Contents
1. AHRC Vienna Cafe Project (Call for Papers)
2. Clone Towns? (Call for Papers)
3. Networks of Design: DHS Annual Conference 2008 (Call for Papers)
4. Power to Empowerment: Critical Literacy in Visual Culture (Call for Papers)
5. 2007 Twentieth Century Furniture Research Group's Annual Conference (Event)
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From: Angela Waplington <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc: Angela Waplington <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Papers - AHRC Vienna Cafe Project
The AHRC funded Vienna Café Project is pleased to announce the call for
papers for the 2008 conference "The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of
Cultural Exchange".
Yours sincerely,
Dr Charlotte Ashby
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Call for Papers:
The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange
A two-day conference organised by the Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle
Culture Research Project, to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum and
Royal College of Art, London on October 17th and 18th 2008.
As today, the cafés of fin-de-siècle Vienna were an important component of
modern city life, an extension of both home and workplace. Cafés were as
much to do with intellectual and social interaction as with procuring
refreshment. This conference will focus on the complexities of the Viennese
café as an urban space in order to better understand wider questions about
Viennese modernism. Through its focus on the café, the conference aims to
redefine our understanding not only of the arts in Vienna, but also of
modernity more generally.
The conference encourages a cross-disciplinary approach to subjects and
welcomes proposals for papers from scholars and practitioners in any field.
Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
• The complex inter-relationships between urban modernity and artistic
modernism in relation to the Viennese café.
• The Viennese café as a liminal space: public and private, ‘high’ and ‘low’
culture.
• The café as a site for consumption: coffee and commerce.
• Contrasts and comparisons between the Viennese café and the café cultures
of other world cities.
• The café as a site for performance.
• The café as a designed space: interrelations between modern design,
society and fashion.
The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Research Project is funded by the Arts
and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and is based at the Royal College of
Art and Birkbeck, University of London. www.rca.ac.uk/viennacafe
We invite abstracts of 400 words to be submitted electronically to Dr
Charlotte Ashby, [log in to unmask]
The deadline for submissions is 15th January 2008
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From: "Ugolini, Laura" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Papers - Clone Towns?
CHORD Conference Call for Papers
Clone Towns? The High Street in Historical Perspective
University of Wolverhampton, UK. 10 and 11 September 2008.
CHORD invites submissions for a conference devoted to exploring the changing
nature of the high street, from the medieval to the contemporary period, in
Britain and elsewhere.
Proposals are invited for papers exploring any aspect of this topic, and
focusing on any geographical area. Areas of interest include (but are not
limited to):
· Shops and Selling
· Buildings and Architecture
· Window shopping, Strolling and Leisure
· Globalisation and Branding
· High street businesses
· Lighting, Transport and ‘Improvement’
· High street fashions
· Crime and Disorder
· The Impact of Out-of-town Shopping
Please send proposals (including title and c.200 words abstract) to the
address below by 4 April 2008. For further information, please see:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/clones.html
or contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of
Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK.
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From: Caroline Pullee <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Call for Papers - Networks of Design 2008 Conference of the Design
History Society
Networks of Design 2008 Conference of the Design History Society
University College Falmouth
September 3rd – 6th 2008
The theme Networks of Design responds to recent academic interest in the
fields of design, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of
interactions within processes of knowledge formation. The interest in
networks emerges from actor-network theory (ANT) and the work of, among
others, the social theorist Bruno Latour who, along with the international
designer and Droog collaborator Jurgen Bey, is a keynote speaker at the
conference.
Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes,
strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between
people and things. Within the wider context of post-modernism we are, it
seems, experiencing a paradigm shift in design history and this conference
offers an opportunity to address, explore and assess that shift, providing a
platform for international debate and exchange.
Networks can include people, social groups, artefacts, devices, entities and
ideas. Papers will be organised around five broad themes:
Networks of People including collectives and individuals
Networks of Texts including images, documents, databases
Networks of Technology including mechanical and virtual technologies
Networks of Things including material and technological artefacts
Networks of ideas including theories, disciplines and concepts (among them
design history and ANT)
Proposals for papers are welcome from individuals and/or panels (of not more
than three papers). Please visit the web site:
http://www.networksofdesign.co.uk or email Fiona Hackney at
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End of Call for Papers: 25th February 2008
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From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Call for Papers: Power to Empowerment: Critical Literacy in Visual
Culture
Attached please find a call for papers and conference announcement.
