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April 12-15, 2023 Friday, April 14, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. : HIG Business Meeting/Announcement of Election for HIG Chair 2023-2025 Link to EVENT listing Friday, April 14, 3-5:10 p.m. : HIG-endorsed Session: Material Religion through the Sacred Interior, 3-5:10 pm Saturday, April 15: 2-6 p.m. HIG Bar Crawl Through Montreal! Pub Crawl Details: 1:40 pm, meet in the lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel Free Social Event, but buy your own drinks! Join the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) on a crawl through the historic, drinking holes of Montreal. This is a chance to socialize with fellow members. Newcomers are welcome to learn more about HIGRead More →

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Monday, May 1, 2023 (online) Time: 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time Zone) via ZOOM Register to attend by emailing whitestudio@rogers.com Description: This online event, sponsored by the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians, brings together three archivists in the field with diverse perspectives and from different geographies. This event explores the concept of flow as a frame for considering the relationship of the historic interiors research and the archive. Is it possible to re-frame historic interiors as an independent and yet substantial discipline in the realm of architecture and what is the contribution that the archives can provide towardsRead More →

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Emerging Scholars Working Committee: Lauren Drapala, Vanessa Vanden Berghe and Michelle Jackson Beckett Mission: To foster exchange among and showcase the work of Emerging Scholars in the field of historic interiors broadly defined, encompassing current graduate students and early-career professionals within 5 years of completion of a terminal degree. Goals:   This committee primarily serves the interests of graduate students and recent graduates interested in the research, interpretation and analysis of historic interior spaces. There is a lot of opportunity to explore various research topics, platforms for exchange and networking. For three years running, this committee has planned, organized and hosted a virtual Annual New ResearchRead More →

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On “East Coast Public Interior Spaces” 1 Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. SAHARA guest editor (January 2023) The SAH-Historic Interiors Affiliate Group-Research Committee member “East Coast Public Interior Spaces” offers a visual and diverse perspective on interior design as a part of the mission of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Historic Interiors, Affiliate Group to foster scholarly inquiry on historic interiors and its historiography within and beyond SAH. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been accelerated discussions on interior design with urgent issues, such as public health considerations, climate emergency, indoor environment quality, living conditions of underserved people, etc., 2 inclusive and diverse scholarship with history, theoryRead More →

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HIG at the Met’s Rethought Period Rooms: Drinks and Discussion, Saturday, Feb. 18, 5:30 p.m. Beyond CAA Metropolitan Museum of Art 5:30 pm, Saturday, Feb. 18, 82nd and Fifth, NYC 5:30 pm meet sharp at the Great Hall Group Tour desk. We must enter as a group. CAA conference registration covers free admission to the Museum. After the College Art Association Conference concludes, please join the Society of Architectural Historians’ Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) for an informal visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rethought periodrooms, including the new Afro-Futurist room, Before Yesterday We Could Fly, with remarks by Met curators Sylvia Yount andRead More →

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Review: Boiseries at Camden Place, January 12-13, 2023 By Lauren Drapala (January 2023) A little over a week ago on January 12-13, 2023, I had the privilege of attending Boiseries: Decoration And Migration From The 18th Century To The Present at Camden Place, Chislehurst, UK. The conference was convened by fellow SAH-HIG member Laura Jenkins, a current PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Dr. Lindsay Macnaughton of University of Buckingham. Presenters and attendees represented a variety of institutions from across the United Kingdom, France and the United States, each considering the migrations of eighteenth-century boiseries from their original places of inception throughRead More →

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HIG Event, Friday, October 21, 2022 Moderator: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, HIG Research Committee At SAH 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, HIG President Paula Lupkin presented a paper based on extensive research into the historiography of interiors in several major scholarly journals, including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Design History, and Winterthur Portfolio. The Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians (HIG) and its Research Committee invite you to participate in an online working session to examine new research on the history of interiors. At this session participants will discuss and analyze the research and findings of her paperRead More →

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By Paula Lupkin, October 2022 In September, Tara Dudley (HIG Advisory Board) and I had a very “HIG” experience together in Mineral Wells, Texas. We went there as part of our service to the State Board of Review for the Texas State Historical Committee, advising on Texas proposals submitted to the National Register of Historic Places. Typically, the Board tours a local, recently designated building when we meet. This time we got to explore the fabulous 1929 Baker Hotel, currently undergoing renovation as a luxury hotel and spa. The chief contractor guided us through a building that had been stripped of its finishes and fittings,Read More →

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2022 Conference Guide compiled by the HIG Events & Conferences Committee The program for the Society of Architectural Historians 2022 Annual Meeting, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, included several events of interest to HIG members. In April 2022 HIG’s Events & Conferences Committee provided a detailed guide to the conference. Those who were planning to attend the SAH 2022 Conference were invited to download a guide compiled by the HIG Events and Conferences Committee to highlight sessions of interest to HIG members. These included:Read More →

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SAH-HIG-The Historic Interiors Affiliate Group, invites its members and scholars of medieval art and architecture to submit proposals for its second HIG-organized session at the Society of Architectural Historians in Montreal in April 2023.  Its focus, on material culture and medieval church interiors, expands our group’s consideration of the history of the interior beyond the modern period. The deadline for the submission of proposals is June 7, 2022. https://www.sah.org/2023/call-for-papers Material Religion Through the Sacred Interior Following the Protestant Reformation, clerics and church officials stripped the interior spaces of many western medieval churches of their polychromy, textiles, choir screens, side altars, and sculptures, fundamentally changing theRead More →