Toxicité coloniale : récitation de l'architecture et du paysage radioactifs français au Sahara
Réseau Art et Architecture du 19e siecle | Research on Art and Architecture of the 19th century
Département d'histoire de l'art, Université du Quebec
February 4, 2025
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Toxic Environments: Possible Media
Lecture Series "Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance"
University of Siegen
January 22, 2025
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Toxicité coloniale : récitation de l'architecture et du paysage radioactifs français au Sahara
Séminaire vivant et écologies dans les crises et dans les guerres - Sociétés arabes et mondes musulmans contemporains
Organized by Stéphanie Latte Abdallah et Juliette Duclos-Valois, EHESS, University of Paris 8
December 18, 2024
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Colonial Doctrines
Decolonize the City, Cantiere Milano, Giovani palestinesi d'Italia, Architetti senza Frontiere Italia, Archives, Milano
December 13, 2024
Discreet Violence
Online panel discussion "Future Archives" with Massinissa Selmani organized by Natasha Marie Llorens on the occasion of Selmani's exhibition "1000 Villages"
Index, Stockholm
December 6, 2024
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Documenting Colonial Toxicity
Lecture series organized by the CARAH - Collective for Anti-Racist Art History
Art History Institute, University of Zurich
December 5, 2024
Towards a Nomadic Critique of Architecture
Parlement de la recherche, Couvent de la Tourette, France
November 29-30, 2024
Documenting Colonial Toxicity
In "Disrupting Conjurations" International Meeting
Museum Habitat, Ateneu Barcelones, Barcelona
November 25-27, 2024
Colonial Toxicity
Colloquium in Architecture & Urbanism
University of California Berkeley
November 6, 2024
Toxicity, Forced Migration and the Resistance of the Earth
Convened and moderated by Ariella Aisha Azoulay, with panelists Al-Wah'at (Ailo Ribas, Gabriella Demczuk, & Areej Ashhab), Samia Henni, Jumana Manna, Sherena Razek, Elemental Media Conference, Brown University
17 October, 2024
Program
Debt of Settler Colonialism and Climate Catastrophe
With Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, Samia Henni, Marie-Helene Villierme and Mililani Ganivet, and Olivier Marboeuf
In Climate Forum II: Colonial Toxicity, the Climate Movement and Art Institutions
Organized by Nick Aikens and Nkule Mabaso
September 27, 2024
Program
Saharan Wind
Wind Tunnel Festival 2024
Swirling Winds Won't Center
Toni-Areal, Zurich
May 24-25, 2024
Program
Architecture of Counterrevolution
Keynote Lecture
The Future of Humanitarian Design Symposium
The Graduate Institute, HEAD, and the University of Copenhagen
HEAD Geneva
May 13, 2024
Program
Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara
e-flux Architecture Lectures
e-flux, New York
March 25, 2024
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Colonial Legacies
Loudreaders #47
Organized by Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia
February 21, 2024
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Designing for the
Atomic Age
KilmaHouse Congress
Bolzano Fair 2024
February 2, 2024
Program
Climate Regimes
Conversation with Rob Nixon
Affirmations 6
Columbia GSAPP
Response by Keller Easterling and Reinhold Martin
January 24, 2024
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Rehearsing Colonial Toxicity
Keynote Lecture
The Third Ecology
EAHN Thematic Conference Reykjavik 2023
MoMA x Iceland University of the Arts
Listahaskoli Islands, Iceland
October 11-13, 2023
Program
On Performing Colonial Toxicity
CCA Research Network Annual Online Lecture
In Conversation with Jay Pather
September 26, 2023
Wars, Built and Destroyed Environments
Keynote Lecture
The Skopje Project Conference
Faculty of Architecture, University SS. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia
June 7-9, 2023
Program
Against the Regime of Emptiness
Agha Khan Program in Islamic Architecture
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
May 24, 2023
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Histoire(s) des environnements batis, detruits et imagines
Cycle D'autres reliefs
Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais
11 May, 2023
Summary
Colonial Toxicity or Toxic Coloniality?
