Fall events and opportunities

Become a Buell Postdoctoral Fellow
The Buell Center at Columbia University GSAPP seeks a recent doctoral recipient to join its intellectual community for a 21-month fellowship as a “Buell Center Research and Teaching Fellow” starting September 2025. Ideal candidates will be scholars of the built environment who are beginning an academic career of research and teaching, with a growing record of original writing intended for peer-reviewed publication. More information on the fellowship, which is co-hosted by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, is available at the Buell site. Online applications are still accepted at Interfolio.

State Effects Conference
On September 27, the Buell Center at Columbia GSAPP will convene a one-day conference on State Effects, interrogating the relationship between that entity we call “the state” and the built environment. Speakers will include Daniel Abramson (BU), Sophie Cras (Paris 1), Sheila Crane (UVA), Sonali Dhanpal (GSAPP), Brodwyn Fischer (UChicago), Brian Larkin (Barnard), Cole Roskam (HKU), and Yara Saqfalhait (GSAPP), with responses by Bruno Carvalho (Harvard) and Rosalind Morris (Columbia). 

Fall Abundance Talks
This new series of occasional talks, launched in Spring ’24 and continuing through the ’24–’25 academic year, continues interrogating the core assumption that land precedes architecture in the Land Conversations series by offering a more specific cut: asking how land’s abundance as a natural commodity has been constructed with architectural means. Scholars in this project work on building and landscape designs that helped circumscribe who was deemed worthy of the freedoms afforded by natural abundance and who was excluded from taking part in nature’s liberal gifts. Lunch is served; RSVP to attend in person or online.

Invasive Building with Manu Karuka (Barnard) and Adrian Anagnost (Tulane): October 31, 2024, 12–1:30pm EST, 300S Buell Hall, Columbia GSAPP. 

Flammable Building with Daniel Immerwahr (NU), Matthew C. Hunter (McGill), and a response by Aleksandr Bierig (UToronto): December 5, 2024, 12–1:30pm EST. 300S Buell Hall, Columbia GSAPP. 

2025 Buell Dissertation Colloquium 
The Buell Center invites submissions for its biennial Dissertation Colloquium, to be held on March 28–29, 2025. Doctoral students from diverse institutional and disciplinary backgrounds working on dissertation topics related to architecture and the built environment in the Americas are invited to apply. The call for papers will be announced on the Buell Center’s website in the Fall; check back for details. 

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