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Monday, March 28, 2pm EST (11 am PST, 12 pm MST, 1 pm CST, 7:00 GMT) New Approaches to Interiors in New Books Organized by the SAH Historic Interiors Group (HIG), this online event concerns methods and approaches to race, gender, sexuality and politics in two new books which can help in understanding historic interiors. Kristina Wilson, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design (Princeton U. Press, 2021) Examining advice manuals, advertisements in Life and Ebony, furniture, art, and more, Wilson offers a powerful new look at how codes of race, gender, and identity influenced—and were influenced by—Modern design and shaped its presentationRead More →

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SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) Digital Interiors: Emerging Scholars Symposium The SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) is seeking proposals for its 2nd Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium: Digital Interiors, to be held virtually in June 2022. The shift to virtual work and learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has provoked lively debate among scholars and students about the benefits, and risks, of substituting digital platforms for built space. More sustained attention is required, however, to assess the impact of digital media on interiors as a discipline – particularly where the interiors involved predate digitization as either a resource or a methodology. Addressing aRead More →