Deadline to submit: October 24, 2022, at 11:59 PM CDT
Method Acts is a series of virtual workshops focused on exploring methodological techniques for graduate students and emerging scholars in architectural history and adjacent fields. This series of three events, organized by the SAH Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), will create a forum for discussing new, alternative, and reconsidered methodological approaches to interpreting histories of the built environment.
Virtual Workshops
The Method Acts comprises two virtual workshops which invite emerging scholars (including graduate students, ABD scholars, and scholars who received their PhD within the last five years) to present methodological approaches for their research in progress. In addition, we will complement the virtual workshops with a cumulative roundtable with invited scholars who can share innovative perspectives on methodology.
Taking the abstract, bibliography, archive, fieldwork, and footnote as places where methods are imprinted, discussions will begin with 10-minute presentations by invited speakers providing a concise overview of their research, their methodological framework, and a specific area where the intervention occurs. Following the discussions, the committee will moderate questions for approximately 30 minutes (with a 5-minute introduction and conclusion to the event).
In addition, the committee will convene a third workshop organized as a cumulative roundtable and speaker session where an invited scholar can share innovative perspectives on methodology. This third event in the series will highlight how methods are implemented as a body of scholarly work advances over the course of one’s career.
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