Buell Hall (Columbia University)
515 W. 116th St.
December 2024
Homage to Maryse Condé
With Richard Philcox, Kaiama L. Glover, Edwidge Danticat, Madeleine Dobie, Brent Edwards, Mame-Fatou Niang, Pierre Force, Ronnie Scharfman, and Gayatri Spivak Maryse Condé’s life and work were complex and layered; this two-day conference honors her legacies as an author, critic, scholar, and teacher by attending to some of the strands of thought opened up by […]
Abundance Talks: Flammable Building
Speakers: Daniel Immerwahr (Northwestern), Matthew C. Hunter *(McGill); A response by *Aleksandr Bierig (UToronto) During a period in the 18th and 19th Centuries when American architecture was essentially flammable, the economic imaginary of the United States was reinvented around the material value of timber and of insurance. In these talks, Daniel Immerwahr and Matthew C. Hunter connect architecture […]
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