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Southeast Chapter Society of Architectural Historians


The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians announces the


SESAH Annual Meeting 2012 in Athens, GA from October 17-20, 2012

 

Please Note:

The deadline for abstracts submission to SESAH's conference is extended to June 15, 2012. 

Please send abstracts to Mark Reinberger at reinberg@uga.edu 


The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) will hold its 30th Annual Meeting in Athens, Georgia, from October 17-20, 2012. The SESAH Host Committee invites abstracts for individual papers or proposals for session panels, consisting of three to four papers and a chair.  As with all SESAH conferences, papers and sessions may address any and all aspects of the history of the built environment as well as any geographical region, historical period, or scale.


Abstracts should be sent by June 15, 2012 to Mark Reinberger, College of Environment and Design, 609 Caldwell Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, or email to reinberg@uga.edu.


Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be clearly labeled with the applicant's name, professional affiliation, contact information, a brief C.V., and the title of the proposed paper.  Proposals for session panels should include: the title of the session; the names, affiliations, contact information, and C.V.s of all participants; and abstracts of each paper. If by email, please send materials as PDF or MS Word attachments. Digital presentations are required (that is, no slides anymore).  Submission of an abstract is considered a commitment to attend the meeting.


Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by July 31, 2012. Authors of accepted proposals must submit the complete text of their papers to their session chair by September 30, 2012; SESAH reserves the right to drop presenters who do not fulfill this requirement. All participants must be current members of SESAH by the meeting date and must register for the conference; there are discounts for students and for those that pre-register by September 15, 2012.


SESAH offers a limited number of travel grants to help graduate students attend the meeting to deliver papers. If you are a graduate student, identify yourself as such in your submission; you will be sent a travel grant application of your paper is selected.






SESAH Emerging Professionals Scholarship (download the .pdf)


At its meeting of October 2011, the board of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) established an “Emerging Professional Scholarship.” This scholarship will offer $400 a year for an architectural historian to attend and present a paper at the SESAH annual meeting.

One $400 scholarship will be offered for each annual meeting. To qualify, applicants must meet the following criteria:


—  work for a federal/state/local historic preservation office within the SESAH region (twelve states - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia)

—  have worked in the preservation field less than five (5) years

—  submit a paper abstract by the deadline (June 15, 2012) and have that abstract accepted by the conference committee

—  submit a completed draft of the accepted paper to the session chair by August 1, 2012.

The scholarship committee, composed of the conference chair and SESAH Preservation Officer, will choose the scholarship-winner from the completed drafts submitted in August and notify all applicants of the results by the end of August.


SESAH was founded in 1982 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta to promote scholarship on architecture and related subjects and to serve as a forum for ideas among architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and others involved in professions related to the built environment. Our nonprofit organization holds an annual meeting, publishes a newsletter twice a year, an annual journal, ARRIS, and presents annual awards, including the "Best of the South" preservation award. The annual meeting features scholarly paper sessions, business meeting, study tours, and a keynote lecture by a national leader in the field. SESAH members come from across the U.S.





CHSA Construction History Society of America

Call for Papers

Boston 2012, November 2-3

(click on the image to the left to download a .pdf)


More information at
http://www.constructionhistorysociety.org

The abstracts submission deadline is June 1, 2012 by email to chs@cos.gatech.edu











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