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THE DETLEF MERTINS LECTURE ON THE HISTORIES OF MODERNITY: Desiree Valadares

Thu, Oct 9    6:30pm

Desirée Valadares (University of British Columbia) will deliver the Detlef Mertins lecture on the Histories of Modernity. With an introduction by Mabel Wilson and a response by Ateyah Khorakiwala.

Desirée Valadares is a landscape architect and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver in the Geography Department and a Faculty Affiliate in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. Her research, writing and photography centers on the cultural memory, infrastructural imaginaries, and heritage politics of Pacific War landscapes in Canada, Alaska and Hawai‘i. Her published works appear or are forthcoming in Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, RACAR: revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, Aggregate: Architectural History Collaborative, Radical History Review, Change over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment, and The Funambulist. Her editorial contributions are featured in the Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians (2020-25) and The Avery Review: Critical Essays on Architecture (2020-21).

The Detlef Mertins Lecture on the Histories of Modernity is an annual lecture in honor of the life and work of Detlef Mertins (1954-2011), endowed by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown. Previous speakers include Lucia Allais, Craig Buckley, Zeynep Cęlik Alexander, Ayala Levin, Anthony Acciavatti, and Sophie Hochhäusl.