Category: Lectures & Talks
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Steeped in Influence: The Impact of Tea Advertisements on Black, Urban South African Domesticity
Nokubekezela Mchunu – IV Congreso Internacional Cultura Y Cuidad, Granada, Spain The introduction of tea to colonies by Britain transcended the beverage itself; it represented a profound cultural and societal influence. Its impact extended to architecture and modernised living, shaping domestic histories in colonies such as South Africa during and after the nineteenth century. To…
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House Beautiful: Introducing American Women to the World
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – IV Congreso Internacional Cultura Y Cuidad, Granada House Beautiful, established in 1896, was the first shelter magazine, that is a publication that focused on introducing readers, most of whom were women, to new ideas regarding architecture, interior design, and gardening. Its audience, in other words, comprised the consumers rather than producers of…
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“Ordering the life of the state”: Affluent women and craft industries in 1930s British India
Pooja Sastry – Workshop: Toward a Multifaceted History of Architecture and Internationalism, Reed Hall, University of Exeter (16-17 November 2023) This presentation focuses on the international exchanges that influenced the patronage of Indian crafts by affluent women in 1930s British India as seen through the archives of two publications: the Indian Ladies’ Magazine and The Illustrated Weekly of…
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Bauhaus Style
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Observations: Moments in Design History, National Gallery of Victoria, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne has a number of works produced by men who studied and taught at the Bauhaus, but apparently none by women affiliated with the school. This lecture, which was pre-recorded and available for Friends of the museum…
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P. Morton Shand: The Architectural Critic Between British and European Modernism
Alborz Dianat – UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023, University College Dublin.
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Expanding Agency: House Beautiful and the Dissemination of Modern Architecture and Design
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCD Retired Staff Association Autumn Lecture, University College Dublin. This was an informal talk interleafing the distinguished track record of UCD-trained women in designing some of the world’s most notable recent academic buildings, what I have learned through my research into House Beautiful, especially in the years that it was edited by…
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Writing Global Histories: Henry van de Velde and the Belgian Friendship Building
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Bauhaus & Beyond Symposium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Henry van de Velde established the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, Germany, that his successor, Walter Gropius, transformed into the Bauhaus. Speaking in a building designed by van de Velde and used by the Bauhaus, I offered an alternative to the usual…
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The College In the Coming Age
George Francis-Kelly – Fisk University’s Cravath Hall and The Harlem Renaissance on Southern Black College Campuses, Designing Urban Universities Conference, Trinity College Dublin.
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An Overlooked Example of European Modernism on an American Campus
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Designing Urban Universities Conference, Trinity College Dublin. This conference paper was intended to re-visit the subject of my earlier lecture on the Belgian Friendship Building, given at Trinity the previous year, in the context of a conference on modern university architecture and its relationship to its host cities.
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Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCD Festival, University College Dublin. This was an informal talk that ended up focusing on the Belgian Friendship Building as an example of the way in which global histories of modern architecture are being written at UCD.
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 