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----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Patrick Cox <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, December 28, 2012 9:03:59 AM Subject: CONF: The 8th Savannah Symposium: Modernities Across Time and Space From: E.G. Daves Rossell <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:34 AM Invitation to Register The 8th Savannah Symposium: MODERNITIES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE / February 7-9, 2013 www.scad.edu/savannahsymposium 67 presenters from 16 countries and 26 states Keynote Speakers: Mark Jarzombek, MIT and Dell Upton, UCLA The art historian T. J. Clark spoke for many scholars when he declared that modernity marked a special historical transition when "the pursuit of a projected future - of goods, pleasures, freedoms, forms of control over nature, or infinities of information" overcame tradition and ritual. He distinguished the last 500 years against all previous time, and the west against the rest of the world. But such a bold assertion has opened itself to diverse interpretations. Is there a single modernity? If so, how was it created, disseminated and adopted? Or, alternately, are there actually multiple modernities? How then can we appreciate the diversity of different cultures and different times? The 8th Savannah Symposium features papers investigating modernity and/or modernities in the broadest and most critical terms. Studies address architecture, landscape and the imagined environment as well as empirical, methodological and theoretical approaches. The significance of the split-level house in mid-20th-century suburbanization is discussed as are postcolonial reinterpretations of world architecture. There are papers that investigate attempts to assert modernity, as suggested by the origins of the very word "modern" deriving from the Latin modernus from modo, "just now," (marking a 5th-century desire to distinguish the Christian era from the Pagan era) as well as discussions of cultural hybridity where modernity is actively negotiated. Some studies focus on particular sites or examples of modern architecture while others interpret who determined the modernity, when and where it occurred, and how it was presented and promoted. General student and SCAD faculty and student rates available. Register Now! Any questions can be directed to Patrick Haughey [[email protected]] and Daves Rossell [[email protected]] c/o Department of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design, 102 Eichberg Hall, 229 MLK Jr. Blvd., P.O. Box 3146, Savannah, GA 31402-3146. -- Patrick Cox PhD Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers Lecturer, American Studies, Penn State http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course
