Architecture and Architectural History

Coming to terms with the long-lasting impact of colonialism has recently been the focus of attention of a number of cultural institutions transnationally. From the 90s onward scholars have noted multiple ways to deconstruct narratives of colonialism as a shared European contested history.

Colleagues,

I am pleased to share an interdisciplinary, cross-national call for papers on the links between mass housing in the United States and Yugoslavia (and beyond, perhaps). Please send me any questions.

Michael Allen

Senior Lecturer, Architecture, Landscape Architectre and Urban Design

Washington University in St. Louis

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Call For Papers: 

Housing Blocs: Ordinary Modernism Across the Atlantic

S. R. Crown Hall

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, Illinois, USA

May 20-22, 2022

SESAH (Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians) seeks an Editor or Co-editors, and a Book Review Editor for three issues (2023-25) of its peer-reviewed journal, Arris. Scholars and researchers are invited to respond to this call by January 15, 2022. Editorial positions are unpaid and would begin with work on volume 34 (2023) during the summer of 2022 and end with the completion of volume 36 (2025).

The Graduate Student Research Fellowship, established in 2018, is intended to assist graduate students in architectural history or historic preservation conduct research for their thesis or dissertation. The Fellowship awards $1000 to offset research-related expenses and travel.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be members of SESAH to be eligible. To join SESAH or renew a membership, visit this link.

2022 Berkeley-Stanford-SFMoMA Symposium: Work in Progress

Keynote Speaker: Kenneth Tam

Saturday, April 23, 2022 at SFMoMA, 151 3rd St., San Francisco, CA 94103

Submissions Due: February 11, 2022

The Greeks, Kushans, Huns and Gurjars occupy a vast time space in the historical chronology of the Indian subcontinent but their contribution to the making of present day culture has not been analyzed enough in the academic institutions and intellectual circles of their respective demographic and geographic inhabitation, extension and influence.

9th International Congress Military Monuments 

The Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87) 38th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture invites submissions considering or responding to the role of the water in shaping the production of visual and material culture. 

Graduate students and other researchers are invited to submit proposals for a workshop titled “Spatial Politics in Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes: Open Questions and New Research Approaches.” The workshop will take place on 12^th of April 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the premises of