Registration is now open for the Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Group’s (SAH-HIG) Emerging Scholars Committee and Chelsea College of Art’s (UAL) collaborative program Confronting the ‘Chamber of Horrors’: Taste in Interiors. Graduate students, postdocs and recent graduates from diverse disciplinary fields of study will present brief 10-minute talks. The presentations will take place virtually via a live Teams webinar on June 7, 2024, 12:00PM – 2:00PM EDT.
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AGENDA
- Yifei Zhang (Harvard University) – “Les Goûts Hugoliens: Two Tastes in Victor Hugo’s Hauteville House.”
- Benjamin Bowery (Fellow, The Preservation Society of Newport County) – “From Versailles to Vanderbilt: Bringing French Taste to Newport.”
- Sophia Kamps (Research Associate, Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy) – “Social Duty” or “Indefinable Charm”? Wallpaper and Taste in the Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Home.”
- Isaac Benigson (Royal College of Art) – “The Queer Interior of John Dronsfield (1900-1951): Questioning the role of the interior when examining an unrecorded artist life, in the relation of taste to axes of identity.”
- Jaime Solares Carmona (Yale University) – “The decorated Black home.”