Sounds interesting. What I would really like is a good article outlining the evolution of the word "modern" over the last 500 years or so; if I remember correctly, in Shakespeare's time it was a mildly pejorative term for everyday or commonplace. Any ideas on where I might find such? Cheers; Chris
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:56 AM, William Conger <[email protected]> wrote: > Berg, take note. > wc > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: Patrick Cox <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, December 28, 2012 9:03:59 AM > Subject: CONF: The 8th Savannah Symposium: Modernities Across Time and Space > > From: E.G. Daves Rossell <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:34 AM > > Invitation to Register > > The 8th Savannah Symposium: MODERNITIES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE / February > 7-9, 2013 > www.scad.edu/savannahsymposium > 67 presenters from 16 countries and 26 states > Keynote Speakers: Mark Jarzombek, MIT and Dell Upton, UCLA > > The art historian T. J. Clark spoke for many scholars when he declared > that modernity marked a special historical transition when "the pursuit of > a projected future - of goods, pleasures, freedoms, forms of control over > nature, or infinities of information" overcame tradition and ritual. He > distinguished the last 500 years against all previous time, and the west > against the rest of the world. But such a bold assertion has opened itself > to diverse interpretations. Is there a single modernity? If so, how was it > created, disseminated and adopted? Or, alternately, are there actually > multiple modernities? How then can we appreciate the diversity of > different cultures and different times? > > The 8th Savannah Symposium features papers investigating modernity and/or > modernities in the broadest and most critical terms. Studies address > architecture, landscape and the imagined environment as well as empirical, > methodological and theoretical approaches. The significance of the > split-level house in mid-20th-century suburbanization is discussed as are > postcolonial reinterpretations of world architecture. There are papers > that investigate attempts to assert modernity, as suggested by the origins > of the very word "modern" deriving from the Latin modernus from modo, > "just now," (marking a 5th-century desire to distinguish the Christian era > from the Pagan era) as well as discussions of cultural hybridity where > modernity is actively negotiated. Some studies focus on particular sites > or examples of modern architecture while others interpret who determined > the modernity, when and where it occurred, and how it was presented and > promoted. > > General student and SCAD faculty and student rates available. Register > Now! > > Any questions can be directed to Patrick Haughey [[email protected]] and > Daves Rossell [[email protected]] c/o Department of Architectural History, > Savannah College of Art and Design, 102 Eichberg Hall, 229 MLK Jr. Blvd., > P.O. Box 3146, Savannah, GA 31402-3146. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Patrick Cox > PhD Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers > Lecturer, American Studies, Penn State > http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox > http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ > https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies > > > > > "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible > summer." > --Albert Camus > > > "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." > --Colonel Henry Rutgers > > "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." > --Foucault, of course
