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

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