From SHERA-SAH Liaison: Highlights from Society of Architectural Historians February 2019 Newsletter
SAH 2019 Annual International Conference Early Registration Ends Feb. 19
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SAH 2019 Annual International Conference Early Registration Ends Feb. 19
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 4 February 2019 to 11 February 2019. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-SHERA. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ARCHIVAL SCIENCE
Dear Colleagues,
Just a note regarding a CAA panel that might be of interest to this network. The panel, "The Spectacle in Art from the Panorama to the Infinity Room" examines the relationship between visual art and the concept of "spectacle" specifically as it was defined by Guy Debord. I will give a paper entitled "Monumental Art Against Concentrated Spectacle: Soviet Murals as Catalysts for Collectivist Politics, 1928-1968". Date, time, and location are as follows:
15 February 2019
10.30 am
New York Hilton Midtown-Concourse G
From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), Minneapolis, September 15, 2018 – February 10, 2019.
CALLS FOR PAPERS / SESSIONS
17th International Conference Mind, Land & Society Barcelona, 29-31 Mar 2019 | Deadline Feb 28
Dear Colleagues,
Just a note regarding a CAA panel that might be of interest to this network. The panel, "The Spectacle in Art from the Panorama to the Infinity Room" examines the relationship between visual art and the concept of "spectacle" specifically as it was defined by Guy Debord. I will give a paper entitled "Monumental Art Against Concentrated Spectacle: Soviet Murals as Catalysts for Collectivist Politics, 1928-1968". Date, time, and location are as follows:
15 February 2019
10.30 am
New York Hilton Midtown-Concourse G
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 4 February 2019 to 11 February 2019. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-SHERA. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ARCHIVAL SCIENCE
For those attending the College Art Association Annual Conference in February, we're looking forward to seeing you in New
The SHERA Board invites proposals for the Society’s sponsored panel at the 2019 ASEEES Annual Conference. The conference will be held in San Francisco from November 23 to 26, 2019 and the theme is "Belief." More information on the convention theme can be found here.
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The SHERA Board invites proposals for the Society’s sponsored panel at the 2019 ASEEES Annual Conference. The conference will be held in San Francisco from November 23 to 26, 2019 and the theme is "Belief." More information on the convention theme can be found here.
Posted on behalf of SHERA President Eva Forgacs:
Please note that SHERA's Business Meeting at the 2019 CAA annual meeting in New York will take place on Friday, February 15, 12:30-1:30pm in the Madison Suite.
Creating for the state during socialism: the role of artists' unions
The journal of studies in History and Theory of Architecture (sita.uauim.ro), published by the Department of Architectural History & Theory and Heritage Conservation at "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania, invites submissions for the 2019 issue
SEASONED MODERNISM
Prudent Perspectives on an Unwary Past
Dear Colleagues,
Just a note regarding a CAA panel that might be of interest to this network. The panel, "The Spectacle in Art from the Panorama to the Infinity Room" examines the relationship between visual art and the concept of "spectacle" specifically as it was defined by Guy Debord. I will give a paper entitled "Monumental Art Against Concentrated Spectacle: Soviet Murals as Catalysts for Collectivist Politics, 1928-1968". Date, time, and location are as follows:
15 February 2019
10.30 am
New York Hilton Midtown-Concourse G