Use the form on the right to contact us.
You can edit the text in this area, and change where the contact form on the right submits to, by entering edit mode using the modes on the bottom right.
Filtering by Tag: Deen Sharp
Article by Deen Sharp
The full article can be read here. https://www.curbed.com/2023/10/architects-gaza-michael-sorkin-borders-war-memorial.html
Michael Sorkin and Andrei Vovk, architect partner at the time, discussing their plan for Jerusalem at the “Next Jerusalem” conference in Bellagio, Italy, 1999 . Photo: Courtesy of Joan Copjec.
Related Reads:
The Middle Eastern Studies Association is a nonprofit organization, that promotes development of the Middle Eastern studies field. MESA will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 14 - Sunday, November 17 in New Orleans, LA. The events will allow for colleagues to share and engage in interdisciplinary Middle Eastern studies.
On Thursday, Deen Sharp will present at a panel concerning the role of corporations in regional development. The panel will feature Kristen Alff, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, Stephanie Wright, Associate Lecturer at Australian National University, and Ibrahim El Houdaiby, PhD candidate and researcher at Columbia University. The discussion will revolve around the history and influence of the corporations in the region.
On Sunday, the discussion will explore the expansion of urban areas in the Middle East. The panel will feature Sarah El-Kazaz, Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College, and Huma Gupta, a PhD candidate at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. The focus will be on decisions to direct efforts towards urban expansion as a strategy for strengthening the economy.
Deen Sharp, Terreform co-director will speak at “Spaces of Conflicts”, a conference to commemorate the Kent State Shootings that occurred on its campus May of 1970.
The Spaces of Conflict conference is organized as part of the 50th Commemoration of May 4, 1970 event at Kent State where the Ohio National Guard shot four of the KSU students and injured nine during the demonstration event against the US war in Vietnam and Cambodia. This event triggered many nationwide protests and demonstrations in other universities.
The event is organized by Taraneh Meshkani and hosted by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University, will engage scholars, researchers, and other attendees, on the role of space in in relation to different forms of conflict.
Felicity D. Scott, director of the PhD program in Architecture at Columbia University GSAPP will keynote the event. See full list of speakers and moderators here.
Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00 AM 12:00 PM / Cene Lecture Hall 132 S Lincoln StreetKent, OH 44240
