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Grad/Faculty Seminar with Eyal Weizman - Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Eyal Weizman
Rethinking Israel

In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Weizman unravels Israel¿s mechanisms of control and the transformation of the Occupied Territories into an artifice in which all natural and built features function as the instruments of occupation. Eyal Weizman identifies the ideas behind this phenomenon and traces their development, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning.RSVP required to serena.elliott@duke.eduEyal Weizman is an architect, professor and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007 and a co-recipient of the 2010 Prince Claus Prize for Architecture (with Sandy Hilal and Alessandro Petti for DAAR). Weizman¿s books include Mengele's Skull (with Thomas Keenan at Sternberg Press 2012), Forensic Architecture (notebook, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Nottetempo 2009, Verso 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), and Civilian Occupation (coedited with Rafi Segal and David Tartakover; Verso, 2003).Eyal Weizman¿s visit is part of the ¿Rethinking Israel¿ series, which is generously sponsored by the Sara and E.J. Evans Fund.

Contact: Serena Elliott