Perhaps of interest.
Felicity Callard

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> From: Peter Nix <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu Oct 9, 2003  2:40:22  pm Europe/London
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: CFP: The Philosophy of Architecture/The Architecture of
> Philosophy (UK) (12/15/03; 7/9/04-7/11/04)
>
> Please pass this announcement on to colleagues and Postgraduate
> students
> who might be interested.
>
> CongressCATH 2004 hosted by the AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis,
> Theory and History, University of Leeds, (Director Griselda Pollock)
> will
> be held at the National Museum for Photography, Film and Television in
> Bradford from 9-11 July 2004. This year's theme is The Philosophy of
> Architecture/The Architecture of Philosophy.
>
> The call for papers, proposal forms and guidelines are available on our
> website http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/congress/2004/
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> The Architecture of Philosophy/
> The Philosophy of Architecture
>
> Speakers include: Dana Arnold, Andrew Benjamin, Beatriz Colomina, Mark
> Wigley
>
> This conference addresses the question of architecture and philosophy
> from the Classical to the Postmodern. It wishes to pursue several
> avenues of investigation. Firstly, the place of the architectural
> metaphor in the texts of philosophy from the Platonic archeton to
> Marx's
> superstructure, from Heidegger's notion of dwelling to deconstructive
> arche-writing. In this respect the conference would like to explore the
> ways in which philosophy, and latterly the expanded practice of Theory,
> has imagined itself as an architectural enterprise which builds systems
> of thought. Secondly, the philosophical discussion of architecture as a
> branch of aesthetics from Kant and Hegel to the present. Here the
> conference also wishes to address theories and philosophies of
> architecture from Vitruvius to Corbusier and beyond. Thirdly, those
> pieces of architecture which both have their foundations in philosophy
> and which inspire philosophical reflection. In particular the
> conference
> will examine contemporary architecture (so-called postmodern or
> deconstructive architecture), which as a practice seems to perform the
> insights of postmodern theory, and the architecture of the museum and
> the museum of architecture and the Architectural Archive. Here the
> conference would like to explore debates around the creation of museum
> spaces and the relationship between collections, interpretation,
> meaning
> and space. Fourthly, the specific conjunction between philosophers and
> architects, when philosophers become architects (e.g. Wittgenstein,
> Derrida) and when architects become philosophers (e.g. Thomas
> Jefferson,
> Bernard Tschumi). Fifthly, the question of the material in philosophy
> and architecture, from Socratic materialism to Paul de Man's Aesthetic
> Ideology. Here the conference would like to explore the ways in which
> architecture might help philosophy think through the problems of
> materiality and the ways in which such philosophical reflection might
> be
> performed in architectural practice. Sixthly, the relationship between
> building and sculpture, between architectural practice and artistic
> practice.  Seventhly:  architecture and the city; how does contemporary
> practice engage with historic spaces?  How does architecture address
> issues such as regeneration, political discourse and social inclusion
> and identity?
>
> WE INVITE ABSTRACTS OF ABOUT 200 WORDS FOR PAPERS, OR COMPLETE PANELS
> INCLUDING 3 PAPERS TO BE SUBMITTED BY 15 DECEMBER 2003 TO:
>
> Josine Opmeer, Centre Coordinator
> CentreCATH, Old Mining Building, 2.08
> UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, LS2 9JT
> Tel: +44(0)113 343 1629 / Fax: +44(0)113 343 1628
> [log in to unmask] / http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/
>
>
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Dr Felicity Callard
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
t: (44) (0)207 882 5416
f: (44) (0)208 981 6276
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