The World Architecture Festival, for which Board President Michael Sorkin chaired the Grand Jury, kicks off tomorrow (11/2) in Barcelona; Steven Handel will deliver the Benjamin C. Howland Jr. Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture on 11/4; that same day, Board Member Thom Mayne will speak at Architectural Record’s 2011 Innovation Conference; also on 11/4, Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at Yale’s Catastrophe and Consequence symposium; on 11/5, Colin Cathcart will participate in the Center for Architecture symposium Buildings = Energy; on 11/7, Deborah Gans, Matt Blesso, Mark Ginsberg, and Mark Strauss will all participate in the Architectural League’s Making Room symposium; Craig Dykers will speak at La Ciudad de las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico, on 11/11; Board Member Saskia Sassen is co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought’s Ecogram IV: China event on 11/11; Stuart Pertz will join a discussion on Planning the Future of Coney Island’s Amusement District, also on 11/11; the Reconsidering Postmodernism conference, to be held in New York from 11/11-12, will feature Robert A.M. Stern, as well as a session focusing on the work of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown; Board Member Tami Hausman is a co-organizer of the 11/14 CfA panel What’s Your Story?; and on 11/15, Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the Zoning the City conference in New York, featuring Rick Bell, Stern, and Board Members Mayne and Toni Griffin.
Sassen Organizes “Cities and Eco-Crises” Conference
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Next Friday, October 1st, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and IfUD Board Member Saskia Sassen will present Cities and Eco-Crises, a conference that will bring together a diverse group of scholars — urbanists, biologists, nanotechnologists, and sustainable cities activists — to address the relationship between cities and the environment. The event will take place in Avery Hall’s Wood Auditorium on the Columbia campus in New York from 10:00 AM-6:00 PM. Registration is encouraged.
Global Cities With Saskia Sassen
Friday, November 6th, 2009“The Global Power City Index: Toward an Urban Geopolitics?”, organized by the Committee on Global Thought and Institute board member Saskia Sassen at Columbia University, will be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3pm in the Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall.
Speakers include:
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Member,
Committee on Global Thought
Hiroo Ishikawa, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, Meiji University
Takayuki Kubo, Institute of Urban Studies, The Mori Memorial Foundation
Heizoo Takenaka, Former Minister of Economy and Finance, Japan
Cities and the New Wars Conference, September 25 and 26
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Institute board member Saskia Sassen and the Committee on Global Thought have organized Cities and the New Wars, a two-day conference on September 25th and 26th, 2009 at Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall, Columbia University.
The multiple meanings of the new urban wars: asymmetric armed conflict, US Army training for the “urban enemy,” forms of economic violence that kill, cities and urban space as a technology for war, reapropriating the city of fear, civil war refugees and their flight from and to cities, measuring human rights violations during war.
The limits of power and of war: the role of the civic, war and law, the growing global web of interdependencies — all can contest the most powerful states and all can undermine the idea of victory in war. Conditions under which powerlessness becomes complex and transcends mere victimhood.
