CfP: Modernism, Modernisation, And The Rural Landscape. Tartu, 10-13 June 2018

Call for Papers: Modernism, Modernisation, And The Rural Landscape. Tartu, 10-13 June 2018

MODSCAPES is proud to announce its mid-term event, an international conference dedicated to Modernist reinventions of the rural landscape.
The Conference will take place in Tartu, second largest city of Estonia, from 10 to 13 June 2018.
This conference aims at:

  • attracting other scholars, practitioners, decision-makers and citizens concerned with modern rural landscapes
  • gaining insight in case-studies and approaches not examined within the project,
  • disseminating the intermediary outcomes of the project,
  • consolidating MODSCAPES’ international network.

Proposals are invited for oral presentations, posters, and training/workshops.
The call for papers, posters, training/workshops is available here.
More information is available on the conference website.
Deadline: 7th January 2018
All accepted papers will be published in online proceedings. In parallel, a selection of the best conference papers will be invited for publication in edited journal issues.
The venues of the conference are the Assembly Hall at the Eesti Maaülikool (Estonian University of Life Sciences), and the freshly completed Eesti Rahva Muuseum (Estonian National Museum), a gem of contemporary architecture and landscape architecture.
 

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