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UCR's member Dr. Alex Young Il Seo’s Ph.D. thesis titled "Constructing Frontier Villages: Human Habitation in the South Korean Borderlands after the Korean War" has been shortlisted for the 2021 ICAS Book Award for Best Dissertation in Humanities.

The IBP 2021 English Language Edition | ICAS The IBP 2021 English Language Edition Breadcrumbs The IBP 2021 English Language Edition Congratulations to the IBP 2021 shortlisted authors and publishers! Join us for the ICAS Book Prize 2021 Award Ceremony and draw inspiration from the winners! The ceremony will take place on 24 August and start a...

Our research member Alex Seo's article titled "Everyday life in the Korean border: frontier village as a device for counter-appropriation" has been published in Space and Polity journal. The paper can be accessed in full through the following link:

Everyday life in the Korean border: frontier village as a device for counter-appropriation (2021). Everyday life in the Korean border: frontier village as a device for counter-appropriation. Space and Polity. Ahead of Print.

UCR's Britt Baillie will give a public on-line lecture as part of the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven's 'Legacy' series. Register here:

Going Public lecture #22: Britt Baillie: Agonistic Heritage in the Quest for Decolonisation 10/02 Everyone's welcome to join us for lecture #22 in our Going Public series! This lecture is part of our 'Legacy' engagement, curated by Gisèle Gantois. Wednesday 10 February, 17.30-19.00 Online via Zoom: please register here. BRITT BAILLIE: 'Agonistic Heritage in the

UCR's member Dr. Alex Young Il Seo’s Ph.D. research titled "Constructing Frontier Villages: Human Habitation in the South Korean Borderlands after the Korean War" has been commended for 2020 RIBA President's Award for Research

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-presidents-awards-for-research/2020/constructing-frontier-villages

RIBA President's Awards for Research RIBA President's Awards For Research celebrate the best research in the fields of architecture and the built environment.

UCR member Yasmina El Chami has won this year’s Hawksmoor Essay Medal, awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, for her essay titled "Industrialism, Philanthropy, Architecture: The ‘Total’ Project of American Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Beirut".

The Society's Hawksmoor Essay Medal is awarded annually to the author of the best essay submitted in competition. As a permanent reminder of the winner's achievement, a bronze medal featuring a relief portrait of Nicholas Hawksmoor based on the bust of the architect by John Cheere is awarded and inscribed with the winner's name and date. This is presented at the Society's Annual Lecture and Awards Ceremony. The winning essay is also considered for publication in the Society's journal, Architectural History. The full announcement including the Society’s other annual awards is here:

Awards: Announcement of Winners — SAHGB We are extremely pleased to congratulate the four winners of this year’s awards.

UCR’s Nadi Abusaada’s (Nadi Sa'adeh) piece on the colonial erasure of Jaffa is featured in The Architectural Review’s latest issue on .

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/city-portraits/invisible-terrains-jaffas-obscured-history

Invisible terrains: Jaffa’s obscured history - Architectural Review A derelict, rusty, steel structure sits off an Eastern Mediterranean shoreline. From it, the northern view to the other side of the seafront is

UCR member Nadi Abusaada's latest piece for Institute for Palestine Studies on the rise and fall of Jaffa's agrarian landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries is now published. Link below!

Jaffa: The Rise and Fall of an Agrarian City Palestine Square

UCR member Anwar Jaber successfully completed all the requirements for her PhD degree at the centre. Her PhD thesis is entitled "The Paradox of Ramallah: An Investigation into Palestine’s Political and National Architecture and Urban Topography Since 1995". The thesis investigates the urban transformation of the Palestinian city of Ramallah focusing on its political and cultural-national sites and positions this transformation within the larger Palestinian struggle for a state with Jerusalem as a capital. Congratulations Dr Jaber!

UCR member Yasmina El Chami has been awarded a six-month Scouloudi- IHR Doctoral Fellowship by the Institute of Historical Research for her dissertation entitled "Constructing Beirut: Missionary Education and the Project of the City in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon".

Centre member Michal Huss has a chapter, 'Tracing Paths of Transcultural Memory: The Usage of Monuments in Guided Tours by Refugees', in Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement, published by Palgrave this month

Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement - Migrants and Monuments | Sabine Marschall | Palgrave Macmillan This book explores the border-transcending dimensions of public remembering by focussing on the triangular relationship between memory, monuments and migration. The research is conceptually anchored in memory studies, notably transnational memory and multidirectional memory....

Our research member Nadi Abusaada's most recent article titled "Combined Action: Aerial Imagery and the Urban Landscape in Interwar Palestine, 1918-40" has been published in the special issue of Jerusalem Quarterly on the theme "Palestine from Above". The paper can be accessed in full through the following link: https://www.academia.edu/42894378/Combined_Action_Aerial_Imagery_and_the_Urban_Landscape_in_Interwar_Palestine_1918_40

Nadi Sa'adeh

The video of our third year PhD student Toby Parsloe's collaborative project between the TU Berlin and Cambridge is now available. This architectural summer school explored Berlin's institutional shelter for refugees. Also available is an online booklet that outlines the project in more detail. Congratulations Toby!

Video available at: https://vimeo.com/406534207

Online booklet available at: https://issuu.com/tp12234/docs/200409_final_forissuupdf

Designs for a Refugee Shelter Rooftop In August 2019, a collaborative summer school funded by the AHRC was held between architecture students at the University of Cambridge and Technische Universität…