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SUMMARY:City Seminar: Gruia Badescu - Gruia Badescu\, University of Konsta
 nz
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DTEND:20190122T190000Z
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CONTACT:Tanvi
DESCRIPTION:*Architecture and 'coming to terms with the past': Post-war re
 construction in Belgrade and Sarajevo*\n\nIn the aftermath of war\, how do
 es the work of architects relate to the memory-work and dealing with past 
 processes that haunt post-war societies? This talk discusses the rebuildin
 g of cities after war in the context of the changing character of warfare 
 and the increased expectations for societies to deal with difficult pasts.
  Departing from studies that approach post-war reconstruction focusing on 
 the functional dimension of infrastructural repair and housing relief or o
 n debates about architectural form\, I examine reconstruction through the 
 lens of the process of 'coming to terms with the past'. Building on the mo
 ral philosophy of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt\, I discuss the potenti
 al of reconstruction to work through the past\, and engage with key insigh
 ts from three situations of rebuilding after different types of war: the r
 ebuilding of Belgrade as the capital of socialist Yugoslavia after the aer
 ial bombings typical of the Second World War\; reconstruction debates in t
 he same city after the 1999 NATO bombings\, a high-tech operation\, framed
  by NATO as a preventative\, humanitarian intervention against a 'perpetra
 tor' state\; finally\, rebuilding processes in Sarajevo\, exemplary of Mar
 y Kaldor's 'new wars'. I discuss the potentiality of architecture to engag
 e with memory-work and the ethics of responsibility in post-war reconstruc
 tion and propose a typology of post-war reconstruction in its relationship
  to social coming to terms with the past.\n\nThe City Seminar Series this 
 year\, co-hosted by the Department of Geography and the Department of Arch
 itecture\, will convene around the theme 'Infrastructures of Memory'. The 
 intention of this series is to explore a variety of techniques\, technolog
 ies\, rituals\, performances and materialities of memory and remembrance\,
  and how they may reinforce or subvert prevailing power relations.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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