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CONFERENCE: Middle Class Urbanism: New Aesthetics of Difference and Detachment in Cities of the Global South. Online, 9-11 June 2021 The “Middle Class Urbanism” research project invites you to a 3-day online conference hosted by the National Museum of Denmark. During...
CONFERENCE: Work, Rest and Power: Architecture, Space and Political Life 1500-1815. Online, 27 May 2021 Online conference on 27 May exploring the relationship between domestic architecture and politics in the early modern period. Hosted by the University of York, this...
EVENT: Lecture: Culturalists or Progressists? Urban dilemmas of the second half of the 19th century. Online, April 2021 Speaker: Nuno Grande In the introduction text to her 1969 book The Modern City: Planning the 19th Century, Françoise Choay quotes Fernand Braudel:...
EVENT: Methodological Colloquium: Writing Model Histories. Online, 12 May 2021 Convened by Maxime Zaugg (ETH Zürich), Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete (ETH Zürich) and Prof. Dr. Janina Gosseye (TU Delft) with Guests Prof. Dr. Thea Brejzek (UTS), Prof. Dr. Mari Lending (AHO)...
EVENT: Seminar: Religious Spaces in Transition/Donatus Mooney Study Day. Online, 14 May 2021 This seminar is a collaboration between the UL-based Religious Spaces in Transition project (funded via the Irish Research Council New Foundations grant) and the Mícheál Ó...
EVENT: McKim, Mead, & White: The Early Years, Mosette Broderick. Online, 29 April. McKim, Mead & White historian Prof. Mosette Broderick offers a new twist on the famous trio: How did three rather undistinguished young men become the gold standard of American...
EVENT: Lecture: Dos Museos Romanos, Rafael Moneo. Online, 22 April, 2021. The ISCTE Department of Architecture and Urbanism has organized a series of open lectures on the period between Romanisation and the Enlightenment, seen in the light of our days, that...
EVENT: Roundtable: Teaching the 'Long' 18th Century. Online, 23 April 2021. Convened by Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia, and Dipti Khera, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University This roundtable (9:00-11:00 EST) brings together scholars from a...
EVENT: Seminar: Small Baltic Conversations: Architectures, Cities and Heritage of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Online, 8 April 2021 On Thursday 8 April 2021, at 2.00 pm (CET), the first of the six meetings of the International Seminar "Small Baltic Conversations:...
EVENT: Swissuniversities Doctoral Course: Unearthing Traces – Dismantling the imperialist entanglement of archives and the built environment. Lausanne, 27 – 29 May 2021 The swissuniversities doctoral course Unearthing Traces proposes to explore and learn about memory...
Event: Lecture series: Nineteenth Century Revisited. Online, March-April 2021 ISCTE Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Nineteenth century is often understood from the History of Architecture point of view as a kind of “Catapult” for the twentieth century, or, in...
Event: Symposium: Georgian London Revisited. Online, 22-23 May 2021 The Georgian Group symposium for 2021 will take place online on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 May. Following the successful conferences run by the Group in previous years on Women and Architecture, on the...