Program of the 4th session of the NOMAD Seminar in Historiography

The Housing Question: Nomad Seminar in Historiography
Department of Art, Architecture + Art History
University of San Diego
March 12-13, 2015

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015

WELCOMING ADDRESS
9:30am
Camino Hall 43

Noelle Norton, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego
Carmen Popescu, Université Paris I-Sorbonne

PANEL ONE
10am - 12pm
Camino Hall 43

Battlegrounds

Michael McCulloch, University of Michigan
"Glass and Stones: Materials of Race and Neighborhood Violence in 1920s Detroit"

Sheila Crane, University of Virginia
"Dwelling in the State of Exception: Housing as Weapon in the Battles of Algiers"

Emrah Altinok, Istanbul Bilgi University
"To Have or Not to Have, That is the Question: The Unseen Dimensions of Housing Question in Turkey. The Case of TOKI, Istanbul in Post-2000 Period"

Respondent: Patricia Morton, UC Riverside

Moderator: Colin Fisher, University of San Diego

PANEL TWO
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Camino Hall 43

Imaginaries

Ana María León, MIT
"Modern Architecture Will Help You. Buenos Aires, 1949"

Daria Bocharnikova, Harvard University
"After Solving Housing Crisis in the USSR: NER Diagram for Future Settlements"

Respondent: Sylvia Lavin, UCLA

Moderator: Avi Spiegel, University of San Diego

PANEL THREE
3:30pm - 5:30pm
Camino Hall 43

Discourses / Territories

Sabrina Shafique, University of Kansas
"Catherine Bauer and the Housing Question: The Social, Economic, and Humanitarian Turn in Design, 1934-1964"

Andrew Herscher, University of Michigan, and Dan Monk, Colgate University
"Humanitarianism and the Housing Question"

Kenny Cupers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing"

Respondent: Michael Osman, UCLA

Moderator: Daniel López-Pérez, University of San Diego

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
6:30pm
Manchester Conference Center Auditorium

Opening Remarks: Andrew T. Allen, Vice President and Provost, University of San Diego

Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
"Housing and History: The Case of the Specific Intellectual"

with an introduction by Can Bilsel, University of San Diego

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

PANEL FOUR
9am - 11am
Camino Hall 43

Types / Communities

Clare Robinson, University of Arizona
"Class, Ethnicity, and the Mid-Century Subdivision: Re-examining Pueblo Gardens"

Kimberly Zarecor, Iowa State University
"The Red Levittowns: Socialist Housing Estates as a Suburban Typology"

Kıvanç Kılınç, Yasar University, Izmir
"Nomadic Modern / Modern Vernacular: Social Housing Projects in Izmir (1950-1970)"

Respondent: Susanne Schindler, ETH Zurich

Moderator: Carmen Popescu, Université Paris I-Sorbonne

PANEL FIVE
11:30am - 1:45pm
Camino Hall 43

Crises / Exclusions

Nandini Bagchee, CCNY, CUNY
"Housing and Activism in New York City"

Şebnem Yücel, Yasar University, Izmir
"Gentrifying Urla: Gated Communities and 'Landscapes of Privilege'"

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Bryn Mawr College
"Humanitarian Shelter and the Making of the Emergency Subject"

Respondent: Juliana Maxim, University of San Diego

Moderator: Sally Yard, University of San Diego

CLOSING REMARKS
Can Bilsel, University of San Diego

OPTIONAL VISIT
3pm - 4pm
Salk Institute, La Jolla