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EAUH 2026 Conference - CFP City Networks in Europe and Beyond Barcelona, September 2-5, 2026 Session 83 (Main Session): “Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in the 20th Century” We are calling for papers for our session: “Urban Healthcare...
Co-organisers Elizabeth J. Petcu and Maurice Saß Confirmed double session for the Association for Art History Conference 8-10 April 2026 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Ecocriticism—that is, critical approaches to understanding the interconnection of...
Middle East Technical University Graduate Program in Architectural History organizes a series of symposiums bi-annually, open to graduate students and researchers who have recently completed their Ph.D. studies. The fourteenth meeting of the symposium series will take...
Performing Archeology: Excavations as a Display Project Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO), Geneva 8–9 December 2025 This event seeks to explore the ways in which performative approaches to archaeology open up new spaces for reflection and...
CFA: Session: “Beyond Transcendence. Understanding Networks of Religious Belonging between Local Urban Parishes and Global Institutions since the Turn of the 20th Century”. European Association for Urban History (EAUH) Conference “City Networks in Europe and Beyond”,...
Anachronism, according to encyclopedias, is an error. For historians, argued Manfredo Tafuri paraphrasing Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, it is something worse: a mortal sin (Bloch 1949: 176; Febvre 1947: 15; Tafuri 1984: 64). More recently, Georges Didi-Huberman and...
The Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève explores the role of interior spaces in shaping contemporaneity. To that extent, it organizes a series of reflections and interventions that aim to learn, question and visibilize how interiors play a key role in...
Session organised at EAUH 2026 by Nele De Raedt (UCLouvain), Merlijn Hurx (KU Leuven) and Jaap-Evert Abrahamse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Deadline for applications: 22.10.2025 Water management is a central issue in urban governance. Both an essential resource for...
OVERVIEW Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures "after oil" marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil...
Date: 15 August -15 September 2025 Location: London, UK When interior decoration professionalized in urban centers throughout the world in the nineteenth century, new businesses ranging in scale from family furniture firms in Damascus to department stores in...
November 27–28, 2025 | Politecnico di Milano – Mantova Campus Curated by Elisa Boeri and Luca Cardani (Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano) In the history of places of care, architecture holds a decisive and deeply symbolic value. It was the physical container in...
International Conference Politecnico di Milano, December 2-3, 2025 organized by Chiara Baglione (Politecnico di Milano) and Fabio Marino (Politecnico di Milano) Communicating architecture to a non-specialist audience means not only interpreting and clarifying complex...