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CFP: Domestic Encounters: Postgraduate Research DayAHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior Domestic Encounters: 1400 to the Present Postgraduate Research Day Call for Papers 14 March 2005 Royal College of Art London This research day will explore the ways in which the domestic interior has been experienced, occupied and perceived. The event aims to bring together new researchers studying the domestic interior, providing them with an interdisciplinary forum in which to present their work and to exchange ideas and approaches. This event is part of an ongoing initiative at the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior to support an interdisciplinary community of postgraduates working in fields related to the domestic interior. We invite papers from students of design, fine art, architecture, anthropology, art history, historical geography and social and cultural history. Students working from both historical and contemporary perspectives are encouraged to submit proposals. We particularly welcome contributions covering: - Work and the domestic sphere - Sociability in the home - Emotions, beliefs and domestic rituals Send proposals (200 words) by 1 December 2004 to: [log in to unmask] AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior Royal College of Art Kensington Gore London, SW7 2EU, UK. Please include with the proposal your affiliation, abstract of your current research, email address and other contact details. Limited travel funds may be available. Please contact the Centre for further information ([log in to unmask]), tel. +44 (0)207 590 4183; or see the website: www.rca.ac.uk/csdi. Participating Institutions: Royal College of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Bedford Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London. -- _________________________________ AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior Royal College of Art Kensington Gore London SW7 2EU Tel. +44 (0)20 7590 4183 www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/ Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Bedford Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London