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Gennadius Library Fellowships | Academic year 2027-2028
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the academic programs and fellowships for the 2027-2028 academic year at the Gennadius Library. Opened in 1926 with 26,000 volumes from diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius, the Gennadius...
Special Issue on Stories of Collective Authorship in Architecture
A building is never the work of a single mind. Architectural production unfolds through the coordinated activity of many actors—designers, technicians, and administrators as well as things, technologies, and environments. The list goes on. Yet architectural culture...
Beyond Colonial Narratives: Methods for Studying Colonial Built Environments in the Global South
The Heritage Institute at the University of Liverpool are pleased to announce a PGR Symposium on Colonial and Postcolonial Architectural History, to take place at the University of Liverpool on Wednesday, 9 December 2026. It is an excellent opportunity for...
Call for Contributions | Edited Book: The Modern City Mediated: Emotion, Space, Image
The Modern City Mediated: Emotion, Space, Image is an interdisciplinary collection that explores how academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners— from fields such as art, architectural and urban history, sociology, semiotics, urban planning, media studies,...
Material, Metaphor and Modernity: Ruskin and Architecture Symposium
Hosted by de Boekentoren, Ghent University Library, and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, in partnership with The Ruskin – Museum & Research Institute at Lancaster University, and the schools of architecture at the Universities of Lancaster, Edinburgh and Bologna, the event will take place at de Boekentoren, Ghent University Library, on March 3-5, 2027.
DocTalks Call for Presentations & Sessions | Academic Year 2026-2027
We welcome session and presentation proposals on any topic within the broad fields of architectural history and its related disciplines. For our regular DocTalks sessions, we welcome any topic within the broad fields of architectural history and its related...
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Reflections from the EAHN 2026 Aarhus
Photograph by Katharina Ya Reflections by Panagiotis Farantatos and Kasper Lægring Aarhus in June proved to be a particularly hospitable place for a conference. The weather was exceptionally good, but the compactness of the city meant that participants had little...
EAHN Thematic Conference MOVING PARTS
Moving Parts examines architecture as a field constituted through movement. It argues that movement, understood as the displacement and transformation of things and ideas across space and time, has always shaped architectural production. However, the mobilization of...
EAHN Thematic Conference RADICAL BUREAUCRACY
This conference aims to investigate bureaucracy as a site of struggles for spatial solidarity and, as such, as an essential part of the architecture discipline. To establish and secure a democratic and solidary society, it needs law and bureaucracy. As the historian...