THE RICHARD SAIVETZ ’69 ANNUAL MEMORIAL ARCHITECTURAL SYMPOSIUM
Presented by the Department of Fine Arts
Designing Sociability: Then and Now
Thursday March 26, 2009, 6:30PM
Pollack Fine Arts Teaching Center
Brandeis University
Speakers:
“Houses and the Etiquette of Everyday Life: The Delaware Valley, 1675-1740”
Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindall Professor of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“English Coffeehouses and French Salons: Rethinking Habermas, Gender and Sociability”
Brian Cowan, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History, McGill University
“From Dormitory to Residence Hall: Social Life and Collegiate Architecture”
Carla Yanni, Professor of Art History, Rutgers University
Free and open to the public
Reception at the Rose Art Museum follows
Also sponsored by the New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians