Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Designing Urban Universities Conference, Trinity College Dublin. This conference paper was intended to re-visit the subject of my earlier lecture on the Belgian Friendship Building, given at Trinity the previous year, in the context of a conference on modern university architecture and its relationship to its host cities. Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCD Festival, University College Dublin. This was an informal talk that ended up focusing on the Belgian Friendship Building as an example of the way in which global histories of modern architecture are being written at UCD. Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – webinar, Architecture: Design and Research International Seminar organised by a research collaboration between the Manchester School of Architecture, the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture and the Lusófona University This zoom lecture focused on three aspects of the project, House Beautiful, the Belgian Friendship Building, and the career of Ethel Madison Bailey Read more

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