Pooja Sastry – Workshop: Toward a Multifaceted History of Architecture and Internationalism, Reed Hall, University of Exeter (16-17 November 2023) This presentation focuses on the international exchanges that influenced the patronage of Indian crafts by affluent women in 1930s British India as seen through the archives of two publications: the Indian Ladies’ Magazine and The Illustrated Weekly of Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCD Retired Staff Association Autumn Lecture, University College Dublin. This was an informal talk interleafing the distinguished track record of UCD-trained women in designing some of the world’s most notable recent academic buildings, what I have learned through my research into House Beautiful, especially in the years that it was edited by Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Bauhaus & Beyond Symposium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Henry van de Velde established the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, Germany, that his successor, Walter Gropius, transformed into the Bauhaus.  Speaking in a building designed by van de Velde and used by the Bauhaus, I offered an alternative to the usual Read more