Dear Design History Subscriber
Please find below a digest of posts to the Design History Society electronic
mailing list for August 2006.
Kind regards
Juliette Kristensen
Communications Officer
Design History Society
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From: "Grace Lees-Maffei" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2 August 2006 19:24:14 BDT
To: "design-history" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fw: Extra/ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art CFP
Please find attached a CFP which may be of interest.
Kind regards,
Grace.
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Dr Grace Lees-Maffei MA RCA ILTM
Senior Lecturer in the History & Theory of Design & Applied Arts
School of Art and Design
Faculty for the Creative and Cultural Industries
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
Herts AL10 9AB
Direct Line: 44 (0)1707 285369 ~ Fax: 44 (0)1707 285350 ~
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Co-ordinator, tVAD Research Group
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/tvad/lees-maffei1.html
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Design History,
http://jdh.oupjournals.org/
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From: Dennis Stevens
To: Grace Lees-Maffei
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: Extra/ordinary CFP
Dear Grace:
Attached in .pdf format is a call for proposals for an anthology
tentatively titled, Extra/ordinary: Craft culture and contemporary
art that Kansas City based Art Historian, Maria Buszek is putting
together.
Regards,
Dennis Stevens
Ceramics & Glass Technician
School of Art & Design
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0089
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Tel: 408.924.4684
Cel: 415.412.1440
Fax: 408.924.4326
From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 August 2006 10:58:24 BDT
To: "DESIGN-HISTORY" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: DIGitise FOR VICTORY!
Millions of posters were distributed during wartime Britain to influence
public opinion and many of the designs are still famous to this day. Just
think of the slogans 'Dig for Victory', 'Careless Talk Costs Lives', and
'Walls Have Ears', and the pointing finger of Kitchener with the strapline
'Your Country Needs You'.
We are pleased to announce that another 4000 posters from the Imperial War
Museum poster collection are now available online via AHDS Visual Arts.
This latest addition brings the total number of digital images available
from the Imperial War Museum Posters of Conflict collection to over 7000 images.
The Imperial War Museum's poster collection is the largest and most
comprehensive of its type in Great Britain, documenting the social,
political, ethnic and cultural aspirations of various nations, from the
First World War to more recent conflicts. The collection is an essential
resource for looking at the development of mass communication, propaganda,
publicity, commercial art and graphic design.
The posters have been digitised, catalogued, and published online as part of
the Posters of Conflict project, a joint venture between the Manchester
Institute for Research and Innovation Design (MIRIAD) at Manchester
Metropolitan University and the Art Department at the Imperial War Museum.
The project obtained funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
(AHRC) and ran for three years, completing in May 2006.
A major poster exhibition is also due to take place at the Imperial War
Museum in London in September 2007. The IWM is working in collaboration
with Manchester Metropolitan University and the exhibition will be the first
major show in over 30 years dedicated entirely to the poster collection.
The Posters of Conflict collection can be searched and browsed at:
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/IWMPC.html
For the entire AHDS Visual Arts image catalogue visit:
http://www.visualarts.ahds.ac.uk
From: Deborah Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 August 2006 11:21:53 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc: Deborah Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Teaching opportunity in Research and Study Skills in Textiles,
Loughborough University
I am seeking expressions of interest in teaching seminars on a semester one
module titled Research and Study Skills in Textiles. The module is scheduled
to take place between 10am and 1pm on Monday mornings.
This module is intended to introduce the student to the essential research
and presentational skills that form a foundation for further study for the
duration of their 3 year degree programme in Textiles. The module is taught
through a short series of lectures and 1 hours seminars, plus a site visit
that are determined to introduce the student to the study of primary and
secondary sources of historical and contemporary textiles. Coursework
includes a library induction, joint presentations, essay writing,
bibliographic exercises and IT skills. Through a broad range of activities
the student is encouraged to develop both written and verbal communication
skills.
CVs, together with a letter outlining relevant expereince and skills should
be sent to me by post or email at the following address:
Dr Deborah Sugg Ryan
Lecturer in History of Art & Design
Loughborough University School of Art & Design
Epinal Way
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
+44 (0)1509 228949
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From: Bernadette Buckley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 12 August 2006 19:19:35 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Announcing Two New MAs: Art Museum & Gallery Education / Heritage
Management
Dear Colleagues,
The International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies at Newcastle
University welcomes applications for its two exciting new MA Programmes:
Art Museum & Gallery Education / Heritage Management, both commencing in
September 2006.
On-line Application Forms can be found at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/applicationforms.phtml.
MA in Art Museum & Gallery Education
This innovative new programme has been created specifically to meet the
growing national and international need for qualified visual arts educators.
It offers an exciting opportunity for those wishing to pursue graduate-level
professional training as gallery, art museum and freelance art educators. It
combines cutting edge research with the chance to learn directly from the
practical experience of professionals from Tate Modern, BALTIC and others
operating in the field.
For further information about Art Museum & Gallery Education, please see
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/subjects/culturalheritage/courses/
462
<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/subjects/culturalheritage/courses
/462> . Prospective students can also contact Dr Bernadette Buckley on
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or
tel. + 44 (0) 191 222 3940.
MA in Heritage Management
This programme is designed to provide students with a good understanding
and working knowledge of the management of heritage resources and sites
which will enable them to gain employment in the sector or to conduct
further research. Modules are delivered intensively in weekly teaching
blocks making access to the programme easier for part time students and
heritage professionals.
For further information about Heritage Management, please see
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/subjects/culturalheritage/courses/
462
<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/subjects/culturalheritage/courses
/462> . Prospective students can also contact Dr Aron Mazel on
[log in to unmask] or tel. + 44 (0) 191 222 7845.
Best Regards
Bernadette.Buckley & Aron Mazel
Dr. Bernadette Buckley
Lecturer in Art Gallery and Museum Studies
ICCHS
Bruce Building
International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Tel: +44 191 222 3940
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From: "Louise Owen" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 15 August 2006 09:12:47 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CFP : QMUL : Sighting the Document (UK) (grad)
**Apologies for cross-postings**
CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGHTING THE DOCUMENT: THE BUILDING OF THE ARCHIVE
Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Friday 20 & Saturday 21 October 2006
A graduate student conference event for researchers in the humanities,
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
This conference explores two basic components of almost any research process
- the document and the archive. From a performance studies perspective,
SIGHTING THE DOCUMENT approaches documentation and archival work as situated
processes, to consider questions about the production and reception of
knowledge. How might the material constitution of documents affect their
reception? What changes when the document is recontextualised, and what
role does this play in the enactment of everyday life? What are the
theoretical and practical consequences of calling the stability of archives,
sites of the containment and transmission of knowledge, into question? What
are the challenges that research faces if the status of documents is
problematized? Is this liberating (opening up a wealth of possibilities as
to what might count as 'document' and 'archive'), intractable (fraught with
incapacitating relativism) or something else, suggesting perhaps a different
set of ethical questions?
SIGHTING THE DOCUMENT is an occasion for mutually enriching exchange to take
place between geographical, historical, aesthetic and pragmatic approaches
to documentation and the archive. Papers across the humanities addressing a
diversity of issues that relate to the scope of this theme are invited.
Topics might include (but are not restricted to): nostalgia and other
manifestations of cultural memory; commerce and the commoditization of
knowledge; shopping (barter, exchange, purchase, selection); the body as/of
the archive; intermediality; the ontology of the document; how and where the
archive is sighted, sited or cited. The aim of the event is to cultivate
productive opportunities for disciplinary paths to connect, in part to
discover how discipline-specific methodologies might usefully apply to other
fields.
SIGHTING THE DOCUMENT will incorporate panel presentations, round table
discussion, and a range of practice-based research training workshops on the
sensory themes of 'Touch' (the body as a site of archival knowledge),
'Sight' (the archive in visual cultures), 'Hearing' (the role of sound in
cultural memory) and 'Disappearing' (archiving the 'ephemerality' of
performance).
We are delighted to welcome Alan Read as the keynote speaker for SIGHTING
THE DOCUMENT. Alan Read is Professor of Theatre in the Department of
English at King's College, University of London. He is the author of
'Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance' (1995), and the editor
of 'Spaced Out: Architecture, Art and the City at the Millennium' (1999) and
'Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday'
(2000).
Papers should not exceed fifteen minutes. The deadline for submission of
250-500 word abstracts is 28 September 2006. Please include your name,
institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number. Abstracts
should be submitted via e-mail to [log in to unmask]
From: "James E. Bryan" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 17 August 2006 05:01:42 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Request for syllabi
Dear Colleagues,
I am an art historian and new faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-
Stout, an polytechnic university in the American Midwest. My training is
mostly in the history of interior design, furniture, the decorative arts,
and material culture, but in the spring I will be teaching an undergraduate
survey of design history, including industrial, graphic, and multimedia
design, since the mid-seventeenth century. I would greatly appreciate
suggestions for course materials from anyone teaching or having taught a
similar class. Syllabi, recommended textbooks, bibliographies of assigned
readings, relevant websites, and advice would all be a tremendous help.
Also, if you know of any organizations here in the U.S.A. that I should
contact that would be nice to know too. Thanks,
James E. Bryan
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