SAH - HIG Emerging Scholars Symposium: Confronting the 'Chamber of Horrors'

SAH - HIG Emerging Scholars Symposium: Confronting the 'Chamber of Horrors'

Graduate students, postdocs and recent graduates from diverse disciplinary fields of study will present brief 10-minute talks

By SAH-HIG and UAL

Date and time

Friday, June 7 · 9 - 11am PDT

Location

Online

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."

About this event

  • 2 hours

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, 2023, 12:00PM - 2:00PM EDT.

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SAH-HIG and UAL