Organisers
Dr Peter N. Lindfield (Cardiff) and Professor Fiona Robertson (Durham)

This interdisciplinary conference aims to address the multifaceted links connecting architecture and literature in a variety of historical periods and cultures. Focused case studies through to broader surveys crossing time and space are welcome, as are applied contributions by practitioners engaging with these subjects.

We invite proposals from a range of disciplinary approaches, including:

• literary studies
• architecture/architectural history
• art/art history
• theatre studies
• design/design history
• heritage and conservation studies

Topics and questions may include:
words and architecture: writing spaces
writers as architects; architects as writers
literary sites and their interpretation
imaginary houses
constructed communities and identities
preservation, conservation, and ‘improvement’
spaces for reading and performance
shared concepts (originality, revival, symbolism, inspiration, group identity, spiritual expression)
environment and ecocriticism
the built environment’s impact upon literary form and expression
writing and building in new technologies (AR, VR, games)
new practices and publics

Confirmed Keynotes
• Professor Klaske M. Havik (TU Delft): Poiesis: Methods of Spatial Imagination
• Professor Jane Griffiths (Wadham College, University of Oxford): Architecture, Memory, and Inscription in Early Modern Literary Practice

250-word proposals should be submitted via an online form (https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=MEu3vWiVVki9vwZ1l3j8vEmCnuxUrZZItmGnJ45au7xUNEQwTjVKUVNZWURUM0tXSTRaWkZIQUFNVy4u) before 6 February 25.