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Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture is a UCD research project funded by the European Research Council
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will present 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.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Coming soon: 'Minding Her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design,' edited by Alborz Dianat and Kathleen James-Chakraborty.

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October 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will deliver the keynote lecture 'Beyond Britain: Writing Architectural History Elsewhere today' at the Architectural Historiography in the British Isles: National and International Perspectives Symposium, hosted by the SAHGB.

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October 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will be joining the SAH Virtual Conference 2025 as a respondent on September 18. Learn more and register: bit.ly/SAHVirtual25
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August 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Congratulations to Kathleen James-Chakraborty and co-authors Katherine M. Kuenzli and Bryan Clark Green on their latest publication : "The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World's Fair to a Virginia HBCU."
July 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Threads: Stitching Together the History of Irish Dress.
This summer symposium will take a closer look at the history of Irish dress through a series of talks from different perspectives.

Tickets (online and in-person): www.eventbrite.com/o/seek-the-h...
July 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our postdoc Dr George Francis-Kelly has just published a piece on policing, protest and Latinx labor activism in L.A.
“Corporate America’s Security Guards In-Blue” is live now on The Metropole:
🔗 themetropole.blog/2025/06/30/c...
“Corporate America’s Security Guards In-Blue”: State Violence and Latinx Protest in Los Angeles
Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we featured Los Angeles as our theme in May. With the conference still in mi…
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July 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Last week at the SAH 78th Annual Conference in Atlanta, Dr George Francis-Kelly and Prof Kathleen James-Chakraborty spotlighted overlooked voices in architecture—from Margaret Hulda Lyttle at Meharry Medical College to Ethel Power’s editorial vision in House Beautiful. #SAH2025
May 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Join us for the Henriette Hertz Lecture by Kathleen James-Chakraborty on "Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art."
📆 Date: 14 April 2025
⏱️ Time: 18-19:30 (CEST)
🔗 Register here: events.biblhertz.it/event/95/
Livestream available: vimeo.com/event/4878425
April 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Kathleen James-Chakraborty and George Francis-Kelly will be presenting at the SAH 78th Annual International Conference in Atlanta. See the full programme and register at www.sah.org/2025.
March 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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: iawacenter.aad.vt.edu/2025-symposi...
March 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Excited to share Kathleen James-Chakraborty's latest article in Architectural Histories on Chloethiel Woodard Smith. Read it here: doi.org/10.16995/ah....
Chloethiel Woodard Smith: Advancing through Exhibitions
Chloethiel Woodard Smith (1910–1992) was the most successful female architect of her generation in the United States. From 1963 to 1983 she ran a large independent practice in Washington, DC. Cr...
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December 16, 2024 at 10:21 AM