[Tlc] TLC-panel

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Forwarded from Lawrence Chua.
Thanks,
justin


I am organizing a panel with Lee Kah Wee (PhD candidate, Architecture, University of California-Berkeley) for the next AAS and am soliciting paper proposals. We have also not yet confirmed our moderator, so if anyone is interested in moderating this panel, we'd be glad to hear from them as well.

Architecture, Violence and Risk

>From the occupation of Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok to the militarization of monastic complexes in the south of Thailand, recent political events point to the continuing importance of architecture and the built environment as both theaters and catalysts for political violence. This panel explores the production, representation and use of architecture in their relationships to violence and risk. Does violence break out when regimes of risk-management fail? How is architecture implicated in this political process of management and contestation? Through the vehicle of architecture, this panel considers violence in spatial, aesthetic, symbolic and epistemic terms and questions how notions of risk both legitimate and produce certain modes and subjects of violence. How do sites of memory commemorate acts of political and personal violence while acting as horizons of a risky future? How have social conflicts, and the threat of possible conflicts, contributed to the development of !
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seemingly benign architectural typologies like the cinema, the casino, and the ship? Space- and place-specific case studies by historians and anthropologists as well as art and architectural historians are welcome. Please send paper proposals before July 16 via email to Lawrence Chua (lc288 at cornell.edu) and Lee Kah Wee (leekahwee at berkeley.edu).

Thank you.
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Lawrence Chua
PhD Candidate
Department of Architecture
East Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Visiting scholar
Faculty of Architecture
Chulalongkorn University
Phya Thai Road
Bangkok 10330
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu