SWS Scholarly Society invites research contributions to the Arts & Humanities sessions of the 13th SWS Vienna ART conference: History of Art, Visual Arts, Architecture and Design, Digital Humanities, Museology & Heritage Studies. We welcome research on...
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gta papers #13: Toys
This issue gta papers invites intersectional critical examinations of how architectural toys are designed, produced, and marketed to reveal the cultural and political values through which different generations have learned to imagine and value space.
Clara #14 | Call for its Position(s) section
Clara, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods and tools specific to the field, is launching a call for papers for its Position(s) section, to be published in issue 14.
Session Cities under Attack | XIII Congress AISU The Wounded City
The session “Cities under Attack: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Evolution of Urban Defence from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century,” which will take place at the 13th Congress of the Italian Association of Urban History (AISU), September 7-10, Genova, Italy, welcomes abstract proposals that investigate the genesis, evolution, and transformation of urban defence architectures and infrastructures from the twentieth century till today.
Architectural and Design Crossovers Modern Italy in Comparative Perspective
Organized by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), the conference explores architectural and design crossovers between Modern Italy and other countries from circa 1750 to the present. Papers can cover architectural and design cultures and their...
Symposium Drawing Futures: Technologies of Representation in Humanitarian Spaces
Taking place on December 7th, 2026, in Genève, Switzerland, the symposium explores the future of material-technological interventions in the humanitarian field. Through the research strand on camps and settlements, this event aims to examine how virtual and digital...
Heritages 2027 – UNESCO Perspectives on Cultural Pasts and Urban Futures
This University of Porto conference marks the 55th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. It explores changing ideas of heritage across art, architecture, history, museums, digital culture, tourism, sustainability and communities, bringing...
Call for Contributions | The Wounded City – AISU Congress 2027
The Italian Association for Urban History (AISU) invites contributions for the Academic Sessions, Poster Session, Agora and other participation opportunities at the XIII Congress of AISU, The Wounded City. Urban Spaces as Sites of Conflicts, Life, and Memory, to be...
Session Authoring Absence | XIII Congress AISU The Wounded City
As part of the XIII Congress of AISU, The Wounded City. Urban Spaces as Sites of Conflicts, Life, and Memory, to be held in Genoa, Italy, from 7-10 September 2027, the session “Authoring Absence: Demolition, Forgetting, and the Wounds of the Contemporary City (20th-21st Centuries)” invites paper proposals by 18 October 2026.
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,...