International Expositions: Looking to the Past, Seeing the Future

24-25 March 2022
Online

Registrations are open for ‘International Expositions: Looking to the Past, Seeing the Future.’, the inaugural symposium of the Institute for the Study of International Expositions, 24-25 March 2022.

The inaugural symposium will bring scholars and enthusiasts together to generate new ideas about the history and legacy of international expositions. Organizers seek to emphasise new and developing strategies for research, curation, and preservation to maximize outreach opportunities.

The symposium has range of speakers from Australia to Argentina with topics from Environment to Empire. There are also opportunities to network and to get involved with the Institute.

The symposium has a great line up of Keynote speakers: from the big expo scholars to new voices from Asia. For bios click here.

To register, go to the symposium home page.

For the full program click here.

Share this post

News from the field

ARQ 123 | Housing: Urban Form

As far as we know, it was Leon Battista Alberti who first set down in writing the reciprocal analogy between house and city. Writing in the mid-15th century—at a time when cities were believed to grow according to principles of natural law—he proposed the phrase now...

AFRAUHN NAIROBI

The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi will be holding a major international conference from 8th–10th September 2026:...

FACES, Journal of Architecture. No. 87 / Landscape

Does architecture create landscape? Is architecture a vector of landscape transformation? The relationship between architecture and landscape is both recent and as old as architecture itself. On the one hand, strictly speaking, since landscape is a modern reality, any...