Society of Architectural Historians 2024 Annual International Conference
The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 77th Annual International Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 17–21, 2024. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 6, 2023. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters, Affiliate Groups, and partner organizations.
CFP – Lost Interiors: Interpreting the Ephemeral
Working within the intersection between architectural history, material culture, decorative arts, and the history of design, historians of interiors face a significant challenge: ephemerality. The evidence and archive typically left behind is fragmentary and by its nature, always already outdated. Re-design and adaptive re-use, if not outright destruction, overlay each other, resulting in an interior palimpsest which poses as many questions as it does answers. How can we better interrogate the changing design, meaning, and use of interiors over time? This session invites papers that address the lifecycle and experience of ephemeral interiors through new methods, theories, archival sources, and innovative technologies. How might such approaches enable us to preserve and document patterns of design and inhabitation, not only for the homes of the wealthy, but diverse groups of people including servants, white-collar workers, the enslaved, the immigrant, and the working poor? We welcome proposals dealing with any period or geographical location. Interdisciplinary and collaborative papers are especially encouraged.
Organized by the SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group.
Session Chair: Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute
Submission Guidelines:
- Confirmed 2024 session chairs are not eligible to submit to the Call for Papers.
- Abstracts must be under 300 words.
- The title cannot exceed 65 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
- Abstracts and titles must follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
- Only one abstract per conference by an author or co-author may be submitted.
- A maximum of three (3) authors per abstract will be accepted.
- Please attach a two-page CV in PDF format.
Abstracts are to be submitted online using the link found at https://www.sah.org/2024/call-for-papers