CHSA Annual Meeting, June 2023 at UIUC--Deadline Extended

Champaign-Urbana , United States

Revised deadline for receipt of abstracts.


The Call for Papers deadline for the previously announced Construction History Society of America Annual Meeting, June 22-24, 2023 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been extended until January 8, 2023.  Please see the revised Call below:

Construction History Society of America announces 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

for the 2023 Biennial Meeting on Construction History

Held at the Illinois School of Architecture, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

June 22-24, 2023

 We invite researchers and practitioners from all aspects of the history of construction to submit paper abstracts on subjects for the 2023 Meeting on Construction History, to be held in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. The meeting will be hosted by the Construction History Society of America and the Illinois School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and follows successful meetings of the CHSA held in Marrietta, GA (2022), Seattle, WA (10th Anniversary Members’ Meeting 2017), Austin, TX (2016), Minneapolis MN (2014), Cambridge MA (2012), Philadelphia PA (2010), and Atlanta GA (2008).

The Program Committee wishes to encourage a broad range of papers dealing with construction history.  This includes not only the physical results (infrastructure and building) but also the materials, processes and systems used in their development. We seek a broad range of eras and geographies, and topics focusing on the Americas, and particularly the Midwest, are particularly encouraged.

 

Abstracts for Presentation 

Abstracts will be compiled in a hard-copy catalogue to be distributed at the meeting.  Presenters will be asked to give their talks within 20-minute time slots.  A curated Proceedings, including completed papers of 4000-6000 words, will be assembled and edited by the Scientific Committee following the conference.

Additionally, CHSA encourages authors to also submit full papers to Construction History according to their publication schedules. The submission of an abstract for the CHSA Meeting does not exempt papers from the Journal’s review process.  

Each abstract must include:                        

  • authors’ names and institutional affiliations
  • an abstract of 300 words.
  • key words (selected, if possible, from the list of topics and subjects),
  • a one-page curriculum vitae indicating contact information, status, laboratory affiliation if relevant, and publications or other relevant work for each author.
  • All presentations must be in English. 
  • 4-5 learning objectives, for use in AIA CES documentation.

Abstract topics may include but are not limited to:

                     Construction and engineering in Chicago and other regional cities

                     Rural and agricultural construction, particularly in the Midwest

                     The role of education in the building professions, especially in the region

                     History and construction of specific projects

                     History of the building trades or specific builders

                     Organization of construction work

                     Wages and the economics of construction

                     The development of building codes and regulations

                     Trade unions and guilds

                     Military or Army Corps of Engineers

                     Structural analysis and the development of structural forms

                     Development of construction tools, cranes, scaffolding, etc.

                     Building techniques in response to their environments

                     Building materials, their history, production and use

                     History of services (heating, lighting etc.) in buildings

                     The changing role of the professions in construction

                     Building archaeology

                     Computer simulation, experimentation and reconstruction

                     Use of construction history for dating of historic fabric

                     Recording, preservation and conservation

                     Construction in architectural writing

                     The role of construction history in education

                     The bibliography of construction history

                     The theory and practice of construction history

Important Dates:

Nov. 1, 2022                                         Submission Website Open

Dec. 15, 2022   Now Jan 8, 2023            Abstract Deadline

Mid-Feb., 2023                                      Author Notification

April 15, 2023                                       Author Registration Deadline

June 22-24, 2023                                   Conference 

SUBMIT ABSTRACT:                                https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chsa8

WEBSITE:                                                     https://www.chsa8thmeetingurbanachampaign.org/

 

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