From SHERA-SAH Liaison: Society of Architectural Historians March Newsletter

March 2016 Volume LX, No. 3 / Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter

 

 	

Online registration for the SAH 2016 Pasadena/Los Angeles conference ends
March 22 at 5 pm CDT! Register Now >> 

 

 	

 

 

New! Graduate Student Resources Page
In order to better serve our graduate student members, SAH has compiled the
information on fellowships, publishing sources, graduate programs,
dissertations, and other professional resources on the SAH website's new
Graduate Student Resources page, which can be found under the Jobs and
Careers menu. Information on graduate student opportunities and programming
at SAH Annual International Conferences is also included.


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Save the Date: Hawaii Field Seminar
Don J. Hibbard, author of Buildings of Hawaii, will lead an SAH Field
Seminar in Hawaii, September 23 to October 1, 2016. This program-customized
for SAH members-will bring the Buildings of the United States volume to
life, with visits to many of the sites featured in the book, as well as
several new buildings. Experience the unique architecture of Hawaii
firsthand.


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Call for Nominations for JSAH Editor
SAH invites nominations and self-nominations for the next Editor of JSAH to
serve a three-year term: January 1, 2018-December 31, 2020. In order to have
sufficient time to review manuscripts and prepare their first issue, the
Editor will begin by serving as JSAH Editor Designate beginning Fall 2016.
Deadline extended to June 15, 2016.


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Creating an Ottoman Capital: Istanbul in the Late Fifteenth Century 
By Patricia Blessing, 2014 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow
This blog post will continue last month's account of Istanbul as a city
between past and present, between historical monuments and skyscrapers. The
focus this time will be on the second half of the fifteenth century, and on
the shaping of the new Ottoman capital following the conquest of
Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. The conquest was
not sudden, and Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, known as the Conqueror, had long
prepared it.


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SAH Chapter and Partner News

 

Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and
Architecture (SHERA) sponsored two sessions at 2016 CAA Annual Conference in
Washington DC, the Meeting at the Hillwood Museum and Gardens, and hosted
visitors from Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and Russia, who were part of the
CAA-Getty International Program. Deadline for proposals for the
SHERA-sponsored session at 2017 CAA Conference: "Emerging Scholars of East
European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture," is April 10, 2016.


The Minnesota Chapter of SAH won a Legacy Grant from Minnesota Arts and
Cultural Heritage Fund for its Modern Masters initiative. The chapter is
conducting videotaped oral history interviews with Minnesota architects who
were leaders in modern design after WWII. The interviews are about
90-minutes, with 15-minute edited versions also being produced. The full
version plus transcript are intended for the historical record. The summary
with added images will be posted at mnsah.org.

The Los Angeles Times talked to former SAH/SCC president and long-time
member Ted Wells last month about his upcoming book, Horizon Homes: Living
the Concrete Dream, which celebrates the little-known early 1960s
competition of progressive homes that use exposed concrete and masonry. 

Join SESAH in New Orleans September 29-October 1, 2016, for its annual
conference! For details, please visit sesah.org. Responses to the Call for
Papers are due March 31. SESAH offers travel grants to offset the cost of
attending the conference. Grants are awarded to up to three graduate
students and one emerging professional employed in a federal, state or local
historic preservation office. Applications are available through the
website.

 

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Nine Teams of Scholars Awarded 2016 ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships
ACLS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Collaborative
Research Fellowships. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, the program funds small teams of scholars as they jointly pursue
research and coauthor a major scholarly product. The nine projects funded
this year cross disciplinary, methodological, and geographic boundaries,
stretching beyond individual research practice to produce knowledge
collectively that individual scholars could not produce alone.

Beyond the 50th New Directions at NEH 
Read a March 2016 report, "Beyond the 50th New Directions at NEH," about
innovative grant programs at the agency by Chairman William D. Adams.

Take Action for the Humanities
The National Humanities Alliance, a coalition of over 150 organizations,
needs you to join the effort to defend federal humanities programs. Urge
your Members of Congress to increase funding for the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the Title VI/Fulbright-Hays international education
programs! Take action now.

 

 	

 

 

 	

Current SAH Opportunities
SAH Mellon Author Awards: Provide financial support to scholars publishing
their first monograph on the history of the built environment and who are
responsible for paying for image rights and permissions. Deadline May 15.

SAH Study Program Fellowship: Allows a graduate student or emerging
professional to participate in the Vietnam & Cambodia Field Seminar,
December 1-13, 2016. Deadline August 11, at 5 pm CDT.

 

 	

 

 

 	

Latest Jobs
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Members in the News 
Interview: Ralph E. Johnson, FAIA and New Topography
Article: Jorge Otero-Pailos on "The Ethics of Dust"
Jeanne Gang, FAIA Wins Women in Architecture Award
John D. Forbes Inspires UVA Darden School of Business Writing Seminar

 

 	

SAH March Booklist 
Read the March Booklist of recently published architecture books and related
works. Booklists and exhibition catalog lists are selected by Barbara Opar,
architecture librarian, Syracuse University Library.

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