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Mellon Forum: Architecture of Migration

Betts Auditorium

The negotiation between an imposing humanitarian infrastructure and an insurgent refugee architecture in the Dadaab camp complex in the Kenya-Somalia borderland offers possibilities to re-think and re-narrate forms of coloniality that have extended well into postcolonial time and space.

Radical Women, an Instersectional Without Separability Perspective

216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, Princeton

Radical women. Latin American Art, 1960-1985, the exhibition is co-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and took place between 2017-2018 at the Hammer Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, subverting the dominant patriarchal perspective on the art of this period from a feminine and feminist perspective

The Psychic of Necropower in “The Walking Dead” and “Zone One”

103 Chancellor Green

Eva Cherniavsky is Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Washington. Her current research centers on transformations in citizenship — as a legal and juridical formation; as a normative category of political identity and a variegated field of cultural and political disidentification — in the context of wider transformations, […]

The Building Industry of Imperial Rome

106 McCormick NJ

For at least 400 years, from the mid second century BCE to the end of the Severan period, the building industry was one of the most important economic activities in the city of Rome. This lecture examines the manpower, logistics and economics of construction in the city of Rome and at its nearby port city […]

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