Dear Design History JISC List member
The Society directs you to two ‘Wiki’ websites, which it invites list
members to involve themselves with.
The first site is Wikipedia, on which are two entries that have been
recently begun, one for Design History and the other Design History Society.
The articles can be edited by any viewer of the page – simply click on the
‘edit this page’ tab at the top of the page. The articles can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_History_Society
The second site is the Design Encyclopedia that is a “user-built source of
reference material with the sole intention of defining, describing,
chronicling and documenting the world through design in all its implications
and manifestations – from the visual to the tactile, from the communicative
to the evocative, from the cultural to the commercial. Most everything –
from cars to burgers to movies – can be dissected by its design application,
use and history.”
There is currently no entry under a broad heading of ‘Design History’. The
site can be found at:
http://www.thedesignencyclopedia.org/
For those unfamiliar with wikis, a wiki is ‘a website or similar online
resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively.’
Also please find attached the latest events calendar for the Society.
Kind regards
Juliette Kristensen
DHS Communications Officer
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From: "Tina Sawyer" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 24 January 2007 16:12:56 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: V&A Call for papers
To interested colleagues:
The V&A has put out a call for conference papers on its website
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/conferences/call_for_papers/index.html
Unravelling Couture Culture Conference
16 - 17 November 2007
End of Call Date: 19 February 2007
Panel convened: February 2007
To accompany the exhibition - The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London
1947-1957, 22 September 2007 to 6 January 2008.
With thanks
Tina Sawyer
Acting Head of Adult Learning
+44 (0)20 7942 2190
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From: "Artemis Yagou" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 21 January 2007 15:23:20 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: 'Darwinism after Darwin: New historical perspectives'
Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
Call for papers:
**Darwinism after Darwin: New historical perspectives**
Devonshire Hall
University of Leeds
*3rd-5th September 2007*
Papers and panel proposals are sought for a conference to be held at the
University of Leeds in September 2007. Before celebrations get underway for
the 2009 Darwin sesquicentenary and bicentenary, this conference will
provide an opportunity to think about what happened with Darwinism 'after
Darwin', providing new historical perspectives on evolutionary theories and
ideas, experiments and practices, books and images, bodies and displays,
from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.
This wide-ranging conference will include plenary lectures from eminent
scholars in the field alongside panel seminars, author-meets-critics
sessions, hosted roundtable discussions, outreach activities, and social
receptions. There will also be an opportunity to participate in an outing
to nearby Ilkley Moor. The conference will be located in the pleasant
surroundings of Devonshire Hall, a short walk from Headingley and the
University and ten minutes by bus from the city centre.
Both individual papers and panel proposals are invited in all areas
concerned with evolutionary ideas and practices, broadly construed, from
the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Themed panel
organisers should read the online guidelines for themed panels, and are
welcome to discuss provisional proposals with the programme organisers via
the e-mail address below. Panel submissions should include contact details
for all presenters where possible, and should include individual abstracts
for the papers. Please note that paper abstracts should contain a maximum
of 250 words, and that all submissions should be sent, preferably in MS
Word or plain text format, with full contact details, to
[log in to unmask]; or by post to:
Division of History and Philosophy of Science,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Leeds,
Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
***The deadline for receipt of submissions is Thursday 15 March 2007***
These details can be found at the conference website,
http://www.darwinismafterdarwin.com <http://www.darwinismafterdarwin.com/> ,
where registration information will be published in May 2007.
General enquiries can be emailed to: [log in to unmask]
Sponsored by the British Society for the History of Science, and organised
by Vicky Blake, Fern Elsdon-Baker, Melanie Keene, Josipa Petrunic, Greg
Radick, and Chris Renwick.
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