{"id":615,"date":"2012-05-17T13:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:52:14","slug":"cfp-8th-savannah-symposium-modernities-time-space-savannah-usa-7-9-2-2013-deadline-15-7-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"CfP: The 8th Savannah Symposium: MODERNITIES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE. Savannah, USA. 7.-9.2.2013. Deadline: 15.7.2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 8th Savannah Symposium: MODERNITIES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
\nFebruary 7-9, 2013
\nhttp:\/\/architecturalhistoryscad.wordpress.com\/symposium-series\/8th-savannah-symposium\/
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\nKeynote Speakers: Mark Jarzombek, MIT and Dell Upton, UCLA<\/p>\n

The art historian T. J. Clark spoke for many scholars when he declared that modernity marked a special historical transition when \u201cthe pursuit of a projected future – of goods, pleasures, freedoms, forms of control over nature, or infinities of information\u201d overcame tradition and ritual. He distinguished the last 500 years against all previous time, and the west against the rest of the world. But such a bold assertion has opened itself to diverse interpretations. Is there a single modernity? If so, how was it created, disseminated and adopted? Or, alternately, are there actually multiple modernities? How then can we appreciate the diversity of different cultures and different times?
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\nThe 8th Savannah Symposium seeks papers investigating modernity and\/or modernities in the broadest and most critical terms. Studies addressing any aspect of architecture, landscape or the imagined environment are welcome, as are works that address empirical, methodological, or theoretical approaches. The significance of the split-level house in mid-twentieth-century suburbanization is as relevant to the topic as postcolonial reinterpretations of world architecture. Investigations of attempts to assert modernity, as suggested by the origins of the very word “modern” deriving from the Latin modernus from modo, “just now,” (marking a 5th-century desire to distinguish the Christian era from the Pagan era) are as welcome as discussions of cultural hybridity where modernity is actively negotiated. Studies focusing on particular sites or examples of modern architecture are welcomed as are interpretations of who determined the modernity, when and where did it occur, and how was it presented and promoted?<\/p>\n

Suggested topics for the symposium might include:<\/p>\n

*\tModern buildings across cultures and times
\n*\tGlobal processes of modernization and their consequences for the built environment
\n*\tModernity as a way of seeing and shaping the world
\n*\tArchitectural and planning apparatuses of the modern global state
\n*\tIdeas of newness in architecture and urbanism
\n*\tAnti-historicism in architecture throughout time
\n*\tReactions against aspects of the modern world-local, regional, national and global
\n*\tPreservation as a 20th-century modern value
\n*\tWhat does it mean to teach \u201cnon-western\u201d topics in a western architecture program, particularly, but not inclusively, twentieth and twenty-first-century subjects?
\n*\tHow is the modern architectural canon defined by its classical language?
\n*\tCan one even speak of a global modernity without evoking a western ideological framework for knowledge?
\n*\tWhat are the urban and shelter needs of the rapidly expanding global city?
\n*\tHow do you talk about modernity and urbanism without Asia or Africa or South America?<\/p>\n

Papers are invited from scholars and practitioners in, but not limited to, architecture, architectural history, urban history, planning, historic preservation, landscape design, art history, geography, archaeology, cultural history, sociology, political science and anthropology.<\/p>\n

Participants will be invited to submit developed essays for an edited thematic volume to be proposed.<\/p>\n

How to Participate: Send one-page abstracts (300 words maximum) and curriculum vitae to Patrick Haughey [ phaughey@scad.edu ] and Daves Rossell [ erossell@scad.edu ]<\/p>\n

c\/o Department of Architectural History
\nSavannah College of Art and Design
\n102 Eichberg Hall
\n229 MLK Jr. Blvd.
\nP.O. Box 3146
\nSavannah, GA 31402-3146<\/p>\n

Electronic submissions are preferred. <\/p>\n

For more information about the symposium (and past symposia), visit our website at http:\/\/architecturalhistoryscad.wordpress.com\/symposium-series\/8th-savannah-symposium\/ <\/p>\n

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2012.<\/p>\n

E.G. Daves Rossell
\nSavannah College of Art and Design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 8th Savannah Symposium: MODERNITIES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE February 7-9, 2013 http:\/\/architecturalhistoryscad.wordpress.com\/symposium-series\/8th-savannah-symposium\/ Keynote Speakers: Mark Jarzombek, MIT and Dell Upton, UCLA The art historian T. J. Clark spoke for many scholars when he declared that modernity marked a special historical transition when \u201cthe pursuit of a projected future – of goods, pleasures, freedoms, forms … <\/p>\n

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