The SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) invites you to attend its first annual New Research Symposium: Interiors and their Histories. Established in 2020, HIG is an Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians dedicated to the study of historic interiors. The symposium is the first in an annual program designed to showcase the research of emerging scholars from around the world and across a variety of disciplines including design, preservation, history and education.

The event will take place via a live Zoom webinar on May 21st, 12:00–3:30 PM Eastern Time (ET).

Registration is free and open to the public.

Webinar registration: https://unt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4cGlEYenTu2M7wdeG_fLgA

Program:

Exhibiting interiors / interior exhibitions

Neo-Georgian Design and Display: The Buxted Park Project, Helen Glaister

Feigning Sleep: Role-Play and Self-Representation in Casa Miller (1936–1942), Gerlinde Verhaeghe

Looking beyond Seeing: Assessing the Interwar Interior as Mediated, Vanessa Vanden Berghe

Turkish Cozy Corner: Women’s Fantasy or Reality, Ulker Sedef Piker

Spatial educations

Forcing Houses: School Environments in the Sanitary Age, Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

Ourobors of Memory: Interiors of the GULAG History State Museum in Moscow, Maria Mikaelyan

The Whitney from the Inside Out: Tracing the Interior Environment of the Whitney Museum of American Art from Artist’s Studio to Mid-Century Modern, Lauren McQuistion

Spatial Productions of Modernity: Taksim Municipal Gazino, Istanbul (1939–1967), Begüm Sena Önal and Meltem Gürel

Between architecture and archive

Unfolding the Archive: Delineating themes and approaches in the work of Belgian interior architects Bataille & ibens, Eva Storgaard

Vienna’s Other Modernism: Exhibitions of Modern Dwelling, 1927–1937, Michelle Jackson-Beckett

Rooms of Her Own: a Gendered Spatial Analysis of Women’s Professional and Social Clubs in Victorian and Edwardian London, Bethany Claus Widick

A Walnut Campaign Table, a Chocolate Pot, and a Dozen Clay Vessels: Unpacking a Room in a Seventeenth-Century Spanish Manor, Alberto Sanchez-Sanchez

For questions, please contact: paula.lupkin@unt.edu (Paula Lupkin, Chair, HIG).

For membership information, please visit: https://sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/join/