Owing to the global COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on gatherings and travel, the SAHANZ 2020 conference dates and format have been amended as explained below.
The conference will be held 18 - 25 November 2020
We are proposing a conference that will be ‘slow’ and ‘dispersed’. Taking advantage of the broad cross-section of the Society’s membership, it will continue to be convened by The University of Western Australia (UWA) from Perth, but will incorporate a series of localised ‘satellite’ meetings in cities dispersed across Australia and New Zealand. The satellites will host forums for physical and virtual Paper Presentations and Roundtables, clustered in thematic groupings. Conference delegates will be able to attend these forums in person and/or by virtual means. Allowing for different time zones, the conference program will be structured to enable delegates to attend presentations and events in virtual mode at each of the satellite locations. To make this viable, the sessions will be spread across a week.
The Conference theme outlined below, encouraging Speculations on History’s Futures, continues to be relevant, vital and perhaps amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Challenges to the transmission of historical knowledge in architectural education today highlight a potential shift in expertise that may ultimately impact upon the production of architecture, as well as broader understanding of the built environment, which warrants interrogating.
At the same time, increasing appetite for the preservation and repurposing of built fabric feeds a growing heritage sector (and associated tourism industry) that offers opportunity for architectural history’s contribution insofar as its basis in inquiry informs knowledge, interpretation and evaluation of buildings and places. The 2020 SAHANZ Conference calls for broad consideration of the prospects for architectural history in relation to the endurance and/or transformation of architecture as a discipline and profession.
Under the banner of ‘history’s futures’ we encourage speculation upon impending modes of application of critical scholarship and historical knowledge: what might be the nature, purpose or outcomes of historical inquiry? What might be the intersections with or influences upon architectural production? Upon the reception of architecture? Or what kinds of projections about the future can be discovered in the past? Questions around pedagogy, transmission, content and method all bring focus upon architectural history’s role to investigate and locate architecture within the contexts, frameworks and processes informing its production and use.
KEY DATES
31.10.19 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION OPENS
18.05.20 AMENDED AND NEW ABSTRACTS DUE FOR PAPER PRESENTATIONS, POSTER SESSIONS AND ROUNDTABLES
35.05.20 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF ABSTRACTS SENT TO ALL PROPOSERS
28.08.20 FULL PAPERS DUE FOR REVIEW
01.10.20 REFEREE REPORTS FORWARDED TO AUTHORS
18.11.20 CONFERENCE OPENING
27.11.20 FINAL PAPERS DUE
Please direct all enquiries to sahanz2020-sdes@uwa.edu.au
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