University of Nottingham
September 12 2010 - September 12 2010
- Prof. Lin Foxhall (University of Leicester)
- Dr Gabriele Neher (University of Nottingham)
Engagement with the space of the pre-modern city has found particular expression in scholarship concerned with the construction of gender. This issue seeks to expand these discussions by focusing on the ways in which gender is negotiated in urban spaces anywhere in the world that predate or were unaffected by ‘modernity’ via the processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Western industrialisation and globalisation. Our definition of ‘pre-modern’ is deliberately broad so as not to exclude relevant case studies from anywhere in the world, and to avoid implying that our focus of interest is Europe and the Western world. Clearly, our understanding of a ‘city’ varies depending on indigenous cultural contexts, and definitions of a ‘city’ may refer to temporary spaces and structures largely devoid of permanent inhabitants. Notions of gender and the pre-modern city may equally be explored through an emphasis on the social and political stratification and processes that regulate residence, presence, movement, and the expression of power and authority within these spaces.
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Nottingham Trent University, Newton Building, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
September 14 2010 - September 15 2010
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The CFP has now closed. The conference will be held in Nottingham Trent University on 14 - 15 September 2010 and is organised by the East Midlands History and Philosophy Research Network, which is a network of academics from four HE institutions in the east mids area: Lincoln University, University of Nottingham, University of Derby, and Nottingham Trent University. Further details on registration, accomdation, travel, the conference programme etc. will be posted on the conference website.
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Nottingham Trent University
September 14 2010 - September 15 2010
East Midlands Philosophy and History of Architecture Research Network
An international conference to be held at Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU UK
Some of the most palpable expressions of 'Nation' since the late 18th century have been in Architecture and Design. Modern Europe took shape in the 19th century and much of the contest over appropriate design expression in the era can be seen in the struggles to define 'style' in the name of a nation. In the early 19th century, when Heinrich Hübsch raised the issue of appropriate style, one the central underlying motives was nationalism. Famously, Pugin referred to the Neo-Gothic as '...the most English of Styles". By the early 20th century, Art Nouveau and Art Deco and later the Internationalism of Architecture and Design on both sides of the Atlantic had practically put to bed the issue of segregated nationalism for Western Europe and North America.
Deadline: Monday 29 March 2010
10 May 2010: Notification of Acceptance
12 July 2010: Completed papers
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An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE) and School of the Human Environment, University College Cork
September 16 2010 - September 18 2010
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This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the often hidden relationship between militarism and the design and construction of architecture and space in the modern period. Historically, military imperatives have been embedded in the way society is organized and, from the Renaissance onwards, the needs of offence and defense played an increasingly influential role not only in the physical shaping of the city and landscape, but also on the means by which they were represented. Recent events, notably The War on Terror, have reinforced these impulses within the city, extending and deepening systems and architectures of surveillance.
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2010 Interstices Under Construction Symposium
The University of Auckland, School of Architecture and Planning
October 08 2010 - October 10 2010
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Is architecture a cult of the externalised object? It would seem so: of 46 images of prize winning entries on the 2009 World Architecture Festival website, for example, only four show interiors.[2] So efficiently are interior and exterior sealed off from each other that they are frequently treated as discrete professional domains. However, inside and outside are always ready to be reversed and today's spaces may seem even more involuted, fragile and unsettled than those of the past.
If interiority is a way of thinking of ourselves as being-in-the-world, to the exclusion of whatever we fail to integrate, how do we draw the lines and name the territories today? What constitutes interiority? What does it have to say about the institutionalised containment of refugee centres or gated communities; the improvised urbanism of Freetown's shanties or Brazilian favela; or, indeed, the openness of the Pacific? What is it like to negotiate the pae [3] from inside? Where are the spaces of Self and Other? How do global and regional flows circulate in interiors, and how do we register difference? When is a set of walls an interior, when is an object a container, and when is a container a world?
Interstices invites you to unsettle the dichotomy of interior and exterior; to redefine and reorient the concept of the interior for the present, and project it towards the future.
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Ankara, METU Cultural and Convention Center
October 20 2010 - October 22 2010
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Deadline: April 23, 2010
Graduate Program in Architectural History
Middle East Technical University
Architectural History Conference/Turkey is organized to form an academic platform that aims to share new and original research on the history of architecture, cities and the built environment in Anatolia and its neighboring regions. The conference is open to researchers from different disciplines working on architectural history.
Abstracts of maximum 350 words should be sent to the Organization Committee by April 23, 2010. The name, affiliation and personal information of the applicant and the title of the paper should be given on a separate sheet. Conference fee is 100 $ / 75 Euro.
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