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Call for Papers: The Editors of Fabrications: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand invite submissions for Volume 18, no 1, scheduled for publication in June 2008. Papers may treat any subject that corresponds to the interests of SAHANZ and its membership. The Editors will submit suitable papers of between 4000 and 8000 words in length that conform to the Journal's style instructions (endnotes in the style of Chicago 15A). Deadline for Vol 18, no 1 submissions: 15 January 2008. Expressions of interest welcome.

New Editor of Fabrications: The SAHANZ Editorial Board has announced that Dr Paul Walker (University of Melbourne) will replace Dr Deidre Brown (University of Auckland) as Co-editor of Fabrications from the end of 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Fabrications Special Issue on Style

Style

A Special Issue of Fabrications: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

The Editors seek papers concerned with the critical and historiographical category of architectural "style". While the last half-century has seen architectural historians become justly suspicious of the strict stylistic taxonomies that informed nineteenth and early twentieth century accounts of architecture's historical development, the term and its precepts nonetheless continue to exert an influence over the nomenclature of formal, aesthetic and tectonic strategies in architecture. Style, for instance, dictates the terms of the popular reception of much historical architecture. It provides a conceptual structure for organising the population of endangered buildings under many regional and national historic preservation policies. Where style offered a bridge across artistic practices, its absence raises the question of the translatability among artistic practices within a contemporary system of the arts and under a super-disciplinary concept of art. When is a stylistic label useful, or a hindrance? When does a notion of style help historians to advance knowledge of a work, an architect, or ­ equally problematic as a notion ­ an epoch (to recall Ginsborg's famous coupling of terms)? And when does it prevent scholars from digging deeper into historical structures poorly served by the term? Essays might consider one or more aspects of architecture's intellectual history, historical cases, or the theorisation of this issue in contemporary historiographical and heritage practices. While authors may treat material pertinent to the regional focus of SAHANZ, we welcome contributions from beyond the region.

Deadline for full papers: August 1, 2007.

Submission requirements:
The Editors will consider essays of no longer than 10,000 words (including notes) that attend to the theme of "Style", which authors may treat narrowly or generously. Authors should follow the conventions of Chicago 15A (in endnotes numbered sequentially in Arabic numerals). Fabrications does not publish separate bibliographies. Please send low-resolution images of any illustrations in separate files in the first instance. Authors are responsible for securing all permissions to reproduce images in Fabrications. Papers should be headed with an abstract (200 words maximum) and biographical note (80 words maximum).

Submit essays electronically to Deidre Brown (ds.brown@auckland.ac.nz) or Andrew Leach (andrew.leach@uq.edu.au). Telephone enquiries: +61 7 3365 3927 (AL).

Fabrications is the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (www.sahanz.net) and is published by the University of Queensland Press (www.uqp.uq.edu.au). All essays published in Fabrications are double-blind refereed. The Editors reserve the right to not submit unsuitable papers to review.

The December 2006 issue of Fabrications: Journal of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, is currently in production. An issue that considers a wide range of themes, it includes papers by Julie Collins (University of South Australia), Igea Troiani (Oxford Brookes University), Carl Douglas (University of Auckland), Christine McCarthy (Victoria University of Wellington), Andrew Hutson (University of Melbourne), Pedro Guedes (University of Queensland) and Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra). It will appear in April 2007.