Kathleen James-Chakraborty presented her paper ‘Revisiting the Reception of Modern Architecture: International Exhibition’ at the colloquium The Making of Technocelebrity: Intermediaries of the Modern Movement (25–26 September 2025, Leuven). That the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Modern Architecture: International Exhibition played a seminal role in the importation of interwar European architecture to the United States Read more

Join Kathleen James-Chakraborty for the Henriette Hertz Lecture, where she will present on “Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art.” The event will take place on Monday, 14 April, 2025, at Villino Stroganoff in Rome. Pre-registration is required. Sign up by 13 April. For more details, visit: https://events.biblhertz.it/event/95/ Here is a link Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty will be presenting at the 2025 IAWA Symposium. Her talk, “Chloethiel Woodard Smith: Supported by a Sisterhood of Journalists,” will take place on Thursday, March 20. For more details, visit: IAWA Symposium 2025. Read more

Pooja Sastry – Symposium: Push/Pull Thresholds in Art and Architectural History An Early Career Researchers Symposium, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (7 March 2025) What can advertisements and recipes tell us about home interiors in the 1930s? While they may not be reliable indicators of how women actually used spaces, they constitute cultural blueprints, and Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty and George Francis-Kelly will be presenting at the SAH 78th Annual International Conference in Atlanta. See the full programme and register at https://www.sah.org/2025. Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Session: Fostering Female Taste versus Manufacturing Masculine Fame That the exhibition of modern architect held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1932 had Read more