Race & SAH Race + Architectural History Group
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"Race &" is a podcast sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians that explores the influence of race and race thinking on the built environment. Follow our co-hosts Charles Davis (SUNY Buffalo) and Maura Lucking (UCLA) as they conduct interviews, roundtable discussions, and conversations with the foremost academics of the arts and sciences to recover the untold stories of the people and forces that shape the world we live in.
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The Race & Podcast: Dianne Harris: The Racial Implications of Frank Lloyd Wright's Work
In this episode Charles L. Davis II (UT Austin) speaks with Dianne Harris (University of Washington) about the trajectory of her research throughout her career, from the explicit and implicit ways Frank Lloyd Wright addressed questions of race in his work to the broader implications of Whiteness in the American suburbs.
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The Race & Podcast: Rebecca Tinio McKenna and David Brody: Daniel Burnham's Colonial Projects in the Philippines
In this episode Charles L. Davis II (UT Austin) speaks with Rebecca Tinio McKenna (University of Notre Dame) and David Brody (Parsons School of Design) on their books which investigate the ways architecture helped to reinforce American cultural influence over the Philippines.
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Building Solidarities Series: Environmental Reclamations w/ Guests Alishine Osman, Anisa Salat, and Huma Gupta
Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of discussions at Barnard College and Columbia University Institute of Comparative Literature and Society in the fall of 2020. The series was conceived as a form of mutual pedagogy between the campus and the public, through dialogues on urgent questions about constructed environments, urban life, and ecologies. This episode discussed environmental diasporas and ecological reclamation in the "Somalias" of Dadaab, Minneapolis, and Mogadishu.
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Building Solidarities Series: Monumental Landscapes w/ Kate Beane, Lydia Waithira Muthuma, and Bhakti Shringarpure
Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of discussions at Barnard College and Columbia University Institute of Comparative Literature and Society in the fall of 2020. The series was conceived as a form of mutual pedagogy between the campus and the public, through dialogues on urgent questions about constructed environments, urban life, and ecologies. This episode considered landscapes of monumentality through iconoclasm, replacement, and renaming of built and natural structures in Nairobi and Minneapolis.
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Building Solidarities Series: Building Historical Consciousness w/ Guests Chris Cornelius, Elsa MH Mäki, and Nick Estes
Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of discussions at Barnard College and Columbia University Institute of Comparative Literature and Society in the fall of 2020. The series was conceived as a form of mutual pedagogy between the campus and the public, through dialogues on urgent questions about constructed environments, urban life, and ecologies. This episode discussed Indigenous thinking on infrastructure and architecture as sites for historical consciousness and contemporary creative practice in North America.
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Building Solidarities Series: Institutional Inhabitations w/ Guests the GoDown Arts Centre and Navatman
Our guest series "Building Solidarities," organized by Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and students in the course "Colonial Practices," was originally staged as a series of discussions at Barnard College and Columbia University Institute of Comparative Literature and Society in the fall of 2020. The series was conceived as a form of mutual pedagogy between the campus and the public, through dialogues on urgent questions about constructed environments, urban life, and ecologies. This episode discussed structuring cultural institutions and critical communities of black-brown solidarity in the African and South Asian diasporas of Nairobi and New York.