2022

April 2, 2022 Imperial Valley Field Trip organized in collaboration with Farrah Karapetian (USD Art Dept.)

   departing 9:00am

April 7, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR, Talk/workshop with Akshita Sivakumar, PhD Candidate, UCSD

   5:15 - 6:15pm

April 14, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR, Talk/workshop with artist Hans Baumann

    5:15 - 6:15pm

April 14, 2022 Cities Tech group reading Ruth Wilson Gilmore

    9:00am

April 16, 2022 Surveillance capitalism, borders, and police with Cory Doctorow, Sarah T. Hamid, Pedro Rios, and Khalid Alexander organized by Tech Workers Coalition

April 21, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR

5:15-6:15pm

April 22, 2022 NSP Coffee Reading Dialogues: Jason De Leon, Sepúlveda // Carolina Caycedo and Ofelia Zepeda

10:00am-12:00pm

April 28, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR 

5:15-6:15pm

April 25, 2022 “Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India”, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, co-sponsored with South Asia Institute (SAI)

April 26, 2022 Guest talk/workshop with UXO Architects (Ashton Hamm, Matthew Ridgeway, Alice Armstrong), working on projects with Wiyot Tribe 

May 5, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR 

5:15-6:15pm

May 6, 2022 Cities Tech group reading A Third University is Possible by la paperson

9:00am

May 12, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR,  Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973. Book Talk by Ayala Levin, Associate Professor, Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA

5:15-6:15pm

May 19, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR

5:15-6:15pm

May 22, 2022 NSP Coffee Reading Dialogues: Russell Roberts Bordewaters

10:00am-12:00pm

May 26, 2022 Cities Tech group reading Juan del Nido

9:00am

May 26, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR, Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design. Book talk by Ginger Nolan, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California

5:15-6:15pm

June 1, 2022 USP Colloquium: Book launch & discussion,  Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas, edited by Fernando Luiz Lara and Felipe Hernandez

June 2, 2022 JUST HAPPY HOUR

5:15-6:15pm

June 4, 2022 Decolonizing Regionalism Workshop. Supported by the UC Humanities Research Institute.

1:00 - 3:00pm

June 6, 2022 NSP Spring Workshop: Border(ings), Refusals and Regeneration

August 18-19, 2022 Prefiguring and Resisting Tech: Towards Just Transitions Workshop (Zoom)

2021

November 16, 2021 Mariel Garcia Llorens, with Davide Carpano as discussant on “Pushing fintech” (JTI Infrastructural Transitions series)

November 19, 2021 Cities Tech Reading Group, Against Scale: Provocations and Resistances to Scale Thinking by Hanna and Park and The Politics of Scaling by Pfotenhauer et al. (email vkhovanskaya@ucsd.edu for information)

November 29, 2021 Manfredo Tafuri reading group

December 7, 2021 (TBC) Guest Speaker Dialogue Series, Nature Space and Politics: Bobby Wallace, Cathy Gere & Boatema Boateng: sitting in, praying, holding on as long term refusals to border wall// lithium extractions 

January 2021 JTI launch event

Feb 4, 2022 “Legalities for Living”, Lecture & seminar for Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Doctoral research residencyprogram 

February 16, 2022 “How should we teach midcentury modernism?”, Lecture for College Art Association annual conference 

April 27, 2022 “Beyond Critical Regionalism: Coloniality and the Region”, Panel at the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference 

May 2022 Decolonizing Regionalism conference at UCSD 

Spring 2022 Struggles for Real Utopias Workshop

Spring 2023 Real Utopias at the Edgelands Conference