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Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi: Dadaab Commons

Wed, Jun 11    11:30am

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an architectural historian at Barnard College, Columbia University, and author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, “Theory in Forms” series), on the spatial politics, visual rhetoric, ecologies, and long colonial traditions of the UNHCR-administered camps at Dadaab, Kenya. Her book manuscript Ecologies of the Past: The Inhabitations and Designs of Anil and Minnette de Silva analyzes the politics of heritage environments through the work of Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva and art historian Anil de Silva-Vigier. Siddiqi is the author of Minnette De Silva: Intersections (Mack Books). Her scholarship centers African and South Asian questions of historicity and archives, heritage politics, and feminist and colonial practices, foregrounding marginalized histories and communities that have been systematically silenced.

Introduction and response by Beril Sarisakal Erkent & AAD Students