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Friday 4 November 2005
Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester
Call for Papers - 2005 Postgraduate Workshop
Rhythms and Rituals in Urban Europe from 1700
Once again the Centre for Urban History is hosting a multi-disciplinary workshop aimed at widening understanding of the urban environment and provides a relaxed atmosphere for the presentation of work-in-progress to a peer group. I would like to take this opportunity to ask you to circulate this information amongst your colleagues and students.
While the workshop is predominantly an historical meeting, we aim to continue the exchange between postgraduate students with a variety of research interests and academic disciplines and delegates are invited from both from the humanities and social sciences (and even the natural sciences) - not just urban historians.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is for the presentation of work by postgraduate students and new researchers; papers from established academics will not be accepted.
Full details and on-line registration form can be found at the website at http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/news/pgworkshop2005.html
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8-11 November 2005
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Seminar – call for papers
Projetar 2005
Assemblage, Practice and Interfaces
The International Seminar Projetar 2005, promoted and sponsored by the Post-Graduate Studies Program in Architecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – PROARQ/FAU/UFRJ, aims to foster a regular forum for the debate of the most common issues related to the construction of knowledge in the field of architecture and design teaching. The leading action towards this effort was first held in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 2003, with the I Seminar on Teaching and Research in Architectural Design, which we take as precursor.
In this way, Projetar 2005 is proposed to continue the number of discussions started in the last Seminar as well as to incorporate the latest issues related to the construction of knowledge in the field of architecture and design teaching, their assemblage, practice, interactions and dialogs. Projetar 2005 is planned to be a space for discussions aiming at the necessity of outlining architectural design as a disciplinary field and for the consolidation of research and post-grad programs, besides the renewal of design teaching. Facing the many technological, social-cultural and economic challenges in the Century XXI, the Seminar will enable to agregate new and valuable theoretical-practical dimensions to architectural design and related themes.
Target-public
Teachers, researchers, students and workers related to architecture and urbanism; researchers of other areas interested in the thematic of the Seminar.
Thematic sessions
1) Design Teaching
Specificities of some disciplines and interfaces with other fields of knowledge; approaches and teaching techniques; conception and representation tools (simulation, physical and computer modeling); post-grad courses and the fulfillment of design teachers.
2) Design as Research
The state-of-art; perspectives and possibilities of academic researches; theoretical, methodological and critic approaches; new themes for investigation; dares and challenges of Post-grad courses regarding architecture design.
3) Assemblage, practice and interfaces
The update situation of design practice; symptoms and reflections in the international sphere; cultural dimension; interfaces and politics; discussions with society and extension programs; social commitment of designers.
Registration/Entries
Full papers are to be submitted to [email protected], indicating the
thematic session and accompanied by the conference pre-subscription form.
Papers are accepted in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Key Dates/Submissions
June 6th, 2005: deadline for full papers;
August 4th, 2005: Executive Committee’s announcement of selected papers.
The selection of the papers will be done following a double-blinded procedure.
Coordination
Cristiane Rose de Siqueira Duarte – PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Paulo Afonso Rheingantz – PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Executive Committee
Cristiane Rose de Siqueira Duarte– PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Fernanda Magalhães– PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Guilherme Lassance – PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Giselle Arteiro N. Azevedo – PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Lais Bronstein – PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Paulo Afonso Rheingantz – PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Paulo Fernando Neves Rodrigues - DE/FAU - UFRJ
Vera Regina Tângari – PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Denise de Alcantara – DoutoradoPROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Ethel Pinheiro – Grupo ASC/PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Ana Paula Alcântara Gomes - Grupo ASC/PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Flávia Pereira Amorim - Mestranda - PROARQ/FAU-UFRJ
Seminar Headquarter
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura – PROARQ
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Av Brigadeiro Trompowski, s/nº - Prédio da FAU – sala 443
Ilha do Fundão – Rio de Janeiro – RJ/Brasil – CEP 21941-590
Tel: + 55 21 2598-1663 / 2598-1662
For further information, please contact:
[email protected]
http://www.fau.ufrj.br/proarq/projetar2005
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24-25 November 2005
Royal College of Art, London
Conference - call for papers
Interior Insights Design, Ethnography and the Home
The intimate objects and transactions of the home, its visual, material and sensory cultures, have come under increasing scrutiny from academics, practitioners and market researchers in recent years. While empirical, academic and practice-based researchers, designers and artists share a long-standing interest in the meanings, rituals and makings of the interior, communication and collaboration across different disciplines and research traditions remains minimal.
Interior Insights, a two-day symposium, exploits the home as common ground for a radically interdisciplinary discussion. How, for example, do the techniques of video ethnographers from marketing research, filming the minutiae of everyday lives from the squeezing of toothpaste to the selection of a DVD movie, intersect with those of interaction designers? How do ideas about the home interior as a sensual phenomenon, as opposed to a purely visual one, change the concept of design for domestic retail? Have a new generation of designers become pseudo-applied anthropologists? What are the ethical issues of exposing interior worlds and can research be used for social, as well as commercial, benefits?
Integral to our enquiries about these topics will be a consideration of how we learn about the home, through empirical studies, historical research, design interventions, and artistic interpretation. Featuring a range of speakers from social anthropology, contemporary design, marketing, sociology, art practice, photography and film, interaction design and domestic retail the event aims to provoke an intellectual debate. The symposium will serve the dual purpose of enriching our understandings of the home as a domain for research and design, and facilitating a more general discussion of the potential synergies between different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
Please send abstracts (200 words) for 20 minute papers by 15 May 2005 to:
[email protected]
Please include email address and other contact details.
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9-11 February 2006
Sydney, Australia
Call for Abstracts, Posters & Papers – open until July 29th
People 1st International Symposium on Environment, Behaviour and Society
People in Place
This is an opportunity for intensive dialogue on three themes in environment, behaviour and society research with implications for policy, planning and design. The Symposium will be organised around a series of intensive sessions to maximize dialogue and in-depth examination of themes and issues. The themes for the 2006 inaugural Symposium are:
- Cultural Identity and the Built Environment
- Children, Youth and Environments, and
- Environmental Experience, Perception and Cognition, each broadly defined.
Papers, abstracts and posters are welcome from around the world and, following a peer-review process, will be accepted for oral or poster presentation and for possible publication in the Proceedings.
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/web/research/ebs/ebssymposium.html
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22-25 February 2006
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
College Art Association annual conference - Call for papers
Design(ing) Criticism
[deadline for receipt of abstracts: May 13, 2005]
Session description:
Despite many recent calls for increased rigor in design writing, design criticism remains an undervalued, underdeveloped, and undertheorized discipline. This panel examines design criticism as a literary and social activity, explores new forms of critique, and investigates the extent to which values and paradigms from art and literary criticism have stifled or enriched design criticism. Which critics or ideas have most fundamentally shaped how design criticism has been understood and practiced? Where, by whom, and for whom is design criticism being written? How does the criticism in Consumer Reports or users' online product reviews relate to the writing in design magazines? What new forms of criticism should be considered? What does the "crisis of art criticism" mean for design criticism? Could design criticism provide a model for art criticism's regeneration?
Session co-chairs:
Elizabeth Guffey, Purchase College, State University of New York; and Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; mail abstracts to: Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois University, School of Art and Design, MC 4301, Carbondale, IL 62901, or e-mail abstracts to: [email protected] and [email protected]
Preliminary abstracts must be accompanied by CAA's "Session Participation Proposal Submission Form," a short letter of interest, and a c.v. Detailed instructions for submitting abstracts and supporting materials, as well as the Session Participation Proposal Submission Form itself, appear on pages 1 and 23, respectively, of CAA's 2006 Call For Participation, which is available as a pdf file at http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2006_conference_call.pdf . Please note that CAA membership is required of all conference participants (but is not necessary to submit an abstract).
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22-25 March 2006
Amsterdam
Conference - Call For Papers By 1 June 2005
Domestic interiors and the influence of social class, migration experiences and ethnicity
At the Sixth European Social Science History Conference, there will be a special interest session on Domestic interiors and the influence of social class, migration experiences and ethnicity.
