FUNDING FOR URBAN RESEARCH GRANTS AVAILABLE | DUE DATE: FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) invites applications for grants to support research projects with an urban focus, ideally with an interdisciplinary approach. We seek proposals in three broad areas:
1. Research in archives and online data sets that will lead to publication. 2. Funding towards producing materials that seek to disseminate knowledge more broadly (e.g.: data visualization, maps, multimedia history, etc.). 3. Development of course-...
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...
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...
