march 25, 2021
This conversation will focus on the ground as material medium through which to connect with ancestors, as a manifestation of ancestral presence and care, as a homeplace. It will consider dislocated grounds as a medium through which to explore, shape and express diasporic identities and connections to homeland. It will additionally investigate ancestral grounds as sites of dispossession, expulsion and displacement, and as a political terrain to which claims to rights and access are played out; where communities indigenous to a particular ground can claim the right to self-determination.
Moderator: thaisa way
Professor of Landscape Architecture, College of Built Environments, University of Washington and Director of Garden & Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks
Speaker: Abigail Deville
Artist, Site-Specific Immersive Installations
Speaker: Anoush Tamar Suni
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Speaker: Zoe todd
Associate Professor, Carleton University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures
Speaker: sara zewde
Assistant Professor of Practice, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Founding Principal of Studio Zewde