Category: Lectures & Talks
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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.
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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/
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 