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:622@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T190000 DTSTAMP:20230825T202704Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/fall-2023-sciame-lecture-series-sheil a-crane/ SUMMARY:Fall 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Sheila Crane DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be in person and is part of the Fall 2023 Sci ame Lecture Series\, titled "Crosscurrents: Architecture\, Landscape\, and Spatial Practices in Southwest Asia and North Africa."\n\nSheila Crane is Associate Professor and Chair of the Architectural History Department at the University of Virginia. Her book\, Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseill e and Modern Architecture (University of Minnesota Press\, 2011)\, was re cognized by the 2013 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architect ural Historians. She has published widely on colonial infrastructures\, de colonial histories\, ephemeral urbanisms\, cities in conflict\, and queer landscapes. Recent essays have appeared in Architectural Histories\, Per spective\, City and Society\, Space and Culture\, and The Journal of Arc hitecture. She is currently completing a book manuscript\, tentatively ent itled\, Bidonville: The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown.\n\n"Living Waste: The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown": Like many places\, Moroc co has been indelibly reshaped by infrastructures of extraction\, includin g phosphates mining\, which began in the 1920s under the French protectora te and continues to shape its built landscapes and political futures. Whil e the rapid transformation of Casablanca in the 1920s and 1930s has long b een traced through its celebrated modern buildings\, the city was profound ly shaped by mineral mining\, as evidenced not only in its proliferating f actories\, but also its urban landscapes described as bidonvilles (or sh antytowns) by settler-outsiders and as karians (or quarries) by their re sidents. Building on Max Liboiron’s call to understand the integral rela tionship between colonialism and pollution\, as well as Michelle Murphy’ s efforts to imagine decolonial chemical relations\, this lecture traces t he bidonville/karian’s material histories through the intersecting traj ectories of metal containers (bidon)\, stone quarries (karian)\, and dwarf palm (dûm). The karian/bidonville was linked at once to internal human and more-than-human migrations\, as well as far-flung global networks\, i ncluding automobile factories in Germany. The afterlives of these early la ndscapes of extraction have renewed significance in our current era\, not least because Morocco controls over 70 percent of the planetary reserves o f phosphates\, a mineral critical to global food production.\n\nSuggested Reading: Crane\, S.\, 2019. Algerian Socialism and the Architecture of Au togestion. Architectural Histories\, 7(1)\, p.20.\n\n"Crosscurrents: Arch itecture\, Landscape\, and Spatial Practices in Southwest Asia and North A frica" probes the radical reimagining of the region compelled by the expre ssion Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). In recent years\, the acron ym SWANA has gained currency among architects\, landscape architects\, urb anists\, and historians who conceptualize the territories of the Middle Ea st and North Africa through geography and place rather than colonial frame works. The term “Middle East” was a British invention\, a tool used to advance colonialism in a region where so many national borders resulted f rom imperialist interventions. In the Fall 2023 Sciame Lecture Series\, gr oundbreaking designers\, scholars\, practitioners\, and activists chart mu ltiple—and sometimes competing—currents in the architecture of the reg ion and its diasporas\, while displacing essentializing colonial narrative s. To do so\, speakers from across the area shed light on global\, transna tional\, and diasporic human stories about design\, space\, landscape\, an d architecture in SWANA\, and advance new ideas about territory\, building s\, places\, histories\, and belonging.\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architect ure Sciame Auditorium.\n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\nThis lecture series is mad e possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Fr ank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction. 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