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Upcoming Events

2024 Apr 02

Quechua Hip-hop: A Musical Performance and Conversation on Indigenous Urban Movements with Liberato Kani

5:00pm

Location: 

Fong Auditorium at Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138

Musical performance and conversation on Indigenous urban movements with Liberato Kani, Quechua hip-hop artist, and Jorge Luis Astovilca, a master of traditional Andean scissor dancing. Both the performance and conversation will offer an opportunity to learn more about the relevance of Indigenous urban music and dancing in the Andes. Quechua is the most spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas, with almost 10 million speakers in South America, and with significant migrant communities in the U.S., Spain and Italy.

Speakers Liberato Kani (née...

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2024 Apr 09

Book Launch | Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space | Speaker: Valentina Rozas-Krause

5:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women...

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Past Events

2023 Dec 01

Our North is the South: Thinking Architectural History from the South

9:00am to 5:45pm

Location: 

Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138

Our North is the South (Nuestro Norte es el Sur) is a group of architecture and urban historians working and teaching on Latin America, first convened in Quito in 2018 and with periodical meetings since. In 1935, Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García reversed the map of South America to argue for the point of view of artists working “from the south,” claiming: “Our north is the south.” Thinking with Torres-García, we study the history of architecture and cities from the point of view of the South and Latin America. This symposium builds on research produced by members of...

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2023 Nov 20

From Survey to Inspiration: Pre-Soviet Materiality and Postwar Soviet Ukrainian Lviv

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Room S050

Director's Seminar

SPEAKER Sofia Dyak Historian, Director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv

From imagining new housing models to finding resources to house people, postwars are rich in ideas and policies for accommodating people. The need for housing reveals the toll of destruction, while the search for home poignantly highlights the violence of broken relationships with place and with people. In her talk, Dr. Dyak will focus on the city of Lviv, a...

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