Zaha Hadid, Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati, 1998-2003
Photograph: Jorge Correia

EAHN at the SAH Annual Meeting 2008

During the SAH Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, the EAHN hosted a short lunch hour session on Thursday, 24 April to introduce the organization to potential new members. Some twenty-five people attended the meeting, while many others expressed interest during more impromptu conversations with committee members who were present in Cincinnati – Maristella Casciato, Jorge Correia, Hilde Heynen, Dietrich Neumann and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan. Jorge Correia launched the call for session proposals for the 2010 EAHN First International Meeting in Guimarães, Portugal, which was very well received by the audience. Committee members reported on other initiatives of the EAHN: the newsletter, the study tours, the plans to launch a peer-reviewed European journal of architectural history, the scholarly communities clustered around a common theme, and the need for a ranked journal list. The discussion of the latter sparked an interest in creating a strong organization that would help individual scholars to situate their work in its disciplinary context during their institutions’ assessment process. The general consensus in the room was that the network fulfils a real need in Europe by providing an international framework of exchange and support for architectural historians.

Hilde Heynen, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan