PICTURESQUE MODERNITIES.
Architectural Regionalism as a Global Process (1890–1950)
Date: 30 November – 2 December 2016
Location: German Center for Art History, Hôtel Lully, 45, rue des Petits-Champs, 75001 Paris/France
International conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University (Global Art History), the German Centre of Art History in Paris, University of Poitiers (CRIHAM/Department of Art History and Archaeology), the Centre André Chastel (CNRS/University Paris-Sorbonne) and the Association d’Histoire de l’Architecture (A.H.A).
Applicants are asked to send a proposal (max. 300 words, one to two illustrations) to falser@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de, by the deadline of 15 August 2016. Please include the title of the contribution, an abstract and a short bio-sketch of the speaker with affiliation and contact details. The decision about the selection of contributions will be announced in September 2016.
The call for paper can be downloaded here.
Conference Website: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/global_regionalism
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...