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| Conferences-Talks | Call for Papers: Workshop: Dress, Textiles and Heritage | 13 June 2012 University of Wolverhampton, City campus, Millennium City Building The University of Wolverhampton invites proposals for papers that explore the collection, display, conservation and all other uses of dress and textiles in heritage settings, including museums and historic houses, in Britain and beyond. Both theoretical and practice-based papers are welcome. Proposals by museum professionals, conservators, historians and all other interested scholars are equally welcome.
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| Conferences-Talks | Call for Papers: Media Homes: Material Culture in 20thC Domestic Life | Participants are invited to reconnect the strands between media and material culture, as framed within the locus of the interior and domestic life. Both the concept of media and of materiality are approached from two angles: the different media used to convey new visions of domestic material culture should be analysed in their function of not only representing but also moulding and creating the home. | 2012: June 29 |
| Conferences-Talks | Call for Papers: Histories of British Art, 1660 1735 Reconstruction and Transformation | Histories of British Art is the third and final conference organised as part of Court, Country, City: British Art, 1660-1735, a major research project run by the University of York and Tate Britain, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Proposals for 25 minute papers are invited on any aspect of British Art, 1660-1735.
Please send abstracts for proposed papers (max 300 words) by 2nd March 2012to claudine.vanhensbergen@tate.org.uk . | 2012: March 2 |
| Conferences-Talks | Call for Papers: Spaces of Work 1770-1830 | This conference will address the relationships between workers and spaces in Britain. The aim is to showcase current research, particularly interrogating under]analyzed types of work and space. Please send submissions by 1st December 2011 to the conference organizers, Kate Scarth and Joseph Morrissey, at j.morrissey@live.co.uk. | 2011: December 1 Deadline |
| Conferences-Talks | Multidisciplinary conservation of historic house museums | Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, November 6]9, 2012
The theme of the symposium will focus on managing the inevitable deterioration of structure and materials in historic house museums, while balancing the need for public access with current standards of practice in conservation. Historic houses remain in constant use throughout their lifespan and their interiors consist of diverse materials often altering dramatically due to change imposed by society, their environment and function. The proper care for historic interiors and their edifices draws from many conservation specializations as well as from many other fields. Therefore it is essential to approach each project in a holistic manner using a multidisciplinary collaborative approach involving all stakeholders. | 2012: November 6-9, |
| Events-Exhibits | Inside 17thC Dutch homes | Exhibition: Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence
Fitzwilliam Museum Wed 5 October 2011 to Sun 15 January 2012 Mellon Gallery (13) Free Admission Explore the intimate beauty of Vermeer's exquisite scenes of Dutch 17th-century women in their homes in the only showing of this stunning exhibition. At its heart is Vermeers extraordinary painting The Lacemaker (c.1669-70) - one of the Muse du Louvres most famous works - rarely seen outside Paris and now on loan to the UK for the first time. | 2011: 5 October to Sun 15 January 2012 |
| Courses | PhD Studentship on Space and time at home in the Eighteenth Century | Applications are invited for a Queen Mary, University of London funded PhD studentship on Space and time at home in the Eighteenth Century, to start in October 2012.
The deadline for applications is Monday 30th January 2012. | 2012: January 30 application deadline |
| Conferences-Talks | Looking ahead: The future of the country house Conference | Save the date!
12-13 October 2012, London The Attingham Trust 60th Anniversary Conference Over two packed days there will be papers from Britain, Ireland and America addressing present and future challenges faced by the historic house. More details will be announced on the Attingham Trust website. | 2012: 12-13 October |
| Conferences-Talks | International conference on house museums | The DEMHIST Annual Conference, House Museums. The Owners and their art collections. Comparing experiences about the creation, the evolution and current issues related to house museums, will take place in Perugia, Italy on 18 20 April 2012. | 2012: 18 20 April |
| Courses | New date for SSN study visit to Leeds | Save the date and book now!
A new date has now been confirmed for the SSN Leeds Archive Study Visit that was postponed from Friday 9 December 2011. The Study Visit will now take place on Friday 23 March 2012. | 2012: Friday 23 March |
| Conferences-Talks | Nature + City: Vernacular Buildings & Landscapes of the Upper Midwest | With the theme "Nature + City: Vernacular Buildings & Landscapes of the Upper Midwest," VAF's 2012 conference will be based in Madison, WisconsinWisconsins state capital and headquarters for its flagship university. Hosted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the three-day conference will feature two days of field tours (Thursday and Friday, June 7 and 8) and a day of papers and roundtables (Saturday, June 9). William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies will deliver the keynote address on the evening of Wednesday, June 6. Saturdays conference banquet will be held in the Grand Ballroom at the University of Wisconsins Student Union, boasting an incredible view of Lake Mendota. The conference hotel will be the Madison Concourse, located just off Capitol Square (and site of 2011 protests over the state budget and union rights).
