Middle Eastern Studies Program, Literature Program, Human Rights Project, French Studies Program, Environmental and Urban Studies Program, and Art History and Visual Culture Program Present
Weaponized Architecture from Palestine
to the Paris Suburbs
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Leopold Lambert, editor of The Funambulist magazine and author of the books Topie Impitoyable and Bulldozer Politcs.
Architecture is a political weapon. Its elemental form, the wall, organizes (sometimes violently) bodies in space both at the domestic and geographical levels. This lecture will introduce instances of such violence through the two examples of Palestine and the French banlieues (suburbs). The case of Palestine will be presented in terms of the role of architecture in the current situation and with reference to a post-apartheid vision for the future. The French banlieues are the dwelling places of a post-colonial population who must cope with both segregative urbanism and an antagonistic relationship with the police, which has been exacerbated during the present state of emergency in France. In both cases, a political and architectural interpretation of the situation will be presented through cartography and photography.
Free & open to the public
Free & open to the public
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema