BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:449@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T120000 DTSTAMP:20210407T134713Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2021-sciame-le cture-series-maram-masarwi-ahlam-shibli-sean-anderson-2/ SUMMARY:Spring 2021 Sciame Lecture Series: Maram Masarwi\, Ahlam Shibli\, S ean Anderson DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series\, titled And/ Or. “Geographies of Absence and Loss” will feature Maram Masarwi and Ahlam Shibli\, hosted by Sean Anderson\, for a discussion of art and archi tecture.\n\nFree and open to the public - Please join this Zoom event here .\n\nIn this online series\, curators Viren Brahmbhatt\, Ali C. Höcek\, and Martin Stigsgaard argue that the traditional format of a single lec turer speaking to an audience sets up a binary opposite all of its own -- speaker/listener\, which simply reinforces the power structure between tho se who "possess" knowledge and those who "consume" it. In its place\, the &\;/Or Online Dialogues will present two speakers in conversation with each other\, moderated by a third. The series features prominent artists\, activists\, and architects from across the globe who will discuss their w ork and the unique political and environmental challenges they confront.\n \nMaram Masarwi is currently a lecturer and researcher at Tel Aviv Univers ity and the head of the Education Department at Al Qasemi College of Educa tion.  Masarwi holds a PhD from the Department of Social Work at Hebrew U niversity. Her dissertation addressed “gender differences in bereavement and trauma among Palestinian parents who lost their children in the Al-Aq sa Intifada.”  Masarwi was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Europe in the M iddle East-The Middle East in Europe (EUME)\, Forum of Transregional Studi es at the Free University of Berlin. Her areas of research have included P alestinian archives\, memory and commemoration in Palestinian society\, lo ss and bereavement in Palestinian society\, and gender and nationalism in the Middle East. Among her resent publications are The Bereavement of Mart yred Palestinian Children: Gendered\, Religious and National Perspectives (2019) and “Dialectic of the National Identities in Palestinian Society and Israeli Society: Nationalism and Binationalism\,” in The Arab and Je wish Questions\, Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (2020). \n\nAhlam Shibli was born in 1970\, in Palestine. Through a documentary ae sthetic\, her photographic work addresses the contradictory implications o f the notion of home\; it deals with its loss of and the fight against tha t loss\, as well as with the restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity politics.\n\nShibli's work has been presented in solo and group exhibitio ns internationally. Her work includes the photographic series Staring (201 6–2017)\, photographed in both al-Khalil/Hebron (Palestine) and Kassel ( Germany). Her series Heimat (2016–2017) refers to expellees and refugees of German descent and the so-called guest workers\, or Gastarbeiter\, fr om the Mediterranean region\, both of whom migrated to Kassel and the surr ounding area as a result of the Second World War. Occupation (2016–2017) \, another series of photographs\, is based on the destruction of Palestin ian livelihoods in al-Khalil/Hebron and the occupied territories by the Is raeli colonial regime and the actions of Zionist settlers. Ramallah Archiv e (2014) points to ways of reorganizing collective and individual existenc e encountered in files and photographic negatives found in the Ramallah Mu nicipality Archive. Death (2011–2012) shows the efforts of Palestinian s ociety to preserve the presence of those who have lost their lives fightin g against the Israeli occupation. Eastern LGBT (2004/2006) illustrates the bodies of lesbian\, gay\, bisexual and transgender people from Oriental s ocieties as a contested primary home. These and other of Shibli’s works have been extensively exhibited and published\, including the monographs\, Ahlam Shibli (2020) and Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home (2013).\n\nSean Anders on is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at T he Museum of Modern Art. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome\, he has practiced as an architect and taught in Afghanistan\, Australia\, India\, Italy\, Morocco\, Sri Lanka and the U.A.E. His second book\, In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea ( 2015)\, was nominated for an AIFC Book Prize in Non-Fiction. In 2020\, he co-curated the exhibition On Muzharul Islam: Surfacing Intention at the Dhaka Art Summit. At MoMA\, he has organized the exhibitions Insecurities : Tracing Displacement and Shelter (2016-17)\, Thinking Machines: Art an d Design in the Computer Age\, 1959-89 (2017-2018)\, as well as collabora tive collection displays including Surrounds (2019)\, Inner and Outer Sp ace (2019-2020)\, and Building Citizens (Present). Sean manages the You ng Architects Program (YAP) and the Issues in Contemporary Architecture se ries. His next exhibition\, co-organized with Mabel O. Wilson\, Reconstr uctions: Architecture and Blackness in America\, opens on February 20\, 2 021. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR