The Construction History Society of America announces the Call for Abstracts for the 2025 meeting on Construction History held at the University of Virginia School of Architecture in Charlottesville, Virginia, June 12-14, 2025. Conference website.
CHSA invites researchers and practitioners from all aspects of the history of construction to submit paper abstracts on subjects listed below. The meeting will be hosted by the Construction History Society of America and the University of Virginia School of Architecture and follows successful meetings of the CHSA held in Urbana-Champaign, IL (2023), Marrietta, GA (2022), College Park, MD (2018), Austin, TX (2016), Minneapolis, MN (2014), Cambridge, MA (2012), Philadelphia, PA (2010), and Atlanta, GA (2008).
The Program Committee wishes to encourage a broad range of papers dealing with construction history. This includes not only the physical results (infrastructure and building) but also the materials, processes and systems used in their development. While we seek a broad range of eras and geographies, topics focusing on the Americas and particularly the American South and Mid-Atlantic are encouraged.
Deadline to submit: December 20, 2024.
Abstracts for Presentation
Abstracts will be compiled in a hard-copy catalogue to be distributed at the meeting. Presenters will be asked to give their talks within 20-minute time slots.
Curated proceedings, including completed papers of 4000-6000 words, may be assembled and edited by the Scientific Committee following the conference for publication in a special issue of the journal Construction History (more information will be forthcoming). Alternatively, CHSA encourages authors to also submit full papers directly to Construction History according to their publication schedules. The submission of an abstract for the CHSA Meeting does not exempt papers from the Journal’s review process.
