{"id":2200,"date":"2012-03-20T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2012\/03\/20\/cfp-nobler-imaginings-and-mightier-struggles-octavia-hill-and-the-remaking-of-british-society-612012-927-282012\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T00:18:00","slug":"cfp-nobler-imaginings-and-mightier-struggles-octavia-hill-and-the-remaking-of-british-society-612012-927-282012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2012\/03\/20\/cfp-nobler-imaginings-and-mightier-struggles-octavia-hill-and-the-remaking-of-british-society-612012-927-282012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: &#039;Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles&#039;: Octavia Hill and the Remaking Of British Society (6\/1\/2012; 9\/27-28\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>'Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles':&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Octavia Hill and the Remaking Of British Society<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">A centenary conference organised by the National Trust and the University of Oxford, with the support of Octavia Housing<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/>Sutton House, London, 27-28 September 2012<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;September 2012&nbsp;an interdisciplinary conference at Sutton House in London will mark the centenary of the death of Octavia Hill. Best known for her housing reform, Hill was also instrumental in founding such diverse present-day institutions as the National Trust, the Chartered Institute of Housing, the Army Cadet force, and Family Action (originally the Charity Organisation Society). In a political climate which once again emphasizes the kind of privately-financed social action that Hill applauded, and where the preservation of open space and the provision of homes are again contentious, a re-evaluation of her life and legacy seems particularly timely.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day conference will incorporate talks from <b>invited speakers<\/b> Gillian Darley, Jane Garnett, Lawrence Goldman, Astrid Swenson, Robert Whelan, and William Whyte. William Whyte will also lead participants round some of the Southwark housing projects established by Hill. To complement these events, submissions are invited for academic papers to make up a day of interdisciplinary panel sessions exploring Hill\u2019s life, work, writings, and legacy; as well as her contemporaries, and the contexts in which she worked.<\/p>\n<p>Topics might include (but are not limited to):<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Housing reform: slum clearance and the model dwelling movement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Mapping the slums<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u2018Professional beggars\u2019 and the Charity Organisation Society<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u2018Lady visitors\u2019: women in the slums and women\u2019s voluntary work more widely<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Social work and the professionalization of relationships with the poor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Conservative feminisms: anti-suffrage and maternal philanthropy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Working-class leisure and the right to open spaces<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">The Kyrle Society and culture for the poor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">The National Trust and the preservation\/conservation movement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Hill\u2019s intellectual and social circle (including John Ruskin, Samuel and Henrietta Barnett, and F.D. Maurice)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u2018Teaching en-masse\u2019: Octavia Hill and Victorian women writers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">The Army Cadet force: its history and influence<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> <br \/>Submissions are encouraged from graduate students, early-career academics, and senior academics, from any academic discipline, and from independent scholars. Hill\u2019s influence and interests were extremely wide-ranging and our conference will reflect this diversity. 300-word proposals (for 20-minute papers) carrying a name and institutional affiliation, should be submitted to <a href=\"about:blank\" target=\"_blank\">octaviahill2012@gmail.com<\/a> by&nbsp;<b>1 June 2012<\/b>.<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles&#8217;:&nbsp; Octavia Hill and the Remaking Of British Society A centenary conference organised by the National Trust and the University of Oxford, with the support of Octavia Housing Sutton House, London, 27-28 September 2012 In&nbsp;September 2012&nbsp;an interdisciplinary conference at Sutton House in London will mark the centenary of the death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[732,554],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}