Archive for category: Conferences

EVENT: SAH Latrobe Symposium on Race, Ethnicity and Architecture in the Nation’s Capital. Online, 2-26 February 2021 Organized by the Latrobe Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians Governments and private developers have employed built environments to control and regulate racialized bodies. Through the systemic planning of residential and commercial districts,...

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EVENT: Symposium: International Perspectives on the Future of Architecture and Urbanism in the Post-COVID Age. Online, 29-30 January 2021 (11am-2pm US Eastern Time) Organizers: Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq, Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Long before the appearance of COVID-19, the urban fabric of cities across the world had been shaped...

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EVENT: Seminar: Where are the Archives of Global History? Online, 18 January 2021 In this opening roundtable, four senior scholars reflect on the central themes that will run through The archives of Global History in a time of international immobility Seminar series. Each with a different relationship to Global History as...

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Event: Symposium: Investigation on Mannerism. Online, 15-16 December 2020 Università di Pisa, Polit(t)ico Research Lab The long wars for European domination, the Sack of Rome, violent epidemics, the dissolution of the unified Church, and the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium caelestium were the primary causes of the profound...

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Event: Conference: Future-related narratives for metropolitan regions. Online, 14 December 2020 Zukunftsnarrative für Metropolregionen What do desirable futures for metropolitan regions look like? What happend to former ideas towards the future? And what does the term ‘narrative’ actually mean? These questions will be in focus of the conference ‘Future-related...

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Event: Conference: The Coloniality of Infrastructure. Eurafrican Legacies. Online, 12-15 January 2020 Organized by Kenny Cupers, Urban Studies, Department of Social Science at the University of Basel, in collaboration with Sociology, the Centre for African Studies, and the Institute for European Global Studies, as well as the African Centre for...

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Event: Seminar: Archiving Digital Architectural Collections: Expanding Practices, Uses and Future Potential. Online event, 2 December 2020 An online event hosted by The Library of Congress, Washington DC, and the International Confederation of Architectural Museums (ICAM) Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 10:00 am-11.30am Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Facilitator: Aliza Leventhal,...

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Event: Online Symposium: Epidemic Urbanism: Reflections on History. 28-29 May 2020, 11am-1pm US Eastern Time Organizers: Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq Epidemic illnesses—not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena—are as old as cities themselves. The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has put into perspective the impact...

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Event, Symposium: Belgian and Dutch Embassy Buildings: Multi-Layered Projects of Representation. Brussels, 29 October 2020 The symposium sets out to approach Belgian and Dutch embassy buildings, especially purpose-built embassies, as multi-layered projects of representation. Besides meeting the bureaucratic and housing needs of diplomats, embassy buildings form national symbols on...

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