Programme
16 June 2021, Time zone CEST (UTC+02:00)
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19:15
Welcome and Introduction
by Albrecht Wiesener and Christa Kamleithner
Keynote Lecture
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19:30
Itohan Osayimwese (Brown University)
From Postcolonial to Decolonial Architectural Histories: A Method
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20:10
Discussion moderated by Christa Kamleithner
17 June 2021, Time zone CEST (UTC+02:00)
Colonial Building Networks
Session moderated by Özge Sezer
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10:00
Beatriz Serrazina (University of Coimbra)
Colonial Enterprises and Urban Design in Africa: Transnational Knowledge, Local Agency and the Diamond Company of Angola (1917–1975)
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10:20
Meenakshi A (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Portland Cement in British India: Materials, Expertise and Colonial Infrastructures, c. 1900–1940s
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10:40
Discussion
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11:20
Monika Motylinska (IRS Erkner)
Selling Tropical Architecture? German Networks of Planning for the Tropics in the 1930s and post-1945
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11:40
Jens Wiedow (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Architecture and the Construction of Colonial Narratives: The South-West Africa Pavilion at the Van-Riebeeck Festival
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12:00
Discussion
Colonizing Space and Time
Session moderated by Christa Kamleithner
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14:00
Kamyar Abdi, Faezeh Dadfar (Shahid Beheshti University, Macquarie University)
Architecture and Expression of Authority: The Achaemenid Persian Empire in the Caucuses
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14:20
Nuno Grancho (DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, University Institute of Lisbon)
Decolonizing the Architectural and Urban Histories of the Colonial City of Diu
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14:40
Discussion
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15:20
Matthew Wells (ETH Zurich)
Networks, Data, Colonialism: Spatialised Bureaucracies at the India Office, 1867
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15:40
Zulfikar Hirji (York University)
Architects of Time: Coloniality, Clocktowers and Calendars on the East African Coast
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16:00
Discussion
Postcolonial Nation Building
Session moderated by Özge Sezer
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16:50
Mohona Reza (University of Edinburgh)
Modern Architectural Transition in Post-Colonial Bangladesh
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17:10
Gregory Valdespino (University of Chicago)
Senegalese Suburbia: Building Homes and Bureaucratic Dreams in Postwar Senegal, 1945–1965
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17:30
Discussion
Keynote Lecture
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19:30
Antoinette Jackson (University of South Florida)
Plantation Spaces and Memory – Heritage Interpretation, Memorialization, and Tensions of Public Use at Antebellum Plantation Sites, USA
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20:10
Discussion moderated by Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir
18 June 2021, Time zone CEST (UTC+02:00)
Contested Monuments
Session moderated by Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir
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10:00
Elizabeth Rankin, Rolf Michael Schneider (University of Auckland, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)
Afrikanerdom, Apartheid, Post-Apartheid: The Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria
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10:20
Georgi Verbeeck (Maastricht University / University of Leuven)
A Belgian “Museum within a Museum”: From Royal Museum for Central Africa to AfricaMuseum
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10:40
Discussion
Post/Colonial Place-Making
Session moderated by Albrecht Wiesener
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11:20
Shraddha Bhatawadekar (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Processes and Politics of Representation: The Image of Railway Architecture in 19th-Century Bombay
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11:40
Yichi Zhang (University of Oslo)
Victoria Park in Tianjin: British Colonial Heritage Shaped by Interaction with an Evolving Chinese Society
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12:00
Discussion
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14:00
Tilman Frasch (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Alternate Currents: St James Power Station, Singapore
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14:20
Ying Zhou (University of Hong Kong)
Confounding Decolonizing “Etiquettes” and Reusing Colonial-Era Historic Buildings for Contemporary Art in the Global East: Cases from Hong Kong and Shanghai
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14:40
Discussion
Whose Heritage?
Session moderated by Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir
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15:20
Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos (University of Lisbon)
The Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa (India) as a Paradigm of Transcultural Heritage: Values, Meanings and Conflicts
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15:40
Livia Hurley (University College Dublin)
Legacy Memory Identity: Shifts in the Decolonisation of Ireland’s Architectural Heritage
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16:00
Discussion
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16:50
Mark Dike DeLancey (DePaul University)
Colonial-Era Architecture of the Colonized in Early 20th-Century Cameroon
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17:10
Jorge Correia (Lab2PT, University of Minho)
Heritage and (Post)Colonialism, Context and Claim: Reading Built Stratigraphy in the Maghreb
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17:30
Nora Lafi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Whose Heritage? The Persisting Ambiguities of the Heritagization of Colonial Architecture in the Middle East and North Africa
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17:50
Discussion
19 June 2021, Time zone CEST (UTC+02:00)
Decolonising Perspectives
Session moderated by Vera Egbers
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10:00
Amy Miranda (Aarhus University)
Freeing Rome’s Captive Provinces: A Reconsideration of Imperial Architecture
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10:20
Alice Santiago Faria, Antonieta Reis Leite, Mafalda Pacheco (CHAM-FCSH/NOVA, University of Coimbra)
Inquiring into (Portuguese) Colonial Heritage or how to be a Critical (Colonial) Heritage Researcher
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10:40
Discussion
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11:20
Lisandra Franco de Mendonça (Lab2PT, University of Minho)
Boxed Empire: Framing Memories, Architecture and Urban Space in Maputo, 1974–1976
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11:40
Karin Reisinger (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
The Prolonged Coloniality of Mining Towns: Non-Binary Ways of Doing Material Positionality as a Researcher
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12:00
Discussion
Keynote Lecture
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12:40
Reinhard Bernbeck (FU Berlin)
De-Subjectivizing Colonial Prisoners of War: The Wünsdorf Camp near Berlin, 1915–1918
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13:20
Discussion moderated by Vera Egbers and Özge Sezer
