Category: Lectures & Talks
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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…
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From domestic interiors to national platforms: modern architecture in the Indian Ladies Magazine in 1937
Pooja Sastry – IV Congreso Internacional Cultura Y Cuidad, Granada, Spain This paper will focus on the rich cross-cultural exchanges that informed the dissemination of modern architecture in India in the 1930s as seen through the Indian Ladies Magazine. Published in two runs from 1901-1917 and 1927-1938, the Indian Ladies Magazine was an English-language magazine…
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 