This colloquium will address the complex relations between urban artifacts and urban life

Architects, planners, and urban designers describe and give shape to the city, while novelists, humanists, and other scholars examine its operations and performances. What are the reciprocities between these two activities? How does the physical character of an urban environment influence or enable the events that take place within a specific setting?

PROGRAM
Note: All panel discussions will take place in the Stubbins room; the keynote presentation will take place in Piper Auditorium.

Friday, March 4 3:00 PM EUROPE
Paris / Antoine Picon
Baku / Eve Blau
Moderated by Svetlana Boym

4:30 PM ASIA
Jakarta / AbdouMaliq Simone
Beirut / Hashim Sarkis
Moderated by P. Scott Cohen

6:30 PM KEYNOTE LECTURE - Piper Auditorium
Arjun Appadurai, "Architecture and Amnesia"
*The keynote presentation is co-sponsored by the GSD and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.

Saturday, March 5 9:00 AM LATIN AMERICA
Buenos Aires / Jorge Silvetti
Quito / Felipe Correa
Moderated by Diana Sorensen

10:30 AM AFRICA
Cairo / Nasser Rabbat
Johannesburg / Lindsay Bremner
Moderated by Rafi Segal

1:30 PM NORTH AMERICA
Detroit / Jana Cephas
Toronto / Charles Waldheim
Moderated by Lizabeth Cohen

3:00 PM MUMBAI
Rahul Mehrotra, Suketu Mehta, Gyan Prakash, Liza Weinstein, with Arjun Appadurai
Moderated by Homi K. Bhabha

Open to the public

For more information, contact:
Brooke King (events@gsd.harvard.edu)

This event is free and open to the public. All panels will be held in Room 112 (Stubbins), which has limited seating. The keynote lecture will be held in Piper Auditorium.