lectures

Writer, researcher, academic, professor (and Facebook Salon Host extraordinaire) Laleh Khalili has been posting her thoughts and notes as she reads through a wealth of material related to ships, shipping, ports, harbors, and, in this piece, cargo, on her site The Gamming. I encourage everyone to check it out - it is a treasure trove for Khalili's insights as well as the nuggets she fishes from her readings (today is a day for gleeful metaphor-mixing, it seems). 

Evan Fleischer, writer-at-large, reads Part I. Read it for yourself/follow the trail of links here: http://thegamming.org/2014/07/13/the-cargo-cults-of-usa-part-i/

Image is from Alexandria, as ever, and my good friend the photographer Amy Elshaarawy. 

Cargo Cults Of USA (1)- Laleh Khalili [The Gamming]: Read by Evan Fleischer

Washington DC is a story of two cities. You have the affluent (and increasingly gentrified) west. And on the east side of the river Anacostia you have the districts most Washingtonians would rather avoid: poor, high crime rates and ugly. The ambitious 11th Street Brigde Project attempts breathe new life into this neighbourheid and bridge the divide between east and west.

Washington DC: a story of two cities

Dominic Severs examines forms of housing that challenge British norms of spatial understanding and behaviour.

Fear of Non - Street Housing.WMA

Pre and Post-war development in Northern Italy

Judy Loach Italian Rationalists.WMA

Conversation recorded with Laleh Khalili in London on May 18, 2015
http://the-archipelago.net/2015/05/18/laleh-khalili-the-geopolitics-of-maritime-transportation-in-the-middle-east/

LALEH KHALILI /// The Geopolitics of Maritime Transportation in the Middle East

Emancipation without agenda? – The recovery of non-Western subjecthood and its implications for the study of world politics

Speakers:
Chair: 
Dr Jonathan Fisher, International Development Department (IDD), in place of Dr Robbie Shilliam, Queen Mary University London 
 
Panellists: 
Dr Marco Vieira, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLSIS), University of Birmingham 
 
Dr Olivia Rutazibwa, School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth 
 
Dr Vidya Kumar, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham 
 
Prof Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Chair in International Politics, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University

This discussion assembled scholars from different fields and of diverse regional expertise to present the different forms of non-Western subjecthood that they identify or envisage in order to discuss the possibility and constellations of non-Western subjecthood and corresponding forms of agency. The event thus made an attempt to link recent theoretical debates about a ‘post-Western’ IR with insights from other disciplines to show how post-colonial agency operates both within the framework of the international state system, but also appears in more diffuse and less obvious ways that serve to challenge and re-shape this system.

Recorded: Thursday 14th May 2015 (16:30-18:00)

To request a transcript please contact: Coss-communications@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Emancipation without agenda?

Chair: Robbie Shilliam (Queen Mary, University of London)

Michael Weatherburn (Imperial), 'Writing the managerial revolution back in: the rise of big management in Britain, 1916-2015'

Ben Taylor (King's College London), 'TechnoCops and Radical Scientists: Towards a Radical History of a British Surveillance State?'

Jacob Smith (Queen Mary), 'In search of “complete victory”: Victorian Imperial case studies for the modern “War on Terror”'

The State And Authority

LE BAL LAB - Talk by Eyal Weizman and Grégoire Chamayou / Drone Attacks - 3/3 - Q&A

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

How do complex logistical processes hold our globalized world together? Anthropologist Laleh Khalili analyzes the correlations between the political economy of container ships and the logistics of migration.
With commentaries by Sina Arnold, Manuela Bojadžijev, Serhat Karakayali, Michael Hardt, Brett Neilson, Birgit zur Nieden, Sandro Mezzadra and Ned Rossiter

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In cooperation with the KOSMOS Summer University “Investigating Logistics” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

http://hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_119491.php

Confronting Logistics: Ports, Migration, Encounters | Laleh Khalili

Lara Pawson on Angola's Forgotten Massacre

Robbie Shilliam facilitates a conversation between Prof. Matthew Watson (Warwick), speaking on 'Robinson Crusoe and the Raced Market Frame of Orthodox Economics Textbooks', and Prof. John Holmwood (Nottingham), speaking on 'Provincialising Polanyi; rethinking labour and political economy'.


