Settlement Symposium

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How are settlement and migration enacted in relation to one another? What fictions of land and architecture live inside ‘settled’ histories of the colonized world? Through towns and camps, enclaves and ghettos, partitions and borderlands, we study the conversion of oceans, deserts, and forests into architectures, infrastructures, and territories. We ask how the homes of people and animals, now borderlands, frontiers, and wastelands, have been remembered and narrated. Within these forms and narratives live concept histories of settlement.

Friday, March 28, 2025

10:00 Introduction
10:30 Session 1
11:30 Session 2
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Session 3
3:30 Group Discussion
5:00 Keynote

Presentations:

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Barnard College, Columbia University

Hollyamber Kennedy, Northwestern University

Jill Casid, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, University of California-San Diego

Nasser Abourahme, Bowdoin College

Nitin Bathla, University of Zurich

Rafico Ruiz, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Vazira Zamindar, Brown University

Responses:

Brian Larkin, Barnard College, Columbia University

Esra Akcan, Cornell University

Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard College, Columbia University

Keynote:

Ananya Roy, University of California Los Angeles

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