Event time:
Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Online ()
Event description:
SASC Colloquium: Buffers: Infrastructure and the Management of Agricultural Uncertainty in India c. 1960
Ateya Khorakiwala, Columbia University.
Ateya Khorakiwala is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP. Her research and teaching focus on the infrastructural environments and ecological landscapes of the developmental Indian state. She has also written about the aesthetics of construction material like concrete, bamboo, and plastic. She is working on a book that explores the impact of famine and hunger in the aesthetics of postcolonial architectural and infrastructural modernism.
Please register at the following Zoom link: tinyurl.com/SASCOct15.
Ateya Khorakiwala, Columbia University.