In the past fifteen years, empirical research on the domestic interiors of immigrants has gained more attention in Europe as well as in the United States. An example of the increasing awareness of the importance of this topic within material culture studies as well as within academic research on ethnicity and identity is the Dutch project Migration and Material Culture: the domestic interiors of immigrants and their descendants (see http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/medewerkers/hester.dibbits/migration.pdf) This project involves several explorative studies of the domestic interiors of various migrant groups in the Netherlands and the transfer of objects between generations.
In this session, the organisers would like to stimulate an international debate by inviting papers on the influence of class differences, generation, migration experiences and ethnicity on domestic interiors: the arrangement of furniture, decoration and the meanings attached to the use of objects.
Papers on the domestic interiors of immigrants are welcomed, as well as papers on the domestic interiors of other groups, since these might offer interesting possibilities for comparison.
Please contact and send proposals to:
Dr. Hester Dibbits
Researcher Material Culture, Department of Ethnology
Meertens Institute / Research and Documentation of Language and Culture of the Netherlands / Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) /
P.O. Box 94264 - NL-1090 GG Amsterdam
tel. + 31 (0)20 - 462 85 50
fax + 31 (0)20 - 462 85 55
e-mail [email protected]
Internet http://meertens.nl (http://www.meertens.nl/medewerkers/hester.dibbits)
Visiting adress: Joan Muyskenweg 25, 1096 CJ Amsterdam
For more information about the ESSHC and for registration see: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/index.html The session will be part of the culture network.
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Friday 7 April 2005
School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of East London, Docklands Campus , 4-6 University Way , London, E16 2RD
Conference - Call for Papers/Workshop Proposals
Camera/Constructs
Proposals for papers/workshops are invited for CAMERA/CONSTRUCTS, a one-day conference on photography and architecture, to be held at the University of East London (UEL) School of Architecture and the Visual Arts on Friday the 7th of April 2006. Architecture at UEL, which has long had a high reputation for its teaching, is now housed in the newly established School of Architecture and the Visual Arts in the UEL Docklands campus.
CAMERA/CONSTRUCTS will build upon the great success of last year's Material Matters conference at UEL. The conference will involve lectures and papers, workshops, and a photographic exhibition, and lead to the publication of a book following the event.
CAMERA/CONSTRUCTS will explore the ways in which photography and modernism, sharing a common fascination with light and form, have been closely related from the start of the 20th century to the present day.
Themes we want to cover include:
• The construction of the modernist identity of the home, workplace, city and transportation through photography.
• The work of both the great architectural photographers, such as Julius Shulman and Helene Binet, who celebrate modernism; and photo-artists such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand and Gerhard Richter who have found altogether different qualities in the architecture of the modern world: including anonymity, dislocation and banality.
• Photography's transformative potential to find new ways of seeing, even to create new architectures through the camera.
• The continuing debate over how architecture ought to be photographed
and represented, in particular in the age of digital media.
• Photography of architectural models.
• Materiality and photography.
• Photography as a design tool.
• The utopianism of architectural photographs, often devoid of evidence of human life, carefully staged and taken in brilliant sunshine, presenting an idealistic but dangerously unrealistic world that can never live up to expectations outside of the image.
• Photography of the dystopian modernist legacy, including as the back-drop to photo-journalism in war-torn Yugoslavia and Chechnya.
• Architectural photography and the passing of time: from its very first days photographers have been drawn to record ruins and monuments from the past, and have been fascinated by haunted houses.
• Architectural photography in post-colonial history and theory.
• Photography and narrative, e.g. in the work of W. G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair.
A key theme in the conference will be the use of photography in the architectural design process, and we want staff and students (present and past) from the School, as well as conference participants, to join in workshops and to submit photographic work for the exhibition. The workshops shall run over the three days leading up to the conference, and their outcomes shall be presented in the conference. Workshops might consider such themes as:
• The creation of 'photo-apparatic' architecture.
• Light and illusion in the everyday.
• Creation of installations around photographs.
• The stories photographs can tell, and how they and text inform one another.
• The colonising/post-colonial photograph.