RacedMarketsConversation.MP3

When a pineapple soda can becomes a ‘bomb’ and takes down a Russian airliner, the everyday objects around us provoke a sense of horror. International Relations is in need of a quantum turn so that we can understand the very real consequences of events and things whose capacities defy easy or rational explanation.

SPEAKER: Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii Center for Futures Studies

The 2016 Q Lecture was presented by the Centre for International Security Studies with the support of the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/q_lecture_2016.shtml

The 2016 Q Lecture: Terrorism in an Age of Quantum Insecurity

Part of our Forgotten Masters series, and in association with Docomomo, this talk addresses the life of architect Jean Tschumi. Together with academic and writer Jacques Gubler, architect Bernard Tschumi discusses the work of his father, the first president of the UIA and the founding head of Switzerland’s French-speaking School of Architecture at Lausanne.

Image caption: Aula des Cèdres, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1962 by Jean Tschumi Photo © Jean Tschumi Archives

Jean Tschumi: forgotten master of architecture

Conversation recorded with Mabel O. Wilson in New York on May 1, 2016
http://the-archipelago.net/2016/05/26/mabel-o-wilson-design-racism-2-can-the-masters-tools-dismantle-the-masters-house/


MABEL O. WILSON /// Design & Racism 2: "Can the Master's Tools Dismantle the Master's House?"

Tomas Koolhaas is a filmmaker in Los Angeles, whose most recent project, a documentary about his father Rem, recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival. REM follows its titular architect around the world, visiting his projects and investigating their human impact. Conscious of his special perspective on the film's subject, Tomas didn't want REM to be a teary biopic or heady architectural salvo, but something more impressionistic and accessible, appealing to emotions over intellectualism. We speak about managing family relationships in creative work, his influences as a filmmaker, and film's role in architectural media at large.

One-to-One #39 with Tomas Koolhaas, filmmaker behind REM

Conversation recorded with recorded with Eyal Weizman in London on February 22, 2016
https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-designed-destructions-gaza

EYAL WEIZMAN /// Forensic Investigations of Designed Destructions in Gaza

Conversation recorded with Crystal Marie Fleming in New York on April 20, 2017.
https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/crystal-fleming-blackness-memorialization-slavery-racial-denials-france

CRYSTAL MARIE FLEMING /// Blackness, Memorialization of Slavery, and Racial Denials in France

Conversation recorded with Samia Henni in Zurich on May 24, 2017.https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/samia-henni-french-counter-revolutionary-architecture-1950s-algeria

SAMIA HENNI /// The French Counter-Revolutionary Architecture in 1950s Algeria

ArchDaily's Editor-at-Large James Taylor-Foster speaks with Tomas Koolhaas prior to his screening of the film REM at Columbia GSAPP on September 7, 2017. Tomas Koolhaas, the LA-based son of Rem Koolhaas, speaks about the process of conceiving, producing, and directing the film over the course of four years.

GSAPP Conversations #25: Tomas Koolhaas with James Taylor-Foster 🎙

Named by some as one of the greatest omissions of design history, Aino Marsio-Aalto belongs to a line of women architects whose work has become overshadowed by that of their better-known male partners. Our panel discuss her often overlooked contribution to Nordic Modernist architecture.

On the panel:
Summer Islam – architect working for 6a architects; graduated from the Architectural Association; teaches a design studio for the MA in Architecture at the London Metropolitan University
Aino Niskanen – Professor of History of Architecture, Aalto University, Finland
Judi Loach – architectural and cultural historian, Professor in Early Modern and Modern European Cultural History, Cardiff University; Chair of Docomomo UK

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