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Design History Society Electronic Digest: 9 May 2008

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Juliette Kristensen | DHS Communications <[log in to unmask]>

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Dear Design History Mailing List Subscriber

The new Design History Society website is now live. 

www.designhistorysociety.org

Feedback and suggestions should be sent to
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I would like to call your attention to the first message in this digest,
which is about the DHS Essay Prize, whose deadline is 3 July 2008. 

For further information, please visit:

www.designhistorysociety.org/awards/essay_prize/index.html

With kind regards

Juliette Kristensen
DHS Communications

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From: Linda Sandino <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 8 May 2008 11:32:28 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc: Linda Sandino <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Design History Society Essay Prize 2008

2008 Design History Society Essay Prize Announcement.  Deadline for entries
3 July 2008.

ESSAY PRIZE 2008

Submissions are invited for the Design History Society Essay Prize 2008,
established in 1997 in order to maintain high standards in Design History in
Higher Education.

Entries are invited for two awards: one undergraduate, one post-graduate.

CRITERIA
The competition is open to any student on BA or MA course in which Design
History is a component (within the UK and Ireland only).

The following criteria need apply:
The essay should be written English.
The essay should be of  dissertation length – at least 6,000 words – up to
approx. 12,000; however, different word counts will be considered
Two hard copies of the essay (with any illustrations) to be submitted
The entrant must have been a full- or part-time student within the academic
year 2007/2008
The entrant should not have been previously published
All essays must be accompanied by an academic nomination.  Guidelines for
selection are available to tutors on request.
The closing date is Thursday, 3 July 2008.  Submissions received after this
deadline will be returned.

PRIZE
A bursary of £300 given by the Design History Society
One year’s membership of the Design History Society (includes subscription
to The Journal of Design History)
Free place at the 2008 DHS conference
£100 worth of Oxford University Press publications
5 Paperbacks in the Oxford History of Art series.

Application forms and guidelines outlining selection and nomination criteria
are available from:

Linda Sandino
DHS Essay Prize Officer
Camberwell College of Arts,
University of the Arts London
Wilson Road
London SE5 8EU
Tel:	020 7514 6414
Fax:	 020 7515 6405
E-mail: [log in to unmask]


Presentation of the prizes will be made at the 2008 Design History
Conference http://www.networksofdesign.co.uk 3-6 September.

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From: Sarah Teasley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 5 May 2008 05:07:50 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CFP: Benjamin's Objects, New session for CAA, Los Angeles, 25-28 Feb 09

The following Design Studies Forum-Sponsored Special Session has been added
to the CAA Annual Conference in Los Angeles. It does not appear in the
printed version of the 2009 Call for Participation.

BENJAMIN'S OBJECTS
Design Studies Forum-Sponsored Special Session
College Art Association
Los Angeles, February 25-28, 2009
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The objects found in Walter Benjamin’s writing constitute a significant part
of his material and intellectual world. Benjamin's careful textual
descriptions of objects gird his broader critical insight into the status of
objects and their significance. In reflecting upon his childhood, objects
became a means through which to access a bygone era; taking possession of
things was posited as a way to divest them of their commodity character.
Activities such as collecting, assembling the archive, or unpacking the
library were necessarily material-filled. In a seemingly straightforward
manner, Benjamin celebrates the material qualities of objects such as
letters, books, or old toys, but he also less directly employs objects to
address subjects such as kitsch, modern life, and capitalism. In Benjamin's
formulation, antimacassars, cases and containers, in their use, allowed the
dweller to leave traces; it is notably through objects that the dweller
imprints himself upon the interior.

This session proposes a reappraisal of Benjamin's objects, with
considerations of what objecthood meant to Benjamin and how the particular
set of objects highlighted in his writing can be understood both within his
body of work and the broader period in which he wrote. Benjamin's theory can
also be used to inform the examination of objects in other areas of design
history. This panel invites investigations of objects as a means of
soliciting critical insight into Benjamin's larger questions, such as those
surrounding the aura, habits, taste, the bourgeoisie, or authenticity.
Seeking not just to excavate and explicate previously underexamined
Benjaminian objects, this session asks how we might interrogate them as
discursive entities or agents. Papers might address the myriad relationships
between art and objects, object-laden activities (collecting, for example),
or between subjects and objects. How might objects mediate between the
concrete realm of the commodity and the dream world, both equally populated
with things in Benjamin’s work? How might objects give insight, according to
Benjamin, into broader categories of knowledge? How do the perceptions or
representations of things relate to their general existence or to a specific
time and place? How might objects be seen in relation to the work of art or
the production of images? And finally, how might the material culture of
Benjamin give insight into the material of culture?

Please submit an abstract not to exceed 500 words with a c.v. via email to
Robin Schuldenfrei ([log in to unmask]) by Friday, May 23, 2008. Robin
Schuldenfrei, Department of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago,
935 W. Harrison St., MC 201, Chicago, IL 60607

__________________________
Sarah Teasley
Assistant Professor of Art History
Northwestern University
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From: anne anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 6 May 2008 17:17:19 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Ancient Landscapes Symposium

Apologies for cross posting inforamtion on this symposium...

  ‘In Search of England’ from Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists

  Lecture Theatre, Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre
  Saturday 14th June 10.00-4.15

  Speakers: Dr Anne Anderson, Hon. Research Fellow Exeter University. 
  Dr Andrew Causey, former Professor of Art History at the University of
Manchester.
  Robert Meyrick, Head of School and Keeper of Art at Aberystwyth
University’s School of Art, Gallery and Museum.
  Dr John Price, Chairman of the Richard Jefferies Society.
  Dr Sam Smiles, Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth.

  10.15 Welcome and introduction:  Anne Anderson

  10.30- 11.15. John Price: Victorian Visionaries: Richard Jefferies, Edward
Thomas and A.E. Houseman. 

  11.15- 12.00 Andrew Causey:  ‘Englishness’: the National Character of
English art between the Wars.

  12.15-1.00. Robert Meyrick: Pastoral Revisions: “Little Englandism” in
British Printmaking, 1915-1935

  Lunch (not included).

  2.15-3.00 Sam Smiles: Pre-history and English Culture c. 1920-1950.

  3.00-3.30 Anne Anderson: The Spirit of Place: from Shoreham to Barley Splatt.

  4.15 Finish

  Tickets are £25. 

  Send to Katherine Crouch, Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre,
SOUTHAMPTON S014 7LP
  email:  [log in to unmask] Contact number: 02380 834563
  Contact Anne Anderson: 02380694385 [log in to unmask]

  Exhibition dates: 
  Southampton City Art Gallery 18th April-22nd June 2008. 
  Sunday 18th May at 2-3.00pm Southampton City Art Gallery, Gallery Talk by
Anne Anderson.

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