Field tours will tell the story of southwestern and south-central Wisconsina region that has linked the rural hinterlands to the city of Madison as its center over the past 180 years. Thursdays tour will take participants to rural southwestern Wisconsin to view the dairying landscape, remnants of the industrial landscape (centered on lead mining), and ethnic building types, techniques and landscapes. Highlights will include a self-guided walking tour of Mineral Pointthe center of the lead mining region featuring hundreds of hand crafted limestone buildings erected by Cornish masons in the mid-nineteenth century; a stage coach inn dating to 1834; a dairy farm from the early twentieth century (the childhood home of "fighting" Bob Lafollette); and a "Swiss" dinner in "Americas little Switzerland," New Glarus. Fridays tour will focus on the city of Madison, seeking to further illuminate the economic and stylistic relationships between Madison and its surrounding region. Beginning in Madison's Third Lake Ridge neighborhood, which boasted industries such as agricultural implement manufacturing that were vital to the success of surrounding rural regions, participants will also visit a post-World War II neighborhood adjacent to Oscar Mayer's major meatpacking facility. At the agricultural campus at UW-Madison, participants will explore innovations that led to the success of dairying in the region. Finally, the tour will examine regional modernism with a visit to Madisons westside suburbs, highlighting the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on builders and developers who sought to forge a "Midwestern" style. On Sunday (June 10), VAFers will have the choice to attend one of two optional all day tours: to visit Frank Lloyd Wrights Taliesin, or to explore the collections of the Kohler Foundation. We hope to welcome you to Madison next year. We promise plenty of good cheese, lots of fresh beer, and (hopefully) no snow! | 2012: June 6-10 |
| Conferences-Talks | Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, Edinburgh.
Home Unmaking Recent months have been dominated by news stories and visual images of home and its unmaking. From the state-enforced violent eviction of travellers living at Dale Farm in the United Kingdom to the signalling of regime change through the ransacking of Gaddafi family mansions in Libya, home is not separated from public and political worlds but is constituted, threatened or dissolved, through them. These events follow a series of years in which home has met the hard edge of the global economy with house repossession, resulting from Western debt over-reach, again pointing to the fragility of dwelling. Moving beyond the once celebratory hailing of home as an apolitical, inward-looking and secure space, this session approaches home as a physical, immaterial and symbolic site that is outward-looking, insecure, and subject to deliberate or unintentional disruption and destruction. Aiming to develop the now established literature on home making practices, it seeks to uncover new theoretical and empirical work on the politics, processes and everyday experiences of home unmaking at different spatial scales. It also encourages work that offers imaginative and practical engagements and guidelines for doing something to address these domestic injustices. Themes could include, but are not limited to, home unmaking and: Eviction and repossession Demolition Dereliction War and conflict Disasters and climate change Mobility Marital breakdown Lifecourse transitions Divestment Domicide Homelessness Activism Art and artistic practice Policy Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Richard Baxter (r.baxter@qmul.ac.uk) by 23 December 2011. A special issue in the journal Home Cultures is planned. Please indicate in your email if you would potentially like to be part of this. Organisers: Katherine Brickell (Royal Holloway University of London) and Richard Baxter (Queen Mary University of London) | 2012: 3-5 July | |
| Events-Exhibits | Kunst Rock (Art Rock) | Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of The Conchords say Hallo to your new favourite band. Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots) are Berlin's Prince and Princess of Indie Rock. Following sold out shows in New York, Montreal, Sydney, Dublin and Edinburgh, the utterly dysfunctional siblings Otto and Astrid Rot return to Vancouver to unveil their eagerly anticipated third album, KUNST ROCK (ART ROCK).
