Quadrant Program Calendar of Events, 2009-10
Monday, November 30
"Spatializing Histories and Nationhood: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie at the Foot of Temple Mount": A presentation by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Thursday, December 3
A workshop with Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She studies post-WWII architectural culture, particularly in Israel and the US, and focuses her research on cross-cultural contexts in light of recent thought in the fields of nationalism, Orientalism and post-colonialism. She currently works on "Israelizing Jerusalem: the Politics of Architecture and Beauty in a Contested City" and on I.M. Pei's East Building, the subject of an exhibition she co-curated at the National Gallery.
Organized by the by the Design, Architecture, and Culture Group of Quadrant.
Presentation 5:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
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Wednesday, September 30
"Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America": A talk by Lisa Uddin
How and why do zoos provoke shame? This talk considers the history of feeling bad at the zoo by focusing on the shape of postwar animal displays in U.S. urban regions. Beginning in the late 1950s, shame was a common zoo-going experience, echoed by zoo professionals, urban reformers and environmental advocates. Retracing efforts to improve the material and symbolic life of zoos in this period, Lisa Uddin examines the racial dynamics of the so-called Naked Cage and reflects on the affective legacies for "green" zoos today. Uddin received her Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester, and has held fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution and the Pembroke Center at Brown University.
Lisa Uddin is in residence at the IAS during the fall of 2009 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant.
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Wednesday, October 7
"Beyond Geopolitics: Fossil Fuels and the Social Reproduction of Capitalism": A talk by Matt Huber
Matt Huber argues that the geopolitical fixation on petroleum resources emerges out of historically specific relationships between fossil fuel energy, capitalism, and everyday social reproduction. Making explicit the centrality of fossil energy to social reproduction links the geopolitical geographies of coercion, violence and war to the nationalistic geographies of consent, spatialized freedom, and the "American way of life." Huber received his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in 2009.
Matt Huber is in residence at the IAS during the fall of 2009 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant.
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Tuesday, November 3
"Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self": A presentation by Stacy Alaimo
Thursday, November 5
"Deviant Agents: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity": A workshop with Stacy Alaimo
Stacy Alaimo is a professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published essays on feminist theory, eco-theory, green cultural studies, American literature, and film, as well as a book entitled Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000). Her interest in formulating new theories of materiality has also led her to co-edit a volume of feminist theory, Material Feminisms (2008), which brings together innovative theories of nature, human bodies, and science.
For the workshop, a reading and a number of images are available in advance; contact Anne Carter at cart0227@umn for password information.
Organized by the the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant.
Presentation, Tuesday, 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Workshop, Thursday, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Thursday, November 19
"Anaesthesia; or, The Chair as Image": A talk by John Harwood
Friday, November 20
"The Redesign of Design: Computer, Architect, Corporation": A workshop with John Harwood
John Harwood is a professor of Art History at Oberlin college, where he specializes in modern and contemporary architectural history. Harwood's research centers on the relationships between science, technology, corporate organization and their architectural articulation. He is co-author, with Janet Parks, of The Troubled Search: The Work of Max Abramovitz (2004). He is currently completing a book - The Redesign of Design: Computer, Architect, Corporation - on the spatial and temporal aspects of computing technology, ergonomics, and corporate architecture. For the workshop, a reading and two sets of images (one, two) are available in advance; contact Anne Carter at cart0227@umn for password information.
Organized by the Design, Architecture, and Culture Group of Quadrant.
Presentation 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
Quadrant Events 2008-09
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