The eighth issue of ADHJ: The Journal of Architectural Design and History, titled Heritage Cities on Screen: Urban Imageries in Movies, Music Videos and TV Series, explores the representation of the city on screen, examining how its various elements and spaces are depicted across film, television, and music videos.
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Call for Contributions | Edited Book: The Avant-Garde and Migration
The editorial board of the book series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter) calls for contributions to the tenth volume, which explores historical and theoretical aspects of the avant-gardes’ cross-border mobility, transcultural encounters, aesthetic disruptions, and conceptual transformations, while also considering how these can shed light on the global challenges and complex problems that characterise our time.
Sacred Spaces: Building Identities, Sharing Heritage Conference
The Department of Architecture at Yeditepe University and Centro de Estudos Nuno Portas at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, invite contributions to the 3rd International Architectural Studies Conference taking place in Porto on 9-10 September 2027 in a hybrid format.
13th SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts & Humanities | Bologna 2026
SWS Scholarly Society invites research contributions to the extended scientific sessions on the Arts & Humanities in Bologna 2026, as part of the 13th SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts & Humanities, entitled “The Renaissance Reimagined: Art, Science and Human Knowledge in Dialogue”.
Call for Proposals | ACSF 16 Kyoto: In-Betweenness
The ACSF 16 advances a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of in-betweenness—as a spatial, philosophical, and spiritual condition shaping architecture and urban form—and welcomes proposals in three categories: papers, projects, and workshops.
Manuals, DIY Instructions, Cookbooks: Tools of Architectural Self-Empowerment
In preparation for an exhibition at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) and an accompanying edited volume in late 2028, Carnelli Elettra (ETH Zürich) and Sebastian Linsin (Goethe University Frankfurt) invite submissions that critically engage with tools of architectural self-empowerment from the 1960s onward.
Redefining Critical Infrastructure Symposium
This symposium welcomes contributions from academics, researchers, designers and policy makers, activists, and community practitioners reflecting on critical infrastructure in four porous categories: land, water, energy, and data.
Stoà #19 | Libri, Books
This issue will investigate the uses of books in the teaching and learning of architectural design. Contributions may originate from books, courses, schools, or specific pedagogical experiences, reconstructing the relationships through which texts and publications enter learning practices, are transmitted, reinterpreted, and transformed, including through uses that depart from the intentions that shaped their making.
Session The Nonhuman City | XIII Congress AISU The Wounded City
The session “The Nonhuman City: Wounded Animals and the Development of Urban Modernity,” which will take place at the 13th Congress of the Italian Association of Urban History (AISU), September 7-10, Genova, Italy, welcomes papers that take the nonhuman animal seriously as a subject of urban history.
Architecture & Design, History of Art, and Museology & Heritage Studies sessions | SWS Vienna ART 2026
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...
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.