Câmara Municipal de Guimarães, begun in the mid-sixteenth century but profoundly renovated in the eighteenth century.  Now the Guimarães Town Hall,  this building by an unknown architect was originally the Convent of Santa Clara, located on one of the oldest streets and axes of medieval Guimarães, the Rua de Santa Maria; this connected the upper town with its castle to the lower town, where Our Lady of Oliveira Monastery was founded.
Photograph: EAHN

The Museu de Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães, founded as a museum of ecclesiastical art in 1928 and located in portions of the former convent of the Collegiate Church of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira in the heart of the city Photograph: EAHN

Call for Papers Issued for EAHN First International Meeting

Guimarães, Portugal, 17-20 June 2010

The call for papers for the First International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network, Guimarães, Portugal, 17-20 June 2010 was issued at the end of March.

Papers are sought for the twenty-five sessions and roundtables at the conference which will cover architecture of all periods, from antiquity, medieval, and early modern, up through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as topics from allied disciplines. This broad historical representation is enriched with a wide range of methodological approaches framing the various sessions.

The conference advisory committee chose twenty-three sessions and roundtables from among the sixty-eight proposals submitted from twenty-three different countries; the EAHN then added two additional roundtables, resulting in a total of twenty sessions and five roundtables.

The call for papers may be viewed on the conference website:
http://www.eahn2010.org

or downloaded at the following URL:
http://www.eahn2010.org/EAHN2010_CPF.pdf

Complete details for submissions are included in the CFP, with proposals and supporting material to be sent directly to the chair(s) of each session or roundtable.

The deadline for paper proposals is 30 October 2009.

Keynote speakers and other conference details will be announced in the next few months: look for regular conference updates in upcoming issues of the EAHN Newsletter and in announcements through the EAHN listserv.