http://www.thecultch.com/content/view/320/480/ | 2011: AUG 2-13 |
| Conferences-Talks | Flow: a conference in two parts | FLOW: a conference in two parts
Two linked conferences FLOW 1 and FLOW 2 will address issues of the relationships between interiors and landscape. FLOW 1 will take a historical perspective covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It will be hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) in collaboration with the Landscape Interface Studio, Kingston University, in London on the 12th and 13th May 2011. FLOW 2 takes a critical approach to contemporary environments, and will develop themes and issues that emerge at FLOW 1 in London. This conference will take place at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, in February 2012. The FLOW conferences invite scholarship that focuses on the relationships between interiors and landscape. This recognises that the transitional spaces of the home conservatories, balconies, picture windows etc. - have offered, and continue to offer, new configurations for mediating the exterior and interior as intermediate zones of occupation and performance. Equally the continuous, undefined urban condition of supermodern public spaces - international airports, shopping malls and post industrial parks etc. - render problematic the relatively simple concepts of inside and outside, private and public and domestic and non-domestic. The fluidity of landscape space and time is similarly informing critical discussion about design, change, occupation and conservation in the outside environment. For FLOW 1 we welcome proposals for 20 minute conference papers. They may take the form of historical or contemporary case-studies that examine an aspect of visual, material or spatial culture of the interior/exterior with reference to the following conference themes: Indoor/outdoor continuities of the ephemeral and the material Spatial ambiguity as presence/disturbance The public in the private/the private in the public The domestic in the non-domestic/the non-domestic in the domestic Transitional spaces Navigating space through time An abstract of 300 words should be submitted to mirc@kingston.ac.uk (subject header: FLOW 1). Please include a separate biographical paragraph (maximum 200 words) including your institutional affiliation, position, and the title of your paper. This will appear in the conference programme if your paper is selected. The aim is to publish refereed papers from both conferences in a single publication. Some funding may be available to support the travel expenses of visiting speakers. The deadline for abstracts is 3 JANUARY 2011. | 2012: February |
| Conferences-Talks | Dwelling: Three exhibitions about house + home
Join us at the Dwelling events!: Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC Yam Lau: Room to June 4 Balancing still and moving image, transparency and privacy, Toronto-based artist Yam Laus Room: An Extension (2008) and Rehearsal (2010) are video portraits that re-create familiar spaces in varied dimensions and perspectives that unfold like architectural origami. Laus mesmerizing videos integrate cinematic and photographic techniques, and computer animation with real action scenes in ways that illuminate the everyday moments and private settings in which individuals reside. This exhibition is presented as part of the Surrey Art Gallery TechLab digital art exhibition program. Sitely Premises to June 12 Inspired by the unsightly premises by-laws that are spreading across many of Canadas municipalities, the exhibition Sitely Premises reveals how the exterior spaces of the single family detached home have become important sites for art production and exhibition for artists on Canadas West Coast. The exhibition includes Kara Uzelmans archeological backyard dig, Reece Terriss property-spanning foot bridge, N.E. Thing Co.s yard-as-studio installations, Andrew Dadsons monochrome property paintings, Julia Feyrers Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar, Al Neil and Carole Itters found object assemblages, and Heidi Nagtegaals Hammock Residencies, among others. The dozen artworks on display challenge notions of landscaping, neighbourliness, outdoor art, and domestic architecture. Domestic Lives: Works from the Permanent Collection to June 12 Homes function in a multitude of ways. They can be gathering spots for family and friends, a sanctuary from a hectic or threatening world, and a place for personal expression. They can also be sites for familial tension and emotional stress. For artists, domestic interiors reveal the realities of household life, and the social and cultural norms of a period. The group exhibition Domestic Lives, drawn from the Surrey Art Gallerys permanent collection, features ceramics, paintings, prints and photographs that consider the intimate, artistic, social, and sometimes eccentric relationships people have with their residences. Artists include Doug Biden, Judy Chartrand, Barbara Cole, Al Colton, Susan Edelstein, Lorraine Gilbert, Tod Greenaway, Connie MacLaren, Alex Morrison, David Ostrem, Barbara Pratezina, Susan Schuppli, and Sandra Semchuk. | 2012: June 4 and 12 | |
| Conferences-Talks | (abstracts due 9/30/2010; conference 4/2011) | From Blanche Dubois Belle Reve to Esperanza Corderos house on Mango Street, housesand the affiliated, if more abstract, idea of homefigure prominently in 20th century American literature and film. The 20th century, after all, is characterized by both inter- and intra-national migrations which have, invariably, entailed the loss of one home, followed by the acquisition of another. Moreover, the 20th century has seen a steady increase in both actual home ownership and the imaginative importance of owning a home. At the start of the 20th century, 46.5% of Americansless than one in twowere homeowners but, by 2000, that number had risen to 66.2%, or two in three. Throughout the century between, homeownership increasingly came to be affiliated with middle class success, domestic stability; committed citizenship and, more recently, individuation and self-expression. Yet despite the generally positive connotations of home in the popular imagination, representations of it often acknowledge a vastly more complex reality: the Gothic claustrophobia of Robert Frosts farmhouses and the ill-fated plantations of William Faulkner remind us that home can also be a force of containment, a way that the past exerts power over the present. This panel, then, will consider the way that ideas about home have changed over the past century and the ways that American literature, in particular, has imagined it.
