INVENTING A ‘LEBANESE’ ARCHITECTURAL TRADITION: FRIEDRICH RAGETTE AND THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
This Paper will be part of the Panel ‘The Establishment of a Field: Architectural Education in the MENA’, Society of Architectural Historians 2021 Virtual Conference, 14-18 April 2021
Conference details and abstracts here.
DIVIDE AND EDUCATE: THE ENDURING PROJECTS OF FOREIGN MISSIONARIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BEIRUT
A Paper given at the Architectural Humanities Research Association 16th Annual Conference, Architecture and Collective Life, University of Dundee, 21-23 November 2019
Read more about the conference and find the book of abstracts here.
ARCHIVE AS PROJECT: RECOVERING COLONIAL HISTORIES OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
A paper given at the AA/SAHGB Annual Symposium 2020, ARCH/TECTURES ARCH/VES, 23 October 2020
Read more about the four-part symposium and papers here.
CONSTRUCTING BEIRUT: MISSIONARIES, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE PROJECT OF THE CITY
A paper given at the Emerging Research Seminar Series, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, 5 November 2019
THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEBANON
A paper presented at the Buell Center Dissertation Colloquium, The Temple Hoyne Buell Center, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, 3-4 May 2019.
Check the full programme of the colloquium here.
THE LIMITS OF THE ‘NATION’: MISSIONARIES WITHIN AND BEYOND EMPIRE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEBANON
A paper given at Through the Nation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Identities and Space, Nationalisms & Identities Research Group, University of Cambridge, 24 June 2019
CONFLICTED NARRATIVES, FUTURE TRAJECTORIES:
Rewriting Critical Architectural and Urban Histories of Nationalism, Colonialism, and Modernity
Lead Organiser, UCR Symposium 2019, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 28 September 2019
CONSTRUCTING BEIRUT: MISSIONARY EDUCATION AND THE PROJECT OF THE CITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEBANON
A paper given at the Architectural History Workshop, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, London, 23 March 2019.
Read more about the SAHGB’s annual workshop and programme here.
FROM TERRITORY TO CITY: MISSIONARY EDUCATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEBANON
An invited talk as part of the Forum on Education, within the theme of the inaugural edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019 ‘The Rights of Future Generations,’ curated by Adrian Lahoud. Al-Qasimiyah School, Sharjah, 9 February 2019.
Read more about the education forum here.
MORPHOLOGIES OF NEOLIBERAL DEVELOPMENT: THE FAILED PROJECT OF (THE) CAPITAL IN BEIRUT
A paper presented as part of the UCR panel ‘Reconsidering Political Narratives: Architectural and Urban Approaches to Studying Arab Cities’ at the BRISMES Annual Conference 2018: New Approaches to Studying the Middle East, King’s College, London, 24 June 2018
THE PLACE BEYOND THE COAST: A SPATIO-POLITICAL HISTORY OF MOUNT LEBANON’S INTERIOR
A paper presented at The Place that Remains: Recounting the Unbuilt Territory Conference, organised in parallel with Lebanon’s first National Pavilion participation at the Venice Biennale, LAU Beirut, 23-24 March 2018.
Read more about the conference here, and about the Lebanese Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale here.
TYPOLOGICAL URBANISM AS ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERAL PLANNING: CASE STUDY ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BEIRUT CENTRAL DISTRICT
An invited keynote talk following the Urban Design Studio Jury and Exhibition, ‘Reclaim the contested city through open collectives, Beirut,’ Studio led by Socrates Stratis & Chrysanthe Constantinou at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, 14 December 2015.
For more information on the studio and event see here.