SHERA at 56th Annual ASEEES Convention

The in-person 56th Annual ASEEES Convention will take place at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, 21-24 November 2024! Please mark your calendars for the following SHERA-related events:

SHERA Business Meeting @ ASEEES

Friday, November 22, 2024, 6:30-7:30 pm EST

Boston Marriott Copley Place, 3rd Floor - Northeastern

Following the Business Meeting, please join us for a SHERA Gathering at the Yard House (110 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116).

SHERA-Sponsored panel at ASEEES

“Collecting, Preserving, Restoring, and Displaying the Ottoman Architectural Heritage of the Balkans in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century”

Friday, November 22, 2024, 8:00-9:45 am EST

Grand Ballroom Salon F, 4th Floor

Chair: Doina Anca Cretu, Masaryk Institute and Archives CAS (Czech Republic)

Papers:

Cosmin Tudor Minea, Masaryk U (Czech Republic): "Overcoming the Ottoman Heritage: Restoration and Preservation of Monuments in Early 20th Century Romania"

Serena Acciai, ENSA Paris-Belleville (France): "Merging Architectural Styles in the Balkans at the End of 19th Century"

Deodáth Zuh, Eszterházy Károly Catholic U (Hungary): "Early Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and the Hungarian Plea for Revisiting Ottoman-Turkish Architecture"

Stefan Peychev, U of Sofia (Bulgaria): "From Banyabaşı to Bath Square: Thermal Water, Space, and Place in the Making of Post-Ottoman Sofia"

Discussant: Seraina Renz, Masaryk U (Czech Republic)

Image: Ion Mincu, Romanian Restaurant, 1888. Elevation for the Romanian Pavilion at the 1889 Paris World Fair. National Arts Museum of Romania, Bucharest.