Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D

Ph.D, Architectural History @McGillU // MA Art History @Concordia // cultural landscapes, gender and architecture, feminist research methods // she/her

[Annmarie Adams @AdamsAnnmarie]

The McGill encampment has some sophisticated architecture: pathways, thresholds, hierarchies, public/private divides, even a drainage ditch. Architecture always matters.

[Annmarie Adams @AdamsAnnmarie]

The outstanding work of arch'l historian @_CynthiaHammond featured on the suffragette tradition of tree planting 🌳♀️🇬🇧 https://t.co/3QnQ1Jbucq

[Architectural Humanities Research Association @ArchHumanities]

#Opportunity 3 Researchers-in-residence are sought for research network “Women Make Cities” @EdinburghUni @ESALA_Edinburgh. If you are interested and would like further details of how to apply please contact @SuzanneEwing_ Apply by 30 July 2021. More here: https://t.co/pZBxCfvIvW

[Ana María León @anamarialeon]

please circulate: 2, 2-year fellowships on racial and spatial justice at @TaubmanCollege starting this Fall 2021 https://t.co/lak1D6jAhN

[PhD GSofA @PhD_GSA]

3 Researchers-in-residence sought for new research network Women Make Cities. The roles offer an opportunity to pursue original research, exploring new paths through archive sites and other collections. For more info please submit expressions of interest to [email protected]

[SSoM McGill @mcgill_ssom]

Our Chair @AdamsAnnmarie gave a lecture at @NLM_NIH in March, featured in this new article https://t.co/VvjiHHiAfN

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

looking forward to this too! can't wait to hear my brilliant @mcgillu school of arch colleagues @MagdalenaMilosz and @cigdemtalu speak at ETH DocTalks at 17h00 CEST.

zoom links and research summaries: https://t.co/frJI8qyDoH

[Annmarie Adams @AdamsAnnmarie]

2 @mcgillu Arch PhD students are presenting in the ETH DocTalks series tomorrow, no registration necessary, 11 am Montreal time: @MagdalenaMilosz and @cigdemtalu. Really looking forward to it https://t.co/nolmtSOsOP

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

thanks @eahn_org for organizing an energizing conference. Looking forward to #EAHN2022 in Madrid!

[EAHN @eahn_org]

Jorge Correia, EAHN president, is now closing #EAHN2021. Thank you to @EAHN2021 @R_P_Anderson @rjwilliams44 and everyone behind the scenes, all speakers and attendees for a fabulous conference. We look ahead with optimism and hope and to a field that has a lot to say.

[EAHN @eahn_org]

Happening now at #EAHN2021: Keynote by Caroline van Eck: Piranesi Semper Warburg: Three Views on the Trajectories of Architecture through Time

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

thanks 😊 Looking forward to reading more of your work!

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

great paper on women + the Swedish welfare landscape in the 60s and 70s by Jennifer Mack + Heidi Svenningen Katija in session 29 - as a recent transplant to Stockholm im really interested in this critical perspective on Swedish architectural history #EAHN2021

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

so happy to hear @athangeolas work again at #EAHN2021! presenting on ✨charm✨ and professional relationships in architectural practice in the early 20th c

[Athanasiou Geolas @athangeolas]

Ecem Sarıçayır @CornellHaus revealing the tensions between claims to "openness" and "authorship" @EAHN2021 #EAHN2021

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

still in session 13 - listening to @HelenRixRunting present the findings of the new report on Swedish housing by Stockholm-based practice Secretary Office for Architecture. Read the preliminary findings of the report (2019) here: https://t.co/GFHc6Dpulb #EAHN2021

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

fascinating presentation on renewable energy in Milton Keynes town development by Kim Förster in session 13. Ended with reflection on whether solar energy reproduces existing regimes or holds the potential to instigate social change #EAHN2021

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

happy to see Canadian representation at #EAHN2021 ! Currently listening to @mcgillu architecture alum @psealy speak on the multiple ways late- and post- modern architects integrated photographs into their architectural drawings

[Laura Josephine O’Brien, Ph.D @laurajobrien]

really enjoying the roundtable for @EAHN2021 Interest Group “Building Word Image,” where participants respond to the question, “what would happen, if we wrote the histories of buildings, cities, and sites without considering how and by whom they were designed?”
#eahn2021

[Annmarie Adams @AdamsAnnmarie]

Wonderful talk today @ccawire by Valentina Davila on Venezuelan domestic architecture and domestic workers

[McGill Research + Innovation @McGill_VPRI]

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Anthony Fauci is the 2021 Beatty Lecturer! The acclaimed immunologist and champion of science-driven policy-making during the COVID-19 pandemic will deliver the virtual lecture @mcgillu Oct 1👏https://t.co/vTVEMtvN45 #Beatty2021 @McGillAlumni

[Annmarie Adams @AdamsAnnmarie]

"If you could ask an arch'l historian to write something on your community, what would it be?" asks @_CynthiaHammond in today's #SAH2021 Saturday seminar