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:424@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T190000 DTSTAMP:20211213T155631Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2021-sciame-le cture-series-maram-masarwi-ahlam-shibli-sean-anderson/ 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 register for this Zoom ev ent here.\n\nIn this online series\, curators Viren Brahmbhatt\, Ali C. Höcek\, and Martin Stigsgaard argue that the traditional format of a s ingle lecturer speaking to an audience sets up a binary opposite all of it s own -- speaker/listener\, which simply reinforces the power structure be tween those who "possess" knowledge and those who "consume" it. In its pla ce\, the &\;/Or Online Dialogues will present two speakers in conversat ion with each other\, moderated by a third. The series features prominent artists\, activists\, and architects from across the globe who will discus s their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they co nfront.\n\nMaram Masarwi is currently a lecturer and researcher at Tel Avi v University and the head of the Education Department at Al Qasemi College of Education.  Masarwi holds a PhD from the Department of Social Work at Hebrew University. Her dissertation addressed “gender differences in be reavement and trauma among Palestinian parents who lost their children in the Al-Aqsa Intifada.”  Masarwi was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe (EUME)\, Forum of Transregio nal Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Her areas of research have i ncluded Palestinian archives\, memory and commemoration in Palestinian soc iety\, loss and bereavement in Palestinian society\, and gender and nation alism in the Middle East. Among her resent publications are The Bereavemen t of Martyred Palestinian Children: Gendered\, Religious and National Pers pectives (2019) and “Dialectic of the National Identities in Palestinian Society and Israeli Society: Nationalism and Binationalism\,” in The Ar ab and Jewish Questions\, Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyon d (2020).\n\nAhlam Shibli was born in 1970\, in Palestine. Through a docum entary aesthetic\, her photographic work addresses the contradictory impli cations of the notion of home\; it deals with its loss of and the fight ag ainst that loss\, as well as with the restrictions and limitations that th e idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity politics.\n\nShibli's work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Her work includes the photographic series Sta ring (2016–2017)\, 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 Gastarbei ter\, from the Mediterranean region\, both of whom migrated to Kassel and the surrounding area as a result of the Second World War. Occupation (201 6–2017)\, another series of photographs\, is based on the destruction of Palestinian livelihoods in al-Khalil/Hebron and the occupied territories by the Israeli colonial regime and the actions of Zionist settlers. Ramall ah Archive (2014) points to ways of reorganizing collective and individual existence encountered in files and photographic negatives found in the Ra mallah Municipality Archive. Death (2011–2012) shows the efforts of Pale stinian society to preserve the presence of those who have lost their live s fighting against the Israeli occupation. Eastern LGBT (2004/2006) illust rates the bodies of lesbian\, gay\, bisexual and transgender people from O riental societies as a contested primary home. These and other of Shibli ’s works have been extensively exhibited and published\, including the m onographs\, Ahlam Shibli (2020) and Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home (2013).\n\n Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. A Fellow of the American Academy in Ro me\, he has practiced as an architect and taught in Afghanistan\, Australi a\, India\, Italy\, Morocco\, Sri Lanka and the U.A.E. His second book\,  In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonia l Eritrea (2015)\, was nominated for an AIFC Book Prize in Non-Fiction. In 2020\, he co-curated the exhibition On Muzharul Islam: Surfacing Intenti on at the Dhaka Art Summit. At MoMA\, he has organized the exhibitions I nsecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter (2016-17)\, Thinking Machi nes: Art and Design in the Computer Age\, 1959-89 (2017-2018)\, as well a s collaborative collection displays including Surrounds (2019)\, Inner a nd Outer Space (2019-2020)\, and Building Citizens (Present). Sean mana ges the Young Architects Program (YAP) and the Issues in Contemporary Arch itecture series. His next exhibition\, co-organized with Mabel O. Wilson\ , Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America\, opens on Febr uary 20\, 2021. 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