The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NESAH) is seeking presenters for its upcoming 47th Annual Student Symposium.
This year’s symposium is hosted by the Connecticut College Right to Housing public scholarship initiative, which examines the national housing crisis through a regional lens. The symposium will take place on Saturday, November 14, 2026 at Connecticut College, and will be broadly themed around the topic of housing.
If you are interested in presenting your work at the symposium, please submit an abstract and short biographical note by Sunday, October 11.
Abstracts should be less than 300 words in length; biographies should be less than 100 words and include the student’s name, the name of their faculty advisor, their field of study, and their institutional affiliation. Please submit these statements as a single PDF document to nesah.president@gmail.com.
Proposals centered on issues of housing, broadly conceived, may come from any historical and geographic areas. Projects that address current events and issues, and have local or regional relevance, are especially welcome.
Student symposium presenters are typically engaged in producing a thesis or dissertation, or are interested in developing work done in connection with a seminar or lecture course. Presenters should be current students – either graduate students or advanced undergraduates – at an academic institution in the New England region. Paper presentations should be 15 minutes in length and accompanied by slides. Student presentations will be followed by brief panel-style Q&A sessions moderated by NESAH directors. Please reach out to nesah.president@gmail.com with any questions that you may have.
