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Threads: Stitching Together the History of Irish Dress
A summer symposium taking a closer look at the history of Irish dress through a series of talks from different perspectives 📅 Dates: DAY ONE – July 16th, DAY TWO – July 17th📍 Location: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South D02 X338 Dublin Keynote Speaker: Prof. Kathleen James-ChakrabortyTitle: Fashion as Identity…
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Writing Global Histories: The Belgian Friendship Building
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Architectural History & Theory Seminar Series, Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture The Belgian Pavilion for the World of Tomorrow world’s fair held in New York in 1939 and 1940 was designed in part to advertise the riches it was reaping from its colonial administration of the Congo. The government-in-exile “gave”…
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 