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Call for Papers: Literary Architecture, 1500–Today

Date:

Location:
Cardiff , United Kingdom

Contact: Dr Peter Lindfield FSA

Email: LindfieldP@cardiff.ac.uk

Website: https://litarchcardiff.wordpress.com

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27–28 March 2025

Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB

https://litarchcardiff.wordpress.com


Organisers

Dr Peter N. Lindfield (Cardiff) and Professor Fiona Robertson (Durham)

This interdisciplinary conference aims to address the multifaceted links connecting architecture and literature in a variety of historical periods and cultures. Focused case studies through to broader surveys crossing time and space are welcome, as are applied contributions by practitioners engaging with these subjects. 

We invite proposals from a range of disciplinary approaches, including:


·      literary studies

·      architecture/architectural history

·      art/art history

·      theatre studies

·      design/design history

·      heritage and conservation studies



Topics and questions may include:

  • words and architecture: writing spaces
  • writers as architects; architects as writers
  • literary sites and their interpretation
  • imaginary houses
  • constructed communities and identities
  • preservation, conservation, and ‘improvement’
  • spaces for reading and performance
  • shared concepts (originality, revival, symbolism, inspiration, group identity, spiritual expression)
  • environment and ecocriticism
  • the built environment’s impact upon literary form and expression
  • writing and building in new technologies (AR, VR, games)
  • new practices and publics


Confirmed Keynotes

  • Professor Klaske M. Havik (TU Delft): Poiesis: Methods of Spatial Imagination
  • Professor Jane Griffiths (Wadham College, University of Oxford): Architecture, Memory, and Inscription in Early Modern Literary Practice

250-word proposals should be submitted via online form before 6 February 2025.