Category: Lectures & Talks
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Expanding Agency: Researching the Diversity of Women’s Contributions to the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – webinar, Architecture: Design and Research International Seminar organised by a research collaboration between the Manchester School of Architecture, the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture and the Lusófona University This zoom lecture focused on three aspects of the project, House Beautiful, the Belgian Friendship Building, and the career of Ethel Madison Bailey…
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“Sweatshops in the Sky” and the Justice for Janitors Movement
George Francis-Kelly – in-person conference paper, SAH Annual Conference 2023, Montréal
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How to Succeed as a Woman: Chloethiel Woodard Smith and the Journalists who Promoted Her
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – in-person lecture, SAH Latrobe Chapter, Washington, DC. For two decades, from 1963 to 1983, Chloethiel Woodard Smith ran the largest woman owned architectural practice in the United States. Smith despised being labeled as a woman architect, but there were many ways in which her gender proved useful to her, even as she…
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Promoting National Identity in a Refugee Camp: The Case of Dakawa’s Teaching Model
Nokubekezela Mchunu – in-person conference paper, Transnationalising the Classroom Symposium, Humanities Insitute, UCD
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Art and Architectural History in a Global World
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – in-person conference paper, Transnationalising the Classroom Symposium, Humanities Institute, UCD This talk argued for the importance of global approaches to architectural history as well as tracing some of the history of doing so and the challenges involved. Weblink: https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/research/transnationalisingthehumanities/events/
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An Anti-caste Architecture Pedagogy in India
Pooja Sastry – in-person conference paper, Transnationalising the Classroom Symposium, Humanities Institute, UCD
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Expanding Agency: Three Women and Modern Architectural Culture in the United States
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – In-person seminar at the Humanities Institute, UCD. Focusing on Ethel Power, Ethel Bailey Madison Furman, and Chloethiel Woodard Smith, this talk presented preliminary observations on my research into their careers. It detailed what I know about the way in which House Beautiful, which Power edited, prepared women to be consumers of a…
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The Stores That Trade in Human Misery: African American Organising Against Liquor Stores in South Central Los Angeles, 1980-1994
George Francis-Kelly – in-person seminar at the Department of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD
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Conserving Histories, Women and Transnational Collaborations
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – SAH Connects webinar House Beautiful was presented as an example of the way in which women were trained to be consumers of architecture and design and as a publication which also showcased the work of female architects, landscape architects, and designers, while publishing many articles authored by women. The lecture also touched…
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The Belgian Friendship Building
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – In-person seminar at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Built for the World’s Fair held in 1939 and 1940 in New York city’s Flushing Meadow and designed by Henry van de Velde in collaboration with Victor Bourgeois and Léon Stynen, the Belgian Building was subsequently re-erected on the grounds of Virginia Union University, a…
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 