference aims at bringing scholars from various disciplines together to study the history of the urban experience. One of our [sic] main themes will be the performative and ritual aspects of urban life, and the built environment. We invite proposals for individual (20 minute) papers or 3 paper panels. Please submit a 300 word abstract per paper, for panel submissions an abstract for each paper plus a brief (<200 word) summary of the panel. Submissions to:

Katrina Gulliver
katrina.gulliver@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Helena Toth
helena.toth@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Deadline for submissions is Friday 22nd January; notifications will be sent of the acceptance of papers by Friday 12th February.

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

chair a scholarly session or a roundtable debate at the 2010 EAHN Meeting in Guimaraes, Portugal, are invited to submit proposals to jorge.correia@arquitectura.uminho.pt, Prof. Jorge Correia, General Chair of the EAHN First International Meeting, DAAUM, Departamento Aut—nomo de Arquitectura, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurem, 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal. Phone: +351 253510503. Bonus!: here's a link to the Newsletter, which is as large as a small book.

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 was 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.

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE

The major architectural organization of the U.K. Free membership for students in U.K. architectural programs.

RX CITIES

20 March 2010. Birmingham, UK. "The life of the city has been central to the many jostling narratives of modernity which have informed our understanding of the relations of art and life. This conference invites papers which broadly explore the city as a nexus for the production and consumption of design goods, the built environment, and representation in the history of art and design. Proposals are welcomed from any disciplinary perspective and across all historical periods...Please send a 250-300 word abstract by email to RXCities@gmail.com by 29th January 2010. Speakers are advised that all presentations must include a visual element.

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. Abstracts were due 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.

URBAN RESEARCH AND ARCHITECTURE: BEYOND HENRI LEFEBVRE

24-26 November 2010. ETH Zurich, Switzerland. "Please send an abstract of up to 300 words and a curriculum vitae of up to 150 words to (info@henrilefebvre.org). Abstracts can be submitted until June 30th, 2009. The selected participants will be informed by July 15th. Limited number of travel allowances might be available for successful applicants."

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.

Black Moon Japanese art and culture.