Please send 300500 word abstracts for 1520 minute presentations to Megan Hamilton (mhamilto[at]brandeis.edu) on or before September 30, 2010. Along with your abstract, please send a brief biographical statement and your contact information (email address, postal address, and phone number). About the Conference: 42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-10, 2011 New Brunswick, NY Hyatt New Brunswick Host Institution: Rutgers University http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=176601 (abstracts due 9/30/2010; conference 4/2011) | 2011: April 7-10 |
| Conferences-Talks | Once Upon a Place - Haunted Houses & Imaginary Cities | The conference will tackle the reciprocal influences between architecture and fiction, whether they emerge under literary forms or other means related to visual narratives and popular culture.
Lisbon, Portugal Website: http://www.onceuponaplace.fa.utl.pt Contact name: Susana Oliveira/Pedro Gadanho | 2010: October 12 -14 |
| Conferences-Talks | Call for Articles: INTERIORS: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE - Berg Publishers | Call for Articles Special Issue (Vol. 2 Issue 1 - 2011)
LIVING IN THE PAST: HISTORIES, HERITAGE AND THE INTERIOR The editors Anne Massey (Kingston University) and John Turpin (Washington State University) invite contributions to the journals 2011 special issue 'Living in the Past: Histories, Heritage and the Interior'. This issue will examine the theme of the interior as a marker of history. Deeply embedded in historical processes, interiors are mutable spaces, shaped and re-shaped over time. The issue will seek to reveal the numerous ways in which interiors register and mark the passing of time and question the ways in which time and the effect of social, cultural, political and economic factors shape our understanding and assessment of the interior. The editors welcome submission of articles addressing the following themes: History and the Interior. How do interior designers, decorators, architects and industry use or work with history? The concept of history as it informs design practice The challenge of working with/within historic buildings Historicism and revivalism in the work of architects, interior decorators and designers The trade in architectural interiors Re-modelling as a design practice The Re-designation of Interiors. How have interiors figured in practices and discourses of urban and economic regeneration? The re-development of war or disaster damaged buildings The re-purposing of obsolete industrial/commercial/recreational/religious spaces Histories of alteration of re-use within a single building type Hybrids (the preservation of the architectural facade / tensions between modern interior/historic exterior) Heritage and the Interior. How do curators and those working within the heritage industry address the question of history? Consider issues of conservation, preservation or renovation Explore the curatorial challenges of working with and presenting historic interiors (e.g. periodisation, narrative) The Interior as History/Memory. How do interiors register changing patterns of social activity or human presence and in what ways do historic interiors act as a focal point of social negotiation/cultural exchange? Explore agents of change and the re-assignment of the use of interiors in response to the changing needs of particular communities Consider histories of alteration and re-use through study of a single site (e.g. functional shifts from domestic to commercial or religious to secular use) Consider re-modelling and the erasure of history/histories Submissions reflecting the latest research on the interior from historians, practitioners and theorists are particularly welcomed. Principal articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words, including notes and references, with 4-8 illustrations are invited, and should be sent as an attachment to interiors@bergpublishers.com by 1st June 2010. Further details of the Journal, including Notes for Contributors, are available at www.bergjournals.com/interiors If you have any queries about the Journal or about submitting an article, please contact us on this email address: interiors@bergpublishers.com | 2010: Deadline: 1st June. |
| Conferences-Talks | Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes Conference | Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network (SSN)
Second Annual Conference MULTIPLE BELONGINGS: DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL HOMES British Library Conference Centre The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Networks Second Annual Conference, Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes (21 May 2010, British Library) is an exciting opportunity to explore the meanings associated with the material culture of transnational homes from the late eighteenth-century to the present, with a particular emphasis on contemporary homes. Papers will focus on material aspects of setting up home in another country, such as room layouts, furnishings and other possessions and how these are adapted, integrated or negotiated between host nation and place of origin. Wider meanings of home will be explored through concepts of belonging and questions around what and where home is, where and when people feel at home. The conference programme reflects both the interdisciplinary nature of the SSN and the international scope of the theme with a wide range of backgrounds and methodologies represented including religious studies, geography, cultural and architectural history, material culture, ethnology and museology. Delegate fees are 70/45 (full-time students), including a light lunch and refreshments. Programme details and a booking form can be downloaded via http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/index.cfm?ct=network.displayNetwork/name/Histories%20of%20Home%20SSN/networkId/16 For further information please contact SSN Co-ordinator Krisztina Lackoi klackoi@geffrye-museum.org.uk | 2010: 21 May |
