[MassHistPres] Conference call for Presentations: Directions in 21st Century Preservation [ The Dynamic City: Futures for the Past ]

[PJ Carlino]

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Directions in 21st Century Preservation

*The Dynamic City:  Futures for the Past*

Date:                             Friday, April 1st & Saturday April 2nd,
2016
Location:                       Boston University
Proposal Deadline:       October 15th
Contact:                       PJ Carlino, carlinop at bu.edu


Are preservation, diversity, and affordability mutually exclusive in urban
America? How can neighborhood identity and community be preserved while
engaging with the opportunities of globalization? What should be saved in
attempts to build and maintain a fair and equitable city?  This conference
will explore such questions through conversations that bridge the divide
between study and praxis in design, sustainability and preservation.  The
American and New England Studies Program at Boston University is committed
to collaborative scholarship and encourages professionals involved in
preservation to submit proposals for 15-20 minute presentations.

This event is sponsored by the Graduate Student Association of the American
and New England Studies Program,  the Preservation Studies Program at
Boston University, the American and New England Studies Program at Boston
University, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, Historic New
England and the Boston University Initiative on Cities.

 Possible topics include but are not limited to:

×           Urban architectural and design history
×           Preservation and environmental sustainability
×           Gentrification and social sustainability
×           Affordable Housing and housing affordability
×           Neighborhoods and place making
×           Urban planning and political authority
×           Cities as biological systems -  foodways, transportation,
waste, energy
×           Stasis versus development in the preserved landscape
×           Public and private interest groups
×           Activism and revolt – “NIMBYism”
×           The opportunities and challenges of abandonment of people and
places
×           The rise of post-industrial urban economies
×           Gateway cities - doomed to failure or the bright future?
×           The politics and legislation of preservation and urban renewal
×           Race and gender politics in the urban space
×           Urban museums performing the role of historians
×           Public space and public memory
×           Heritage Tourism
×           The immigrant and ethnic landscape

Panels will include presentations of 15-20 minutes from both graduate
students and practitioners (architects developers, planners, and public
officials) to situate historical narratives within the project of planning
and development.

Deadlines:
×           October 15th, 2015 - Abstracts of no more than 300 words to:
carlinop at bu.edu
×           Successful applicants will be notified by November 15th.

Additional information:

http://blogs.bu.edu/amnesp-gsa/amnesp-gsa-conference/
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