The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce the 46th Annual Student Symposium.
The Student Symposium features presentations by outstanding students from programs across New England in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, art history, urban studies, historic preservation, and related fields. This year's event will take place from 10 AM to 3:15 PM on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at Brown University's List Art Center, 64 College Street, Providence RI 02912. You may register to attend the event in person, or watch the proceedings over Zoom.
A full program can be found below. Light refreshments will be provided and a Q&A with the audience will follow each of the two session.
10 AM: Check-in begins
10:15 AM: Opening remarks
10:30 AM: Session 1: Landscape, Territory, and Regions
Anny Li, Harvard University: “Hedging Hardiness: The Arnold Arboretum’s Hedge Collection and the US ‘Home Landscape,’ 1935-1970”
Gengjiang Chang, Northeastern University: “Validating a 'Counter-Reality': Mapping the Momentary Equilibrium between State-led Eco- infrastructure Projects and Local Responses”
Romain David, Harvard University: “A New Headquarters for the Bank of Thailand: Ambiguous Sovereignty and the Extraterritoriality of Expertise”
Mohadeseh Salari Sardari, Brown University: “Tongues of Women: Print, Gender, and the Making of Public Space in Iran”
Discussion and Q&A
12:15 PM: Lunch break
1:30 PM: Session 2: Interiority, Domesticity, and External Projections
Tristan Whalen, Brown University: “From King Solomon’s Temple to Solomon’s Temple Lodge: Secrecy and Standardization in American Masonic Architecture”
M.J. Cuozzo, Brown University: “Home-Making as Architectural Practice: The History and Exportation of Ndebele Murals”
Camille Blanco, Brown University: “Domus Aurea Altierōrum: Carlo Maratti’s Triumph of Clemency as a Strategy of Papal Propaganda and Political Ingenuity in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome”
Paulina Allen, Clark University: “Cistercian Compromise in the Daphni Monastery”
Discussion and Q&A
3:15 PM: Close of symposium