| Conferences-Talks | INTERIOR LIVES | This conference will consider the historical insights that
ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer architectural and design historians; the methodological issues that arise from the use of ethno/auto/biographical sources to explore the history of the interior as a site in which everyday life is experienced and performed; and the ways in which contemporary architects and interior designers draw on personal and collective histories in their practice. The Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference, Kingston University, London Online booking for this conference is now open at: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fada/research/mir/mir_conf.php | 2010: Thursday 13 and Friday 14 May |
| Conferences-Talks | CEPHAD 2010 - The borderland between philosophy and Design Research | At CEPHAD, Centre for Philosophy and Design, we are beginning to
count down to the CEPHAD 2010 Conference. It will take place at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen in the last week of January (26th - 29th). The conference aims at stimulating cross-fertilization between the various research disciplines of philosophy and design. We hope that the conference will generate many lasting contacts and relations of cooperation across discipline borders. To achieve that aim, the conference has been designed as an opportunity for presentation and discussion of tentative ideas, and work in progress with a potential for development - rather than as a showcase for finished and highly polished research that might as well have been published in an archival journal. By now submission of contributions and booking for attendance has been closed, but there will be ample opportunity to follow and contribute to the conference in Cyberspace. First of all, you may wish to check http://www.dkds.dk/Forskning/Projekter/CEPHAD/events/Cephad2010, where detailed and currently updated information is available. For example, abstracts and short papers for presentation are being posted to the web site for preview, and plenary sessions with distinguished invited speakers and panel discussions will be video recorded and web cast as soon as practically possible. Furthermore, if you would like to engage in a debate on some of the contributions, you can read them on the web site (or watch the videos once they become available) and then comment on them via the CEPHAD discussion list. You may also have ideas of your own, pertaining to the conference theme; ideas that you would like to present briefly in a mail and invite others to comment on. If you have not already signed up for the CEPHAD list, you can do so via http://www.dkds.dk/Forskning/Projekter/CEPHAD/list. During the conference itself, we have planned a number of "Ad-hoc sessions", where delegates will be encouraged, inter alia, to check the CEPHAD list for whatever input YOU might have to offer, and to respond to it. I hope fruitful debates will ensue that will last much longer than the conference itself. Feel free to read and think now; but to create the right atmosphere of concentrated energy, please hold your fire until the conference begins. - And please make it "friendly fire" in the CEPHAD sense of trying to inspire, encourage and constructively criticize your fellow "Cephadians" in precisely the way you would like them to inspire, encourage and constructively criticize you. Best wishes, Per Galle, Director of CEPHAD. http://www.dkds.dk/Forskning/Projekter/CEPHAD/events/Cephad2010 | 2010: 26-29 January |
| Conferences-Talks | Fashion In Fiction The Dark Side | Drexel University
Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Philadelphia, PA. Roland Barthes proposed that fashion was not a just an industry, but also a set of fictions. Barthes did not wish to ignore the economic function of fashion, but rather underline fashions mythic dimension and suggest that fashion is a language in itself. Fashion and fiction have long existed in close proximity; writers have been driven by their experience of fashion and fashion has been developed through and by literary tropes. What makes dress and fashion such a fascinating subject for writers? How are fashions mythologies constructed and disseminated through fictional texts? How does fashion relate to art, popular culture, business, the body, consumer studies, and those who might read it as a form of text? This interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate the role that fashion has played in our culture. These mini-narratives can include fiction, non-fiction, cultural and historical studies, and other types of comparative, descriptive and/or