Between Barbados and Boston: Histories of Migration and the Built Environment
When: Thursday,
November 15, 2018
6:00 PM
-
8:00 PM
Where: Star Store, New Bedford Purchase Street, New Bedford
Cost: NA
Description: Lecture by Dr. Itohan Osayimwese
Professor of Architecture at Brown University
Nov 15th, 6-8pm
This lecture is organized in conjunction with the Black Spaces Matter exhibition at the University Art Gallery of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth November 8, 2018 - January 30, 2019
About the speaker:
Itohan Osayimwese teaches architectural history at Brown University and is an affiliate faculty member of Africana Studies and a faculty fellow at the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology. Her research engages with theories of modernity, postcoloniality, and globalization to analyze modern architecture, urban design, and visual culture in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany, East and West Africa, and the Caribbean. Her book, Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany received (Pittsburgh, 2017), received a 2016 Society of Architectural Historians/Mellon Foundation award. Current research projects include the effects of migration on the built environment of Barbados from emancipation to the twentieth century, the literary archive and translation in African architecture, tropical modernism and transnational networks of scientific expertise in post-independence Nigeria, and gender and the postcolonial modernist artistic avant-garde in Nigeria. Professor Osayimwese sits on the board of the Society of Architectural Historians and is a member of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative.
Professor of Architecture at Brown University
Nov 15th, 6-8pm
This lecture is organized in conjunction with the Black Spaces Matter exhibition at the University Art Gallery of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth November 8, 2018 - January 30, 2019
About the speaker:
Itohan Osayimwese teaches architectural history at Brown University and is an affiliate faculty member of Africana Studies and a faculty fellow at the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology. Her research engages with theories of modernity, postcoloniality, and globalization to analyze modern architecture, urban design, and visual culture in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany, East and West Africa, and the Caribbean. Her book, Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany received (Pittsburgh, 2017), received a 2016 Society of Architectural Historians/Mellon Foundation award. Current research projects include the effects of migration on the built environment of Barbados from emancipation to the twentieth century, the literary archive and translation in African architecture, tropical modernism and transnational networks of scientific expertise in post-independence Nigeria, and gender and the postcolonial modernist artistic avant-garde in Nigeria. Professor Osayimwese sits on the board of the Society of Architectural Historians and is a member of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative.
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