Deadline for submissions: 10th of May 2024
Response: c. 17th of May 2024
Symposium: Weds. 26 and Thurs. 27 June, 2024, in person at Birmingham City University, with an online registration option
Contact: symposium2024@sahgb.org.uk
Full Post at: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/call-for-papers/2024-sahgb-ecr-symposium
There is increasing recognition that in order to foment real social progress, the acknowledgement of social struggles and the inclusion of voices, particularly of those from the ‘margins’, is required to alter entrenched social hegemonies. Such an imperative necessarily calls for the rewriting of architectural history.
This symposium is an invitation to do this rewriting, from the points of view of hitherto marginalised, silenced and gaslighted personhood. To challenge and subvert what is considered to be the “established” and the “canonical” a pre-requisite for social progress. We therefore encourage forgotten, peripheral, marginal and new “re- readings,” which can turn into vital lessons for actualising social progress.
*The call invites contributions from all regions, about all time periods, and from all disciplines and constituencies within Architectural History. Members and Non-Members are very welcome to send in proposals*
This call asks for:
- What narratives are under-represented throughout the discipline of Architectural History and of Architecture as practice and industry?
- What is the social effect of “re-reading” narratives of architectural history?
- How much of our understanding of architectural history is curated by unexamined problematic power relations between, for example, Europe and part of the Global South; between male and other genders; between the human and the non-human?
- What demands are required of the Heritage/Architectural History and research sectors as a result?
- In what ways does the re-reading of Architectural History reframe the discourse around narratives of the “Other” to adequately encompass the “Other”? How can this be propagated in today’s practice to provide socially-just spaces?
- How should we as historians relate to ‘problematic’ figures/subjects from within the history of architecture? Can a certain kind of treatment of such figures and subjects provide useful insights with a view towards achieving social progress, or should such figures and subjects simply be censored / cancelled?
We are interested in the less explored, the new and the non-traditional, in terms of approaches to research, case studies, events, figures, subjects, pedagogies and methods, and the relationship of these to dissemination, archiving and curation.
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