Remapping the Urban:
Everyday Practices of Adaptation & the Politics of Presence
20 October 2017
Wilson Hall 142
1:00–1:15 Welcome & introduction, Sheila Crane, Associate Professor & Chair, Architectural History,
University of Virginia
1:15–2:15 Anne-Maria Makhulu, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology & African
and African-American Studies, Duke University
“Lessons from the Apartheid and Post-Apartheid City”
2:15–3:15 William Bissell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Lafayette College
TBA (film & media in Zanzibar)
3:15–3:30 Coffee break
3:30–4:30 Katarzyna Pieprzak, Chair & Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and
Comparative Literature, French & Africana Studies, Williams College
“In Praise of Surface Readings: The Art and Politics of Urban Whitewashing in the
Casablanca-based work of Hassan Darsi and Yto Barrada”
4:30–5:00 Concluding discussion