An interdisciplinary research group at @arch_cambridge. We investigate urban conflicts, inc. those caused by ethnicity, nationalism, religion, class, race & age
Cambridge, England
Joined April 2018
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Congratulations to UCR member @YasminaChami, who won this year’s Hawksmoor Essay Medal, awarded by the @SAHGB, for her essay: 'Industrialism, Philanthropy, Architecture: The “Total" Project of American Missionaries in C19 Beirut'! @arch_cambridge
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Congratulations to @YasminaChami @arch_cambridge - winner of the 2020 Hawksmoor Essay Prize for her essay 'Industrialism, Philanthropy, Architecture: The ‘Total’ Project of American Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Beirut'.
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UCR’s @YasminaChami will present at the @theSAHGB and @ihr_history Architectural History Seminar on Sept 21, 17-18.30 BST to discuss the architecture of the Syrian Protestant College, est. by American missionaries in 1866 in Beirut. Read more & register: sahgb.org.uk/whatson/yasmina…
UCR member @YasminaChami has been awarded a six-month Scouloudi- IHR Doctoral Fellowship by the Institute of Historical Research for her dissertation entitled "Constructing Beirut: Missionary Education and the Project of the City in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon"
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Nadi Abusaada's recent article titled "Combined Action: Aerial Imagery and the Urban Landscape in Interwar Palestine, 1918-40" has been published in the special issue of Jerusalem Quarterly. The paper is available at academia.edu/42894378/Combin…
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CONGRATULATIONS to Anwar Jaber for passing her PhD viva today 🥳
After a long journey: I am pleased to annouce that I successfully passed my PhD viva today, the oral examination for the PhD in #architecture at the University of Cambridge! Thanks to all those who helped me - I am grateful to all :) @arch_cambridge @UrbanConflicts @ChurchillCol
Video now available of the results of the @TUBerlin / @Cambridge_Uni summer school on refugee housing. Congratulations @TobyParsloe! Video available at: vimeo.com/406534207
I'm exceptionally proud to share the video of our final outcomes for our collaborative architectural summer school between @Cambridge_Uni and @TUBerlin that looks at urban refugee shelter, hosted by @SFB1265 and funded by @ahrcpress: vimeo.com/406534207
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'Designs for a Refugee Shelter Rooftop' event on 25/02 at Newnham College at 17.30. The event presents design interventions for a refugee shelter in Berlin that grappled with the architectural questions raised by the so-called 'Refugee Crisis' of 2015. [1/2]
The designs were an outcome of a collaborative summer school for architecture students at the University of Cambridge and the Technical University Berlin.
Free tickets are available at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/designs-f… [2/2]
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Alex Young Il Seo will exhibit his work on the inter-Korean Border, ’Travels in Woundedland’, developed in collaboration with Manfredo Manfredini at the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2019: Urban Interactions
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Jessie Fyfe and Max Sternberg have published an article entitled 'Unsettled landscapes: traumatic memory in a Croatian hinterland' in the most recent edition of Space and Polity. Access via: tandfonline.com/eprint/WPBF8…
Present and former UCR members are today gathered for a symposium held in honour of Professor Wendy Pullan, following her retirement in September
Wendy Pullan will speak as part of a two-part panel discussion entitled 'Jerusalem: historical approaches to sharing sacred spaces' on 8th and 9th November at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Book tickets at: eventbrite.com/e/jerusalem-h… AND eventbrite.com/e/jerusalem-h…
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UCR’s Theodora Bowering @ageingandcities published a paper: 'Ageing, Mobility and the City: Objects, Infrastructures and Practices in Everyday Assemblages of Civic Spaces in East London', in Journal of Population Ageing
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UCR'S @YasminaChami and @NadiSaadeh are organising the symposium 'Conflicted Narratives, Future Trajectories: Rewriting Critical Architectural and Urban Histories of Nationalism, Colonialism, and Modernity'. Cambridge, 28/09/2019. 2 weeks to sign up, at: onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/…
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Eve Avdoulos has recently successfully defended her PhD entitled ‘Detroit in Decline: An investigation into the dynamics of two urban neighbourhoods’. Eve will join the Young Foundation as a Senior Researcher on 1st July. Congratulations Dr Avdoulos! @eveavdoulos @the_young_fdn
UCR's @NadiSaadeh recently published: 'Self-Portrait of a Nation: The Arab Exhibition in Mandate Jerusalem, 1931-34' in Jerusalem Quarterly. The paper won the 2019 Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem. Read at: academia.edu/39645654/JQ_77_…
Congratulations Nadi!
Professor Wendy Pullan delivering the keynote at today’s #citiesinconflict conference at University College Cork. Wendy discussed ‘The Conditions of Urbicide’, in reference to war, urban redevelopment and terrorism. – at Cork, Ireland
. @AmyBatley presenting her PhD work on urban communities after terrorism, at the #citiesinconflict conference at University College Cork – at Cork, Ireland
Thank you to @Ammar_Azz & @ArupGroup for hosting the UCR panel event ‘War on Cities’ on 30th April. Also thank you to Dr. @RoxaneFarma, @DRovera, @MGeisserICRC & Wendy Pullan of @arch_cambridge. Special thanks to @bbclysedoucet for chairing the panel. – at London, England
Yasmina El Chami is presenting her ongoing PhD research in the Buell Centre Dissertation Colloquium on May 3rd & 4th at Columbia University, NY. @YasminaChami @ColumbiaGSAPP
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Lyse Doucet will be chairing the ‘war on cities’ panel, hosted by @ArupGroup, tomorrow. @bbclysedoucet
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