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Session: New Critical Frameworks for Interior Architecture Session Chairs: Cammie McAtee (Independent) and Karen R. White (Humber Polytechnic)  Following last year’s panel on the challenges of studying interiors, this session seeks presentations exploring new approaches to the interpretation and historiography of interior architecture in Canada. We welcome contributions that bring forward un(der)studied subjects or reconsider well-known ones, examining them through new interpretive lenses. Papers might consider a wide range of interior spaces, the objects that define(d) them, and/or the actors, communities or institutions that created them.  While progress has been made on decolonizing architectural history by expanding and/or recentring its approaches and subjects, the historyRead More →

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We are proud to announce that, for the first time, The SAH Historic Interiors Article Award proposed and sponsored by HIG will be offered! Deadline: Dec 15, 2024 This award will be presented by the Society of Architectural Historians for a written work that contributes significantly to our understanding of interiors history. Purpose This award was conceived by the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of SAH (HIG) in 2022. HIG is a Board-approved SAH affiliate group that is focused on fostering new approaches to the history of interiors as both an independent line of scholarly inquiry and as an important aspect of the expanded study ofRead More →

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Do You Have an Idea For a HIG Event? Let Us Know! HIG is currently accepting submissions for event proposals from its members at large. If you have an idea about a panel or a roundtable that is likely to be of interest to our members, and which you would like to organize, please send a one to two page proposal and a copy of your CV to: alasc@pratt.edu and P.Lara-Betancourt@kingston.ac.uk Deadline: November 15, 2024 Your submission can fall within any one of the following categories: pedagogy, research, curating, theory and practice.Read More →

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Deadline: July 26, 2024 From information circulated in SAH Opportunities Weekly Roundup (July 12, 2024): HIG members may be interested in submitting a paper for consideration for this paper panel session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting on March 20-22, 2025 in Boston, MA. Session Abstract: Interior spaces emerged in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as arenas for the curation of identities that aligned with the virtues of humanism, masculinity or femininity, and religious piety. These thoughtfully crafted spaces placed political power, civic pride, and diverse forms of connectivity on display through a variety of visual strategies. Acting as more than sites of self-fashioning, these spacesRead More →

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Interior Spaces of Crime and Coercion To really appreciate architecture,” says Bernard Tschumi in Advertisements for Architecture, “you may even need to commit a murder.” This panel considers the interior spaces that pertain to crimes and other forbidden actions. It calls for scholarship that looks at rooms where “wrong” things are done—spaces of transgression—as well as the more frequently studied spaces of “correction.” The latter are entwined with ideas of modernity, from Piranesi’s Carceri to Foucault on Bentham’s Panopticon. The former—the scenes of the crime—are themselves subjects of study by historians of criminology like Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, and the journal Crime, HistoireRead More →

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Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture Call for Submissions for Special Journal Theme Issue: Interior Experiments This special theme issue focuses on the role of interiors in architectural experiments, while also exploring how experimentation advances interiors as a distinct field of theoretical and applied knowledge. In his 1970 book Experimental Architecture, Peter Cook engaged the question of experimentation by bringing together a range of then-emerging international architectural practices that sought to challenge the profession’s status quo. Situating their work both historically and in relation to possible future trajectories, the aim was to identify various modes of resistance to “the broad and horrific mainstream of recent architecture.” [Peter Cook, Experimental Architecture (New York: UniverseRead More →

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The Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Group (HIG), in collaboration with the University of the Arts, London (UAL), is seeking proposals for its 4th Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium, Confronting the ‘Chamber of Horrors’: Taste in Interiors. Despite being long mistrusted by academics for its apparently unreliable subjectivity, taste nonetheless remains a key component in any discussion of interior spaces. The very slippery subjectivity that makes taste suspect also imbues it with what Karin Tehve has called a “messy vitality.”  Reckoning with taste invites explorations of both the sources and limits of authority in aesthetic choices. Graduate students, postdocs and recent graduates (2021-) from diverseRead More →

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Design History Society Annual Conference 2024 University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, UK 5th – 7th September 2024 Call for Papers Borders are an ever more pressing issue in the 2020s. Whether geopolitical, human and non-human, or digital and physical, the solidification and liquification of borders raises questions around design’s role in creating, undoing and negotiating divides. The significance of borders today is highlighted by the interlaced ramifications of Brexit, Covid-19, international conflict, the climate emergency, the dissolution of colonial borders, gender binaries, and the rise of polarising social media platforms. In this context it seems timely for design history to debate the implications of borders past,Read More →

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Established in 2020, the Historic Interiors Group (HIG) is dedicated to the study of historic interiors. Its mission is to gather people together to foster scholarly inquiry on the history of the interior within and beyond the SAH, supporting teachers, researchers, curators, archivists, librarians, publishers, and practitioners. HIG is pleased to invite members to join our established working committees and help advance our goals: Description of the mission, goals, expectations, and application instructions for each group follow below. Committee membership is generally expected to be a two-year commitment, with the option to renew for a second term. We will be accepting applications through September 29,Read More →

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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. TheRead More →