2026 SAH Conference, Mexico: Programme

The programme for the 2026 Society of Architectural Historians conference in Mexico, taking place on 15-19 April, is available here.

Our region is well represented in sessions, roundtables and paper presentations.

Sessions and roundtables:
•    Renee Miller-Yeaman, University of Melbourne, and Isabel Rousset, University of Technology Sydney, are chairing the SAHANZ-SAH session, “Oceanic and South-East Asian Built Histories of Development.” Those in the session include Joss Kiely, University of Cincinnati, presenting a paper titled “Aiding and Abetting the Cold War: Information, Diplomacy, and the Architecture of Propaganda, USA.”
•    Dijia Chen, University of Melbourne, is chairing the session, “Beyond Paradigms: ‘Feminine’ Pedagogy in Architectural Education.”
•    Farzaneh Haghighi, University of Auckland, is chairing the session, “Architecture & Democracy.”
•    Macarena de la Vega de León, ETSAM-Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and University of Queensland, is chairing a roundtable titled, “What is your Anchor? Stories of/for Contingent Faculty, Emerging Scholars and Early Career Researchers.”

Paper presentations include: 
•    Sean Akahane-Bryen, University of Sydney, “Geometry and the Tuning of Affects in English Decorated Gothic”; 
•    Janina Gosseye, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and Lea-Catherine Szacka, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, “Profit over People: Debating Canary Wharf in the House of Commons”;
•    Jasper Ludewig, University of Technology Sydney, “Para-Sovereignty: The Architecture of Australian Imperialism”; 
•    Samantha Rosner, University of Technology Sydney, “Volume of Land: Territorial Accounting in 19th-Century New South Wales”; 
•    Zeng Wu, University of Sydney, “Packaged Ethnoburbia: Financialising the Cultural Format of Suburban Chinatown, Australia”; and 
•    Louis Wyatt, University of Melbourne, “From Leaf to Landmark: Tobacco, Architecture, and the New World, Australia.”