Please send 300-word proposals for 20-minute papers, or ideas for workshops, in the format of word documents, to Andrew Higgott, at:
School of Architecture and the Visual Arts
University of East London
Docklands Campus
4-6 University Way
London
E16 2RD
Or email [email protected]
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11-12 May 2006
Amsterdam
Conference – call for papers
Art and the City
A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm
Since the Second World War, the metropolises of Europe and the United States have undergone a period of enormous growth, in some cases followed by an almost equally rapid decline and eventual rebirth. Even today, in an era of supposed globalization, cities continue to generate and project a unique identity. In all cases, these developments have brought with them not only economic and social change, but also significant cultural transformations, which have found their reflection in the visual arts, literature, film and music. The physical city - its streets, sidewalks, cafés, buildings and transportation systems - as well as its mental spaces have proven a fertile breeding ground for art in general. The products of this interaction, as well as its precise mechanisms, are the subject of this conference. How have artists, writers, filmmakers, composers and musicians dealt with the singularity, complexity and diversity of their urban surroundings? What is the city they create or reveal? In what ways does the metropolis contribute to their work? How have they absorbed and transformed their various environments? And how, in turn, do these works alter the city and our perception of it? What do they tell us about how we live, or can live, in the places like New York, London, Paris or Berlin?
In addition to papers examining the "imaging" of the city in diverse media (visual arts, film and photography, but also architecture, design, advertising, performance, literature and music), we are also seeking papers on the following: use of the material objects and aspects of the city; communication and interaction with the city's inhabitants; fetishization of the urban realm; utopias and/or heterotopias; transformative and performative practices in the public sphere; the artist's "civic" body; the urban unconscious and/or repressed, etc. Central to all these themes should be the artistic interaction with the city as a physical entity and a mental space. Moreover, the committee is interested in papers that discuss the challenges this research object poses on current historical and analytical research methods.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words, accompanied by a brief biography (70 words maximum) should be sent to: [email protected] - Subject line: Art and the City Conference
Deadline: 1 September 2005
Organizing Committee:
Rachel Esner, Margiet Schavemaker, Esther Cleven
Instituut voor Cultuur en Geschiedenis
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
Universiteit van Amterdam
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
[email protected]
www.hum.uva.nl/ich
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
Universiteit van Amterdam
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
[email protected]
www.hum.uva.nl/asca
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4-6 September 2006
Swansea University, UK
An International Multidisciplinary Conference – Call for Papers
Engaging Baudrillard
Is Jean Baudrillard a prophetic cultural theorist of contemporary political significance? Or is he a myopic intellectual impostor, a twenty-first century writer of cultural and political fantasies that have no relevance to our current condition? How should we understand Baudrillard’s explosive cultural and political concepts today?
The aim of this stream is to circumvent both a hasty reaction against and a euphoric celebration of Baudrillard’s cultural politics. Rather, it seeks to provide a contemporary assessment of Baudrillard’s writings and what they mean for the future of cultural politics. The stream intends to make an important contribution to the broad understanding and literature on Baudrillard’s postmodern cultural politics.
The stream organizers are in search of a collection of original conference papers that, together, will provide a multiperspectival overview, guide to and consideration of Baudrillard’s contentious and often misunderstood work on present day cultural politics.
Papers are sought on Baudrillard’s writings that discuss and evaluate them in relation to his cultural politics, inclusive of papers on but not restricted to: fatal strategies and the aleatory; seduction; the self; reversibility; celebrity; symbolic exchange and death; simulations; silent majorities; technology; ecstasy; communication; evil; images; America; art; terrorism; media; consumption; feminism; theory-fiction; and postmodernity.
Our aim is to engage with Baudrillard’s cultural politics in surprising, exciting and yet accessible ways.
The stream will not only be a point of reference for understanding and assessing Baudrillard’s stunning cultural theory and political vision but also the launch pad for a special section of the international refereed journal, Cultural Politics:
http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/culture/culture_about.htm
Please send 250 word abstracts to:
Dr John Armitage
Co-editor, Cultural Politics
Room 441
Northumberland Building
School of Arts & Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
UK.
Tel: 0191 227 4971
Fax: 0191 227 4558
E-mail: [email protected]
And
Dr Ryan Bishop
Co-Editor, Cultural Politics
Associate Professor of English
The National University of Singapore
Dept. of English
AS5, Arts Link
Singapore 117570
Tel. 65-6874-6633
Fax: 65-6773-2981
E-mail: [email protected]
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