Conference Program


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All paper sessions, keynote lecture and summation will take place in room HG E5. Registration, coffee breaks, and lunches will take place in the Alumni Pavilion (MM C 78.1). Both are located in the ETH Main Campus. The gta Archives are in room HIL C 64/65 in the Hönggerberg Campus. Please see the Locations page for more details.

Thursday, 12 June

13.30 onwards Conference Registration 14.15-14.30Conference Start 14.30-16.45 Paper Session – Anonymous and Invisible

• Kairavi Ketan Maniar – Hidden Figures in the Archives: Reconstructing Subaltern Agency and Operational Practices in the Public Works of Colonial and Post-Colonial Pune

• Rina Priyani – Vernacular Builders and Racialization of Urban Space in Postcolonial Bandung, Indonesia

• Lorenzo Gatta – Invisible Labour, Silent Resistance: The Forgotten Artisans behind the Confessionals in the Jesuit Church of Bruges, 1656–1657  Rebecca Yuste – Indigenous Neoclassicism: The Construction of the Palacio de Mineria, 1797-1813

16.45-17.00Coffee Break17.00-18.45 Official Welcome and Keynote Lecture 18.45-20.30

Welcome Apéro (for registered participants) Friday, 13 June08.30 onwards Coffee and registration 09.00-10.30 Paper Session – Possession and Dispossessions, part 1

• David Bijan Sadighian – Micro-Ephemera: Fugitive Architectures in Brazil

• Dwight Carey – From One Paragraph to a World of Imperial Slavery: A Microhistory of Architecture and Enslaved Labor in Mauritius and Madagascar

• Juliana Maxim – The Beekeeper’s House: Settler Architecture and Indigenous Labor in Southern California

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break 11.00-12.30 Paper Session – Materials and Details, part 1

• • Hugo Betting – Lichens on Stones: The National Ecologies of American Architecture, c. 1840-1900
    

• Adil Mansure – Technics of a Knot in Oceania: Fibrous Material Cultures as an Architectural and Environmental History

• Frederik Braüner – Bursting Bubbles of Salt: Welfare Colonialism and Disintegrating Materialities in Landssjúkrahúsið, Faroe Islands

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break (for registered participants) 14.00-15.30 Paper Session – Bureaucracy and Protocol, part 1
Ingrid Dobloug Roede – The Process

• Matthew Gin – Architecture in Storage: The Inventory of a Parisian Warehouse, c. 1753

• F. İkbal Polat – The Architect, the Gravedigger, and the Stolen Gravestones: A Case for Urban Heritage in Ottoman Istanbul

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break 16.00-17.30 Paper Session – Nooks and Crannies

• Stella Nair – The Toilets of Machu Picchu: Sanitation, the Body, and the Rethinking of  Inca Architecture

• Natalie Körner – One Woman’s Kitchen Reconstructed Through her Cookbook, the Closet and a Key
  

• Anne Hultzsch – A ‘Really Chilian cottage’: The Intersectional Microhistory of a Site and a Type

17.30-18.00 Break – Transfer to Hönggerberg Campus 18.00-21.00

Visit to the gta Archives and apéro (for registered participants) Saturday, 14 June08.30 onwardsCoffee09.00-10.30 Paper Session – Possession and Dispossessions, part 2

• Federico Marcomini – People Having Comfortable Houses Suffer but Very Little Inconvenience”: Amanda Smith’s An Autobiography (1893) as a Source for the Architectural Knowledge of Liberia, West Africa

• Damla Göre – Kursi Chronicles: A Journey Through the Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Furniture Market from Damascus to Milan

• Robby Fivez – Love Letters from the Mayumbe Hell: Narrating Architecture’s Colonial Extractivism

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break 11.00-12.30 Paper Session – Materials and Details, part 2

• Jean Souviron – Heat, Sand and Dust: A Subaltern History of Architectural Transparency, 1900–1950
  

• Zeynep Çelik Alexander – From the Leaf to the Empire: the Marianne North Gallery at Kew

Braden Lee Scott – Bethlehem, Burgundy’s Microcosm
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break 13.30-15.00 Paper Session – Bureaucracy and Protocol, part 2

• Maur Dessauvage – Christian Ludwig Stieglitz and the Legal Habits of the Rochlitz Stonemasons' Lodge

• Alican Taylan – Resistance by Desertification: The Mass Movement Against the Dakar – St. Louis Railway, December 1882 – January 1883

• Deniz Türker – On the Margins of Power: Sineperver’s Architectural Letters and Her Courtly Agents

15.00-16.30Roundtable – Microhistory and Architecture

• Laura Hindelang, Samantha L. Martin, Léa-Catherine Szaka, Belgin Turan Özkaya – Summation of Sessions Themes

Andrew Leach – Matters of  Method Gregorio Astengo, Nikos Magouliotis (moderators) – Roundtable Discussion Evening

Off-site gathering (at participants' own expense) in Zurich Sunday, 15 June 09.00-13.00 Parallel Tours at ETH and off Campus