empirical research. In particular, it will examine the dark side of fashion discourse, assessing the role, function, and purpose of clothes, fashion movements, style, and image in creating narratives within narratives. The dark side of fashion can include such obvious topics as gothic, punk, the color black, and vampires. Other topics that have traditionally been viewed as dark include polyester fabric, couture knock-offs, deviant fashion advertising, sweatshops, and child labor. Authors are also encouraged to define their own meaning of dark. Papers fitting the conference theme are sought from those engaged in the fields of fashion studies, social sciences, humanities, creative writing, media, cultural studies, design, philosophy, and business. Papers, work-in-progress and workshop proposals are invited. Possible topics may include but not limited to: gothic feminist versus feminized discourses in fashion and display animated texts fashion in crime fiction graphic novels the semiotics of fashion historical fiction queer readings of fashion mystery textiles the color black marketing the body/body image consumer studies new media script and cinematic texts metaphor/metaphorical fiction subcultural style Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2010 Submission Process: Those interested should send an abstracts of no more than 500 words. Everyone will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2010. Peer Review: All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Those abstracts accepted for presentations will be published online as well as in the conference proceedings. Paper Submission for Possible Publication: Those interested in having their papers published may submit the entire manuscript for possible book publication. For more details, please see our website at http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/events/fashioninfiction/ or email Dr. Joseph H. Hancock, II at jhh33@drexel.edu. | 2010: October 8 - 10 |
| Conferences-Talks | Architectural Objects: Discussing Spatial Form Across Art Histories | Association of Art Historians Summer Symposium
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 24 - 25 June 2010 Call for Papers The 'spatial turn' in the history of art has had a significant impact on the understanding of artistic practice and the built environment, and the formal and political complexities of space in a broader sense. This symposium explores the role of architectural theory and practice within multiple art histories, working across theoretical and aesthetic categories to redefine notions of space and form. From Tatlin's Monument to the Third International, to the spatial environments of LeCorbusier and Robert Morris, this interrelationship has challenged and reconfigured canonic divisions between architecture, ornament, sculpture and performance. Within a global perspective, the 'architectural object' can be traced throughout many histories of cultural production, demonstrated within the sculpted interiors of temples and mosques, the conceptual forms of the stupa or reliquary, or the use of decorative 'architectura' within ornamental schemes. Exploring the 'architectural object' as a recurring and ever-changing phenomenon, a two-day symposium will consider a diverse range of papers that discuss this theme across cultural and temporal divides. Topics might include but are not restricted to: Sculptural practice and architectural ornament Anthropological and cross-cultural studies of the architectural object Monumental buildings as public sculpture Performing architecture; the social production of space Interior design and sculpture; the structural/decorative divide The architectural maquette as art object; history of the conceptual model The church and the miniature; religious contexts Keynote speakers include former Henry Moore Fellows Dr. Richard Checketts and Dr. David Hulks. Architectural Objects is hosted in collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute's Hermann Obrist exhibition, marking the wide-ranging spatial production of the prolific architect, sculptor and designer. Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 February 2010 To submit a proposal for this session please send a paper abstract no longer than 300 words, along with CV to: Session Conveners: Lara Eggleton, University of Leeds: laraeve8@gmail.com Rosalind McKever, Kingston University: rosalind.mckever@gmail.com | 2010: 24 - 25 June |
| Events-Exhibits | Home and Garden, part 3 | Curated by Judith Batalion and the Geffrye Museum
At the Geffrye Museum, London September 2006 - January 2007 'Home and Garden' part 3 follows the Geffrye Museum's previous exhibitions and explores the representation of British domestic interiors and gardens from 1918 through to the present. The exhibition will focus on paintings and drawings of middle-class, urban and suburban domestic spaces. | 2006: September 2006 - January 2007 |
| Conferences-Talks | medieval domesticity:home, housing, and household | call for papers
25th annual conference of the Center for Medievl Studies, Fordham University, co-sponsored with Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York email: medievals@fordham.edu | 2005: Mar. 12-13 |
| Conferences-Talks | Savouring the Kitchen: A Special Edition of Gender, Place and Culture? | Call for Contributors!
