Greene & Greene, Charles S. Greene House, Pasadena, 1902-1915
Photograph: Carmen Popescu

Bakewell & Brown, Pasadena City Hall, 1927
Photograph: Carmen Popescu

EAHN at the SAH Annual Meeting:
Affiliation with SAH and Lunchtime Information Session

The 2009 annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) took place in Pasadena, California from 1-5 April.  The SAH Board, at its meeting immediately prior to the conference, voted unanimously to recognize the EAHN as an affiliate organization. The affiliate status is granted to organizations whose educational missions parallel those of the SAH and it allows them to sponsor sessions at the Society's annual meeting.  SAH Board members also expressed a desire to build a strong working relationship with the EAHN.

This year, in what has now become a regular event, the EAHN hosted a lunchtime brown-bag meeting on Thursday, 2 April in order to further publicize its activities and recruit new members. The meeting was chaired by Nancy Stieber, and other EAHN committee members including Andrew Ballantyne, Carmen Popescu, and Zeynep Kezer were present. SAH President Dietrich Neumann, who is also an EAHN committee member, was able to make a brief appearance.  Jorge Correia, EAHN’s second vice-president and general chair of the 2010 conference in Guimarães, presented an overview of the conference and invited those present to participate and spread the word. Andrew Ballantyne drew attention to the upcoming EAHN-SAHGB joint symposium, which takes place in London in May, and noted that a publication based on the papers presented at the conference was very likely to follow. Carmen Popescu reported on the EAHN’s recent study tours in eastern Europe and attendees were advised about the projected tour to Scotland next year.  EAHN brochures and the call for papers for the Guimarães conference were also distributed at the meeting in Pasadena.

Zeynep Kezer
Newcastle University