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NEW BOOKS
Fabio Bianconi and Marco Filipucci, Digital Draw Connections: Representing Complexity and Contradiction in Landscape (Springer, 2021)
Jeanne Haffner, ed., Landscapes of Housing: Design and Planning in the History of Environmental Thought (Routledge, 2021)
Maunu Häyrynen, Jouni Häkli, and Jarkko Saarinen, Landscapes of Affect and Emotion: Nordic Environmental Humanities and the Emotional Turn (Brill, 2021)
Clare Hickman, The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain (Yale, 2021)
Dietmar Land, with forward by Gert Gröning, Garten – Volk – Landschaft – Kunst: Leben und Werk des Gartenarchitekten Gustav Allinger (1891–1974) (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2021)
Laurie Olin, Essays on Landscape (LALH, 2021)
R. Bruce Stephenson, John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner (LALH, 2021)
Anatole Tschikine, Francesco Ignazio Lazzari’s Discrizione della villa pliniana: Visions of Antiquity in the Landscape of Umbria (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
Tim Waterman, Jane Wolff, and Ed Wall, eds., Landscape Citizenships (Routledge, 2021)
Andrew Wood, A Rhetoric of Ruins: Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
EVENTS
The Courtauld Gallery re-opening
The Courtauld Gallery will reopen from 19 November 2021, including a new Learning Centre, collection study spaces, café and shop. Tickets are now on sale at https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/
Teaching and learning will continue to be based at Vernon Square near King’s Cross. For more information on studying at The Courtauld, visit https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/
The Courtauld online Shop is now live–visit https://shop.courtauld.ac.uk/ to browse the latest products.
Covid-19 information and guidance can be found at https://courtauld.ac.uk/about-us/covid-19/
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room
Before Yesterday We Could Fly is based on the community of Seneca Village, originally located just west of where The Met currently sits. The Central Park Conservancy provides historical information on the site here.
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Landscape Citizenships: A Roundtable
Online event sponsored by Yale Environmental History & Yale Environmental Humanities
Oct. 29, 1:30 PM–3:00 PM ET
What would it mean to fully embrace the concept of landscape as a milieu of situated, everyday practices, encompassing the mutually constitutive relations between people and place? And how can landscape studies, a field with roots in Western cartographic and imperial traditions, establish scholarly and activist frameworks that facilitate inclusivity, belonging, and justice? The co-editors of the recently published edited volume Landscape Citizenships (Routledge, 2021) will join Thaïsa Way, Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, to consider these and other questions in a roundtable discussion of their new book. The discussants will also reflect upon how their own landscape emplacements and research positions informed the making of the book and its emphasis on democratic modes of landscape thinking and practice.
To register, please click here
Opportunities
Nominations and Applications for the JB Jackson Book Prize and David R. Coffin Publication Grants
The University of Virginia Center for Cultural Landscapes invites nominations and applications for the JB Jackson Book Prize and David R. Coffin Publication grants. We are pleased to be the new home and sponsor of these awards that were established by the Foundation for Landscape Studies over a decade ago. We consider books examining cultural landscapes and landscape studies in the broadest sense—from the scale of gardens to cities and territories. Scholarship that explores new cultural landscape research methods as well as specific topics are most welcome.
Details for submission of nominations and applications can be found here.
Questions can be addressed to Beth Meyer, co-director of the Center for Cultural Landscapes.
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Call for Virtual Roundtables at the SAH 2022 Annual International Conference
Deadline Dec. 1
The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting proposals for virtual programs such as roundtables, debates, and book discussions. Drawing on the success of past virtual roundtables, SAH plans to offer roundtables in a virtual format to promote accessibility and broaden the potential audience.
These programs will be presented virtually after the SAH 2022 Annual International Conference on dates/times between May 9 and May 31, 2022. These programs will complement the in-person conference programming and should differ from the paper sessions in both topic and organization. Roundtables usually consist of six or fewer participants, including moderators, and provide active, in-depth discussion on current conditions of research, teaching, and scholarship.
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Call for hosting institutions for 2023 and 2024 conferences, European Architectural History Network
Deadline Dec. 1
The EAHN invites proposals for both the Biennial Conference 2024 and Thematic Conferences 2023.
The biennial conferences offer the chance to bring together scholars in the field from all over the world and have played a leading role in consolidating and promoting architectural history research in Europe and overseas. These are major meetings, or conferences, held on even years and alternating with a complimentary programme of smaller thematic international meetings.
The smaller, more focused thematic conferences and seminars. These events are intended to raise the international profile of the Network through local collaborations and to promote inclusivity and interdisciplinarity. They are smaller events in alternate years, focused on a clearly defined theme but still aimed at an international audience.
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SAH American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip Grants
Deadline Dec. 1
The SAH American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip grant program funds architecture and landscape field trips for underserved students in grades 3 through high school. To deliver awe-inspiring field trips, SAH seeks to partner with other not-for-profit organizations that offer youth design education programs and docent-led tours of architecture, parks, gardens, neighborhoods, and town/city centers. We fund tour programs that enable students to learn about the history of the built environment by walking through and experiencing great architecture, public parks, gardens, and urban planning.
Established in 2015, the SAH American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip Program has made grants to a wide variety of not-for-profits including house museums/creative place making sites, summer workshops focusing on architecture and design, schools of architecture with youth outreach programs, and arts and architecture high schools.
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SAH Annual Conference Student Diversity Fellowship
Deadline Dec. 15
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), alongside its Minority Scholars, Asian American & Diasporic Architectural History, and Race & Architectural History Affiliate Groups, invite applications for a 2022 SAH annual conference undergraduate and graduate student fellowship as a step toward increasing the racial diversity of SAH and the field of architectural history.
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HABS-SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
Deadline Dec. 31
The Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship permits a graduate student in architectural history or a related field to work on a 12-week HABS history project during the summer. The Fellow will conduct research on a nationally significant U.S. building or site, and will prepare a written history to become part of the permanent HABS collection. The Fellow’s research interests and goals will inform the building or site selected by HABS staff. The Fellow is usually stationed in the HABS Washington, DC, office. Recipients are also required to upload a minimum of 50 images to SAH’s SAHARA image database.
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Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2022–2023
Deadline Feb. 1
The theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to promote the participation of junior scholars in the Center’s yearlong core program. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark. Scholars must have received their doctorates in the last six years, and their research should pertain to the announced theme. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops and seminars.