Description: This research project addresses the transfer of knowledge in architecture, urbanism, engineering, and building technology from the socialist countries towards the post-colonial South during the Cold War
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Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad: From Revolution through the Gulf War and Beyond Conference at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, September 18-20, 2014
Using the history of urban development in Baghdad as a reference point, this conference examines the extent to which interventions intended to modernize and integrate different populations in the city were part of a larger process of negotiating competing visions of political economy, sovereignty, and identity in post-WWII Iraq. By gathering political scientists, architectural and urban historians, and scholars of Iraq and the larger Arab world, the conference engages theoretical and empirical questions abo
Thursday, September 18 | Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA