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SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Borderwall as Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Ronald Rael’s talk will reexamine what the 650 miles of physical barrier dividing the US and Mexico is and could be\, suggesting that the wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling. Rael will illuminate the transformative effects of the wall on people\, animals\, and the natural and built landscape through the story of people on both sides of the border who transform and creatively challenge the wall’s existence. He will also discuss his architectural studio’s counterproposals that reimagine\, hyperbolize\, or question the wall and its construction\, cost\, performance\, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall\, which is to keep people out and away\, the wall is instead an attractor\, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. \nRonald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture and Associate Professor in Architecture\, the College of Environmental Design\, and the Department of Art Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is also a partner in the award-winning architectural firm Rael San Fratello and CEO of Emerging Objects\, a 3D Printing MAKE-tank. He is the author of Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (2017)\, Earth Architecture (2008)\, and Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment.\nImage by Brittany Hosea-Small.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/crossings-boundaries-talk-borderwall-architecture/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crossings + Boundaries,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries TALKS: Sinan Antoon and Sara Pursley
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The Times of Revolution in Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom \nThe Iraqi artist Jawad Salim’s famous Monument to Freedom\, which still stands in Baghdad’s Liberation Square\, is usually read as a linear historical narrative of the Iraqi nationalist movement and the 1958 revolution it produced. Pursley’s talk explores heterogeneous conceptions of time in the work\, including depictions of cyclical forms of temporality that reference Khaldunian historical time\, Shi`i messianic time\, and the time of mourning. She suggests that these forms of time do not work against promises of radical change in the monument\, but\, on the contrary\, give such promises more imaginative purchase than they typically achieve in linear modernization narratives\, with their tendency to open onto a singular and static future. \nSara Pursley is Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. \nTalk: Pre-occupation\, Epistemic Violence\, and Collateral Damage in Iraq \nThe invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 added new layers to an already complex and crowded history of violence with multiple villains and multitudes of victims. Much of the discourse on Iraqi violence tended\, by and large\, to reduce and essentialize it by attributing it either to the supposed resilience of trans-historical\, ethno-sectarian conflicts and identities\, which are taken to be side-effects of an inherently violent and monolithic Islam\, or to the Iraq-as-a-failed-state model\, cobbled together by British colonialism in 1917. Antoon’s talk will reflect on these themes and take stock of the aftermath of war fifteen years later\, in which Iraqis are still paying the heavy price and confronting the destructive effects of an imperial blunder. \nSinan Antoon is an award-winning author and Associate Professor at the Gallatin School at New York University. \nFollowed by a reception. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries Series and by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-sinan-antoon-and-sara-pursley/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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