Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 19, 2004|Volume 32, Number 22

'Enclave' to explore architectural
aspects of ports of commerce

The School of Architecture will host a symposium examining a critically important site of every major city -- its ports -- on Friday-Saturday, March 26-27.

Titled "Enclave," the event will bring together an international roster of scholars, artists and writers who will discuss how shipping ports and airports, essential hubs of commerce, are being reshaped by the global economy.

The organizers write: "The enclaves that aggregate around ports and airports are quintessential ingredients of an emergent form of global city based not on financing but on logisitics. The enclave is designed to be a politically immune, special economic zone that continually conveys and sorts the material of container transshipments. Yet, as pawns in the global trade networks, they often land in the crosshairs of political conflict."

The keynote address will be presented at 6:30 p.m. on Friday by Allan Sekula, a photographer, artist and writer, and author of "Fish Story," an anthology of photographs of and commentary on the great port cities of the world.

Saturday's program will be held 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Participants will include Yale anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, editor of "The Social Life of Things" and "Globalization" and author of "Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization"; sociologist Xiangming Chen, co-author of "The World of Cities: Places in Historical and Comparative Perspective" and author of the forthcoming "As Borders Crumble: Toward New Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim and Beyond"; urban theorist Stephen Graham; artist and journalist Ingo Gunther; architect Rahul Mehrotra; and author and critic David Joselit.

"Enclave" will take place in the basement floor of Hastings Hall, 180 York St. It is free and open to the public.

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