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2024 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize and David R. Coffin Publication Grant

The University of Virginia Center for Cultural Landscapes invites you to submit publications for this year’s 2024 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize and David R. Coffin Publication Grant. We welcome nominations for the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize and the David R. Coffin Publication Grant from both publishers and authors.  

The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize will be awarded to a book published in the last three years (2021, 2022, 2023) that has made a significant contribution to the study and understanding of garden history and landscape design. The prize winner will be invited to give a book talk at the University of Virginia and presented with a monetary award. The application deadline for the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize is May 1, 2024. Note, the change in this deadline from previous years is to better align with the academic calendar and availability of the jury.  

The David R. Coffin Publication Grant supports the production of a future publication of a manuscript under contract in the field of landscape studies. The application deadline for the David R. Coffin Publication Grant is January 1, 2024.  

Detailed descriptions of the eligibility requirements, application procedures, and past winners for each award can be found on the Center for Cultural Landscapes website. Note that a single winner will be chosen for each prize in 2024, a change from past years.  
Please submit all inquiries to Lsibookprize@virginia.edu with the subject heading: 2024 Book Prize Nomination. 

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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4th International Conference of the Association of Architecture and Urban Planning Historians (AhAU - Spain), 

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the 4th International Conference of the Association of Architecture and Urban Planning Historians (AhAU - Spain) with the title "City and Nature. Approaches from an environmental-history angle", that will take place on October 24th and 25th 2024 at the Real Colegio María Cristina, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid.

Deadline for abstract submission: 20 November 2023

Please visit https://ahau.es/congreso/iv-congreso-internacional-de-la-ahau-otono-2024/ for the call, guidelines for authors and a brief explanation of the review and selection process for abstracts and full papers (papers are accepted in both Spanish and English).

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The journal of studies in History and Theory of Architecture ( https://sita.uauim.ro/ ), published by the Department of Architectural History & Theory and Heritage Conservation at "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania, invites submissions for the 2024 issue

Landscape as Horizon

In the last chapter of L’architecture au futur depuis 1889, Jean-Louis Cohen listed several “vanishing points” that, although barely visible in the distance, would allow architecture to escape the unrelenting aspiration for originality, newness, monumentality, ornament, in the end only engendering desolate, generic, ultimately boring spaces, devoid of life. The topics mentioned by Cohen indicate instances that allow the architectural profession to aspire to a type of social, political, or indeed cultural relevance in the contemporary world. Their singularity resides in that they are often examples led by practice, yet to be absorbed in the more theoretical strata of architecture.
Among the different such vanishing points the one entitled Landscape as horizon seems to be one of the most challenging, all the while holding the promise to branch out into many critical contemporary topics.

For the next issue of sITA, we invite contributions that look into general or detailed topics concerning:
    * landscape as subversion, alternative or complement to mainstream urbanism;
    * questioning the traditional limits between the rural and the urban, between countryside and the city, between the natural and the manmade;
    * landscape as unlimited territory for new approaches, habits, social responsibilities, and openings to new cultural horizons;
    * historical and/or emergent approaches in theory and practice related to landscape;
    * new topics and paradigms in practice: agro-culture, post-Covid behaviors, urban acupuncture ...
    * planning non-intervention to preserve landscape with its non-artificial, self-regulating and constantly changing components, incompatible with the fundamentally human endeavor of making things last longer.

Preliminary abstracts of 200 – 250 words are to be submitted online https://sita.uauim.ro/call-for-papers, no later than December 8, 2023.

sITA (studies in History and Theory of Architecture) is a peer-reviewed open access journal, with both online and print versions, indexed in Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science), Scopus,EBSCOhost, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, ERIH PLUS, DOAJ, ProQuest/Ulrichsweb, Scipio, Google Scholar, and WorldCat.

Plants and Animals
Editors: Susan McHughPatrícia Vieira

Plants and Animals: Interdisciplinary Approaches aims to publish scholarly work that addresses common challenges across the fields of plant and animal studies from interdisciplinary perspectives. The series welcomes monographs and edited collections that focus and reflect upon interactions of plants, animals, and humans in innovative ways. At a time of large-scale anthropogenic species extinction, there is a pressing need to promote scholarship that can help us envision more equitable and harmonious forms of coexistence on the planet. The series therefore encourages submissions explicitly geared to build bridges not only between plant and animal studies, but also leading-edge research on other forms of life or ways of being, including fungi, lichens, algae and other microorganisms, as well as scholarship on fantasy creatures, cryptids, semi-living beings, and even non-living forms of existence. The goal is to abolish an artificially compartmentalized view of the world in order to add to the ways of knowing that are beginning to grow through the interconnections between these related fields of study. Grounded in the humanities, Plants and Animals welcomes trans-disciplinary perspectives that engage with scholarship in the social sciences and in the natural sciences.

Feeding the citizens? Urban land and landownership in past and present

STAM Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, 11-12 April 2024

Call for Papers (deadline: December 1^st 2023)

Crossing present-day debates on land-based food supplies with different configurations of urban land and landownership in the past, this conference welcomes contributions from different geographic regions and different time periods, and how such experiences might find inspiration in the past.

Not so long ago, agricultural land was by far the most important of capital. Given the importance of agricultural land as capital it is no wonder that urban based institutions and families accumulated more and more agricultural land as time progressed. In highly urbanized regions like the Low Countries or Italy, urban monasteries, churches, and charitable institutions easily controlled 20 to 30 percent of the land in the wide surroundings of the city, and this share was matched by private owners.

