Category: Lectures & Talks
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Bharat safety stoves and cocina criolla: kitchens in 1930s Bombay and Buenos Aires
Pooja Sastry – Symposium: Push/Pull Thresholds in Art and Architectural History An Early Career Researchers Symposium, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (7 March 2025) What can advertisements and recipes tell us about home interiors in the 1930s? While they may not be reliable indicators of how women actually used spaces, they constitute cultural blueprints, and…
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SAH 78th Annual International Conference Atlanta, Georgia, USA | April 30–May 4, 2025
Kathleen James-Chakraborty and George Francis-Kelly will be presenting at the SAH 78th Annual International Conference in Atlanta. See the full programme and register at https://www.sah.org/2025. Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Session: Fostering Female Taste versus Manufacturing Masculine Fame That the exhibition of modern architect held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1932 had…
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Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now
Prof Kathleen James-Chakraborty will be a speaker on the panel to launch ‘Women in Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now,’ Dana Arnold (ed.) on Tuesday, 22 October 2024. The event takes place at the Zaha Hadid Foundation, 10 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R 0BQ.
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Towards Counter-Historiographies: Regional Africa and Architectural Modernity
Nokubekezela Mchunu – Session: Decolonizing African Modern Architectural Epistemes; Conference: Ongoing and Emerging Architectural Practices, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (3-9 July 2024)
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Early women architects and the Irish Country Women’s Association
Kate Buckley – Session 2: Making Space, Conference: Women designing and planning for social equality; 28th June 2024; ZHAW Institut Urban Landscape – Winterthur, Switzerland
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On What Remains
Nokubekezela Mchunu – Workshop: Archival Justice in global architectural theories and histories; London
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A ‘Separate But Equal’ Campus?: Civil Rights and Architecture at Tennessee A&I State College, 1940-1959
George Francis-Kelly – Session: Black Athens: Curating Archives, Campus, and Historians within Nashville’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Conference: 2024 Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, University of Southampton (19-21 June 2024)
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Ise Gropius and the Domestication of Modernist Design in English-language Media
Alborz Dianat – Session: Media and Objects of the Home (Building Word Image interest group); Conference: EAHN 2024, Athens (19-23 June 2024) This paper considers the importance of authorship in relaying domestic design through media, as demonstrated by Ise Gropius’s navigation of English-language publications. After marrying Walter Gropius in 1923, Ise Gropius established herself as…
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A Separate But Equal Campus?: Redeveloping a Black College in the Long Civil Rights Movement
George Francis-Kelly – HI Lunchtime Seminar Series, UCD Humanities Institute University College Dublin
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Chloethiel Woodard Smith and Denise Scott Brown
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Session: Imagining Pasts; Conference: AIARG 2024, Dublin (14-15 March 2024) In 1977 the work of Chloethiel Woodard Smith and Denise Scott Brown wereaddressed in the same chapter of the pathbreaking book Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective edited by Susana Torre.Since then Smith has faded into near oblivion while…
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 