Shaky Grounds

april 22, 2021

 

Contested ground claims, occupancies and appropriations are often played out over the most unstable of grounds – sites of flood, flow, subsidence, slide, as well as ground rendered fugitive through increasing aridity and/or misuse. This conversation is intended to consider the intersection of geo-/spatio- political forces and geophysical instability, including what it means to occupy or be forced to occupy (or flee) risky ground. It additionally aims to imagine how grounds deemed instable have the potential to be sites of possibility, for alternate modes and models of existence.

MODERATOR: Davi Schoen

USC Faculty, Landscape Designer, STOSS

Speaker: DILIP DA CUNHA

Adjunct Professor, Columbia University and Principal of Mathur | da Cunha

Speaker: DEBJANI DUTTA

Doctoral candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Speaker: KRISTINA LYONS

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

Speaker: ANURADHA MATHUR

Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania and Principal of Mathur | da Cunha

Speaker: JUANITA SUNDBERG

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

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