Militant Ecologies Seminar: Terrains of Struggle
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
The University of Amsterdam
24 March, 2023
Mapping French Radioactive Geologies in the Sahara
The Trinity College Dublin Geography Seminar Series
The Trinity College Dublin
March 16, 2023
Colonial Toxicity: France's Plutopia in the Sahara
Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
McGill University
March 7, 2023
Poster
Deserts Are Not Empty
OCEAN / UNI "Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender"
Mediterranean as hotspot for climate change and adaptation
February 22, 2023
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Colonial Toxicity or Toxic Coloniality?
Keynote Lecture
The II International Congress on Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Colonialism and War
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
January 19, 2023
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Architecture of Colonial Uprooting: France's Military Operations in Algeria
Theories of Transculturality Lecture Series
Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Duesseldorf
July 11, 2022
Performing Colonial Toxicity
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution
Inaugural Symposium
Edition IX: Bodies and Technologies
Amsterdam
June 27, 2022
La bombe nucleaire : un aspect meconnu du fait imperial
Keynote Lecture, Mars Imperium, Histoire et memoires (post)coloniales XIX e -XXIe siècles
MMSH, Aix-en-Provence
June 7, 2022
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Repair and Reparation in Contrast to Refusal
Goethe Institut, London
28-29 March, 2022
Colonial Toxicity: France's Nuclear Heritage in the Sahara
The Eleanore Pettersen Lecture
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
The Cooper Union
April 26, 2022
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Colonial Impositions and Their Non-Effects: The Problem of French Domestic Norms and Forms in Colonized Algeria
Institut fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst (Institute for Contemporary Art)
TU Graz
April 5, 2022
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Colonial Toxicity: France's Architecture of Ecocide in the Sahara
In Settler Colonialism and Architecture
The Architecture Roundtable organized by graduate students
The University of California, Berkeley
April 1, 2022
Architecture Toxique au Sahara
Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture ENSA Paris-Est
March 15, 2022
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Architecture of Ecocide: France's Toxic Wastes in the Sahara
Dipartimento di Architettura e Design (DAD)
Politecnico di Torino
February 15, 2022
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Illegal or Secret? On France's Classification of Declassified Archives
In Architecture/Archive/Activism Lecture Series
Center for Critical Studies in Architecture
Art History Department
Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main
February 10, 2022
Sur la libération
In "Croire en la liberté"
Rencontres d'Averroés: Penser la Meditteranée des deux rives
Théatre de La Criée, Marseille
November 21, 2021
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How to Depict Toxicity? On France's Radioactive
Remnants in the Sahara
Yale Architecture Forum
November 2, 2021
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Archives: Secret Défense?
Invocations: For the Phoenix to Find its Form in us.
On Restitution, Rehabilitation, and Reparation
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Elena Agudio, Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, and Alya Sebti
August 21, 2021
Program
Ways of Publishing #4
Architecture de la contre-révolution
Conversation between Samia Henni
and Léopold Lambert
Bétonsalon, Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris
July 3, 2021
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Archival Violence
Doctoral School "Unearthing Traces: Dismantling imperialist entanglement of archives and the built environment"
Co-organized by Denise Bertschi and Julien Lafontaine Carboni
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
May 28, 2021
Program
Toxic Architecture
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius
Faculty of Architecture
Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
April 28, 2021
Sahara Testing
Entanglements: Samia Henni and
Nora Akawi
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
The Cooper Union
April 27, 2021
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Desert Toxic Modernism
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
March 10, 2021
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What is Intersectional Feminist Practice?
