Kathleen James-Chakraborty – in-person conference paper, Transnationalising the Classroom Symposium, Humanities Institute, UCD This talk argued for the importance of global approaches to architectural history as well as tracing some of the history of doing so and the challenges involved. Weblink: https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/research/transnationalisingthehumanities/events/ Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – In-person seminar at the Humanities Institute, UCD. Focusing on Ethel Power, Ethel Bailey Madison Furman, and Chloethiel Woodard Smith, this talk presented preliminary observations on my research into their careers.  It detailed what I know about the way in which House Beautiful, which Power edited, prepared women to be consumers of a Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – SAH Connects webinar House Beautiful was presented as an example of the way in which women were trained to be consumers of architecture and design and as a publication which also showcased the work of female architects, landscape architects, and designers, while publishing many articles authored by women.  The lecture also touched Read more