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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Liberalism and the Built Environment – Then and Now<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Queensland, Brisbane<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17-18 May 2018<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Conference convenors: Janina Gosseye, Helena Mattsson, John Macarthur, Deborah van der Plaat
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<p class="MsoNormal">This conference seeks to explore how concepts of freedom and liberal political and economic theories have intersected with architecture and the built environment from the 19<sup>th</sup> century to the present day. The popular reaction
against ‘neoliberalism’ understood as an economic structure has reignited academic debate as to whether architecture, bound up as it is in real estate speculation and the financing of building, has a capacity for critique. The present socio-political circumstances
of architecture, however, ought to be understood in the longer and more varied history of liberalism and architecture’s imbrication with political and economic thought on freedom and the subjects of freedom. We seek contributions that might address, but need
not be limited to: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">19<sup>th</sup> century constructions of citizenship in civic institutions<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">colonialism, anti-colonialism and cosmopolitanism in the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> century<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">social liberalism of the early 20<sup>th</sup> century and critiques of utopianism<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">the positive freedoms sought by substantive liberals in the welfare state
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">the return of classical economic liberalism and its relation with postmodernism<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">the role of cultural policy, cultural industries and governmentality in the liberal state<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">the relation of theories of the aesthetic autonomy of art to personal freedom<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">the biopolitics of urban and architectural conditions and projects<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This conference is hosted by the Architecture Criticism Theory and History (ATCH) Centre at the University of Queensland, and seeks contributions from both inside and outside the discipline of architecture. We seek papers of 20 minutes
length, proposals for panel discussions, and scholars interested in active involvement as respondents and chairs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract of no more than 300 words should be submitted to <a href="mailto:atch@architecture.uq.edu.au">
atch@architecture.uq.edu.au</a>, with subject line: ‘liberalism_abstract_<i>surname</i>’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission deadline: 5 February 2018<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notification of acceptance: 5 March 2018<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information, visit: <a href="http://atch.architecture.uq.edu.au/">
http://atch.architecture.uq.edu.au/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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