SESSIONS

Session 1: Fictions

Lesya Ukrainka and The Garden Palace: Conflicting Representations of Crimean Tatar Architecture.

Masha Hupalo- Sci Arc 

Conversations ‘With’: Women and Space in 19th Century Colonial Bengal.

Tania Sengupta - The Bartlett, UCL

Climate is a Wretch: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Science of Catastrophe.

Tatiana Carbonell- ETH Zürich

Session 2: Urbanities

Conversing with the City: Spatial Narratives in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman.

Cigdem Talu - McGill University

Voices for a Caring Space: Urban Space Appraisals in the Late-19th Century, Santiago de Chile.

Pía Montealegre - Universidad de Chile

Women in the Public Pleasure Garden: Negotiating Space in Post-Revolutionary Paris, 1795-1814.

Ane Cornelia Pade - University of Cambridge

Session 3: Reforms

Women’s Protests as God’s Agents: Josephine Butler and the Contagious Diseases Act (1864-69).

Jane Hall - University of Cambridge

The Caretakers and the Politics of Hospitality: Housing Conversations with Agnes Lagerstedt and Octavia Hill.

Anne Pind - Royal Academy Copenhagen

Female Reformers. The Impact of the «Schweizerischer Gemeinnützige Frauenverein» on the Urban Codes of Zurich.

Sanna Kattenbeck - ETH Zürich

Session 4: Domesticities

Architectural Critique over Coffee and Tea: Reflecting on Female Architectural Agency in the 1800s.

Laura Hindelang - University of Bern

Luxurious Mansions, Spirited Dwellers: Bahariye Coast at the Golden Horn as a Suburban Retreat for Late-Ottoman Sultanas.

Alper Metin - University of Bologna

The Meaning of Architecture: Victoria Welby’s Approach

Michael Gnehm - USI Mendrisio & ETH Zürich

Session 5: Enclosures

Noble Indian Nun: Struggle for Identity Politics inside Mexico’s Convents in the 18th Century

Lola Lozano Lara - Forms of Living

Saint-Denis through the Eyes of Félicie d’Ayzac: A Female Cicerone.

Émilie Oléron Evans - Queen Mary University of London

Session online: Introductions

Session 6: Letters

Pervasive Empire, or: Domestic Bliss and Vanity Fair. Charlotte Brontë’s Letters on the Great Exhibition.

Leo Herrmann - University of Stuttgart

Listening to Nora the Auditor; Speaking Back to Soane the Lecturer.

Sophie Read - The Bartlett, University College London

‘When Will You Give Me Freedom?’ Wives, Widows and Young Girls as Empowered Commissioners in France during the Second Half of the 19th Century.

Oliver Prisset - Université de Tours

Session 7: Travelogues

‘Lady Grey’s Picturesque Eye Will Discover Many Particulars Worthy of Your Travelling Pocket-Book’: Women’s Travel Accounts and Engagement with Garden Design in the 18th Century.

Jemima Hubberstay  - University of Oxford

Inspirations by and Thoughts on Real and Imaginary Places: Princess Maria Leopoldina Grassalkovich’s Reflections on Her Travels and Readings.

Kristof Fatsar - Manchester School of Architecture