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Session at EAHN (Madrid, 15-18 Jun 22)
Madrid - School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid., Jun 15–18, 2022
Deadline: Sep 6, 2021 Francesca Mattei
S02 – Architectural culture in Charles V’s Empire (1519-1556). From global ambitions to scientific approaches
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Francesca Mattei, Roma Tre University Carlos Plaza, Universidad de Sevilla.
In 2022 the 500th anniversary of the return to Sevilla of the explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano after the first circumnavigation of the world offers the opportunity to re-examine some aspects relating to the age of the explorations promoted by Charles V (1500-1558). In 1519 Charles V obtained control over the vastest Empire of human history: from country to country, different cultural tradi- tions coexisted with the new political and economic alliances, made possible by trade routes, and travels of explorers, diplomats, merchants, and artists. Moreover, a rising awareness of a new dimension of the world characterized written political sources, geographical descriptions, literary and diplomatic texts. In his pivotal essay Holding the World in Balance: The Connected Histories of the Iberian Overseas Empires (1500-1640) (2007), Sanjay Subrahmanyam emphasizes the exis- tence of fragile balances and synergies in the world dominated by the global ambitions of the Ibe- rian Empires.
This session aims to investigate how both architectural practice and theory mirror the pheno- menon of global expansion promoted by Charles V. How is it recognizable the dialogue among dif- ferent cultures? Which figures and tools allow the mobility of ideas and knowledge through the Empire? To what extent have been changed the scientific and historiographical approaches over time?
This session will host papers focused on monographic case studies (one building, one docu- ments, one written source, one figure) or transversal topics. Objectives of this session are propos- ing a dialogue between the history of early modern architecture and the rising interest in global history and analyzing methodological problems connected to the wide geographical perspectives and the new critical interpretations.
Suggested topics are:
- Global ambitions and local traditions in the architectural culture across Europe and Iberian Ameri- ca.
- Architectural patronage, architectural curiosity: figures of the global world (explorers, merchants, diplomats, conquerors, and men of arms, humanists…).
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- Inhabiting the early modern world: cultures, traditions, meanings.
- Paired strategies: conquest and architectural patronage in Iberian monarchies.
- The control over the Empire: maps and fortifications.
- Memory of the past: monuments for explorers, monuments of explorers (XVI-XX Century).
- Perception of the world, knowledge of history: travel diaries, scientific treatises, antiquarian sources.
- Circulation of architectural models in the early modern world: drawings, buildings, texts.
- Dialogues among religions: churches, mosques, temples.
- Multilingual culture, polyglot research: methodological problem and scientific approaches.
- Historiography of the history of architecture: Charles V's global Empire.
Submission deadline: September 6, 2021
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted through the conference platform, along with the applicant’s name, email address, professional affiliation, address, telephone num- ber and a short curriculum vitae (one page, PDF format, see link above).
Sessions will consist of either five papers or four papers and a respondent, with time for dialogue and questions at the end. Each paper should be limited to a 20-minute presentation. Abstracts for presentations should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the pro- posed paper. The content of that paper should be the product of well-documented original research that is primarily analytical and interpretative rather than descriptive in nature.
Papers may not have been previously published, nor presented in public. Only one submission per author will be accepted. No one may act both as chair of a session/round table and as a speak- er/discussant in another session/round table. All abstracts will be held in confidence during the selection process.
Session and round table chairs will notify all persons submitting abstracts of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals and comment on them by October 15, 2021. All chairs have the prerog- ative to recommend changes to the abstract in order to coordinate it with a session or round table program. The selected speakers must return edited abstracts to chairs no later than November 15, 2021. Authors of accepted paper proposals must submit the complete text of their papers (for a 20-minute presentation) to their session chair by February 1, 2022. Chairs may suggest editorial revisions to a paper in order to make it satisfy session or round table guidelines and will return it with comments to the speaker by March 1, 2022. Speakers must complete any revisions and dis- tribute copies of their paper to the chair and the other speakers or discussants by April 4, 2022.
Chairs reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author has refused to comply with these guidelines. Each speaker is expected to fund his or her own registration, travel and expenses to Madrid, Spain.
This Call for Papers can also be read at the EAHN website - www.eahn.org.
Timetable
Submission deadline: September 6, 2021 (300 words through the conference platform http- s://eventos.upm.es/53558/upload/eahn-seventh-international-meeting.html)
Notification (acceptance or rejection): October 15, 2021 Submission of edited abstracts to chairs: November 15, 2021.
Submission of complete text (20-minute presentation): February 1, 2022 Submission of edited text (after revisions): April 4, 2022
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