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:583@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T193000 DTSTAMP:20230209T190044Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2023-sciame-le cture-series-abdoumaliq-simone/ SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: AbdouMaliq Simone DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held in person and is part of the Spring 2 023 Sciame Lecture Series\, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture a nd Landscape in Translation."\n\n \;\n\nAbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Pr ofessorial Fellow at the Urban Institute\, University of Sheffield\, Visit ing Professor of Urban Studies at the African Centre for Cities\, Universi ty of Cape Town\, and co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab\, Polytec hnic University of Turin. Key publications include\, For the City Yet to C ome: Urban Change in Four African Cities\, Duke University Press\, 2004\, and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads: Routledg e\, 2009\, Jakarta: Drawing the City Near: University of Minnesota Press\, 2014\, New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times\, Polity (with Edgar Pieterse\, Polity 2017)\,  Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance for an Urban South (Polity 2018)\, and The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyon d Capture (Duke University Press 2022).\n\n"The Surrounds: The Afterlives of Blackness in a Pacific City": Many interventions are undertaken in the name of sustaining human life. But it is often unclear exactly what this l ife is that is to be sustained. The ambiguity has been used to erase lives that get in the way of imaginaries and practices of extraction or confine them within the materialization of unjust interpretations. The deployment of the “human” signals an arrival in terms of equilibrating the exige ncies of urban heterogeneities—often in ways that undermine the capacity of the “poor” and working classes to invent futures from the trajecto ries of their own struggles. Struggles that are not necessarily framed in the conventional vernaculars of justice.  Detailing dimensions of Indones ian colonial rule in Jayapura\, West Papua\, the article explores the noti ons of surrounds as a terrain of spectral war\, or at least contestation\, which extends the terms of Black politics to processes that are both an i ntegral “part of” discernible struggles over rights\, autonomy and “ breadth” and “apart” from the terms of antagonism–a more ephemeral terrain of complicities\, dissimulations\, and forces\, which while diffi cult to grasp or consciously mobilize continue to unsettle the predominant arrangements\, subjecting them to spaces of incessant speculation and que stioning. Blackness as way of troubling\, constantly reworking the human/( non)human divide.\n\nSuggested Reading: Introduction\, The Surrounds: Urba n Life Within and Beyond Capture. Duke: 2022\n\n \;\n\n"Across the Pac ific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation" begins with what the Pacific Ocean is: a fluid place\, a sea where ideas\, people\, and artifac ts move. It questions the framing of this great body of water as a barrier or a void\, concepts that are rooted in colonialism and imperialism. Inst ead\, it posits the Pacific as an active stage for exchanging and translat ing ideas\, concepts\, materials\, and technologies about constructed envi ronments. The designers\, scholars\, practitioners\, and activists feature d in this series are situated along the Pacific Rim. They examine areas\, products\, and product histories along the Pacific Rim. They call on this positionality to offer exceptional\, transnational\, boundary-breaking\, h ybrid practices and research that contribute to a shared environment and a collective future.\n\n \;\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the publ ic\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciam e Auditorium with a remote option available.\n\nIf you are interested in a ttending via Zoom\, please register here.\n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.ed u/return-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\n \ ;\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Constructi on. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR