“ First Conversation for the 2023-2024 Architectural Studies NOW Series: Archives and Museums as Teaching Resources and Career Opportunities"

 

“ First Conversation for the 2023-2024 Architectural Studies NOW Series: 

Archives and Museums as Teaching Resources and Career Opportunities

Date:  02 Oct, 2023

Monday, October 2, 2023, via Zoom, 11 am – 12:30 pm, Central Time

This first conversation in the 2023-2024 Architectural Studies NOW series, convened by the SAH’s Architectural Studies Affiliate Group, explores how architectural collections and professional staff of archives, museums, and libraries can be resources both for innovative teaching and research, and for exploring professional opportunities for Architectural Studies students as archivists, curators and librarians of design and material culture as summer internships and in career paths after graduation. Colleagues from these institutions will speak to their collections' content and accessibility, as well as career paths and possibilities.

Panelists include:

-Maristella Casciato, Head and Senior Curator, Architectural Collections, Getty Research Institute
-Garrett Dash Nelson, President and Head Curator, Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library
-Jon Duval, Assistant Curator, Architecture & Design, MIT Museum
-Carter Jackson, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
-Mari Nakahara, Curator of Architecture, Design, and Engineering, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
-William Whitaker, Curator, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania 

Session organizers:
Daniel Abramson, Boston University, dabr@bu.edu
Gail Fenske, Roger Williams University, gfenske@rwu.edu
Amy Finstein, College of the Holy Cross, afinstei@holycross.edu

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Link: https://www.sah.org/jobs-and-careers/opportunities/recent-opportunities/2023/10/02/default-calendar/first-conversation-for-the-2023-2024-architectural-studies-now-series-archives-and-museums-as-teaching-resources-and-career-opportunities, last accessed on 9.29.2023.

It has also been wonderful to see Maristella Casciato and Mari Nakahara who have been panelists in our online panels on women architects (2021, May) and historic interior (2023, May). 

1• Ekincioglu, M. (welcoming & introduction, co-organizer), 2023, Flow: At the Intersection of Archives and Historic Interiors, online panel, panelists (archivists): Mari Nakahara, the Library of Congress; Esther -aka Mimi- Schmidt, the Centre for Historic Houses in India; Monika Platzer, the Architekturzentrum Wien; moderator: Paola Ardizzola, Research Committee member, HIG-SAH & lecturer at Cardiff Met University; organization by the Research Committee of the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians (HIG-SAH), May 1.

This is the first panel organized by "the Research Committee of the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians".

https://sahhistoricinteriorsaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/2023/03/31/hig-event-flow-at-the-intersection-of-historic-interiors-and-archives, last accessed on 10.2.2023.

https://meralekincioglu.blogspot.com/2023/03/our-online-panel-flow-at-intersection.html, last accessed on 10.2.2023.

2• Ekincioglu, M. (moderator, co-organizer), 2021, “Collective Memory of Diverse Women Architects: Its Historical Documentation Practice and Methods”, online panel, panelists: Mary Norman Woods, Professor Emerita at Cornell University, Department of Architecture, the first woman tenured in Cornell's architecture department, founded in 1871; Heather Isbell Schumacher, Archivist, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, Architectural Archives; Jessica Quagliaroli, Architecture Records Archivist at the Yale University Library, Manuscripts, and Archives; Maristella Casciato, the Senior Curator of the Architecture Collections at the Getty Research Institute in California, organization by Women Who Design, May 7.

For the first panel question and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZTAfC-9kI&t=2s, last accessed on 10.2.2023.

For the second panel question and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj-6FrpNWfs, last accessed on 10.2.2023.

For the third panel question and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0eOl_P_Glc, last accessed on 10.2.2023.

For more, please, see: https://meralekincioglu.blogspot.com/2021/07/records-of-our-online-panel-collective.html, last accessed on 10.2.2023.