BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Deadline February 15\, 2025. This colloquium investigates the e mergence of "technocelebrity" architects in the 20th century\, emphasizing the crucial role of intermediaries&mdash\;such as publicists and intellec tuals&mdash\;in shaping their public image and influence through media\n and cultural discourse.Long before the term &lsquo\;starchitects&rsq uo\; was coined\, the 20th century witnessed the rise of architects to new levels of international prominence. In striking contrast to earlier examp les of famous architects\, the likes of Le Corbusier\, Mies van der Rohe\, and Walter Gropius were no longer only known for specific architectural a chievements\, but rather known as signifiers of the promise of the modern world: rationally organized cities\, private spaces allowing for new emanc ipated life-styles and generally all the expectations coming with technolo gical progress and the rise of planning. The successful architect embraced new models of architectural mediageneity. Their skills as a publicist\, o rganizer and media theoretician enabled them to assume what we brand &lsqu o\;Technocelebrity\,&rsquo\; the celebritized embodiment of technology and technocracy. The immense\, enduring allure of some of the protagonists of the Modern Movement is arguably based on the combination of architectural appeal with intentional mediatization. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to a mere intrinsic architectural genius. Instead\, these architects shoul d rather be seen as the result of collaborative&ndash\;&ndash\;albeit not necessarily planned&ndash\;&ndash\;efforts that successfully tapped into s ocietal expectations and broader cultural discourses.This colloquium focus es on the work of intermediaries&ndash\;&ndash\;publicists\, intellectuals and journalists&ndash\;&ndash\;who were instrumental in forming reputatio ns\, for better or worse. We intend to focus on &lsquo\;intermediaries&rsq uo\; as crucial actors in the emergence of the technocelebrity phenomenon\ , investigating their relationship to media\, expertise\, social vision an d societal negotiations on progress and change in the 20th century. We ass ume that the intermediaries reflect or embody important characteristics of their time such as gender roles\, the social role of technology\, politic al ideologies\, and the Cold War. But they also attest to the individual a nd collective promise for improvement or even salvation\, which the Modern Movement held as a mode of world-making. Understanding the intermediaries &rsquo\; role\, we argue\, points far beyond questions of architectural st yle or personal careers and reflects the political\, social\, cultural dim ensions of the Modern Movement as well as the deeper changes of the media and the public sphere formative for the 20th century. As a point of depart ure\, the role of intermediaries can include but are not limited to:organi zing group formations such as the CIAM and similar efforts\, which served as a forum for emerging technocelebritiesorganizing publicity and marketin g efforts by establishing links with the media\, translating\, in the broa der sense of the word\, ideas of architects into a broad cultural discours e\, formulating catchy aphorisms\, and in so doing merging different seman tic fields.organizing careers\, including commissions and academic positio ns\, and the transfer between different geographical settings.the role of changing (and new) media\, from journals to TV\, in the period covering ro ughly the end of the First World War until the late 1960s.We would like to look at intermediaries&rsquo\; roles of translation between:the professio nal sphere and the broad publicthe worlds of technology and culturenationa l and transnational audiences and publicsExamples&ndash\;&ndash\;but not a n exclusive list&ndash\;&ndash\;of such intermediaries are housing activis t and theoretician Catherine Bauer\, architectural historian and CIAM secr etary Siegfried Giedion\, philosopher of technology Lewis Mumford\, archit ectural\n critic Adolf Behne\, Reyner Banham or Stanislaus von Moos \, and publicist Ise Gropius. We explicitly also encourage a focus on less investigated intermediaries.In a two-day colloquium\, taking place in Leu ven on September 25th &\; 26th 2025\, and linked to the FWO-funded rese arch project &lsquo\;The Rise of the &lsquo\;Technocelebrity&rsquo\;. The Politics of Social Expertise in the Public Careers of Le Corbusier and Wal ter Gropius&rsquo\;\, we would like to discuss and analyze different cases both in terms of single intermediaries but also diverse perspectives of t he role these intermediates assumed and played. Keynote presentations will be given by Eva Hagberg and David Kuchenbuch. The Scientific Committee is composed of Janina Gosseye\, Isabelle Doucet\, Hilde Heynen\, Veronique B oone\, Betto van Waarden\, and Barry Bergdoll.We welcome proposals for 20- minute presentations and encourage proposals on more obscure personalities . An abstract of a maximum of 500-words and a brief CV should be sent to t echnocelebrity.conference@kuleuven.be. by February 15th\, 2025. For practi cal questions please contact natalia.kvitkova@kuleuven.be. We intend to pu blish a selection of presented papers in a theme issue of an academic jour nal (title choice pending). Travel\n and accommodation costs could be\, within certain limits\, covered. There will be a 20 EUR participation fee. DTEND:20250215T230000Z DTSTAMP:20250313T233348Z DTSTART:20241209T220000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Call for Papers: The Making of Technocelebrity\,  Intermediaries of the Modern Movement UID:RFCALITEM638775056280475786 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Deadline February 15\, 2025.

