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Weixin Zhou, “Designing Reconstruction: Architecture, French Society and the Working Class, 1945-1967”

National Humanities Center 7 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States

In this talk, Weixin Zhou (UNC, Chapel Hill) will discuss a chapter of her dissertation, Designing Reconstruction: Architecture, French Society and the Working Class, 1945-1967. The chapter will discuss the housing policies of the newly established Ministry of Reconstruction and … Read more

Disaster Governance and Acoustic Atmospheres in Urban Vietnam

Ackland Art Museum

Disasters disrupt, altering the course of urban futurity and how people perceive, navigate and make sense of risk and uncertainty. This talk argues for greater attention to the sensory dimensions of disasters—from warfare to pandemics—particularly as experienced through sonic rupture. Such … Read more

Dore Bowen, “Animals, Monarchy, and Magic: Countermodernism and the Diorama in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paris.”

National Humanities Center 7 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States

Dore Bowen (Duke) discussing her paper “Animals, Monarchy, and Magic: Countermodernism and the Diorama in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paris.” Focusing in on the diorama, it studies visual references to animals, monarchy, and magic in its painted tableaux, as well as … Read more