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This special lecture was held in person on 10/20/22 and was co-sponsored by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History as the keynote for the SACRPH 2022 Harlem Conference. Paul Farber is Co-founder and Director of Monument Lab. He is author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall and co-editor

This lecture by C.J. Alvarez, “The Natural and Built Environments of the U.S.-Mexico Border,” was held in person on 10/6/22 and was part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” C.J. Alvarez is the author of Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide,

Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, ASLA, is an Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Gabriel’s studio teaching is focused on multi-scalar and polyvalent research and service-learning projects for the Border Region between the United States

Ana María León‘s work traces how spatial practices and transnational networks of power and resistance shape the modernity and coloniality of the Americas. Her research and teaching foregrounds the agency of populations under struggle and the multiple forms of bias embedded in the built environment and its histories. León is author of Modernity for the