March 26, 2020
Panel discussion curated and moderated by Samia Henni
With Valeria Dani, Maria Gonzalez Pendas, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, and Bryony Roberts
Bard Graduate Center, New York
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Architecture of Counterrevolution
May 21, 2019
Garagem Sul - Lectures from the Garage, Lisbon
Abstract
Teaching the Global Workshop
Organized by Ana Maria Leon
April 26-27, 2019
Society of Architectural Historians
72nd Annual International Conference
Providence, Rhode Island
Blackness and the Visual Symposium
Organized by Naminata Diabate
April 19-20, 2019
Department of Comparative Literature
Cornell University
Program
Colonial and Contemporary Landscapes of Violence
In The Palestine Festival of Literature
April 10, 2019
Panel discussion with Nick Estes, Samia Henni, Madiha Tahir
Moderated by Rema Hammami
Poetry from Victoria Adukwei Bulley
The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit
Program
The Weaponized Space of Colonialism in Algeria, Turtle Island and Palestine
Organized by Léopold Lambert, The Funambulist
In The Palestine Festival of Literature
An-Najah University, Nablus
April 10, 2019
Abstract
Architecture of Counterrevolution
April 3, 2019
Department of Architecture
Iowa State University, Ames
Abstract
The Coloniality of Counterrevolution
March 12, 2019
Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture
Organized by Professor Ariella Azoulay
Conversation with Houria Bouteldja
Brown University
Croiser l'analyse esthétique et l'approche sociopolitique : un défi continu
Conversation with Nadine Atallah
February 26, 2019
Laboratoire InVisu, CNRS/INHA
Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
War Zones
Book Launch
March 13, 2020
Department of Architecture
AAP College, Cornell Univeristy
Ithaca, New York
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Architecture of Counterrevolution
Counterculture Lecture Series
February 12, 2020
School of Architecture and Planning
University of Buffalo
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Architecture de la contre-révolution
Book Panel with Zineb Sedira
January 8, 2020
This discussion aims to discuss common or resonant themes in the respective research of Samia Henni and Zineb Sedira, whether it be memory and history, particularly Algerian in colonial and postcolonial times, the work of archives, or the place of art and artists "facing History"
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
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Anticolonial Commitments
November 28, 2019
In AA New Canonical Histories
Architectural Association London
Lecture
Book Launch
Architecture de la
contre-révolution
Paris: Editions B42
November 6, 2019
Librairie Volume, Paris
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A Mansourah, tu
nous as séparés
By Dorothée-Myriam Kellou
November 5, 2019
Film panel discussion with Karima Lazali and Fabien Sacriste
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
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Architecture of Counterrevolution
October 25, 2019
In Spaces of Conflict
College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Kent State University
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French Colonial Approaches to Domesticity and Religion
October 3-4, 2019
Workshop Time, Space, Memory
Institute for Religion, Culture and
Public Life
Columbia University
France's Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Algerian Sahara
May 30, 2019
In Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies
In honor of Professor Zeynep Celik
Convened by Professors Ali Behdad and Susan Slyomovics
UCLA, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Los Angeles
Migration and Colonial Modernities
Chaired by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Hollyamber Kennedy
February 14, 2019
College of Art Association Annual Conference, New York
Colonial Spatiality in African
Saharan Regions
January 17, 2019
Chaired session, International Congress on Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes, January 16-18, 2019, Lisbon
Program
Master of Arts in Public Spheres
Ecole Cantonale d'Art du Valais, Sierre
Faculty of Stage Design
Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden
Discreet Violence
November 8, 2018
VI PER Gallery, Prague
Preview
In 1968/2018 Cities on the Edge
Ocotber 8, 2018
Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities
Samia Henni with
Sheila Kohler, Lewis Center for the Arts
Abstract
April 19, 2018
Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
In Structural Instabilities: History, Environment, and Risk in Architecture
Symposium convened by Daniel A. Barber, Sophie Hochhaeusl, Eduardo Rega Calvo and Naomi Waltham-Smith
April 5, 2018
PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania
Program
Intra-Disciplinary Seminar
Public Lecture organized by Leslie Hewitt and Omar Berrada
April 2, 2018
The Cooper Union
Abstract
Aga Khan Program Lecture
March 9, 2018
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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In Crossing the Mediterranean: Migration, Death and Culture
Organized and moderated by
Esra Akcan
February 27, 2018
Cornell Institute for European Studies, Cornell University
Program
History/Theory, a collaboration between the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich and e-flux Architecture, seeks to question the institutional implications of the fact that knowledge is produced through a plurality of forms and in a multitude of sites, and not just those sanctioned by privileged traditions.
