October 1, 2026 12:00 PM –1:00 PM
Lunch Pail Lecture: The Women Behind the Walls of the French Nationality Room
Joanna Conings, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh uncovers and discusses the hidden labor and “affective diplomacies” through which women made the French Nationality Room at the University of Pittsburgh a reality, as evidenced in the University Archives at the University of Pittsburgh Library System. Hear stories of the inception of the room that has represented French culture and community in Pittsburgh for almost a century. Conings will guide attendees to reconsider how personal agency and affective diplomacy shape, and are shaped by, our shared architectural legacies.
