Deadline to submit: October 25, 2021, at 11:59 PM CDT
The two workshops will take place online:
*Friday, December 17, 2021, 1PM PST / 3 PM CST / 4PM EST
*Friday January 21, 2022, 1PM PST / 3 PM CST / 4PM EST
From the Open Call:
Method Acts is a series of virtual workshops focused on exploring scholarly techniques for graduate students and emerging scholars in architectural history and adjacent fields. This series of two events will be a forum for discussing new, alternative, and reconsidered methodological approaches to our work.
Historical methods are practices and are inherently political. The question of who gets to write history is inextricable from the politics of how it is written. The scope, subject, and mode of address, the accessibility of historical evidence, and the orientation of the researcher all condition historians’ encounters with the events and objects that we study. As architectural historians in early phases of our careers, we have the opportunity to orient our field toward broader forms of engagement with material evidence.
In conjunction with efforts to expand the topics that we select for historical inquiry, we must also reassess the ways that we approach those topics. As increasingly varied forms of evidence other than traditional architectural media provide the basis for the history that we write, we should also account for the format of media as epistemic categories.
Workshop Format:
Each 75-minute workshop will consist of 2–3 presentations on selected methods, presented by selected and invited doctoral candidates and emerging scholars from universities across the globe. We invite expressions of interest for 10–15-minute presentations, which will be framed by discussions with workshop participants. Intended audience and participants are emerging ABD scholars or 1–3 years after dissertation. The presentations will take place in English and be online.
Submission Requirements
- 100–150-word statement in a Word or PDF format describing the method you would like to discuss
- Current CV (2 pages max)
- Although not required to apply, selected presenters will be required to join SAH or be current members to participate.
For more information and to submit a proposal, visit Method Acts.