One of the many contributions feminist geographers have made to the study of social environments has been the valuing of domestic space. With her pioneering investigations, Dolores Hayden (1980, The Grand Domestic Revolution) elevated the home and spaces within it into the realm of serious scholarship. Her work along with others such as the Matrix Collective (1984, Making space: Women and the man made environment), Marion Roberts (1991, Living in a man-made world) and Daphne Spain (1992, Gendered Spaces), provided historical examinations and analyses of spaces long out of sight and usually the preserve of women. These major studies tended to be of entire dwellings within Britain and the United States rather than of particular spaces considered cross-culturally. The aim of assembling a special edition (or a dedicated section) of Gender, Place and Culture is to update this work, add to it new perspectives from postmodern and postcolonial writings and consider just one room within the home the kitchen. This is a space where work mingles with desire, pleasure, creativity, violence and social interaction; and where domestic technologies, architects and designers create devices and spaces which shape the definition and meaning of gender. It is a private space which, like all others, registers public discourses as well as private musings. Be this space separated from the grand home by hallways and a social chasm or one modified daily by the placement of furniture, curtains and people; the kitchen reflects and is remade by social and spatial relations. It represents gender, place and culture in a unique way. The aim of this special edition is to collect current work from around the world on the kitchen. I am articularly interested in hearing from those who are researching the non-Anglo Celtic domestic realm and who are willing to write a 3, 000 word paper for Gender, Place and Culture. Such an essay would have to be refereed in the usual manner and may not be published if deemed by external referees to be in appropriate. As the Editor of the Special Edition I also reserve the right to cull papers to achieve a wide and engaging mix. If you are presently working on the kitchen, utilising a feminist, postmodern and postcolonial perspective from within any discipline and will be able to write a 2,000 - 3 000 word essay by May 1, 2004, please send Abstracts of 250 words by March 1 to: Contact: Louise Johnson Social and International Studies Deakin University Victoria, Australia 3217 Email to lcj@deakin.edu.au | 2004: March 1 (Abstract Deadline) |
| Databases | Interiors | Submissions are invited for a special issue of ESC (English Studies in Canada) on physical or psychological interiors and the relationship between them. While this issue will be based on the recent critical interest in rooms and their furnishings, it may also extend into areas where an interior is a debatable but perhaps necessary metaphor. Some possible topics:
- Theories of interior decor (e.g. Walter Benjamin in The Arcades Project, Gaston Bachelards The Poetics of Space, E. A. Poes Philosophy of Furniture); - The nineteenth-century vogue for bric-a-brac, and its literary representations; - The semiotics of contemporary decorating trends such as minimalism; - Rooms and their furnishings as animated or possessed; or as mirrors of their occupants (e.g. the red room in Jane Eyre, Jamess The Spoils of Poynton, Georges Perecs Life: A Users Manual); - Gendered interiors; the interiority of the body - The inner spaces of texts; - Analysis of metaphors for the postulated inner space of the psyche Completed papers only, please, sent by e-mail attachment or regular mail. Peter Schwenger Mount St. Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3M 2J6 peter.schwenger@msvu.ca | 2004: August 1 (Deadline for Submissions) |
| Conferences-Talks | Age, Gender and Domestic Culture Conference (United Kingdom) | This interdisciplinary symposium will be held at Royal Holloway College,
University of London on 3 July 2004. It will address the importance of age and gender to domestic culture, aiming to encourage discussion across disciplines and from both historical and contemporary perspectives. All proposals for papers dealing with this broad theme are invited but speakers might also like to consider one or more of the following issues: * Age, gender and the definition of house, home and domestic space. * Intergenerational conflict and co-operation in the home. * Lifecycle and changing roles, relationships and authority in the home. * The division of domestic space and duties according to age and gender. * Family rituals and celebration and their impact on gendered and/or age-related responsibilities, relationships and behaviour. * Textual and visual representations of age and gender and domestic life. * Domestic goods, their use and meaning according to age and gender. Contact: Dr Nicola Pullin Age, Gender and Domestic Culture Conference Bedford Centre for the History of Women Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: bedford.centre@rhul.ac.uk | 2004: February 28 (Paper Deadline) July 3, 2004 (Conference Date) |
| Conferences-Talks | American Anthropological Association (San Francisco) | A Porposed two-session program on : New York-Los Angeles Ethnographies of 21st Century Urbanism.
