Please visit http://heymancenter.org/events/storytelling-and-spatial-violence/ to register.
You will be sent a Zoom link the day before, and the day of, the event.
Co-organized by Maria Gonzalez Pendas with Nisrin Elamin, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Dimitris Antoniou
The Public Humanities Initiative at the SOF/Heyman
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative, the Center for Spatial Research, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University.
Please join us for a film and discussion series on the impacts of gentrification, development, and other forms of spatial violence. The Public Humanities Initiative at the SOF/Heyman presents four events exploring architectural and territorial planning as instruments of violence, and the activists that seek to use visual and narrative storytelling as a way to reclaim spatial rights. The films we will highlight not only serve to reflect on the contemporary global context of spatial violence, they also serve as instances where artistic and humanistic production engage in spatial activism.
Panels feature the film’s director/producer in discussion with architectural historians, sociologists, and others. All films will be available to registrants for the 24 hours preceding the scheduled panel time.
Please click here to register for the series. You will be sent a Zoom link the day before, and the day of, the event.
Co-organized by Maria Gonzalez Pendas with Nisrin Elamin, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Dimitris Antoniou
Co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative, the Center for Spatial Research, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University.
Scheduled Panels
Third Kind | 2018 | 21 mins
December 10th, 12:00pm EST
This event is hosted by the The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative and the University Seminar in Modern Greek
Director Yorgos Zois will participate in a panel discussion following a screening of Third Kind, a sci-fi film that invites us to contemplate ruination, nostalgia for a future-present, economies of abandonment, and collateral populations and spaces. The film considers the refugee crisis in Greece from the perspective of an alien future and through the abandoned Ellinikon airport—a former camp that was violently evacuated to facilitate a large development project. In narrating such spatial and social histories of dispossession, Zois frames this tale as follows: “Earth has been abandoned for a long time and the human race has found refuge in outer space. Three archaeologists return to Earth to investigate where a mysterious five tone signal is coming from…»
Yorgos Zois, film director in conversation with anthropologists George Μantzios (University of Toronto) and Dimitris Antoniou (SNFPHI, Columbia University)
