Events
What is a Historic Interior?
Please join us for a webinar and roundtable with an exciting panel of discussants as we discuss our goals and plans for HIG: the Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Affiliate Group. What is a Historic Interior? October 21, 2020, 11-1:30pm (CST) Anca Lasc and Paula Lupkin, moderators Panelists: Tara Dudley, University of Texas at Austin William Littmann, California College of the Arts StevenRead More →
New Research Symposium: Interiors and their Histories
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 exhibitionsRead More →
HIG Book Event – New Approaches to Interiors in New Books
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HIG Guide to SAH Conference 2022
For those of you attending the SAH 2022 Conference, please see the link to SAH Commons for a guide compiled by the HIG Events and Conferences Committee, to highlight sessions of interest to HIG members on April 28 and April 29. Read More →
Digital Interiors: Emerging Scholars Symposium PART 1
This symposium, sponsored by the SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), will bring together Emerging Scholars and early-career professionals from across the globe to discuss digitality in relation to the study and practice of historic interiors. 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 a wide range ofRead More →
Digital Interiors: Emerging Scholars Symposium Part 2
This symposium, sponsored by the SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), will bring together Emerging Scholars and early-career professionals from across the globe to discuss digitality in relation to the study and practice of historic interiors. 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 a wide range ofRead More →
Architecture, Interiors, and the Expanded Field
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Fall General Business Meeting
From Dissertation to Book (and Everything in Between): Publishing Academic Research in the History of Interiors
For more information about this event, see this Post.Read More →
HIG Education Roundtable
SAH Historic Interiors Group Education Roundtable, Friday, December 2nd, 12 to 1:30 pm EST Coming up on the first Friday in December – The HIG Education Roundtable will focus on best practices and new ideas for the teaching of history of interior courses. This event will include short presentations from Mark Hinchman (University of Nebraska – Lincoln), Anca Lasc (Pratt Institute), Yelena McLane (Florida State University), and Mary Anne Beecher (Ohio State University). These experienced educators will comment on about what works in the classroom as well as share insights into challenges they have encountered. We will then invite all participants to contribute their viewpoints about resources and methods that help them succeedRead More →