Lectures and Panels Organized and Moderated

  • CRITICALLY NOW Spring 2024

    Open Classes for the Critically Now Series in Spring 2024. Includes own classes: “Biopolitics and Disciplinary Gaze (guest: Eyal Weizman);” “Mass Displacement and Nation Building;” “Peacebuilding After Apartheid and State Violence”

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  • Malkit Shoshan: Design Activism Spaces of Conflict

    Lecture at Critically Now Series. Spring 2024.

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  • Lecture Series. Institute for Comparative Modernities. Spring 2024

    Lecture Series for Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University. Includes Introduction to Beshara Doumani’s “A Modern History of Palestinians Through the Social Life of Stone”

    SEE ICM EVENTS HERE

  • Lecture Series. Institute for Comparative Modernities. Fall 2023

    Lecture series. 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

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  • Lecture Series. Institute for Comparative Modernities. Spring 2023

    Lecture Series for Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University. Includes Introductions to Mostafa Minawi, Iftikhar Dadi)

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  • Lecture Series. Institute for Comparative Modernities. Fall 2022

    Lecture Series for Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. Includes Introductions to Berin Gur and Maria Gonzalez Pendas

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  • RACIAL CAPITALISM: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURES

    Symposium organized at ICM, Cornell University. April 21-22, 2023

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  • REPEPARATIONS FOR COLONIZATION CARBONIZATION

    Symposium organized at ICM, Cornell University. March 2, 2023

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

    panel organized by CO+POS, Cornell University. With Nasser Rabbat and Mohamed Elshahed. September 29,2023

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

    Department of Architecture, Cornell University. March 29, 2022

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  • 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. March 14-15, 2022.

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  • Repair and Reparations Panel Series. 2020-21

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations. Fall 2020-Spring 2021

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  • North to South: Repair and Reparations for Climate Refugees

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations. April 2, 2021

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

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations. March 29, 2021

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  • EU to Bosnia: Refuge, Reparations, and Global Apartheid

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations. April 19, 2021

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  • 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. February 24, 2021

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  • 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. March 15, 2021

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  • Repatriation of Museum Objects

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations. October 19, 2020

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  • Beirut Reconstructions

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations. October 7, 2020

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  • Hagia Sophia: Perspectives from Cultural Heritage

    Migration Series of Institute for European Studies at Einaudi Center for International Studies. Theme: Repair and Reparations. September 19, 2020

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

    Panel at Cornell University, Online, USA, 30 April 2021.

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  • 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.

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

    Online Workshop. Co-organized with Jia Gu, Rafico Ruiz, GAHTC Workshop. March 20, 2021

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  • Racism and the Future of Memorials

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

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  • CRITICALLY NOW Spring 2019

    Critically Now Series at the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. Co-organizer

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  • History of landscape and its representation

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

  • The Future of EU Immigration and the Rise of Populism

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies. March 7, 2019

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  • Ethics and Rights of Immigration

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies. April 23, 2019

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  • Family Separation: Lessons from Europe's Past

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies. September 28, 2018

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  • Global 1968 Panel with Cornell Faculty

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies. September 6, 2018

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  • 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. September 24, 2018

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  • Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies. September 19, 2018

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  • Crossing the Mediterranean

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies. Einaudi Center for International Studies. February 27, 2018

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  • The Arts of the Immigrant Continent

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies. April 12, 2018

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  • Exhibiting Yugoslavia

    Migration Series for Cornell Institute for European Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies. April 26, 2018

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  • CRITICALLY NOW Fall 2018

    Critically Now Series at the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. Co-organizer

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  • CRITICALLY NOW Fall 2017

    Critically Now Series at the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. Co-organizer

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  • 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. December 1, 2017

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  • 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. Fall 2014—Spring 2021

    Central New York Humanities Corridor

  • Migration and Discrimination

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

    SEE POSTER HERE
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    Migration of Images

    Panel with Avinoam Shalem and Saloni Mathur. Sponsored by Cornell Institute for European Studies. CIES Migration and AAP’s Critically Now Series.  Cornell University, October 24, 2017

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  • Migration and Discrimination

    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. Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU, Berlin, Germany. September 23, 2017.

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  • Finding Refuge: Istanbul, Berlin,

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

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  • Modern Architectures in Africa

    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. Cornell University, April 26, 2016.

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

    Panel with Kenneth Frampton and Kathleen James-Chakraborty. Sponsored by and Innovation Grant from the Einaudi Center. Cornell University, April 21, 2016.

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  • 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.