On June 8, 2017, Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Spokesperson for PreservationWorks, will present at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Glasgow, Scotland. His paper, The Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, considers the complex histories and phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, and the unique challenges and opportunities these specters present for the preservation and adaptive reuse of remaining Kirkbride Hospitals. The paper is part of the panel, Architectural Ghosts; it is an abbreviated version of the full lecture he will present at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. on October 26 at the exhibit “Architecture of an Asylum,” and at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, on November 2.