Call for Papers

SAHGB-EAHN ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

British Architecture Seen from Abroad

London, 16 May 2009

CFP deadline: 1 December 2008

This symposium will be organized jointly by the Society of Architectural
Historians of Great Britain and the European Architectural History Network.

The symposium aims to broaden our understanding of British architecture in
the wider world. Proposals are invited for papers that illuminate aspects
of British architecture from non-British points of view. They might include
accounts of British architecture by foreigners travelling in Britain,
gleaned from letters or journals, or reactions to British architects
travelling abroad, whether as Grand Tourists, or carrying out work overseas.
Accounts of British architecture by non-British scholars will also be
welcome, for the light they shed on what it seems important to say about
British architecture. Hermann Muthesius and Henry-Russell Hitchcock gave
important interpretations of British architecture, for example, and
historiographic papers will be welcome, but there are people now researching
British topics from various parts of the world, and we would be interested
to hear from them. There are important postcolonial perspectives to be
opened up, and assimilations of celebrated British architects into the world
of globalized commodity fetishism.

The length of symposium papers should be approximately twenty minutes. In
the first instance we will need a proposed title with an abstract of about
300 words, which should reach the conveners no later than 1 December 2008. A
selection will be made, and if your proposal is selected you will need to
produce a finished paper to be delivered at the symposium on 16 May 2009.

The conveners are Andrew Ballantyne, Newcastle University UK
(a.n.ballantynencl.ac.uk) and Dirk van den Heuvel, TU Delft, Netherlands
(d.vandenheuveltudelft.nl). See also www.sahgb.org.uk.

The symposium will be held at the Art Workers' Guild, London:
http://www.artworkersguild.org/.