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Dear DHS Mailing List Member
Please remember, as this calendar year draws to a close, to renew your
membership to the Design History Society. (Membership runs from January to
December.) All relevant details can be found on the Society's website,
www.designhistorysociety.org.
Kind regards
Juliette Kristensen
Communications Officer, DHS
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Contents:
1) The 2008 Reyner Banham Lecture (Event Announcement)
2) Staging the Modern Interior: The Dorich House Annual Conference (CfP)
3) Garden Sculpture Workshop (Event Announcement)
4) Yale Center for British Art Visiting Fellowship Program (Fellowship
Announcement)
5) Split Structures: Navigating the In-Between (CfP)
6) Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design (CfP)
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Reyner Banham Lecture
The 2008 DHS Sponsored Reyner Banham Lecture will be given by Professor Tim
Benton on the title of "The Art of the Well-tempered Lecture: Reyner Banham
and Le Corbusier". The lecture is a free event and open to all. It will take
place on Friday 29 February 2008 at 4pm in Lecture Theatre of the V&A.
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Subject: Call for Papers
Date: 28 November 2007 16:13:54 GMT
‘Staging the Modern Interior’
The Dorich House Annual Conference #10.
Thursday May 15th /Friday May 16th 2008
Hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston University,
London
Call for Papers – Deadline for submissions: Wednesday 2 January 2008
The focus of this year’s conference will be the long-standing role of the
interior as a ‘stage’. Linked to Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of the ‘habitus’
in which class distinctions are created, and Judith Butler’s concept of
‘performativity’ through which gender is constructed, the interior can be
seen as a place in which identities are formed and performed. This view is
reinforced by literary historians such as Victoria Rosner and Diana Fuss who
have stressed the role of ‘interiority’ in the construction of modern
self-identities. While this definition of the interior can, on one level, be
applied to any and every inside space, it is highlighted in environments
created specifically for performance – theatre sets, film sets and
television sets among them. The conference will address the ‘theatrical’ or
the ‘dramatic’ interior both in general terms and in relation to specific
spaces created for performances.
Papers are invited from a variety of perspectives and topics could include
for example:-
• Performance and particular spaces, including the hotel lobby and
restaurant, church and office
• Set design for the costume drama: tensions between historical accuracy and
narrative fictions
• The filmic space, on screen and in the cinema
• Set design at home, constructing identity in the context of the interior
• The changing role of art director and set designer in the production hierarchy
• Emulating set design in public and private spaces
• Whose space is it? Recreating the everyday in set design.
• Ephemeral spaces and the lifecycle of the prop
• Set design in the digital age
Abstracts of 300 words, with brief cv should be submitted to
[log in to unmask] or to Brenda Martin, Dorich House Museum, Kingston
University, Kingston Vale, London SW15 3RN by Wednesday 2 January 2008.
Conference website: www.kingston.ac.uk/design/MIRC.
Conference conveners: Professor Penny Sparke, Dr Trevor Keeble, Brenda
Martin, Professor Anne Wealleans, The Modern Interiors Research Centre
(MIRC), Kingston University.
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Subject: Upcoming Workshop at MoDA, Cat Hill.
Date: 27 November 2007 10:54:38 GMT
Garden Sculpture (two-day workshop for adults)
Saturdays 12th & 19th January 2008, 10am – 4pm
MoDA is offering you the opportunity to participate in a 2-day sculpture
workshop led by an experienced professional sculptor. You will be guided
through the creative stages, from design to implementation; learning the
techniques of constructing an armature and developing your own weather-proof
garden sculpture.
Suitable for beginners as well as for those with experience.
All materials will be provided but bring a pair of safety goggles, an apron
or old shirt.
Fees: Full rate £75. Concessions for Friends of MoDA, seniors, students,
Middlesex University staff, registered disabled people & ES-40 holders £60.
Lunch is not provided.
There are sandwich bars & restaurants nearby.
For further information contact
Bookings Administrator,
MoDA, Middlesex University,
Cat Hill, Barnet,
Herts EN4 8HT.
Tel: 020 8411 4394
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Subject: Yale Center for British Art - Visiting Fellowship Program
Date: 26 November 2007 14:47:10 GMT
Yale Center for British Art Visiting Fellowship Program
The Yale Center for British Art offers residential fellowships ranging from
one to four months to scholars undertaking postdoctoral or equivalent
research related to British art. These fellowships allow scholars of
literature, history, the history of art, and related fields to study the
Center’s holdings of paintings, drawings, prints, rare books, and
manuscripts. The Center also offers several pre-doctoral fellowships ranging
from one to two months for graduate students writing doctoral dissertations
in the field of British art. Applicants from North America must be ABD to
qualify.
