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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 [log in to unmask] 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.