SAH WiA AG Registers Committee | Virtual Meeting Agenda, October 15, 2021

SAH WiA AG Registers Committee: Co-chairs: Barbara Opar and Anna Sokolina, Committee Members: Meral Ekincioglu, Alicia Imperiale, Gül Kale, Gillian Mahoney, Laura Sánchez Carrasco, Rebecca Siefert, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Margaret B. Vickery

Link to the document: SAH WiA AG RegCom_4MtngAgd+

  1. Opening and Organization

—   Fourth Meeting of the SAH WiA AG Registers Committee —Sokolina, Opar

—individual comments: Opar, Stritzler-Levine, Vickery

Discussion

  1. Programs and Members’ Contribution

—   SAH WiA AG Bibliographies

Confirmed contributors: Meral Ekincioglu, Gillian Mahoney, Barbara Opar, Laura Sánchez Carrasco, Rebecca Siefert, Anna Sokolina, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Margaret B. Vickery

  • First publication, with Acknowledgements and Introduction of SAH WiA Registers Committee:

The SAH Women in Architecture Bibliography (hcommons.org) (official site, SAH members access, 7.15.21); sah-women-in-architecture-bibliography-2021.pdf (page, public access, 8.3.21) —Opar, Siefert, Sokolina, Vickery

(Submission Deadline: Nov 10, 2021): project constantly in progress —Opar, Sokolina

—a brochure in preparation for SAH 2022 Annual International Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Submission Deadline: Nov 15, 2021 —Opar

—individual comments, inquiries, questions

—   SAH WiA AG Register of Archives, Libraries, Museums, Collections, other learned centers

Confirmed contributors: Meral Ekincioglu, Alicia Imperiale, Gillian Mahoney, Barbara Opar, Anna Sokolina, Nina Stritzler-Levine

  • Collections’ first register: Gratitude to Meral Ekincioglu for initial submissions. Support needed: other Committee Members’ contribution, and a team with certain skillset to help sort out SAH website resources: Digital Resources | Society of Architectural Historians (sah.org); add other collections and online references, e.g., Women Writing Architecture, invite recommendations; intertwined strategies —Sokolina
  • Designation to spearhead the collection —Nina Stritzler-Levine

—individual comments: Stritzler-Levine, Mahoney, Opar

—   SAH WiA AG Networks

Confirmed contributors: Alicia Imperiale, Gül Kale, Laura Sánchez Carrasco, Anna Sokolina

Sokolina: significant support needed—online investigations and networking, e.g., RISD: WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE TIMELINE (womenarchitecture.com); Toronto, Canada: BEAT (beatoronto.com); ETH Zurich: Women Writing Architecture; other

—individual comments, questions: postponed to consider upcoming conversations

  • Follow up discussion: Designation to lead the project —Alicia Imperiale

—   SAH WiA AG Oral History Interviews

Confirmed contributors: Meral Ekincioglu, Barbara Opar, Rebecca Siefert, Anna Sokolina

  • Initiative: Pauline Saliga; put forward: Opar, Sokolina; implementation: Siefert, https://sahwomeninarchitectureaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/registers-committee; recorded interviews: Siefert; transcription: Deichler w/supervision by Opar, edits: Siefert
  • Pittsburgh in Focus: Oral History Interviews Project: Collaboration with Christopher Drew Armstrong, SAH 2022 Conference Co-Chair, Director, Architectural Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh; Jill Chisnell, Art, Architecture, and Design Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries; and Sarah Rafson, CMU SoA Curator of Public Programs and Director of EX-CHANGE — CMU School of Architecture Exhibition and Publication
  • Stritzler-Levine —focus on diversity
  • Vickery —Treasurer’s efforts on allocating funding

—individual comments, questions: 1) recommendations on national and international outreach; particular proposals; 2) to follow up on funding opportunities—inquiry for guidance of the SAH Board and Executive Committee

—   New Program Proposal: Students Mentorship Program

Contributors: Alicia Imperiale, Gül Kale, Barbara Opar, Anna Sokolina, Margaret B. Vickery

—individual comments, questions: postponed to consider upcoming conversations

  • Follow up discussions: Internship Program; Projects with students’ participation — Opar, Imperiale, Kale, Sokolina
  1. SAH WiA AG Program: “March 2021: SAH WiA AG Celebrates Women’s History Month”

—   Registers Committee Meeting

—   Launch/Inauguration of websites: 1) 2nd edition of SAH WiA Bibliography; 2) SAH WiA AG Register of Archives; 3) SAH WiA AG Oral History Interviews Project

Discussion: Confirmation of planned programming

  1. Other Business

—   2022 SAH Pittsburgh Conference: in-person events—members’ business meeting, book launch opportunities; post-conference virtual program

Discussion: postponed