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...
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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,...
Material, Metaphor and Modernity: Ruskin and Architecture Symposium
Hosted by de Boekentoren, Ghent University Library, and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, in partnership with The Ruskin – Museum & Research Institute at Lancaster University, and the schools of architecture at the Universities of Lancaster, Edinburgh and Bologna, the event will take place at de Boekentoren, Ghent University Library, on March 3-5, 2027.
The Global Architecture of Fashion | DHS Affiliated Society panel at the CAA Conference
Chaired by Rebecca Carrai (KU Leuven) under the title “The Global Architecture of Fashion,” the DHS Affiliated Society panel at the 115th CAA Annual Conference will take place in New York, February 3-6, 2027.
VI International Conference Cultura y Ciudad “HEALTH CITY ARCHITECTURE Bodies, Hygiene, and Practices of Care”
Conference website: https://www.granadacongresos.com/culturayciudad The International Conference ‘Cultura y Ciudad’ [Culture and City], initiated in 2015, will celebrate its 6 th edition in 2027 under the theme Health, City, Architecture. The conference calls for...
VI International Conference Cultura y Ciudad “HEALTH CITY ARCHITECTURE Bodies, Hygiene, and Practices of Care”
Abstract submission deadline October 23, 2026 Conference website: https://www.granadacongresos.com/culturayciudad Conference abstracts will be presented either in Spanish or English, with a maximum extension of 500 words. Abstracts will be submitted through the...
Reclaiming Radical Imagination Utopia and Speculation in Architectural Practice, Theory, and Pedagogy
Architecture today is increasingly shaped by market pressures, process optimization, speed, and various production demands which often overshadow its broader cultural and critical role. Rather than exploring alternative social and spatial forms, the discipline is...
EAHN Thematic Conference MOVING PARTS
Moving Parts examines architecture as a field constituted through movement. It argues that movement, understood as the displacement and transformation of things and ideas across space and time, has always shaped architectural production. However, the mobilization of...