Fellowships include the cost of travel to and from New Haven and also
provide accommodations and a living allowance. Recipients are required to be
in residence in New Haven and must be free of all other significant
professional responsibilities during the fellowship period. One fellowship
per annum is reserved for a member of the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies. By arrangement with the Huntington Library, San
Marino, California, scholars may apply separately for tandem awards; every
effort will be made to offer consecutive dates.
Applications for fellowships between July 2008 and June 2009 must reach the
YCBA by January 18, 2008, and should include a cover letter, a curriculum
vitae, a statement of 2–3 pages (single-spaced) outlining the proposed
research project, and the preferred month(s) of tenure. Applicants should
provide a title for their research project, and place their name on each
page of the application. Two confidential letters of recommendation should
arrive under separate cover by the same deadline.
For further information, contact Serena Guerrette, Senior Administrative
Assistant, Department of Research, Yale Center for British Art (203.432.7192
or [log in to unmask]).
Applications should be sent to:
Lisa Ford
Associate Head of Research
Yale Center for British Art
P.O. Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280
Express mail address:
161 York Street
New Haven, CT 06510
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From: "York Art History" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 24 November 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: Call For Papers
Call for Papers Art History Graduate Student Association at York University
Split Structures: Navigating the In-Between
The Art History Graduate Student Association at York University announces
its call for papers for its 7th Annual Symposium, "Split Structures:
Navigating the In-Between" to be held Friday, March 7, 2008.
Deadline: JANUARY 7th, 2008
Current cultural activity, addressing both historical and contemporary
practices, is characterized by a move towards deconstructing boundaries and
binaries. Breaking down these barriers, in theory, opens up new territories
for navigation; innovation and growth are seen as the result of moving into
the spaces between established methods, concepts, or ideologies. Often these
spaces are demarcated by the binaries of traditional modernist thought:
male/female, mind/body, science/humanities, archaic/innovative, etc. What
are the relationships between traditions, innovations and the spaces
in-between: how do we map their post-structural navigation? To what extent
is this navigation productive? What does it tell us about how cultures are
theorized and practiced?
We invite submissions for a 20-minute presentation from graduate students in
a wide range of thematic, methodological, and disciplinary backgrounds that
address the implications and the particulars of these non-linear
developments within academia and other dominant cultural institutions. We
expect to publish the papers in an online journal. Some possible
presentation topics include but are by no means limited to:
(Inter)disciplinarity
Implications for the cultural critic, historian, or artist
Globalization, Regionalism and/or localities
Communication and information technology in the arts
Structuralism and/or Post-structuralism
Art as political activism
The artist as curator, critic and/or cultural worker
Institutionalization and/or academicization of the art world
Linear and/or non-linear art history
Abstraction and/or representation
Space and place
Please send a 250-word abstract of your paper, curriculum vitae, email
contact information and audio-visual needs by MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, 2008 to:
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Attn: Symposium Committee
OR
Art History Graduate Student Association
256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
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From: Ethan Robey <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 21 November 2007 15:27:33 GMT
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc: Ethan Robey <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design
CALL FOR PAPERS
Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design
April 3 & 4, 2008
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design,
offered jointly by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Parsons The
New School for Design
The Seventeenth Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium on the Decorative
Arts & Design convenes scholars and students of decorative arts and design
from graduate programs around the world in the History of Decorative Arts,
History of Design, History of Art, History of Architecture, Anthropology,
History, Literary Criticism, and related fields. It is an excellent
opportunity for graduate students to introduce themselves and their
original research to scholars in the field. Papers are being sought on all
aspects of decorative arts, material culture and design, from the
Renaissance to the present.
The symposium will feature a keynote address by Victor Margolin, Professor
Emeritus of Art and Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
and author or editor many essential works in design theory and history,
including: American Poster Renaissance; Design Discourse: History, Theory,
Criticism; Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies; The Idea of
Design; The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy,
1917-1946; and The Politics of the Artificial: essays on Design and Design
Studies. Professor Margolin will speak on “The Uses of Design History," and
will also be the discussant for the symposium.
Send a two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a c.v. to:
Dr. Ethan Robey
Assoc. Director,MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
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[material may be submitted via e-mail]
Deadline: January 21, 2008
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