The 2011-2012 seminars program. Dates after March might slightly change.
Madelon Vriesendorp, Dream of Liberty, 1974
(For an overview for the 2010-2011 program see here. For the 2009-2010 program, see here.)

The Berlage Institute
PhD Program “The City as a Project”
Seminars Program 2011-12

The Project: the rise and fall of a political and artistic paradigm

October 20th
Philippe Morel
Architect, Theorist and Professor at Paris Malaquis

November 11th
Andrew Leach
Historian of Architecture, author of Manfredo Tafuri: Choosing History (Ghent: A&S Books, 2009)

November 25th
In-Progress Presentations

December 2nd
Gail Day
Professor at the University of Leeds and Author of Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)

January 31th
Branden W Joseph
Professor at Columbia University and author of Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (New York: Zone Books, 2008)

March 23rd
Matteo Mandarini
Political Theorist, Professor at Queen Mary University of London and on the editorial board of Historical Materialism

April 20th
Albert Pope
Professor at Rice University and author of Ladders (Houston: Rice School of Architecture, 1996)

May 11th
Owen Hatherley
Writer and author of Militant Modernism (Ropley: O Books, 2008)

June 22nd
David Gissen
Professor at California College of Art and Author of Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009)

Symposium March 15th
Mies and the City

Invited Speakers:
Fritz Neumeyer
Michael Hays
George Legendre
Sarah Whting
Claire Zimmerman
Jean-Louis Cohen.