Kathleen James-Chakraborty presented her paper Building for Democracy or Dictatorship?: Chloethiel Woodard Smith’s United States Chancery and Residence in Asunción, Paraguay at the Diplomatic Interiors conference, held at ETH Zurich, on 19–21 November 2025. The full programme can be found here: https://diplomaticinteriors.ethz.ch/program.html Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty will present a talk titled ‘Ethel Power’s Editorship of House Beautiful: Empowering Women’s Engagement with Architecture‘ at the Zhejiang University School of Art and Archaeology on 17 October 2025. Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents the keynote lecture Beyond Britain: Writing Architectural History Elsewhere Today at the SAHGB’s symposium Architectural Historiography in the British Isles: National and International Perspectives. Nearly half a century after Mark Girouard published Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History, the idea that historians of architecture should analyse society as well Read more

Dr Cláudia de Souza Libânio will be presenting at the SAH 79th International Conference in Mexico City. Participatory Practices Led by Women in Architectural Education Participatory practices have emerged as a representative field of activity for women architects who work toward building more inclusive, just, and sustainable societies. In fields historically dominated by men, such Read more

Dr Ipek Mehmetoğlu will be presenting at the SAH 79th International Conference in Mexico City. Women Writing Welfare Architecture in 1940s Turkey This paper investigates women’s philanthropic labor in shaping modern architecture in Turkish print culture. It interrogates how women activists experienced and wrote about modernity within the political context of 1940s Turkey—a decade marked Read more

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 Read more