Revivalism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (In person conference)

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network brings together ECRs across the humanities and social sciences disciplines, regardless of their funding source or background.

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Revivalism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Date/time: 9:00-17:00, Monday 19th February 2024

Location: Exhibition Hall, Room 0.66, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB.

Event organiser: Dr Peter N. Lindfield FSA, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

This conference wishes to examine the legacies of the past and the past’s recreation under the broad label of ‘revival’ across time, place, and discipline: how and why has the past been reworked, recreated, or revived; what are the minimum requirements for work(s) to be
considered a revival; can revivals be counter-cultural? The conference also wishes to examine how revivals have been interpreted (both positively and negatively); and how revivals can be and are set against the source material that inspired them.

The conference will feature a plenary on revivalism by Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, followed by fantastic presentations throughout the day, ending with a roundtable designed to be filled by ECRN members to reflect upon the conference’s themes and papers and offer ways forward for the theme and the network to continue to examine revivalism.

Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin is an architect and architectural historian at the University of Cambridge; he is Course Leader for the MSt Architecture Apprenticeship, an Associate Teaching Professor, and Director of Studies for Architecture in Gonville & Caius College. After more than a decade working in Britain and abroad on both historic buildings and masterplanning, he returned to Cambridge in 2000 to research the buildings of A.W.N. Pugin and the domestic architecture of early Victorian England. His book The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century was published in 2008 and since then he has published widely on houses and churches, as well as critiques in the Architectural Review, Architecture Today and many other magazines and journals.

Event programme

9.00–9.30 Refreshments

9.30–9.45 Welcome

9.45–10.45 Plenary: Revivalism Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, University of Cambridge

Session 1 10.45–12.00 

•  Fiske Kimball and the Politics of the Colonial Revival, Prof. Jean-François Bédard, Syracuse University, NY

•   The English Temporary Triumphal Arches ‘Revival’ in Shanghai, 1887–1903, Di Zhao, University of Cambridge

•    Mapping Revivals, Defining Style: The Alhambresque in the Long Nineteenth Century, Dr Lieske Huits, Leiden University

12.00–12.45 Lunch

Session 2 12:45-14:00  

• The Tudor Revival Houses, Tim Horne, Historic England

• James Wyatt’s Westminster: A Turning Point in the Gothic Revival?, Dr Murray Tremellen, University of York

•  Southwark Cathedral’s Reredos: Restoration and Revival, Regina Noto, Brown University

Session 3 14:00-15:15   

• Notions of Present and Past in Giambattista Tiepolo’s Renaissance-Revival, Dr Torsten Korte, FHNW Basel and the University of Bern

• The Medievalisms of Victorian Stained Glass, Martin Crampin, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies             

• Guises of the Picturesque: Revivifying the British Surface, Prof. Em. Stephen Kite, Cardiff University

15.15–15.30 Refreshments

Session 4  15.30–16.20   

• Prototype of earnest revivalism: Old Somerset House, London, and the establishment/notion of a national style, Dr Manolo Guerci, Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent

• Reviving the Ruins: Spolia and Sandown Castle in the Tapestry of Architectural Revivalism, Christopher Moore, Kent School of                      Architecture, University of Kent

Session 5 

16.20–16.50   Roundtable: The Recreation of The Past

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