These two sessions will bring together ethnographers who focus on home and work life, schooling, and health care in contemporary New York and Los Angeles. These two global cities have developed in different ways,resulting in variations in transnational obility; risk and security; affluence and poverty; subcultures, identity, and diversity issues; the nature of memory; and the use of public space. Speakers will provide an ethnographic dimension to the understanding of urban quality of life and its disparities within four institutional domains. For the home, papers will look at housing, design, consumption, homelessness, and community space. For the workplace, papers will discuss the shift from production to service industries, including the information and communication sectors; skill and deskilling; vocationalism and professionalization; and the place of exploited labor. For schooling, papers will explore new styles of learning (experiential, cooperative, Internet-based); and after school and charter school movements. For health care, papers will examine trauma, addiction, environmental disease, and new forms of caring. Discussants will compare how tensions and conflicts between the global and the local play out within these domains in both cities. They also will discuss the various ethnographic perspectives on institutional life in New York and Los Angeles with respect to power and powerlessness; social knowledge, social formation, and sociocultural >silencing; social trust and civic culture. Speakers and discussants will then join in dialogue on the ways class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation reflect and are expressions of inequalities, liminality, marginalization, and exclusion from civil society and the public spheres of global cities, and on the struggle for civic engagement. For the New york panel please contact Sam Beck at: sb43@cornell.edu For the Los Angeles pane please contact Carl Maida at: cmaida@ucla.edu | 2004: November 17 (Conference Date) |
| Conferences-Talks | CFP: Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 | This conference, jointly organised by Chawton House Library and the
University of Southampton English Department, will take place between the 14 and 15 July 2004. The event will be held at Chawton House Library, a centre for the study of early English women's writing, and former home to Jane Austen's brother, Edward Austen Knight. The two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the relationship between gender and the object world across the long eighteenth century. Over the last two decades woman's role as producer and consumer of goods has become a leading issue in the cultural and social history of the period, as well as in studies of literature, art and fashion. This body of work has collectively pointed not only to woman's increasingly central role to the burgeoning consumer revolution, but to the complex ways in which the material world mediated the construction of gender in the period. The conference organisers invite proposals for papers or panels that examine the intersection of gender and material production/ consumption in the lives of real or fictional women during the period 1660-1830. Possible themes include: Fashion; cosmetics; art; needlework; gardening; furniture and furnishing; woman's work; the book as material object; the domestic household; shopping; advertising; women and collecting. Abstracts for 20-minute papers should be no more than three hundred words in length. We also welcome proposals for panels of three 20-minute papers that focus on a particular topic. Abstracts and enquiries should be directed to Dr. Jennie Batchelor: jeb@soton.ac.uk. Alternatively hard copies of proposals may be sent to Dr. Jennie Batchelor, Chawton Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, England. | 2003: September 20 (Proposal Deadline) July 14 and 15th, 2004 (Conference Date) |
| Conferences-Talks | Home and World: 1500-1800. | The Early Modern Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara and its affiliates invite paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on
the Center's 2003-2004 theme, "Home and World: 1500-1800." This one-day conference will explore how these two categories or concepts were experienced and defined throughout the early modern period. The program will include nine panelists representing a variety of disciplines, as well as some notable guest speakers inlcuding: Frances Dolan - "Locating the Early Modern English Home" Donna Bohanan - "Interior Decoration in the Noble Homes of Late Seventeenth-Century Dauphin" Toni Bowers - "Home and World in 18th-Century Scotland: John Galt's Annals of the Parish and the Imperatives of Empire" We invite proposals from all disciplines, as well as proposals for interdisciplinary papers that use a variety of approaches. Proposals can interpret "home" and "world" broadly, but should examine how these two terms are held in dialogue or tension with each other. Home, for example, might be conceived of as any private or circumscribed spaced defined in opposition to some "outside" or "other." Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Colonialism/Imperialism Cosmopolitanism/Worldliness Domesticity Public vs. Private Spheres Nationalism The Other Proposals for 15-minute papers are due by November 30, 2003, and should take the form of a 250-word abstract. Please submit your abstract online at: Early Modern Centre OR by email: emc_conference_04@yahoo.com. For more information: EMC | 2003: November 30 (Proposal Due) February 20, 2004 (Conference Date) |
| Conferences-Talks | Domestic Consumption: Regional Seminar Series | King Alfred's College Winchester, April 30 - Fantasy and Imagination: Constructing Identities through Domestic Consumption.
Other seminars are as follows: - Southampton Institute, May 28, Domestic Goddesses Speakers: Anne Meredith and Anne Anderson - Winchester College of Art, June 4, Rethinking Separate Spheres Speakers: Lesley Whitworth and Pauline Garvey. - University College Chichester, September 24, Separate Spheres to Fluid Boundaries: The Domestic and the Commercial. Speakers: Maggie Andrews;Alex Davenport and Adam Locks. - University of Luton, October 22, Media Technologies and Domestic Relations Speakers: Anne Gray and David Morley - Queen Mary and Westerfield College, November 26, Diasporic Homes: Transnational Space and Domestic Consumption. Speakers: Phil Crang;Divya Tolia-Kelly and Katie Walsh. For general information on the seminar series or to go on the email list contact: Maggie Andrews 2 Prices Cottages Selsey Road, Donnington Chichester, West Sussex PO20 7PS 01243 641522 maggieandrews@fsmail.net | 2003: April - November (Various Seminars) |
