Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture is a UCD research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Joined September 2022
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👥🇮🇪 @Elsorowley: “In the 1980s, Sr Stanislaus Kennedy (Sr Stan) became the first to study homelessness among women in Dublin, an experience that shaped her radical view that homelessness was not a permanent state of being..." irishtimes.com/ireland/housi…
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Thank you to all the speakers and attendees of #mindingherbusiness over the last three days, with such wonderful research shared and discussions had - (📖 to come...)
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Dr Ellen Rowley and Hayley Derrickson of @ucddublin presenting their paper ‘Alternative Methods for Alternative Agents: The Architecture of Sr Stan and 1980s/90s Ireland #CareandArchitecture #Mindingherbusiness
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Dr @AlborzDianat introducing the speakers on the final day of @ucddublin #MindingherBusiness conference in @NMIreland
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Day 2 is back in the ESB Some walk in spots are available if you didn’t manage to book a ticket. #mindingherbusiness
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Keynote lecture from Nina Stritzler-Levine on The Feminization of Architecture and Design. Opening slide a quote from bell hooks 'Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression'. #Mindingherbusiness
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Prof Kathleen James-Chakraborty @ucddublin opening Day 1 of Minding her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design conference in @ESBNetworks HQ #MindingHerBusiness @ExpandingAgency @AlborzDianat
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Looking forward to welcoming you to day 1 of our conference at 1:30pm today. Our venue today is the ESB Headquarters, 27 Fitzwilliam Street. Please note that pre-registration is required and all tickets are now gone.
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Our programme for our conference this week is live. #mindingherbusiness
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Just 2 days until our conference kicks off #mindingherbusiness
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The programme for the upcoming @ExpandingAgency conference is now online and tickets are available: expanding-agency.com/confere… Minding her Business considers the overlooked activities of women entrepreneurs in the global dissemination of modern architecture. @HumanitiesUCD
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Delighted to announce that details of the programme, venue and (free) tickets for our conference are available at expanding-agency.com/confere… #mindingherbusiness
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Tickets for our conference ‘Minding her Business: Women, Architecture and Design’ are now available. See our website for more details: expanding-agency.com/confere…

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Well done to all the @UCD_AHCP PhD students who presented their work-in-progress today to a full room! Great questions and discussions on a wide range of projects. Sandra Heise, Nokubekezela Mchunu, and Pooja Sastry pictured here 😀
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This week our postdoc researcher George is speaking @UCD_Hum_Inst
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Reminder to submit your abstracts by Monday
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2 weeks left to submit an abstract… expanding-agency.com/call-fo…
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My first port of call, a quick visit to the @RIBA Wide-Angle View exhibition on the late 1960s @ArchReview Manplan series, with photography used to foreground social issues on behalf of the British public
Over the next few days I'll be posting over at @ExpandingAgency alongside my trip to London and Reading (in between a lot of reading...)
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From there to @IsokonGallery for a lecture on British architectural critic P. Morton Shand, condensing a 100,000 word PhD into an hour lecture (or attempting to...)
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A full day of tributes to Elain Harwood, extraordinary champion of modern architecture in Britain - and a wonderful person who helped so many @C20Society @HistoricEngland
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