Each month, the Society of Architectural Historians shares news submitted by
SAH chapters and partner organizations on their new and exciting programs, opportunities, awards, and events.
Minnesota Chapter (MNSAH)
On December 6, 2019, the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians was presented with a Special Award from AIA Minnesota in recognition of its Minnesota Modern Masters oral history program. The program, which documents Minnesota's leading architects, educators, and journalists, has been described as "one of the most important archival projects ever attempted in the history of Minnesota's architecture," by Tom Fisher, professor and director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota.
To date, the program, which has been funded primarily by three Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage "Legacy" grants, has conducted over two dozen interviews with architects and other professionals in the field of architecture. The archived interviews are available to researchers through the MNSAH collection at the Northwest Architectural Archives at the University of Minnesota. In addition, edited versions of the interviews can be viewed on MNSAH's Vimeo site, vimeo.com/mnsah, or via a link in the "Program" section of MNSAH's website, mnsah.org.
Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)
The SHERA is pleased to announce that Anna Paluch of Carleton University has been awarded the SHERA Graduate Student / Independent Scholar Travel Grant to attend and present at the 108th CAA Annual Conference in Chicago, February 12–15, 2020. She will be delivering a paper entitled “From Turtle Island to Vistula’s Shores: Indigenous and Slavic Futurisms in Dialogue” as part of the panel “The Present of the Future: Indigenous Futurisms in the Visual Arts,” February 15, 2:00–3:30pm. Paluch examines “the use of oral stories, memories, history, and cultural survivance within pop culture, contact zones, Native and Slavic Slipstreams and oral stories/legends as sci-fi (SF) narratives within Indigenous Futurism and Slavic Futurism, and how these genres are connected through those concepts.”
The SHERA-sponsored panel “Freezes and Thaws in the Socialist Bloc” will be held on Saturday, 4:00-5:30pm in the Astoria Room. Papers include: “A Classic(al) Russian Freeze: Timur Novikov and the New Academy of Fine Arts” (Liana Battsaligova, Yale University); “Jugoslovenska and her Discontents: Feminist Resistance During Yugoslav Socialism & After” (Jasmina Tumbas, University at Buffalo); and, “Neo-avantgarde on Repeat: Polish Contemporary Artists Revisit the 1970s” (Magdalena Moskalewicz, School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
The 2019 SHERA Emerging Scholar Prize was awarded to Alice Isabella Sullivan (University of Michigan) for her article “The Athonite Patronage of Stephen III of Moldavia, 1457-1504,” Speculum 94.1 (2019): 1–46. Next Emerging Scholar Prize deadline: September 30, 2020.
