The Housing Conference: Nomad Seminar in Historiography
Department of Art, Architecture + Art History
University of San Diego
March 12-13, 2014

Keynote address featuring Reinhold Martin, GSAPP, Columbia University

Co-Chairs: Juliana Maxim, Can Bilsel, and Connelly Meschen

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015

9:30 am
Camino Hall 43

Welcoming Address
Noelle Norton, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego
Carmen Popescu, Université Paris I-Sorbonne

10 am – 12 pm
Camino Hall 43
Panel One – Battlegrounds

Michael McCulloch, University of Michigan
“Glass and Stones: Materials of Race and Neighborhood Violence in 1920s Detroit”

Sheila Crane, University of Virginia
“Dwelling in the State of Exception: Housing as Weapon in the Battles of Algiers”

Emrah Altınok, Istanbul Bilgi University
“To Have Or Not To Have, That Is The Question: The Unseen Dimensions of Housing Question in Turkey. The Case of TOKİ, İstanbul in Post-2000 Period”

Respondent: Patricia Morton, UC Riverside

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Camino Hall 43
Panel Two – Imaginaries

Ana María León, MIT
“Modern Architecture Will Help You. Buenos Aires, 1949”

Daria Bocharnikova, Harvard University
“After Solving Housing Crisis in the USSR: NER Diagram for Future Settlements”

Respondent: Sylvia Lavin, UCLA

4 pm – 6 pm
Camino Hall 43
Panel Three – Discourses / Territories

Sabrina Shafique, University of Kansas
“Catherine Bauer and the Housing Question: The Social, Economic, and Humanitarian Turn in Design, 1934-1964”

Andrew Herscher, University of Michigan
Dan Monk, Colgate University
“Humanitarianism and the Housing Question”

Kenny Cupers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing”

Respondent: Michael Osman, UCLA

6:30 pm
Manchester Conference Center Auditorium
Keynote Address

Opening Remarks: Andrew T. Allen, Vice President and Provost, University of San Diego

Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
"Housing and History: The Case of the Specific Intellectual"

with an introduction by Can Bilsel, University of San Diego

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

9 am – 11 am
Camino Hall 43
Panel Four – Types / Communities

Clare Robinson, University of Arizona
“Class, ethnicity, and the mid-century subdivision: re-examining Pueblo Gardens “

Kimberly Zarecor, Iowa State University
“The Red Levittowns: Socialist Housing Estates as a Suburban Typology”

Kıvanç Kılınç, Yasar University, Izmir
“Nomadic Modern/Modern Vernacular: Social Housing Projects in Izmir (1950-1970)”

Respondent: Susanne Schindler

11:15 am – 1:30 pm
Camino Hall 43
Panel Five – Crises / Exclusions

Nandini Bagchee, CCNY, CUNY
“Housing and Activism in New York City”

Şebnem Yücel, Yasar University, Izmir
“Gentrifying Urla: Gated Communities and “Landscapes Of Privilege”

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Bryn Mawr College
“Humanitarian shelter and the making of the emergency subject.”

Respondent: Juliana Maxim, University of San Diego

Closing Remarks
Can Bilsel, University of San Diego