IN RESIDENCY - ZK/U OPEN CALL

In the context of its research and residency program, ZK/U offers a ‘living & work’ space for artists, scholars, and practitioners, as well as an open platform for public events, lectures, discussions, screenings, performances and presentations. 

KEYWORDS URBAN TRANSFORMATION, TRANS-DISCIPLINARITY, SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY ENGAGED PRACTICES 

ZK/U founding concept: http://www.zku-berlin.org/concept/

ZK/U Residency: http://www.zku-berlin.org/residency/

Application Process: http://www.zku-berlin.org/apply/

FYI: On Contemporary Polish Architecture- ANCB Berlin

Date: Thursday, 28 November, 7.00 pm

Venue: ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr. 18-19 (Pfefferberg), 10119 Berlin

From socialist cube houses, via modern farm houses to the new International Style - architectural dreams of the Poles collide with the limitations of the system. The landscape of present day Poland combines both the influence of past architectural paradigms and the new experiences of freedom and expressiveness. Which features define the Polish architecture of individual houses before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain? How can individual preferences and needs be combined with urban development regulations, the mistakes of which are becoming ever more visible? Polish and German commentators and designers will debate these issues and reflect on the current state of Polish architecture and its impact on the European discourse.

PROGRAMME

Welcome and Introduction

Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, Director, Polish Institute Berlin

Presentations

Joanna Kusiak, Sociologist and Urban Activist, PhD Candidate, Warsaw/Berlin

Grzegorz Piątek, Architecture Critic and Curator, Warsaw

Prof. Arno Brandlhuber, Architect and Urban Planner, Brandlhuber+, Berlin

Panel Discussion

moderated by Nadin Heinich, Director, plan A, office for architectural communication & urban culture, Munich/Berlin.

This public debate is taking place in connection with the current exhibition 'For Example. New Polish Architecture' at the Polish Institute Berlin.

The event will take place in English. Admission is free and registration is not required. We look forward to welcoming you.

Please visit ancb.de and polnischekultur.de for more information. 

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CFP: Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (2014-2015)

Deadline: Jan 10, 2014

From Riverbed to Seashore. Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period. (2014-2015)

A Harvard University Research Seminar organized as part of the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative

Led by Alina Payne, Harvard University

This research seminar zeroes in on rivers as the cultural infrastructure of the Mediterranean world in the early modern period, as carriers of people, things, and ideas tying geographies and cultures together. The king of such rivers was undoubtedly the Danube, running a parallel course to the Mediterranean and cutting across Europe from West to East.

Flowing into the Black Sea, it entered the system of communicating vessels of the Mediterranean—the old Roman mare nostrum itself, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, and, the last ripple that separates and unites three continents, the Sea of Azov.

But the Danube was not alone in swelling the Mediterranean world with the cultures along its shores. The Sava, the Adige, the Neretva, the  Pruth, the Dniester and Dnieper, and the Don (which flows into the Sea of Azov) etc. connect the "traditional" Mediterranean cultures—the Italian, the Ottoman, the Greek/Byzantine, the French and Spanish—with the world of the Balkans and beyond. Starting from this perspective, this seminar seeks to develop a framework for understanding how the Balkans and its northern neighbors mediated between East and West, as well as the region's contribution to the larger Mediterranean cultural melting pot in the early modern period.

The premises underlying this seminar are twofold: 1) that the contours of the Mediterranean Renaissance need to be re-drawn to include a larger territory that reflects this connectedness; and 2) that the eastern frontier of Europe extending from the Mediterranean deep into the interior played a pivotal role in negotiating the dialogue between western Europe, Central Asia and Ottoman Turkey. On the cusp between cultures and religions, Balkan principalities, kingdoms, and fiefdoms came to embody hybridity, to act as a form of buffer or cultural "switching" system that assimilated, translated, and linked the cultures of near and Central Asia with those of Western Europe. Taking a trans-regional approach, this project aims to reconstruct the fluid ties that linked territories in a period in which hegemonies were short-lived and unstable, and in which contact nebulas generated artistic nebulas that challenge traditional historical categories of regional identities, East/West and center/periphery.

The seminar will run from spring of 2014 to summer of 2015 and will be guided by a distinguished group of scholars. Participants are invited to propose their own projects related to these themes on which they will work during this period. We seek contributions on building types (eg. carvanserais/ hans), infrastructure (bridges, fortifications and roads), domestic architecture (villas/palaces), religious and domed structures, etc., building practices, materials and artisans, on Kleinarchitektur and portable architectural objects. Proposals are also invited from participants working on spolia, on "minor" arts—cloth/silks, goldsmithry, sculpture, leather, gems and books—as well as on collecting and treasuries, that is, on artworks and luxury items that allowed ornamental forms and formal ideas to circulate and created a taste for a hybrid aesthetic, as well as on historiography.

The countries under consideration here are: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

The seminar involves three stages: 1) a two-week "mobile" workshop traveling along the Dalmatian coast and using this region as case study of the issues, historiography and methodologies that this project seeks to foreground (May/June 2014); 2) a two and a half week stay at Harvard University (2 day workshop focusing on interim presentation of participants' findings and 2 week library access in January/February 2015); and 3) a final conference (presentation of developed individual projects) and short trip to key sites on the Black Sea. On-going participation in the seminar will be based on the quality of scholarly contribution and on the level of engagement with the group.

Applicants should be post-doctoral scholars working in the Eastern European countries on which the project focuses (maximum 10 years from a doctoral degree; doctoral degree must be in hand at time of application). Travel expenses are covered. The seminar language is English: participants will need to demonstrate a strong command of the language to enable wide-ranging discussion with the other members of the seminar. Facility with languages of the region is an asset. Applications must include: CV, personal statement, description of proposed project (500 words + one page bibliography), one published writing sample and three letters of reference are due no later than January 10, 2014.

Finalists will be interviewed; participants will be notified by early February.

Please send applications to the attention of Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, ekassler@fas.harvard.edu.

Looking at Berlin, London and Paris........an upcoming conference in Berlin

29.11.2013 "Towards a sustainable and just city region? Looking at Berlin, London and Paris"

Berlin is currently in the process of developing a new spatial development strategy - the Stadtentwicklungskonzept 2030 (StEK 2030). Other plans and policies to shape the growing metropolitan region are also well under way, such as the new housing strategy and a new strategy of how to deal with municipal real estate. Many of these policies have been influenced by civil society stakeholders who demand a more sustainable development of the city, both in terms of climate change and socially. Extensive public participation processes have been launched to come up with development strategies, which will be perceived as 'just' while at the same time supporting Berlin's economic growth. The conference will discuss the proposed strategies and participatory approaches and whether they are as 'just' and 'sustainable' as promised. It will look at similar proposals in London and Paris and explore what these new approaches mean regarding current debates on governance, localism or sustainable urban development.

http://www.geschundkunstgesch.tu-berlin.de/fachgebiet_neuere_geschichte/menue/home/

CFP: 7th International Deleuze Studies Conference

Models, Machines and Memories
Istanbul, July, 14-16th 2014

“Given a certain effect, what machine is capable of producing it? And given a certain machine, what can it be used for? (Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 1977 [1972]:3)

Deleuze and Guattari crafted an immense ‘tool-box’ that we can deploy to interrogate existing knowledge, but also to create new knowledge. Envisioning the body as a little machine that could be ‘plug into’ other machines, to produce and re-produce itself again through each assemblages, Deleuze and Guattari invented a vast array of new machines with which to think the contemporary world: social-machines, desiring-machines, bachelor-machines, abstract machines, war-machines in the realm of production and reproduction, and so on, all leading to “a trans-spatial and trans-temporal plane of consistency”.

Deleuze and Guattari also introduced novel models of rhizomatic connections between machines, providing the possibility to transverse all diverse levels, by moving trans-linearly through the space and associating freely. Rather than “passive recordings”, memories emerge in Deleuze and Guattari’s work as machines. As Guattari put it, ”All memories are machines. All machines are memories.”

Models, Machines and Memories: 7th International Deleuze Studies Conference in Istanbul 2014 encourages participants to generate their own unique models, machines and memories of discussions in the fields of:

•Space, Architecture and Urban Planning

•Aesthetics and Artistic Practices,

•Film Studies,

•Digital Realm and New Media,

•Literature and Literary Criticism,

•Philosophy, Ontology and Metaphysics,

•Sociology and Politics,

•Gender Studies,

•Psychology,

•Law Studies,

•Pedagogy,

•Education,

•Science and Technology,

•Economics

Call for Papers and Panels: Deadline January, 20th 2014.

Length of presentations are to be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes. We do also welcome panel proposals. For early notification, submit your abstract or panel proposal (including abstracts) via Propose a Paper/Panel link.

Conference Chair and Camp/ Summer School Coordinator:

Dr. Emine Görgül, Istanbul Technical University

For more information please contact gorgule@itu.edu.tr

CFP: METROPOLITICS The Seventh Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

October 9-12, 2014

The Urban History Association Program Committee seeks submissions for sessions on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history. We welcome proposals for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers, and are receptive to alternative session formats that foster audience participation in the proceedings.

The Program Committee is pleased to announce that the University of Pennsylvania will serve as the local host for this year’s conference, which will be held on October 9-12, 2014.

We particularly encourage papers that explore the theme of Metropolitics, although submissions are not restricted to the conference theme. The year 2014 marks the beginning of a series of fiftieth anniversaries of major political events impacting cities, including the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the founding of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Voting Rights Act, the Hart-Celler Immigration Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Program Committee therefore invites papers that reflect broadly on the relationship between the state and local actors. We also seek contributions that make global comparisons and explore metropolitan politics in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa. Sessions on ancient and pre-modern as well as modern periods are welcome. Graduate student submissions are encouraged.

We prefer complete panels but individual papers will be considered. Please designate a single person to serve as a contact for all complete panels. For traditional panels, include a brief explanation of the overall theme, a one-page abstract of each paper, and a one- or two-page c.v. for each participant. Roundtable proposals should also designate a contact person and submit a one-page theme synopsis and a one or two page c.v. for each presenter. Proposals involving alternative formats should include a brief description of how the session will be structured. All those submitting individual papers should include a one-page abstract and a one or two page c.v. E-mail submissions by March 1, 2014 to Andrew K. Sandoval Strausz at aksandov@unm.edu and Victoria Wolcott at vwwolcot@buffalo.edu. Submissions should be included in attachments as Word or PDF documents.

As part of the conference the UHA will organize workshops for graduate students writing dissertations in urban and suburban history. Students who have written a prospectus and who wish to participate in a workshop should apply with a two to four page letter of interest by March 1, 2014 to

Janet.Bednarek@notes.udayton.edu.

CFP: Paradise Found, or Paradise Lost? Nostalgia, Culture and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

This conference aims to explore the many different forms nostalgia has taken in Central and Eastern Europe since in the last twenty years. Among the questions to be addressed are: What are the distinctive forms of nostalgia in the region? Where does this nostalgia come from? What purpose(s) does it serve? What, if any, is its political agenda? Is nostalgia primarily a yearning for or a rejection of something? Whose nostalgia is it anyway? What is the relationship between nostalgia and kitsch? And how seriously does this nostalgia take itself? Papers are invited from scholars working in a broad range of disciplines, including Slavonic and East European Studies, politics, economics, anthropology, law, business studies, linguistics, history and comparative literature.

The Call for Papers can be downloaded at:
https://afrabricuru.u-paris10.fr/?p=200

Proposals, in the form of a 250-word abstract and a short cv, should be sent BY 31 JANUARY 2014 AT THE LATEST, to BOTH organisers, at:
groberts@u-paris10.fr and anna.akimova@yahoo.fr Abstracts may be in any of the three official language of the conference, English, French or Russian.

Graham Roberts
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
200 ave. de la République
92001 Nanterre cedex
Email: groberts@u-paris10.fr

Visit the website at http://https://afrabricuru.u-paris10.fr/?p=200