The History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Architecture and Urban Form Program at MIT and the Advanced Independent Studies Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Design announce a call for papers for the biennial symposium, TESTING GROUND.
The theme for TESTING GROUND in 1999 is "Questioning the Boundaries Between History and Theory."
The conference will be held April 9-10, 1999.
Abstracts, 400 to 600 words in length, are due February 7.
Selected participants will be notified by March 1.
TESTING GROUND seeks to bring together students from diverse disciplines to consider the methodological role of historical and theoretical research in their respective disciplines and dissertation work: to query the similarities, differences, overlap and dividing lines between these two modes of intellectual inquiry. The structure of the symposium will include both individual presentations and collective round-table discussions.
Acknowledging that discrete disciplines have progressed to differing degrees regarding methodological development we hope to gain insight into how disciplinary knowledge and experience of various fields might cross-pollinate. Presentations may address any historical period,geographic location, or field and must creatively engage the history and theory problematic.
Please submit abstracts, 400 to 600 words in length, to the following address by February 7, 1999. Accepted participants will be notified by March 1.
TESTING GROUND
c/o HTC, Department of Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
testingg@gsd.harvard.edu
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