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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 Read more
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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… Read more
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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 Read more
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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/ Read more
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An Anti-caste Architecture Pedagogy in India
Pooja Sastry – in-person conference paper, Transnationalising the Classroom Symposium, Humanities Institute, UCD Read more
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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… Read more