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Do You Have an Idea For a HIG Event? Let Us Know! HIG is currently accepting submissions for event proposals from its members at large. If you have an idea about a panel or a roundtable that is likely to be of interest to our members, and which you would like to organize, please send a one to two page proposal and a copy of your CV to: alasc@pratt.edu and P.Lara-Betancourt@kingston.ac.uk Deadline: November 15, 2024 Your submission can fall within any one of the following categories: pedagogy, research, curating, theory and practice.Read More →

Dollhouse interior with red wallpaper showing crime scene

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Interior Spaces of Crime and Coercion To really appreciate architecture,” says Bernard Tschumi in Advertisements for Architecture, “you may even need to commit a murder.” This panel considers the interior spaces that pertain to crimes and other forbidden actions. It calls for scholarship that looks at rooms where “wrong” things are done—spaces of transgression—as well as the more frequently studied spaces of “correction.” The latter are entwined with ideas of modernity, from Piranesi’s Carceri to Foucault on Bentham’s Panopticon. The former—the scenes of the crime—are themselves subjects of study by historians of criminology like Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, and the journal Crime, HistoireRead More →

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Join us on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, from 12:00 to 1:30pm CDT for a discussion about Queering the Interior: Shame, Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Interior Design. This SAH CONNECTS program concerning interiors will be significant as a collaboration between two professional organizations, the SAH Historic Interiors Group (HIG) and the College Art Association (CAA). Timothy M. Rohan, co-chair of HIG’s Events and Conferences Committee, will organize the event, introduce it, and participate. The editor-in-chief of CAA’s Art Bulletin, Christy Anderson, will moderate the discussion. It will bring together authors who have written about queerness, shame, and interiors for a special March 2024 issue of the Art Bulletin. The program will drawRead More →

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Society of Architectural Historians 2024 Annual International Conference The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 77th Annual International Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 17–21, 2024. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 6, 2023. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters, Affiliate Groups, and partner organizations. CFP – Lost Interiors: Interpreting the Ephemeral Working within the intersection between architectural history, material culture, decorative arts, and the history of design, historians of interiors face a significant challenge: ephemerality. TheRead More →

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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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PS34 Material Religion through the Sacred Interior will be Chaired by Tania Kolarik, University of Wisconsin-Madison Session Description (CfP): 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 the sensorial experience of worship for both clergy and laity. These changes had an impact on how scholars approached medieval church interiors, causing some to overlook the presence of furniture and other portable furnishings. Instead, art and architectural historians have emphasized architectural structure, frescos, and painted altarpieces. Other scholars analyze aspectsRead 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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New books on 19th-century interiors A book event co-organized by the William Morris Society in the United States and the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians Friday, February 24, 1 pm EST(10 am PST, 11 am MST, 12 noon CST, 6:00 pm GMT) Andrea Wolk Rager, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2022)The first scholarly monograph solely devoted to the artist since 1973, this book re-centers Burne-Jones’s practice in the decorative arts, demonstrating that he consistently questioned the boundaries of artistic media, in keeping with wider debates over the role ofRead More →