Research

Conferences, Talks, & Activities

2030

2024 Chair & Convener (with Dr Demetra Kourri). “STS Sensibilities in the Pedagogies for the Built Environment” Panel 384. EASST-4S Conference, Amsterdam (Jul 16-19).

2024 Convener (with Dr Laura Coucill and Dawn Parke). Professor Jala Makhzoumi’s public talk “Shifting Design Positions, Expanding Design Thinking: Milestones of a Personal Journey” and postgraduate symposium “Landscape Visions & Strategies in MArch & MLA student work” (April 16).
2024 Talk. “Figuring Worlds of Progress: Or, how to trace the violence of disavowal.” Manchester School of Architecture (Mar 21).
2024 Talk. “Reflections on (Photo)Montage & AI from an Architectural Design Studio.” Teach AI Unconference, University of Salford + The Alan Turing Institute AI UK Fringe (Mar 06).
2023 Talk. “The Architectural & Its Milieu: A New Perspective on Theory, History, and Technology.” University of Leeds (Oct 12).
2023 Respondent. Planetary Cohort of Respondents. AFFIRMATIONS. Columbia GSAPP.
2023 Conf Paper. “Towards an Architecture of Translations.” International Symposium: Towards an Architectural Theory for Sustainability, Lancaster School of Architecture in cooperation with the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano (Jul 05).
2023 Talk. “Reflections on Teaching AI: A Lesson from Architecture.” DSBNE Forum, University of Salford (Jun 28).
2023 Talk. “Of Ghosts and Battered Landscapes: Beirut’s Horsh Al-Sanawbar.” Department of Anthropology, Bowdoin College (Mar 08).
2023 Panellist. “The Fuzzier Frontiers of Technology.” WFEO Young Engineers/Future Leaders webinar: Smart Sustainable Cities and Frontier Technologies. 2023 World Engineering Day: Engineering Innovation for A More Resilient World (Feb 24).
2022 Conf Paper (with Matthew Flintham). “Engineering the Landscape: Tracing Militarized Accounts of the Landscapes in Utility Patents.” Remote Sensing Symposium, University of Arts London (Oct 22).
2022 Talk. “Performing Infrastructurally.” Manchester School of Architecture (Nov 07).
2022 Talk. “Infrastructural Imaginaries and the Relational Politics of Architecture.” Faculty of Fine Arts & Architecture, Lebanese University (Jul 21).
2022 Convener (with Joshua Silver). “How to Translate Architecturally.” MARG Spring Seminar with guest Prof Jonathan Hale, University of Manchester (Mar 31).
2021 Panel Chair (with Prof Swati Chattopadhyay, Dr Deljana Iossifova, and Dr Yaffa Truelove). “Infrastructural Agency, Urban (infra)Structuring, Violence.” INFRA+ Infrastructure for Fragmented Cities, online (Jun 22).
2020 Conf Paper. “Mobility as Speculative Technics of Survivable Architectures.” EASST-4S Conference, Prague/Online (Aug 18-21).
2019 Talk. “Of Bodies and Environmental Technics: Military Translations in Afghanistan.” Lund University (Oct 18). [Awardee PGR Mobility Grant]
2019 Conf Paper. “The Military Script: Mapping Urban Landscapes.” AsSIST-UK Conference, University of Manchester (Sep 09-10).
2019 Co-chair & Co-organizer (with Demetra Kourri et al.). AHRA Annual PhD Student Symposium “Temporalities, Processes, & Relations in Architectural Research,” University of Manchester (Apr 24-25).
2018 Presentation. “Tracing and Translating Modes of Connection in Technical Documents.” Methods North West Annual Methods X Conference, Lancaster University (Sep 19).
2018 Conf Paper. “On the Visual Aesthetics of Lethal Weapons.” Pictures of War Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University (May 24).
2018 Conf Paper. “Inscribing the Urban in Technical Objects.” School of Environment, Education and Development PGR Conference, University of Manchester (May 22).
2017 Conf Abstract. “This is the Age of the Architectural, Not architecture!” Doing Architectural Research Conference, University of Cambridge (Jun 26).
2017 Poster. “The Becoming-Military of Technology & the Becoming-Urban of the Military — MRAP Sociotechnical Relations.” School of Environment, Education and Development PGR Conference, University of Manchester (May 15).
2017 Presentation. “Strangely Familiar! Or, What the Smell of Grease Revealed about My Curious Self.” 3rd PhD by Design Conference: Idea of Self in Research, University of Sheffield (Apr 03).
2016 Presentation. “Refuge and the Territoriality of Habitation: A Critical Inquiry.” Anthropology Graduate Student Conference: Refuge, The New School (Apr 30).
2016 Presentation. “Failing Imaginaries and Translations: How the MRAPs Save and Fail the U.S. Military in the Middle East.” Graduate Student Conference on the Middle East & North Africa, The New School (Apr 22).
2016 Conf Paper. “Geographies of Delegation, Militarization and Urbanism in the U.S.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco (Mar 29).
2014 Talk (with Fouad Asfour). “Recognizing the Invisible Monument.” 98 Weeks Research/Project Space, Beirut (May 21).
2014 Talk. “On the Politics of memory and Public Space in Post-war Beirut.” Critical Urbanisms Working Group, University of California, Berkeley (Apr 22).
2012 Chair & Organizer. Checkpoints of Memory in a Post-war City. Public Panel at the Hay Festival Beirut, Beirut Art Center (Jul 04).
2010 Talk. “The Grass Is Never Greener Except on the Other Side!” The 3rd This Is Not A Gateway Festival, London (Oct 23).
2010 Co-organizer (with IFI-AUB Policy Institute). “At the Edge of the City: Policy Implications for Public Space in Beirut.” Public Panel, American University of Beirut (May 31). [Awardee Environmental Justice Grant]
2008 Res Paper. “Invigorating a Park in the City: Alternatives for the Good Governance of Horsh Al-Sanawbar in Beirut.” Innovative Good Governance Competition, Basil Fuleihan Foundation, Lebanon. [Awardee First Place & Grant]
2006 Conf Paper. “Enacting Public Space: History and Social Practices of Beirut’s Horsh Al-Sanawbar.” The Fifth Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Student Conference, American University of Beirut (May 17-18). [Awardee Best Paper in Architecture & Design]