BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:544@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T193000 DTSTAMP:20240523T154146Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/fall-2022-sciame-lecture-series-ana-m aria-leon/ SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series: Ana María León DESCRIPTION:This lecture was held in-person and was part of the Fall 2022 S ciame Lecture Series\, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migratio n in the Americas."\n\n \;\n\nAna María León's work traces how spati al practices and transnational networks of power and resistance shape the modernity and coloniality of the Americas. Her research and teaching foreg rounds 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 Masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires (Univ ersity of Texas Press\, 2021) and A Ruin in Reverse / Bones of the Nation (ARQ\, 2021) and teaches at the Harvard GSD\, where she is associate profe ssor.\n\n"The Settler Colonial Exhibitionary Complex: Argentina\, 1888": T hinking about the project of an Indigenous modernity\, Aymara Bolivian sch olar Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui has described how this project emerges from a non-linear understanding of history\, in which the past-future is contai ned in the present. In this talk\, León reflects on the historiographic p ossibilities of this approach through her research on the Museum of La Pla ta. This building can be understood as an apparatus that allows us to trac e different networks of exchange operating at vast distances in time and p lace: from the British Empire to the Argentinian pampas\, from Pleistocene bones to the nineteenth-century wars against the peoples of the Americas -- and  finally\, from an imaginary remote past to a settler colonial pre sent. Standing at the crux of these networks\, the museum was instrumental in dissociating Indigenous populations from their contemporary context an d presenting them instead as subjects belonging to a distant past. In doin g so\, the institution was and remains complicit with processes of genocid e and empire expansion\, linking these networks of resource extraction and industrialization to the decimation of one of the oldest populations of t he American continent.\n\nDean Marta Gutman and Visiting Scholar William B rinkman-Clark will introduce the speaker.\n\nSuggested Reading: Bones of t he Nation\n\n \;\n\n"Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration" in the Americas presents meditations on the topic of migration from nontradi tional\, creative\, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The distinguished speakers -- architects\, landscape architects\, architecture historians\, social historians\, a philosopher\, an anthropologist\, and an attorney -- question conventions\, especially the conceptualization of migration as l inear. They frame migration as a multivalent process\, considering the liv ed realities and material conditions of migration\, historically and in th e present. Migration in the Americas is more than just the movement and re settlement of bodies\, numbers that cross lines and appear/disappear in di fferent places. Migration is not merely (dis)placement\, it is also a meta morphosis. Migrants are human beings who are transformed to the core by th eir movement\, and they transform not only their places of departure and a rrival\, but the entire space that is filled with their journeys.\n\n  \;\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium with remote opt ion available.\n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\n \;\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Archived Video,Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR