Category: Lectures & Talks
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SAH 79th Annual International Conference, Mexico City, 15-19 April 2026
Dr Alborz Dianat will be presenting at the SAH 79th International Conference in Mexico City. Sister Nesta, Religious Agency and Intersectionality Despite the conceptual limitations of agency in isolation, this paper argues for its value within an intersectional framework, explored through a case study on the Catholic nun and architect Nesta Fitzgerald-Lombard (1916–2006). Considering literature…
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Revisiting the Reception of Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presented her paper ‘Revisiting the Reception of Modern Architecture: International Exhibition’ at the colloquium The Making of Technocelebrity: Intermediaries of the Modern Movement (25–26 September 2025, Leuven). That the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Modern Architecture: International Exhibition played a seminal role in the importation of interwar European architecture to the United States…
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Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art
Join Kathleen James-Chakraborty for the Henriette Hertz Lecture, where she will present on “Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art.” The event will take place on Monday, 14 April, 2025, at Villino Stroganoff in Rome. Pre-registration is required. Sign up by 13 April. For more details, visit: https://events.biblhertz.it/event/95/ Here is a link…
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2025 IAWA Symposium – March 20-21
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will be presenting at the 2025 IAWA Symposium. Her talk, “Chloethiel Woodard Smith: Supported by a Sisterhood of Journalists,” will take place on Thursday, March 20. For more details, visit: IAWA Symposium 2025.
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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
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 