BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The eighteenth century was at once the period when Classical ar chitecture was canonized in the Western world and beyond\, and the moment when its supposedly universal ideal came into crisis. The study of competi ng practices and traditions of various medieval (Romanesque\, Gothic\, Byz antine) and vernacular architectures in Europe\, and the allure of &lsquo\ ;Oriental&rsquo\; styles (filtered through Turquerie and Chinoiserie) chal lenged the claims of Classicism\, as did the encounters with different ext ra-European building traditions through travel and colonialism. These enco unters prompted an avid preoccupation with cultural difference\, as eviden ced in Voltaire&rsquo\;s "Essai sur les moeurs et l&rsquo\;esprit des nati ons" (1756)\, Vico&rsquo\;s "Principi di una scienza nuova d&rsquo\;intorn o alla natura delle nazioni" (1725&ndash\;1744) or Hume&rsquo\;s "Of Natio nal Characters" (1748).Before the systematic global histories of architect ure of the nineteenth century\, and previous to the notion of style\, West ern authors employed a particular term to describe cultural specificity an d difference: 'character'. Stemming originally from the Greek word &chi\;& alpha\;&rho\;&alpha\;&kappa\;&tau\;ή&rho\;\, its meaning evolved from the tool with which one carved signs on a wax or stone surface\, over denoting these signs themselves\, to the imprint these had on a reader or viewer. The distinctiveness of that impact\, and the marks of identity of a whole culture in its environment and material culture\, was encapsulated by its 'character'. As such\, from 1750 onwards the notion of character became ub iquitous in a variety of languages and was used in reference to people\, b uildings and landscapes\, and shared across different genres of writing an d scientific disciplines: from travel literature\, political theory and et hnography\, over treatises of art and architecture\, to gardening manuals. This session of the EAHN Conference 2026 interrogates the architectural ca tegory of 'character' in the globalizing world of the long eighteenth cent ury\, by zooming in on its meanings\, implications and complexities in mom ents of encounter between Western and non-Western cultures and architectur es. We draw on recent inquiries into how Western travellers conceptualized non-Western architectures (Brouwer\, Bressani &\; Armstrong\, "Narrati ng the Globe\," 2023)\, but also on works aiming to show how indigenous th inking conceptualized and criticized Western political and aesthetic norms (Graeber &\; Wengrow\, "The Dawn of Everything\," 2021).We are interes ted in instances of encounter addressing the following questions:How have Western accounts used the notion of 'character' to describe non-Western ar chitectures\, building \;traditions\, cultures\, landscapes and places ? How was the notion of 'character' employed for architectures that challe nged Western taxonomies and categorizations of architectural style?Which a re the analogous notions in native languages that have been used to respon d to encounters with Western architectures? How were these employed to pro cess cultural specificity and otherness\, and to describe\, translate\, ac culturate or criticize Western cultural expressions (including mores and m anners) from an indigenous perspective?We welcome papers dealing with one or more of these questions in the period c. 1700-1900\, across geographies .We are eager to discuss a variety of written\, visual and material source s\, drawn from various disciplines\, to expand the critical history of the term 'character' beyond its well-established place in the history of Euro pean architectural theory.Abstracts are invited by September 19\, 2025. Ab stracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted directly to sigrid.d ejong@gta.arch.ethz.ch\, nikolaos.magouliotis@gta.arch.ethz.ch\, and muell er@arch.ethz.ch\, along with the applicant&rsquo\;s name\, email address\, professional affiliation\, address\, telephone number and a short curricu lum vitae (maximum one page).Abstracts for presentations should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. 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The eighteenth century was at once th e period when Classical architecture was canonized in the Western world an d beyond\, and the moment when its supposedly universal ideal came into cr isis. The study of competing practices and traditions of various medieval (Romanesque\, Gothic\, Byzantine) and vernacular architectures in Europe\, and the allure of &lsquo\;Oriental&rsquo\; styles (filtered through Turqu erie and Chinoiserie) challenged the claims of Classicism\, as did the enc ounters with different extra-European building traditions through travel a nd colonialism. These encounters prompted an avid preoccupation with cultu ral difference\, as evidenced in Voltaire&rsquo\;s "Essai sur les moeurs e t l&rsquo\;esprit des nations" (1756)\, Vico&rsquo\;s "Principi di una sci enza nuova d&rsquo\;intorno alla natura delle nazioni" (1725&ndash\;1744) or Hume&rsquo\;s "Of National Characters" (1748).

Before the systematic global histories of architecture of the nineteenth c entury\, and previous to the notion of style\, Western authors employed a particular term to describe cultural specificity and difference: 'characte r'. Stemming originally from the Greek word &chi\;&alpha\;&rh o\;&alpha\;&kappa\;&tau\;ή&rho\;\, its meaning evolved from t he tool with which one carved signs on a wax or stone surface\, over denot ing these signs themselves\, to the imprint these had on a reader or viewe r. The distinctiveness of that impact\, and the marks of identity of a who le culture in its environment and material culture\, was encapsulated by i ts 'character'. As such\, from 1750 onwards the notion of character became ubiquitous in a variety of languages and was used in reference to people\ , buildings and landscapes\, and shared across different genres of writing and scientific disciplines: from travel literature\, political theory and ethnography\, over treatises of art and architecture\, to gardening manua ls.

This session of the interrogates the architectural category of 'character' in the globalizing world of the long eighteenth century\, by z ooming in on its meanings\, implications and complexities in moments of en counter between Western and non-Western cultures and architectures. We dra w on recent inquiries into how Western travellers conceptualized non-Weste rn architectures (Brouwer\, Bressani &\; Armstrong\, "Narrating the Glo be\," 2023)\, but also on works aiming to show how indigenous thinking con ceptualized and criticized Western political and aesthetic norms (Graeber &\; Wengrow\, "The Dawn of Everything\," 2021).

We are interested in instances of encounter addressing the following ques tions:

< span>We welcome papers dealing with one or more of these ques tions in the period c. 1700-1900\, across geographies.

< span>We are eager to discuss a variety of written\, visual and material so urces\, drawn from various disciplines\, to expand the critical history of the term 'character' beyond its well-established place in the history of European architectural theory.

Abstracts a re invited by September 19\, 2025. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted directly to sigrid.dejong@gta.arch.ethz.ch\, nik olaos.magouliotis@gta.arch.ethz.ch\, and mueller@arch.ethz.ch\, along with the applicant&rsquo\;s name\, email address\, professional affiliation\, address\, telephone number and a short curriculum vitae (maximum one page) .

Abstracts for presentations should define the su bject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. Th e content of that paper should be the product of well-documented original research that is primarily analytical and interpretative rather than descr iptive in nature.

For more information: https://konfer encer.au.dk/eahn26/call-for-papers-1/sessions \;

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