Friday 22nd June 2012
University of Oxford, Faculty of English Language and Literature
Website: http://spatialperspectives.wordpress.com/
Perhaps because literature and architecture are the two most "visible" arts, since they organize both the everyday practices of reading and the everyday necessities of shelter, the crises and tensions that affect them seem strikingly parallel - Victor Hugo
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster a dialogue between literature and architecture by bringing together papers that encompass the diversity of thinking about these two disciplines and the ways in which they engage and interact. This will be the first conference to examine the intersections of architecture and literature globally over a broad timeframe.
The registration fee is £35. This will include tea and coffee, lunch and wine reception
If you have not yet registered for the Spatial Perspectives: Literature and Architecture, 1850 – Present Conference to be held on 22 June 2012 at the University of Oxford, please use the link below:
Click here for the PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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Keynote speakers for the event are Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London and Professor Douglas Tallack, Professor of American Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leicester.
Registration will be open until Monday 11th June 2012.
The conference is organised by Terri Mullholland and Nicole Sierra from the University of Oxford. If you have any queries, please contact us at: literature.architecture@gmail.com
Peter Kellow, TAG Communications Secretary, will present a paper entitled
Peter Kellow, TAG Communications Secretary, gave a talk entitled The Ideology of Architecture at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, on 10th November 2009, outlining a critique of Modernism and introducing a new theory of traditional architectural style.
