EAHN Annual Business Meeting, Glasgow

EAHN Annual Business Meeting, Glasgow, 20-21 February 2026

Glasgow School of Art (GSA), 167 Renfrew St, Glasgow G3 6RQ
Bourdon Building, Seminar Room 2, First Floor

Accommodation – please make your own arrangements.

Thursday 19 February

ca. 20 hrs. (optional) Scottish traditional music session at the Ben Nevis Pub, 1147 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8TB.

Friday 20 February

14:00 Glasgow Walking Tour
meeting point: Glasgow Central Station (not Queen Street Station!), station hall, under the big clock. Guide: Miles Glendinning (University of Edinburgh)
The tour will end at the Glasgow School of Art at 15:30

15:30-16:00 GSA Seminar Room 2 (first floor)
Coffee

16:00-18:00 GSA Seminar Room 2
Welcome by Prof. Sally Stewart, Head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture (architecture faculty of the Glasgow School of Art)

Workshop “New directions in architectural history”
The workshop is intended as an EAHN forum for discussion, open to the public, and likely to be attended by a small group of interested colleagues and PhD students.

19:00 Dinner (paid by EAHN)
Venue: Red Onion, 257 West Campbell St, Glasgow G2 4TT

Saturday 21 February

9:00-10:30 GSA Seminar Room 2
1. Present and apologies for absence
2. Approval of the minutes of the previous Business Meeting
3. Information on current issues, introduction of new councilors and officers (Panayotis Tournikiotis, President, report)
4. Conference reports 2025 (Panayotis Tournikiotis, president/ chair to report)
5. Website, newsletter, communication policy (Fatma Tanış, Communications Lead, report and proposal)

10:30–11.00 Coffee Break at Seminar Room

11:00-12:30 GSA Seminar Room 2
6. 2025 Financial Statement/2026 budget (Paul Bouet, Treasurer, report)
7. Committee remit (Panayotis Tournikiotis, President, report/proposal)
8. Preparations thematic conferences/biennial conference 2028 (Panayotis Tournikiotis, President, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Vice President, Report)

12:30–13.30 Lunch Catering at Seminar Room

13:30–15.00 GSA Seminar Room 2
9. Architectural Histories (Markus Lähteenmäki, Editor-in-Chief and Laura diZerega, Associate Editor, report/changes)
10. Aarhus biennial conference, June 2026 (Kasper Lægring and Panagiotis Farantatos, Chairs, report)

15:00–15.30 Coffee break at Seminar Room

15:30–17.00 GSA Seminar Room 2
11. Next Business Meeting
12. The future of EAHN (Ex-Com members, councilors, other participants)
13. Any other business

19:00 Dinner (venue tbc.), paid for by the participants

Sunday 22 February

10.00 start, end around 13.00.
Opportunity to visit Hill House in Helensburgh (30 min by train from Glasgow Queen Street) – middle-class residence designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Opportunity to Old Town Edinburgh (40 min by train from Glasgow Queen Street) – walking tour by Miles Glendinning

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