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SUMMARY:Mud on the Floor. Dirty Realities in Scholarly Work / EDAR\, THEMA
DTSTART:20241211T093000
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DESCRIPTION:Alice Hertzog\, UZH\nThe public lecture series Mud on the Flo
 or looks at methods for studying construction sites. Although constructio
 n is required for architecture and cities to be built\, it can be notably 
 absent from scholarship. There are a few institutional reasons for this (a
 rchitectural history developing as a subset of art history\, for example) 
 but also structural reasons for it: as ephemeral\, chaotic\, and literally
  dirt-y sites\, construction can challenge our neat scholarly frames and m
 ethods.\nThe presentations will be from architects\, historians\, and anth
 ropologists. The series encourages that we as scholars spend more time in 
 the field or in the archives of the construction site as a way of bringing
  a bit more “mud” back into our institutions and\, in doing so\, bette
 r taking on questions of working conditions\, improvisation\, tacit knowle
 dge\, and even uncertainty\, to name just a few of the ways that looking a
 t construction can enrich our research work.\n\n11 December / 09:30  / Al
 ice Hertzog\, UZH\nShady Transfers: Dealings in a West African Megacity\nT
 his talk will discuss ethnographic methods and their potential to investig
 ate the grey zones of urban corruption\, the undeclared or under-acknowled
 ged forms of city making in West Africa. It positions itself in that uncom
 fortable gap between what we say we do and what we do.\n\nMud on the Floor
  is coordinated by Sarah Nichols (THEMA Lab) and represents the 2024 SCH
 OLARS in Transition public lecture series. This established EDAR annual s
 eries of lectures aims at giving a voice to contemporary scholars who\, wi
 thin their ongoing research activity\, are experiencing a « transition 
 » condition: their contribution to new and emerging research topics\, and
  to tentative interpretations and unconventional approaches\, marks the in
 tersection of their personal research agendas\, the evolution of their dis
 cipline\, the public debate\, and the availability of sources and data.
LOCATION:BP 4232 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BP%204232
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