Conditions of Life, Calculated
 

Over decades of work linking architecture and human rights, Eyal Weizman has led countless investigations of the links between violence, conflict, and the environment, producing evidence of state crimes and human rights violations, including work since 2023 for the International Court of Justice genocide case against Israel. In his new book Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, he maps Gaza’s terrain, from tunnels to militarized landscapes, documenting campaigns of displacement and destruction. Placing them in historical context from the Nakba to today, he argues that spatial and architectural analysis reveals patterns of control and that post–7 October actions escalated to what he defines as genocide (which Article II(3) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide says can be committed by “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”)

Co-sponsors: The Center for Curatorial Studies, Center for Experimental Humanities, and the Anthropology, Architecture, Data Analytics, Historical Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Politics Programs.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

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