From SHERA-SAH Liaison: Society of Architectural Historians September Newsletter

	

September 2015 Volume LIX, No. 9 / Society of Architectural Historians
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SAH Awards Gala Tickets Now Available
Currently celebrating its 75th anniversary, SAH will host the 6th annual
Awards for Architectural Excellence gala Friday, Nov. 6 at the Woman’s
Athletic Club (626 North Michigan Ave.) This year, SAH is proud to present
the Architectural Journalism Award to Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture
critic Paul Goldberger, the Heritage Conservation award to architect T.
Gunny Harboe (perhaps best known for his work on Chicago’s Rookery and
Reliance buildings) and the Architectural Scholarship & Preservation
Advocacy award to Richard Longstreth of The George Washington University, a
past president of SAH. Tickets are on sale at sah.org/gala.


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Refining the SAH Annual International Conference 
SAH has evolved over the past 75 years and we continue to reshape our annual
conference to broaden our global presence. SAH maintains its original vision
for our conference, which is to provide an international platform for its
members to present new interpretive research on the history of the built
environment. As we look forward to the SAH’s next 75 years, it is an
appropriate time to draw on member feedback and take steps to improve our
processes and keep up with technology, while meeting the expectations of our
members. In the coming weeks and months you will probably notice some
differences from previous conferences, and we would like to share them with
you now so that you are aware of them. 


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Conference Paper Session Schedule Available
The schedule of paper sessions for the SAH 2016 Annual International
Conference is now available on the conference mobile guide. Papers,
roundtables, meetings, tours and other events will be added to the schedule
in the coming weeks. We encourage you to download our free mobile guide on
your iPhone/iPad/Android device or view the guide on the web at
guidebook.com/g/sah2016 for the most up-to-date conference information. 


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SAH 75th Anniversary Reception at Harvard
Please join us to celebrate the founding of SAH at Harvard University in
1940. The SAH 75th Anniversary Reception will take place on Wednesday,
October 28, 2015, from 5–6:30 p.m. at the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard
University Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Immediately following the reception, at 6:30 p.m. you are invited to attend
the PhD Seminar by SAH board member Luis Castañeda, assistant professor art
history, Syracuse University. Registration is required.


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Registration Open for Biennial Tours of Charnley-Persky House
The Society of Architectural Historians, in partnership with the Chicago
Architecture Biennial, will present an expanded tour program of its National
Historic Landmark headquarters, the Charnley-Persky House, during the
Biennial. Guided tours of the house will be offered every Wednesday and
Saturday at 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. between October 7 and December 23. All tours
are open to the public. Registration is now open.


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Monuments of Balkan Empires: Ottoman and Habsburg Architecture in Zagreb,
Sarajevo and Mostar
SAH Blog post by Patricia Blessing, 2014 H. Allen Brooks Fellow
I begin where I left off in my first post a month ago, in the city of Porec
in Croatia, where both fifth-century Byzantine and nineteenth-century
Italian heritage are present. The theme of this post is the architectural
presence of two of the empires that, over the last 1600 years, have ruled in
the Balkans. The conflicted history of the region is particularly present
this year, in 2015, with the 20th Anniversary of major events during the
Yugoslav wars—most importantly the massacre of Srebrenica (now in
Bosnia-Hercegovina) in July 1995. 


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SAH Chapter and Partner News
The Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and
Architecture, Inc. (SHERA) has successfully launched the new Visiting
Scholar Program that enables its members to conduct individual research
while being involved in educational activities at international partner
institutions, i.e. the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in
Moscow. Apart from RGGU, SHERA has established working relationship with the
Department of Art History of the European University at St. Petersburg
(EUSP).


New ACLS Fellowship Opportunity for Liberal Arts College Faculty
In 2015 ACLS is offering a new set of fellowships designated specifically
for liberal arts college faculty that is available through the Frederick
Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars. Thanks to a
grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Burkhardt program now offers recently
tenured liberal arts college faculty in the humanities and humanistic social
sciences the opportunity to pursue ambitious research projects for an
academic year while in residence at the university department or
university-based humanities center of their choice. Details are available at
http://www.acls.org/programs/burkhardt/ and, as with all programs,
applications must be submitted through the ACLS online application system.


SAH September Booklist 
Read the September Booklist of recently published architecture books and
related works. Booklists and exhibition catalog lists are selected by
Barbara Opar, architecture librarian, Syracuse University Library.

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