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Urban Itineraries and Peripheral Spaces - Swati Chattopadhyay

Presented by Penn Humanities Forum at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

March 20, 2013

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Architectural historian Swati Chattopadhyay invites us to rethink how we see and write about cities. Rather than assuming a geography of centers, suburbs, and exurbs, her work explores the many small, scattered, and generally neglected spaces—those that make up the fabric of our cities yet remain at the farthest edges of awareness and understanding. Taking the ex-colonial city in India as her locale, she discusses the exceptional moments when these unseen spaces become apparent.

Swati Chattopadhyay is Professor and Chair of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, as well as the cultural landscape of British colonialism, Chattopadhyay is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, as well as the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities which are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory.

A program of the 2012-2013 Penn Humanities Forum on Peripheries. Cosponsored by Penn's Department of History of Art.