co-sponsored by: The Office of the Provost Excellence though Diversity Fund, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The Middle East Center, and The Weitzman School of Design
The series “Transdisciplinary Urbanism in Times of Precarity” emphasizes that times of crisis and precarity produce challenges to urban space, processes, and infrastructure that mirror and often heighten changing realities. Impasses in urban processes and services does not impact everyone equally, and are often contingent on existing social and economic inequities, as well as intersecting frameworks of marginalization. The series brings together distinguished artists, poets, activists, policymakers, and art humanists to campus, and engage in conversations around precarity and urbanism and outstanding proposals to remedy and address them.
"Existing-in Between: Spatial Precarity in Literature and Art,” as part of the “Transdisciplinary Urbanism in Times of Precarity” series, will reflect on such challenges from architectural, literary and artistic viewpoints with specific reference to the Persianate world.
Panelists:
FATEMEH SHAMS (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania)
MIKHAL DEKEL (City College, New York)
SALAR ABDOH (City College, New York)
PAMELA KARIMI (University of Massachusetts)
REZA MOHAMMADI (Poet, Afghanistan)
ABDUL MANAN BHAT (PhD candidate and poet, Religious Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania)
ILLYA MOUSAVIJAD (MFA candidate and animation artist, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania)
0:00 Intro by Sophie Hochhaeusl
3:05 Intro of Fatemeh Shams by Sophie Hochhaeusl
4:05 Presentation by Fatemeh Shams
12:55 Presentation by Illya Mousavijad
30:28 Q&A with the Panel
37:30 Intro to second panel by Fatemeh Shams
40:52 Intro of Reza Mohammadi by gateman Shams
42:20 Reading by Reza Mohammadi
1:02:20 Intro of Abdul Manan Bhat by Fatemeh Shams
1:03:28 Reading by Abdul Manan Bhat and Reza Mohammadi
1:18:09 Q&A with the poets Abdul Manan Bhat and
1:29:20 Intro of Mikhal Dekel by Fatemeh Shams
1:32:25 Reading by Mikhal Dekel
1:50:15 Intro of Salar Abdoh by Fatemeh Shams
1:56:17 Reading by Salar Abdoh
2:05:00 Q&A for Panelists Salar Abdoh and Mikhal Dekel
2:29:09 Conclusion and thank yous from Fatemeh Shams