Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents her paper ‘Ethel Bailey Furman and the Struggle for Design Credit’ at the III International Congress: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes — Architecture, Cities, Labour, taking place 11–13 February at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents her paper, ‘From the Belgian Pavilion to the Belgian Friendship Building: A Remnant of New York’s 1939 World’s Fair,’ at the ISIE Speaker Series on January 22, 2026. https://www.isie-global.org/ Read more

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 The book of abstracts can be found here: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/conference-websites-dam/diplomatic-interiors-dam/documents/Diplomatic-Interiors_Book-of-Abstracts.pdf 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