Kind regards,
Keith Owens
Assistant Professor
Communication Design
College of Visual Arts & Design
The University of North Texas
PO Box 305100
Denton, Texas 76203
Office 940.369.7243
Mobile 214.649.3647
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Conference: Power to Empowerment: Critical Literacy in Visual Culture
June 7-8, 2008. Dallas, Texas, USA.
Papers are solicited for an international, transdisciplinary conference
examining visual literacy as it is shaped by, shapes and integrates private
and public identity and subjectivity through social institutions and forces
including education, politics, ethics, technology, media, marketing,
commerce, the environment and society. The conference understands visual
literacy from the perspective of individuals, communities, groups and
organizations to mean the ability to successfully compose and deliver
meaningful communication as well as decode and interpret visual messages. It
involves perceiving visual images as components of a larger culture matrix,
constituting their meaning and significance, discerning relationships
between their intended and actual purposes and audiences, and acting with or
upon them. Visual literacy generates and is affected by relationships
between the visual, literacy and power, including disenfranchisement.
Particular themes or topics for papers may include but are not limited to
the economics of visual culture, constructing the visual landscape, visual
culture and affiliations and disenfranchisements, brands and users,
ethnographies of visual culture, the charge of education to superintend
visual literacy, visual literacy and power, visual illiteracy, visual
culture and social difference, and visual cultures of everyday life.
Abstracts between 250-500 words are sought for 15-20 minute paper
presentations. The deadline to receive abstracts is February 1, 2008.
Notification of acceptance will be March 1, 2008.
Please send your abstract electronically as a word-document to Keith Owens,
Assistant Professor, Communication Design, University of North Texas College
of Visual Arts & Design, [log in to unmask]
Keith Owens
University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts & Design
P.O. Box 305100
Denton, TX 76203
940-369-7243
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From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Event announcement - Furniture Conference
Please find following information about the 2007 Twentieth Century Furniture
Research Group's Annual Conference at the Design Museum?
Many thanks.
Lisa Hodgkins
Technical Digital Archivist
'Creation of High Wycombe Furniture Electronic Archive'
Room D1a, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Queen Alexandra Road,
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP11 2JZ
Tel: 01494 522 141 ext. 3556
email: [log in to unmask]
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (119158)
‘Furniture Design and Manufacture, 1970 – 2000’
The Fifth Annual Conference of the Twentieth Century Research Group entitled
‘Furniture Design and Manufacture, 1970-2000’ will take place on November
16th 2007 at the Design Museum, London.
The programme will include the following presentations:
What happened to GPlan? (Jake Kaner, Bucks New University & Basil Hyman, Author)
Ercol: The Windsor range and beyond (Sharon Grover Bucks New University &
Edward Tadros, Ercol Furniture Ltd)
Throw away? Production, degradation and conservation of a sofa which was
meant to be disposable (Susanne Graner, Conservator Die Neue Sammlung &
Clementine Bollard, Université Paris)
Phantastically plastic? Challenges in conserving elastic plastics (Tim
Bechthold, Head of Conservation Department / Die Neue Sammlung)
No straight lines: Denys Bruyere – a fantasy cabinet maker (Christopher
Payne, Furniture Historian)
SCP: International furniture, international ambition (Gareth Williams,
Curator V&A)
‘One Designer - Two careers Martin Grierson Designer & Maker’ (Martin
Grierson, Furniture Designer & Maker)
Trannon: SustainableDesign and Production, (Roy Tam, University of Plymouth
and director of Trannon 1992-2004)
Design Museum - 1970-2000 contents
Following the presentations will be panel questions and a gallery tour.
Fees include lunch and are £75. Concessions are £45.
There is a Student Rate of £25 which does not include lunch.
For further information contact: [log in to unmask] or telephone 01494
522 141 (ext. 3556)
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