Schedule
March 20, 2026, 9 am - 6 pm
The Commons @ Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor
Welcome
Remarks from Dean Jonathan Massey and organizing team.Coffee and tea will be served.
10 am -12 pm
Session one:
Reading the built world as record
Moderated by Hilary Huckins-Weidner
Keynote:
“The Stones We Stack”: Evidentiary Politics
and
the Protection of Mauna Kea
Dr. Caitlin Blanchfield (Cornell University)
Graduate lightning talks:
- Madeleine Aquilina (Ph.D candidate, Art History)
-
Hilary Huckins-Weidner (Ph.D student, Architecture)
- Myles Zhang (Ph.D candidate, Architecture)
Discussant: Dr. Phoebe Springstubb (History of Art)
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12-12:45 pm
Lunch Break
12:45-2:45 pm
Session two:
Archival (In)tangibilities
Moderated by Dana Salama
Keynote:
Nubian womanhood as method
Dr. Menna Agha (Carleton University)
Graduate lightning talks:- Eda Bozkurt (Ph.D candidate, Architecture)
- Natalie Leonard (Ph.D candidate, Architecture)
Discussant: Dr. Yasmin Moll (Department of Anthropology)
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2:45-3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00-5:00 pm
Session three:
Opacity in historiographies of global modernism
Moderated by Sarah K. Cheema
This session is co-sponsored by U-M Centre for South Asian Studies.
Keynote:
Inheritance, Intergenerational Knowledge, and Historiography
Dr. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College)
Graduate lightning talks: -
Sben Korsh (Ph.D candidate, Architecture)
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Sarah K. Cheema (Ph.D candidate, Architecture)
- Dana Salama (Ph.D student, Architecture)
Discussant: Dr. Dicle Taskin (Detroit Mercy)
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5:00-5:40 pm
Closing discussion with keynote speakers, moderators, respondents
5:45-5:50
Closing remarks by Professor Antje Steinmuller,
Chair of the Architecture Department