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Call for Applications for Editor-in Chief and Editorial Assistant of Architectural Histories
Architectural Histories, the international, blind peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) is now seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Assistant to start on 1 January 2025, each for a four-year term.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design offers a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship within the research project Provenance Projected. Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity at the research centre OCCAS (the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies).
Media and Objects of the Home since 1700
For the EAHN 2024, the Focus Group Building Word Image wants to continue its ongoing thematic discussion on ‘Mediatising the Domestic’ by focussing on untold and original material histories of home objects through modern and contemporary media. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers, spanning the last three centuries and including a global geographical scope.
Footprint 36: Who’s Stupid Now: Architecture, Intelligence and Transdisciplinarity
Footprint 36 seeks to explore architectural technicities that overcome poorly defined problems and
reinvigorate (post)critical thinking, requiring a transdisciplinary mode of operation that breaks with
the anti-intellectualist tradition of specialisation, professionalisation, and knowledge fragmentation.
Schwarz Fellowship at the Gennadius Library for Research on Urban Architecture
The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture supports innovative and cross-disciplinary research on architecture, urban planning, and the history of the built environment in Greece from 1821 to the present.
Power
The exhibition and accompanying program challenges viewers to consider how contemporary infrastructure relates to everyday life across intersecting concerns, including political institutions, citizen participation, geopolitics, energy transition, and climate justice.
Architecture, Villages, and their Entangled Histories: Rural-urban Encounters in the Islamic World
The goal is to provide a platform to discuss a much neglected aspect in urban historiography – rural forms of governance over space and how these forms have interacted with imperial or transregional edicts concerning use of resources.
A Different Perspective for the Atlantic Routes: Impressions and Exchanges in Transoceanic Journeys from the 16th to the 19th Century
If the common thread proposed is that of the activity of the Dutch West India Company, the project also aims to consider the whole vast cultural, diplomatic, artistic, scientific, anthropological and gastronomic panorama that the approach to such a topic necessarily brings with itself, and will therefore also evaluate the tangencies and interactions with travels and exchanges also made by other European states and kingdoms in the period considered.
Lecture series: Architectural History & Theory Seminar, University of Edinburgh
Free hybrid lectures from the University of Edinburgh
Histories of Postwar Architecture 14: the Churches and the City
The relations established between the ecclesiastical hierarchies, politicians, intellectual scholars of religious and social sciences, architects and artists lead to the construction of thousands of new churches throughout Europe in a short time, even before the post-conciliar revolution. These were immediately understood by all the institutional stakeholders and communities involved not only as indistinct pieces of the complex mosaic of the neighbourhood, but as identity points of the new settlement realities, architectural, social and cultural nerve centres for the residents.
EAUH 2024 Conference: Cities at the Boundaries
The European Association for Urban History invites scholars to discuss both the boundaries of social and economic development related to cities and urban agglomeration, as well as a wide array of topics related to cities which lay on geographic-, state-, as well as other borders.
Assistant Professor Architecture Archives of the Future
Under the leadership of Dr. Dirk van den Heuvel a new group has been launched at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment: Architecture Archives of the Future, which is situated at the intersections of advanced architectural design and research, history and theory, archival studies and museology.