FRIDAY, March 3
9:30 am COFFEE
10:00 am
OPENING REMARKS
Susan Yelavich, Associate Professor/Director, Design Studies MA, Parsons: Design as Damage, Erasure, Repair, and (or) Renewal
Małgorzata Bakalarz-Duverger, PhD candidate, Sociology, NSSR: Spaces of Collective Memory, (Mis)Remembered Places.
10:30 am — 12:30 pm
PANEL 1: APPROPRIATIONS OF SPACES WOUNDED BY HISTORY
Moderator:
Caroline Dionne, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons School of Design
Panelists:
Susana Draper, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University; Forms of Intervention by Collectives of Women Prisoners in Latin America Today.
Elżbieta Janicka, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Science; False Symmetry. About Two Memorials in the Space of the Former Warsaw Ghetto.
Yemima Cohen-Aharoni, post-PhD Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The Temple of Jerusalem: The Memory of the Future and the Politics of the Present.
Desirée Valaderes, PhD Student, Architectural History, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley; The Pilgrimage: Interethnic Relations and Cross-Race Solidarity at Former Sites of Japanese American Confinement.
12:30 — 1:30 pm LUNCH BREAK
1:45 — 2:30 pm
CONVERSATION 1: STATES OF EXCEPTION AS MOMENTS OF POSSIBILITY FOR DESIGN
Virginia Tassinari, Assistant Professor and Researcher, LUCA School of the Arts, Genk, Belgium; States of Exception as Moments of Possibility for Design.
Clive Dilnot, Professor of Design Studies, School of Art and Design Studies, Parsons School of Design;
2:40 — 4:10 pm
PANEL 2: THE POLITICS OF COMMEMORATION
Moderator:
Liz Ševčenko, Director of the Humanities Action Lab, New School
Panelists:
Yukiko Koga, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY; Inheritance and Betrayal: Historical Preservation and Colonial Nostalgia in Harbin, China.
Alexandra Delano Alonso, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts; and Benjamin Nienass, California State University, San Marcos; Reclaiming Memory and Mourning: Grievability and Resistance in Mexico.
4:20 — 5:50 pm
PANEL 3: THEORIZING THE PALIMPSESTS OF WOUNDED PLACES
Moderator:
Benoît Challand, Associate Professor, Sociology, NSSR
Panelists:
Jonathan Bach, Associate Professor/Chair, Global Studies Program at the New School; In Place of… The Absent Presence of Berlin’s Palaces.
Adam Lipszyc, Associate Professor, Polish Academy of Science; The Vortex of Pain: Theorists, Writers and Artists Visiting a Wounded Square in Warsaw
6:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Lina Sergie Attar, co-founder and CEO of Karam Foundation; An Unsettled Syria: Recollecting and Reimagining Home.
SATURDAY, March 4
9:30 am BREAKFAST
10:00 am
REMARKS ABOUT THE FRIDAY SESSIONS
10:15 — 11:00 am
CONVERSATION 2: INVISIBLE BRIDGES
Krzysztof Czyżewski, social activist, theater producer; founder/director of the Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland; An Invisible Bridge
Elżbieta Matynia, Professor of Liberal Studies and Sociology; director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, NSSR; An Invisible Bridge
11:10 am — 1:10 pm
PANEL 1: ENGAGING WITH THOSE LIVING IN WOUNDED PLACES
Moderator:
Otto von Busch, Associate Professor of Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design
Panelists:
Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen, PhD Fellow, School of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, “Children Let’s Play:” examining play in refugee camps in northern Greece
Liam Healy and Jimmy Loizeau, Lecturers, Goldsmiths College, London; Design Unlikely Futures and the Jungle of Calais
Terry Meade, Principal Lecturer, Interior Architecture and Urban Studies, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Brighton, UK; Strangers in the House: Domestic Space in the Israel/Palestine Conflict.
Barbara Adams, PhD candidate, Sociology, NSSR; From Aesthetic Evangelism to Solidarity. From Resilience to Care.
1:15 — 2:15 pm Lunch Break
2:15 — 4:00 pm
PANEL 2: WOUNDED LANDSCAPES
Moderator:
William Morrish, Professor of Urban Ecologies, Parsons School of Design
Panelists:
Jilly Traganou, Associate Professor of Spatial Studies, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons School of Design; Practices of Prefigurative Habitus: Creating Radical Home/lands at the Standing Rock Protest Camps.
Christine Howard Sandoval, artist, activist; part-time faculty, Parsons School of Design; Sharing Scarcity.
Tania Aparicio Morales, PhD candidate, Sociology, NSSR; Aeropuerto. A Visual Ethnography of Chinchero, Peru.
Mia White, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, New School for Public Engagement; Unearthing a Blues Epistemology towards Solidarity and Environmental Justice.
4:00 — 4:15 pm BREAK
4:15 — 6:00 pm
PANEL 3: THE SCAR TISSUE OF HOME AND PLACE
Moderator:
Aleksandra Wagner, Assistant Professor, Sociology, New School for Public Engagement
Panelists:
Jayce Salloum, artist; in/tangible cartographies: subjective affinities/representing the unrepresentable
Nora Krug, Associate Professor, Illustration, School of Art Media and Technology, Parsons School of Design; A Reading from Belonging (tentative title): A Visual Memoir on German Post-War identity and the Author’s Wartime Family History.
Serhii Tereshchenko, PhD candidate, Department of Slavic Studies, Columbia University; Cities Against Humans: Life in the Abandoned Cities after Chernobyl.
Elisa Bertolotti, Assistant Professor, Art & Design Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Madeira; Stories from Trasenster. Light and Temporary Houses for a Desolate Place.