DAY 1
Friday, 2 June 2017

8–8:30am: Welcome

8:30-9am: Prelude, Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

9–9:30am: Opening Remarks: Architecture and Wars, Samia Henni, ETH Zurich

9:30-10:30am: Urbanism and War: Zoöpolitics and the Architecture of Bare Life, Lieven De Cauter, Leuven University

Break

10:45am-12:45pm  
PLANNING

• Calculating the Apocalypse: The Unexpected Career of the Swiss Nuclear Bunker, Silvia Berger, University of Zurich
• Reconstructing Nahr el Bared and the Urbanism of Palestinian Camps, Ismail Cheikh Hassan, Beirut
• Discussants: Laurent Stalder, ETH Zurich; Bess Laaring, ETH Zurich

Lunch

1:30 -3:30pm
ETHEREAL

• Radio-Activities: The Architecture of the Broadcasting Apparatus in Cold War Berlin, Alfredo Thiermann, ETH Zurich
• Media as Conflict Zone, Susan Schuppli, Goldsmiths, London University

Discussants: Doreen Mende, HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design, Harun Farocki Institut; Mark Zahran, ETH Zurich

Break

3:45-5:45pm  
OPERATIONAL

• Double-truth Strategies in Colombian Dictatorship, Maria del Pilar Sanchez-Beltran, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• The Rocks Remain: Landscapes of Conflict from the Falklands War, Tony Pollard, Glasgow University

Discussants: Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich; Tamim Hokan, ETH Zurich

Break

6–7:30pm
COUNTERINSURGENCY

• Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/ Architecture of Counter-Insurgency , Felicity Scott, Columbia University
• Roundtable with Lieven De Cauter, Tony Pollard, Susan Schuppli, and Felicity Scott moderated by Samia Henni

DAY 2
Saturday, 3 June 2017

9–11am
BORDERLINES

• The War Relocation Project: Japanese-Americans and War’s Re-Territorialization of the Civilian Sphere, United States (1941-1945), Helene H Nguyen, Princeton University
• Perilous Meetings at the Truce Village: Transformations of the Joint Security Area in the Korean Demilitarized Zone since the Korean War (1950-1953), Hyun-Tae Jung, Lehigh University

Discussants: Stanislaus von Moos, University of Zurich; Akagawa Ayami, ETH Zurich

Break

11:15am–1:15pm
URBICIDE

• From Spectacle to Norm: The Incarceration of Pakistani Cities in Times of Perpetual Violence, Ayesha Sarfraz, Director, Architect at MAS Architects; Arsalan Rafique, Creative Director, Architect at Caramel Tech, Lahore
• “Click and Kill:” The Architecture of Drone Warfare, Eva Schreiner, Columbia University

Discussants: Andri Gerber, ETH Zurich, ZHAW School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering; Edvardas Bukota, ETH Zurich

Lunch

2–4pm
SURVIVAL

• Dialectics of War: Cinema as an Infrastructure in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau (1963–1974), Carolina Rito, Nottingham Contemporary; Nova University of Lisbon
• Urban Transformations: Modalities of Survival in Besieged Sarajevo, Asja Mandic, University of Sarajevo

Discussants: Alla Vronskaya, ETH Zurich; Alison Brunn, Iowa State University, ETH Zurich

Break

4:15–6:15pm 
SECURITY

• Supporting War in a Distant Land: Long Binh and the U.S. Army in Vietnam, Marcel Berni, Military Academy, ETH Zurich
• Outposts of Security? Dutch Military Architecture, Rick Krosenbrink, TU Delft, Netherlands Defence Academy

Discussants: Karl R. Kegler, Munich University of Applied Sciences; Lisa Maillard, ETH Zurich

Break

6:30–6:45pm: Concluding Remarks, Samia Henni, ETH Zurich

Apéro

The conference is convened by Dr. Samia Henni and generously supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Chair for the History of Art and Architecture Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, the Chair for the Theory of Architecture Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, and the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich.

The conference is open to the public, free of charge, and registration is not required.

Contact: samia.henni at gta.arch.ethz.ch