At a moment when both the financialization of urban real estate and the market-dependency of urban food supplies are hotly debated, this conference aims to question the alternative and complementary functions of urban land and landownership:

• How important was urban ownership of (farm-)land? Who owned farmland? Only institutions and the upper class? Or also middling groups or commoners?
• Did farmland generate direct flows of food ‘from farm to fork’, either on a structural base or in times of food crises (food security)?
• How important were these land-based food supplies for the food-provisioning of cities?
• Which other functions did urban farmland have (ex. As leisure and holiday estate, for social prestige, as capital buffer in times of crisis etc.)?
• What was the impact of urban land and landownership for the rural economy? Did urban capital spur agricultural innovations or scale enlargement? Did urban landownership act as insurance mechanism (ex. rebuilding farms after calamities)?
• Did urban landownership help to strengthen the bounds between farmers and the city? How did these bounds materialize? By providing easier access to the city?

We accept scholars at all career stages, including early career. Papers will be selected by an international committee, and with the aim of ensuring a broad spread of topics for the conference. Submissions should include:

• Title and abstract
• A short bio

Send all submissions by email to: cecile.bruyet@uantwerpen.be

Deadline for Submissions: 1 December 2023. 

The conference will take place at the city museum STAM in Ghent, Belgium, on 11-12 April 2024. This conference is the result of a collaboration between the University of Antwerp, the University of Ghent, STAM Ghent and the KULeuven Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History.

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Online Journal Arcadia: Exploration in Environmental History

Arcadia (ISSN 2199-3408) is now inviting new submissions. 

Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. By publishing digitally on the Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines. Each peer-reviewed article includes a profile of the researcher, links, and suggested readings.

Contributors are free to choose their own environmentally themed topics, but for this volume we especially welcome submissions on historical events in Southeast Asia, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, and other areas currently underrepresented on this map.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

NEH Landmarks Program 

Applications to direct a NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture program in 2025 are now open. We hope the following snapshot of the Landmarks program and its focus, along with tips and resources, are helpful as you think about creating your own program. 

WHAT DOES THE LANDMARKS PROGRAM DO? 

Landmarks of American History and Culture programs for K-12 educatorsand higher education and humanities professionals situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching diverse histories, cultures, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions.  

LANDMARKS PROGRAMS:

• Engage in humanistic inquiry, experiential learning, lectures, archival work, and meetings with community members
• Include place-based learning activities, such as visits to museums, libraries, historic homes, national parks, cemeteries, archives, and a range of other sites
• Consider how monuments, markers, and memorials represent events, eras, individuals, and/or groups
• Examine the importance of memory, unmarked sites of cultural and historical significance, and how places change over time 

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The National Park Service (NPS) Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Examining the Intersections of Indigenous Collections, Context, and Contemporary Art Postdoctoral Fellow - Cambridge, MA -

ACE is sponsoring a Mellon Fellowship at Longfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge, MA. Application deadline for this post-doc is December 1, 2023.
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NPS places recent humanities PhDs with NPS sites and programs across the agency. In collaboration with NPS staff and partners, the incoming cohort of Mellon Humanities Fellows will complete original research projects, and develop new interpretive and educational programming, helping the agency connect more people to places that matter by incorporating new sources and perspectives into its storytelling.

The Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a signature element of the National Park Service's commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, during which the Park Service will join with other agencies and all Americans to celebrate and contemplate the meaning of the Declaration of Independence and its relevance to our lives today. As the steward of our nation's parks, heritage sites, and special places, NPS is committed to learning from the complex and challenging histories contained within them, building toward a future of freedom and possibility for all Americans.

This opportunity is generously supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation through the National Park Foundation (NPF). The project is administered via a three-way agreement among NPS, National Park Foundation (NPF), and American Conservation Experience (ACE).

2024 Practice Grant

Writing Land into Architectural Histories

• Dates: 22 – 22 Mar, 2024
• Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
• Address: 921 University Ave
• Contact: Qianye Yu
• Email: qy238@cornell.edu
• Website: https://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/symposium/writing-land-architectural-histories#open-sec-0

• The spring 2024 symposium "Writing Land into Architectural Histories," organized by the doctoral students in Cornell University's History of Architecture and Urbanism Society (HAUS), aims to explore the entangled histories of the built environment, land, and ecologies, examining intertwined methodologies that address questions of writing land into and out of histories of architecture.

  The combinatory practices of both architectural and landscape architectural history have grappled with new ways to interrogate the instrumentality of land as a mechanism that perpetuates relationships of power. How do land policies integrate into the built environment to produce various forms of skill and expertise that challenge normative, often colonial and imperial, forms of knowledge production? How does the materiality of land shape architecture? How do technologies of land and state-making processes move bodies across land? How do various forms of colonialism imbue structural histories of violence on and to land?

  Spanning a broad temporal range and extending to various geographies, we invite doctoral students working on the built environment in any discipline to rethink ways of utilizing land as a method in transnational and transimperial histories of architecture. Papers can include, but are not limited to: soils and their relationship to building practices and techniques; medicalization and health measurements; land and ecological governance; property rights and land-use schemes; cultivation and resource management through surveying technologies and agricultural infrastructures; representations of land; models of community and solidarity building through land traditions; labor; and methodologies of multispecies histories of architecture.

  This will be an in-person symposium

President:
John Dean Davis, Ohio State University

Vice President:
Ann Komara, CU Denver

Secretary: 
Pollyanna Rhee, University of Illinois Urbana Champagne

Newsletter Editor: 
Thaisa Way, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Colleciton

Advisory Board:

Kathleen John-Alder, Rutgers University

Jeanne Haffner, New York State Parks, Recreation, Historic Preservation, Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center

Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Politecnico di Torino

Jack Sullivan, University of Maryland

Finola O'Kane Crimmins, University College Dublin

Georges Farhat, University of Toronto

TEACHING AND PEDAGOGY