November 14, 2017
e-flux, New York
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Book presentations
The New Institute, Rotterdam, December 21, 2017
EHESS, Paris, December 20, 2017
Archive Kabinett, December 19, 2017
ETH Zurich, December 18, 2017
April 25, 2017
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
Universita della Svizzera Italiana
French Military Forced Displacements in Algeria, 1954-1962
Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Session "Spaces of Displacement" Chaired by Irit Katz and Felipe Hernandez, University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
June 7-11, 2017
In Crossing the Mediterranean: Migration, Death and Culture
Organized and moderated by
Esra Akcan
February 27, 2018
Cornell Institute for European Studies, Cornell University
Program
History/Theory, a collaboration between the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich and e-flux Architecture, seeks to question the institutional implications of the fact that knowledge is produced through a plurality of forms and in a multitude of sites, and not just those sanctioned by privileged traditions.
November 14, 2017
e-flux, New York
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Book presentations
The New Institute, Rotterdam, December 21, 2017
EHESS, Paris, December 20, 2017
Archive Kabinett, December 19, 2017
ETH Zurich, December 18, 2017
April 25, 2017
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
Universita della Svizzera Italiana
French Military Forced Displacements in Algeria, 1954-1962
Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Session "Spaces of Displacement" Chaired by Irit Katz and Felipe Hernandez, University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
June 7-11, 2017
March 21, 2017
Laboratoire InVisu, CNRS/INHA, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
September 23, 2016
In Sorry We're Open (a week long program that unravels histories, stories and memories of migration and social exclusion in the Schinkelbuurt and Hoofddorppleinbuurt neighborhood in Amsterdam South) organized by the Side Room at the Teatro Munganga, Amsterdam
June 17, 2016
As part of the public program of the exhibition Something to Generate From curated by Madrassa Collective.
Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
European Architectural History Network: Fourth International Meeting, Session "A Question of 'Shared Culture' or of '(Selective) Borrowing(s)'? Twentieth-Century Colonial Public Works Departments Seen From a Transnational Perspective" Chaired by Johan Lagae and Ana Vaz Milheiro, Dublin, Irland
June 2-4, 2016
Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Session "Post-war Architecture and African Legacy: Which Tradition?" Chaired by Elisa Dainese, Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA, USA
April 6-10, 2016
Chair of Prof. Guenter Vogt, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
October 4, 2015
Organized by gta Archives and moderated by Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, Centre Le Corbusier, Zurich, Switzerland
September 30, 2015
Filmreihe on Mass Housing, organized by doctoral fellows, gta, D-ARCH, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
March 04, 2015
The Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom
June 26, 2014
Abstract
Doctoral Colloquium, gta, D-ARCH, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
May 27, 2014
Seminar, Law and Order in Architecture. Chair of Prof. Andreas Toennesmann, gta, D-ARCH, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
May 8, 2014
Curatorial/Knowledge Seminar, Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom
May 2, 2014
With Leire Vergara.
Curatorial/Knowledge Seminar, Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom
March 13, 2014
Abstract
Roaming Research Academy/ Travelling Communique: From Belgrade, September 5, 1961. By Doreen Mende.
Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, The Netherlands
January 7-8, 2014
Abstract
With Leire Vergara.
Arteypensamiento, Sobre Capital y Territorio, International University of Andalucia (UNIA), Sevilla, Spain
December 2, 2013
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