Settlement
Symposium, The Society of Fellows / Heyman Center for the Humanities
Time: 9:00 am-6:30pm
Location: 2nd floor Common Room
Directions
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.
Presentations
Nasser Abourahme, Bowdoin College
Nitin Bathla, University of Zurich
Jill Casid, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hollyamber Kennedy, Northwestern University
Rafico Ruiz, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, University of California-San Diego
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Barnard College, Columbia University
Vazira Zamindar, Brown University
Responses
Esra Akcan, Cornell University
Brian Larkin, Barnard College, Columbia University
Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard College, Columbia University
Keynote
Ananya Roy, University of California Los Angeles
