A talk by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
on her new book,
Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
The New Books Series of the Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities will feature Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. The book analyzes the history, visual rhetoric, and spatial politics of the Dadaab refugee camps as an epistemological vantage point in the African and Islamic worlds. The work moves beyond ahistorical representations of camps and their inhabitants, finding long migratory and colonial traditions in the architecture, spatial practices, material culture, and iconography of refugees and humanitarians.
Professor Iyer Siddiqi will be joined by panelists Hiba Bou Akar (Urban Planning program,GSAPP), Brian Larkin (Anthropology and Barnard College), Anupama Rao (MESAAS and History, Barnard College; Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society), and Miriam Ticktin (CUNY Graduate Center).
In person at the Heyman Center and online via Zoom.
Registration required at https://sofheyman.org/events/celebrating-recent-work-by-anooradha-iyer-siddiqi
Location: Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities
Directions: https://sofheyman.org/connect/visit
