• CRITICALLY NOW 2024

    Spring 2024—Fall 2025

  • Malkit Shoshan: Design Activism Spaces of Conflict

  • La Langue, Colonial Legacies, and Area Studies: Comparative Modernities

    Lecture series for Institute for Comparative Modernities,, Cornell University (includes Introductions to Rinaldo Walcott, Begum Adalet, and panel moderations in conferences La Langue: Colonial Legacies and Area Studies; The Next Mansoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia)

  • Operation Tabula Rasa: Rapid Demolition of Cairo’s Heritage

    panel organized by CO+POS, Cornell University. With Nasser Rabbat and Mohamed Elshahed

  • Lecture series for Institute for Comparative Modernities

    Lecture series for Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University (includes Introductions to Maria Gonzalez Pendas, Berin Gur, Mostafa Minawi, Iftikhar Dadi)

  • A MODERN HISTORY OF THE PALESTINIANS THROUGH THE SOCIAL LIFE OF STONE

  • RACIAL CAPITALISM: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURES

    Symposium organized at ICM, Cornell University

  • REPEPARATIONS FOR COLONIZATION CARBONIZATION

    Symposium organized at ICM, Cornell University

  • HOLY MODERN: IMPERIAL ABSTRACTIONS,TECHNOCRACY, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF FASCIST HISPANIDAD

  • Martino Stierli speaks on “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985

    Department of Architecture, Cornell University

  • Empire’s Province to National City: Architecture and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

    Symposium co-organized with Peter Christensen, Cornell University and University of Rochester, Ithaca and Rochester, USA. Sponsored by Central New York Humanities Corridor Grant

  • Repair and Reparations Les Migration Series

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Repair and Reparations for Climate Refugees

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Reparations or Repression for Stalin's Victims?

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Refuge, Reparations, and Global Apartheid

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Belgium to Congo: Colonialism Reparation and Truth & Reconciliation Commissions

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Germany to Germany: New Perspectives on Post-War, Post-Unification and Post-Colonial Reparations.

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Hagia Sophia: Perspectives from Cultural Heritage

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Repatriation of Museum Objects

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • Beirut Reconstructions

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations

  • MESA Global Academy Lecture: “Islamism and Urban Politics: Utku Balaban with response by Pamela Karimi and Ijlal Muzaffar

    Cornell University, Online, USA, 30 April 2021. Organized and moderated.

  • Twentieth-Century Istanbul from Below and Above

    Moderated the panel with Timur Hammond, Semih Gökatalay, Asya Ece Uzmay in Istanbul Unbound. Environmental Approaches to the City, organized by Istanbul Research Institute,April 9, 2021.

  • North to South: Repair and Reparations for Climate Refugees?

    Organized and moderated the webinar with Ashley Dawson, Anne Mc Clintock, Bronwyn Leebaw, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Billy Fleming

  • USSR to Post-Soviet Russia: Reparations or Repression for Stalin’s Victims?

    USSR to Post-Soviet Russia: Reparations or Repression for Stalin’s Victims. Organized the webinar with Nikolay Epplee, Ivan Kurilla, Egle Rindzevičiūtė, Nina Tumarkin

  • Backstage of the Global Histories Survey: Slow Looking, Translating, Listening, Activating

    Online Workshop. Co-organized with Jia Gu, Rafico Ruiz, 2021 GAHTC Workshop

  • Racism and the Future of Memorials

    Webinar. Participants: Manisha Sinha, Esra Akcan, Mwanzaa Brown, Cornell University,July 14, 2020

  • CRITICALLY NOW 2019

    AAP’s Critically Now Series. Co-organizer

  • WATCH RECORDING HERE

    Ethics and Rights of Immigration

    organizer, panel with Patti Tamara Lenard, Jeremy Waldron, Christopher Heath Wellman, moderated by Andrei Marmor.Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, Sponsored by Cornell Institute for European Studies

  • History of landscape and its representation

    organizer, panel with Berin Golonu and Deniz Turker, March 26, 2019, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. Sponsored by Central New York Humanities Corridor Grant

  • The Future of EU Immigration and the Rise of Populism

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies.

  • Ethics and Rights of Immigration

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies.

  • Family Separation: Lessons from Europe's Past

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies.

  • Global 1968 Panel with Cornell Faculty

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies.

  • Exiles in the 21st Century: the new ‘population law‘ of absolute capitalism

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies.

  • Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies.

