----- Original Message ----- From: "Balkan Academic News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 6:52 PM Subject: [balkans] CfP: Homelands in Question: Re-locating "Europe" in the Spaces of Cultural Negotiation, Ann Arbor, 11-12.2.2005
Homelands in Question: Re-locating "Europe" in the Spaces of Cultural Negotiation An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference February 11-12, 2005 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan http://sitemaker.umich.edu/homelands.in.question [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deadline for abstracts: November 30, 2004 Students and faculty in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Michigan are organizing an interdisciplinary conference, "Homelands in Question: Relocating 'Europe' in the Spaces of Cultural Negotiation." The conference will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan in February 2005. Professor Zeynep Celik of the New Jersey Institute of Technology will be the keynote speaker for the event. "Europe" is a term that, on one hand, connotes a specific geographic entity, and, on the other, represents a concept with elusive boundaries. The proposed conference will investigate "Europe", cultural exchange, and the effects that exchange has on spatial and material practices, representations, and theories. The conference will critically consider how the identity of "Europe" has been constructed by Other and by self by analyzing the processes through which ideas about space and the material world have flowed across boundaries. Papers may frame the topic through an investigation of spatial production in "Europe," or elsewhere. We invite scholars to submit papers addressing questions such as: How have ideas about space, urbanism, architecture, and the built environment formed and flowed across and within boundaries? How have architects and planners reflected their appropriation of the Other? How has the Other appropriated architecture? How and why have "European" styles been combined with local "traditions" in the construction of national identities? How have forms of travel and the availability of images and representations affected the negotiation of culture and the production of space? We invite abstracts from scholars in Architectural History and Theory, Art History, Comparative Literature, History, Anthropology, Geography, and related disciplines. Please submit a 1-2 page abstract along with C.V. by November 30, 2004 to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/RR.olB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> EuroAtlantic Club: http://www.europe.org.ro/euroatlantic_club/ *** Birou de traduceri autorizate. Oana Gheorghiu - tel/fax: 252.8681 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romania_eu_list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
