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Discovering Dalmatia IV

"DISCOVERING DALMATIA. The integration of knowledge concerning Dalmatia’s Historical Urban Landscape"
Institute of Art History Cvito Fisković Centre
Split, November 21-24, 2018

The Discovering Dalmatia conference, to be held in November 2018 at the Institute of Art History – The Cvito Fisković Centre in Split, is the fourth instalment related to the interdisciplinary project entitled Dalmatia – a destination of the European Grand Tour in the 18th and the 19th century, run by the Institute of Art History. The project began in 2014 with the support of the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ). This year, alongside the traditional papers dedicated to the integration of knowledge about Dalmatia’s historical urban landscape, based on the travel writing of artists and scientists who visited it over the course of their travels, we would like to open the conference to another group of themes.

This year, we have been inspired by the Institute’s new project, The Vocabulary of Classical Architecture, which is supported by the HRZZ in collaboration with the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, to dedicate a part of the conference to researching variations in terminology relating to historical architectural forms in Dalmatia.

We therefore invite historians in the fields of art, architecture, and literature, as well as other scholars whose work focuses on travel writing, Grand Tourism, and local terminologies used to describe space to send a short CV and an abstract of 250 words to asverko / ipu.hr.

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Scientific Committee

Joško Belamarić (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)

Katrina O’Loughlin (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions UWA)

Ana Šverko (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)

Colin Thom (The Bartlett School of Architecture, London)

Elke Katharina Wittich (Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD Hamburg)

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Organizing Committee

Joško Belamarić (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)

Ana Šverko (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)

Elke Katharina Wittich (Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD Hamburg)

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Registration

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers. We ask that proposals consisting of a 250-word abstract and 1-page CV are sent via email as a pdf attachment to asverko / ipu.hr by 31/05/2018.

Important dates

  • Registration by 31/05/2018
  • Notification of acceptance 30/06/2018
  • Conference day 21/11/2018

Important Information

Registration will take place on the evening of the 20th of November, the closing address will take place on the 24th of November, and the hosts will organise coffee and refreshments for the conference participants during breaks.

The organisers do not cover travel and accommodation costs. The organisers can help participants arrange reasonably-priced accommodation in the historical city centre.

Conference languages: English and Croatian.

The duration of a spoken contribution should not exceed 20 minutes.

Contributions will be divided into sections according to topics.

Each section will be followed by discussion.

Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please send final written version by 15/02/2019.

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Illustration: Franz Thiad de La Forest, The sphinx on the Peristyle, Split, from the "Album von Dalmatien", 1898.

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Contact: Ana Šverko