This colloquium investigates the emergence of "technocelebr ity" architects in the 20th century\, emphasizing the crucial role of inte rmediaries&mdash\;such as publicists and intellectuals&mdash\;in shaping t heir public image and influence through media\n and cultural discou rse.

Long before the term &lsquo\;starchitects&rsquo\; was coined\, the 20th century witnessed the rise of architects to new levels of interna tional prominence. In striking contrast to earlier examples of famous arch itects\, the likes of Le Corbusier\, Mies van der Rohe\, and Walter Gropiu s were no longer only known for specific architectural achievements\, but rather known as signifiers of the promise of the modern world: rationally organized cities\, private spaces allowing for new emancipated life-styles and generally all the expectations coming with technological progress and the rise of planning. The successful architect embraced new models of arc hitectural mediageneity. Their skills as a publicist\, organizer and media theoretician enabled them to assume what we brand &lsquo\;Technocelebrity \,&rsquo\; the celebritized embodiment of technology and technocracy. The immense\, enduring allure of some of the protagonists of the Modern Moveme nt is arguably based on the combination of architectural appeal with inten tional mediatization. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to a mere intrinsi c architectural genius. Instead\, these architects should rather be seen a s the result of collaborative&ndash\;&ndash\;albeit not necessarily planne d&ndash\;&ndash\;efforts that successfully tapped into societal expectatio ns and broader cultural discourses.

This colloquium focuses on the w ork of intermediaries&ndash\;&ndash\;publicists\, intellectuals and journa lists&ndash\;&ndash\;who were instrumental in forming reputations\, for be tter or worse. We intend to focus on &lsquo\;intermediaries&rsquo\; as cru cial actors in the emergence of the technocelebrity phenomenon\, investiga ting their relationship to media\, expertise\, social vision and societal negotiations on progress and change in the 20th century. We assume that th e intermediaries reflect or embody important characteristics of their time such as gender roles\, the social role of technology\, political ideologi es\, and the Cold War. But they also attest to the individual and collecti ve promise for improvement or even salvation\, which the Modern Movement h eld as a mode of world-making. Understanding the intermediaries&rsquo\; ro le\, we argue\, points far beyond questions of architectural style or pers onal careers and reflects the political\, social\, cultural dimensions of the Modern Movement as well as the deeper changes of the media and the pub lic sphere formative for the 20th century. As a point of departure\, the r ole of intermediaries can include but are not limited to:

We would like to look at intermediaries&rsquo\; r oles of translation between:

Examples&nda sh\;&ndash\;but not an exclusive list&ndash\;&ndash\;of such intermediarie s are housing activist and theoretician Catherine Bauer\, architectural hi storian and CIAM secretary Siegfried Giedion\, philosopher of technology L ewis Mumford\, architectural\n critic Adolf Behne\, Reyner Banham o r Stanislaus von Moos\, and publicist Ise Gropius. We explicitly also enco urage a focus on less investigated intermediaries.

In a two-day coll oquium\, taking place in Leuven on September 25th &\; 26th 2025\, and l inked to the FWO-funded research project \, we would lik e to discuss and analyze different cases both in terms of single intermedi aries but also diverse perspectives of the role these intermediates assume d and played. Keynote presentations will be given by Eva Hagberg and David Kuchenbuch. The Scientific Committee is composed of Janina Gosseye\, Isab elle Doucet\, Hilde Heynen\, Veronique Boone\, Betto van Waarden\, and Bar ry Bergdoll.

We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentat ions and encourage proposals on more obscure personalities. An abstract of a maximum of 500-words and a brief CV should be sent to technocelebrity.conference@kuleuven .be. by February 15th\, 2025. For practical questions please contact < a href="mailto:natalia.kvitkova@kuleuven.be">natalia.kvitkova@kuleuven.be. We intend to publish a selection of presented papers in a theme issue of an academic journal (title choice pending). Travel\n and accomm odation costs could be\, within certain limits\, covered. There will be a 20 EUR participation fee.

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