  • Crossing the Mediterranean

    organizer and moderator, panel with Annetta Alexandridis, Maurizio Albahari, Samia Henni, and John Psaropoulos. February 27, 2018. Sponsored by Cornell Institute for European Studies. CIES Migration and AAP’s Critically Now Series.  Cornell University, USA.

  • The Arts of the Immigrant Continent

    organizer and moderator, panel with Leslie Adelson, Martin Rein-Cano, Pamela Corey.  April 12, 2018. Sponsored by Cornell Institute for European Studies. Cornell University, USA

  • Exhibiting Yugoslavia

    organizer and moderator, panel with Martino Stierli and Saša Begović. April 26, 2018. Sponsored by Cornell Institute for European Studies. CIES Migration and AAP’s Critically Now Series. Cornell University, USA.

  • CRITICALLY NOW 2017

  • The Work of Architects and Scholars in Times of Turmoil: Urban Renewal of Istanbul

    organizer and moderator, panel as part of “New Approaches to Scholarship and Pedagogy of Ottoman and Turkish Architecture”. Co-organizer: Peter Christensen. Sponsored by Central New York Humanities Corridor Grant. December 1, 2017, Cornell University, USA. Panel with Ayşe Çavdar and Senem Doyduk.

  • New Approaches to Scholarship and Pedagogy of Ottoman and Turkish Architecture

    Lecture Series: “New Approaches to Scholarship and Pedagogy of Ottoman and Turkish Architecture”. Co-organized with Peter Christensen. Cornell University and University of Rochester, Ithaca and Rochester, USA. Sponsored by Central New York Humanities Corridor Grant.

  • Migration and Discrimination

    organizer and moderator, Ithaca Workshop with Sibel Bozdoğan and Will Glover. Co-organized with Iftikhar Dadi. November 7, 2017. AAP’s Critically Now Series. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

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    Migration of Images

    organizer and moderator, panel with Avinoam Shalem and Saloni Mathur. October 2017 Sponsored by Cornell Institute for European Studies. CIES Migration and AAP’s Critically Now Series.  Cornell University, USA.

  • Migration and Discrimination

    organizer and moderator, Berlin Workshop with Ali Nobil Ahmad, Kamran Asdar Ali, Bilgin Ayata, Ayşe Çavdar, Omar Kasmani, Yelta Köm, Kader Konuk, Naila Mahmood, Philipp Misselwitz, Salma Siddique, Abdoumaliq Simone, Barış Ülker. Co-organized with Iftikhar Dadi. September 23, 2017. Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU, Berlin, Germany.

  • Finding Refuge: Istanbul, Berlin,

    co-organizer, Harvard-Mellon Initiative Symposium with Esra Akcan, Bilgin Ayata, Sibel Bozdoğan, Kader Konuk, Bernd Nicolai, Philip Misselwitz, Berna Turam. Harvard University, April 8, 2017, Cambridge, USA.

  • Modern Architectures in Africa

    organizer and moderator, panel with David Rifkind and Itohan Osayimwese organized as part of “New Approaches to Scholarship and Pedagogy of Ottoman and Turkish Architecture.” Co-organizer: Peter Christensen. Sponsored by Central New York Humanities Corridor Grant. April 26, 2016, Cornell University, USA.

  • Toward an Intertwined History of Architecture around the World: The Survey and the Textbook

    organizer and moderator, Kenneth Frampton and Kathleen James-Chakraborty. Sponsored by and Innovation Grant from the Einaudi Center. Spring 2016, Cornell University, USA.

  • Writing the Architecture of/in Latin America in a Global Context

    organizer and moderator, panel with Barry Bergdoll, Mary Kate O’Hare, Zeuler Lima.July 2, 2014. AAP, Cornell University, New York, USA.

  • 1960 Bildirileri:  Cengiz Bektaş, Ersen Gürsel and Uğur Tanyeli ile Sözlü Tarih

    (1960 Manifestos: An Oral History), 2nd Istanbul Design Biennale, November 29, 2014, SALT Galata, Istanbul, USA

  • Panel: “Restructuring the Fields: The ‘Modern’ in ‘Islamic’ and the ‘Islamic’ in ‘Modern’ Art and Architecture,”

    Co-chair of the panel with Mary Roberts, College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 12-15, 2014, Chicago.

  • Core Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Columbia University, March 23-24, 2007, New York, USA.

  • Last Things Before the Last?

    Columbia University, Ph.D. Students Symposium, co-organized with with David Rifkind, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, April 3, 1999, New York, USA.