International Conference – Southern Modernisms: 
critical stances through regional appropriations
. 
ESAP, Porto, 19-21 February 2015 (Call for Paper)

Issued by

Project Southern Modernisms (FCT Exploratory Project EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013)
IHA | Instituto de História da Arte / FCSH-UNL
CEAA | Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo / ESAP-CESAP
The hegemonic definition of Modernism has been subjected to an intense critical revision process that began several decades ago. This process has contributed to the significant broadening of the modernist canon by challenging its primal essentialist assumptions and formalist interpretations in the fields of both the visual arts and architecture.
This conference aims to further expand this revision, as it seeks to discuss the notion of “Southern Modernisms” by considering the hypothesis that regional appropriations, both in Southern Europe and the Southern hemisphere, entailed important critical stances that have remained unseen or poorly explored by art and architectural historians. In association with the Southern Modernisms research project (FCT – EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013), we want to consider the entrenchment of southern modernisms in popular culture (folk art and vernacular architecture) as anticipating some of the premises of what would later become known as critical regionalism.
For more information and conditions see: http://southernmodernisms.weebly.com/call-for-papers.html