Season Three • Hour #44
Join us for a special teach-in for BIPOC students, educators and cultural workers on colonial doctrines.
Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023
12 pm EST / 9 am PST / 5 pm GMT/ 6 pm CET
In this 75-minute teach-in (12:00–1:15 pm EST), Dr. Samia Henni will address colonial doctrines, and how the administration of fear and silencing—a tactic we are witnessing today—operates as a technique of colonialism and imperialism. Reflecting on Dr. Henni’s scholarly expertise on European colonization, we will look to history as a political tool to contextualize and better understand settler colonialism in the present.
Samia Henni’s 45 min. presentation will be followed by an interactive Q&A moderated by Esther Choi.
Please read before registering!
This participatory event is strictly intended for students, educators, and cultural workers who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC/ BAME).*
All attendees must turn their cameras on for our events as part of our community agreements. This helps us to maintain the safety and integrity of this social initiative.
Once you have registered, please consult the event page to access the Zoom link. You will also receive email reminders with the Zoom link.
Registration opens on Dec. 4, 2023.
Samia Henni is an architectural historian, exhibition maker and educator. Working through textual and visual strategies, her practice interrogates histories of the built, destroyed and imagined environments—those produced by processes and mechanisms of colonization, forced displacement, nuclear weapons, resource extraction and warfare. Henni’s research has culminated in the award-winning book Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017; Editions B42, 2019) and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (If I Can’t Dance, Framer Framed, edition fink, 2024), as well as in the edited volumes War Zones, gta papers no. 2 (2018) and Deserts Are Not Empty (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022); and in exhibitions including Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery/SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseilles, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, and Charlottesville, 2017–22).
Learn more about Samia Henni’s work at: SamiaHenni.com .
Resources:
Samia Henni, “Colonial Ramifications,” E-flux Architecture (October 2018). Link
Samia Henni, “On the Spaces of Guerre Moderne: The French Army in Northern Algeria (1954–1962),” Footprint (Autumn / Winter 2016): 37–56. Link
Samia Henni, ed. War Zones: gta papers 2. (Zurich: gta Verlag, 2019). Link
Samia Henni, “The Coloniality of an Executive Order” (Canadian Center for Architecture, 2020). Link
Samia Henni and Mostafa Minawi, "Reading Colonial Landscapes in Algeria and Palestine: A Conversation Between Samia Henni and Mostafa Minawi," The Funambulist: Learning with Palestine, no. 27 (2020): 42-49. Link
Images © Samia Henni