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Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center “The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.

Japanese Americans protest Fort Bliss, former WWII incarceration site, as largest ICE migrant detention center

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First page of panel abstract: What architectural characteristics connect Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, portable "field chapels" in the trenches of World War I, and multi-faith chapels in the Singapore Changi Airport? Despite the ubiquity of chapels, there has been little scholarly effort to study chapels as a spatial type. The term "chapel" emerged in sixth-century France in reference to the cape (capella) of St. Martin and, by extension, the space where the Frankish kings preserved it for veneration. Over the subsequent millennium and a half, this royal Christian type has expanded and evolved to serve a wide range of groups and practices within and beyond the Christian tradition. Chapels exist at the intersection of individuals and collectives; local congregations and global religious organizations; private, public, and corporate spaces; and singular buildings and architectural complexes. As adaptable and often small spaces, chapels offer sites for religious expression in unexpected places. Thinking with historian of religion Sally Promey's contention that "modernity has produced, rather than irreligion, pluralism in belief and culture," this session traces the history of chapels from the Middle Ages to the present. The presenters investigate how this originally Christian European typology has transformed to encompass a pluralistic global religious landscape. Moving from

Second page of abstract: pluralistic global religious landscape. Moving from private chapels in medieval England, and early modern Spanish chapels within global infrastructures of racialized labor regimes, to rural chapels in the Mississippi Delta, postwar diplomatic chapels as an expression of global U.S. power, and the transnational emergence of multi-faith chapels, this panel convenes architectural historians, religious scholars, and sociologists. Each panelist will present a case study of a single chapel to discuss how it illuminates the ongoing transformation of chapels as an architectural typology. Session Organizer: Alexander Luckmann, University of California Santa Barbara, and Lisa Beyeler-Yvarra, Yale University Papers and Presenters: • The Private Chapel and Conspicuous Withdrawal in Medieval England, Julian Luxford, University of St Andrews • The Chapel as Archive: Thinking With Atlantic Airs in Early Modern Seville, María Lumbreras, University of California Santa Barbara • Perishable Permanence: Rural Chapels and Change in the Mississippi River Delta, Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University • The Maternushaus Chapel in Cologne: From Parish Urbanism to Diocesan Institution, Alexander Luckmann, UC Santa Barbara • From Single to Multi-Faith Chapels, Wendy Cadge, Bryn Mawr College

I’m thrilled to be organizing a panel on “Chapels: A Typology Transformed” with @lisaby.bsky.social at @sah1365.bsky.social Virtual on Sept 19. Panelists from arch/art history, sociology, and history will present chapels from the Middle Ages until today & discuss what distinguishes & defines chapels

Cover of The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Joseph R. Winters. The cover art features an abstract pattern of black circles against a white background. Roughly half of the circles have a solid fill, leaving little of the white background visible. The other circles have a brushstroke-like texture. The title and subtitle are in bold block text, in orange and white respectively. The author’s name appears at the bottom in light yellow.

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Disturbing Profane," Joseph R. Winters's look at religion and hip hop.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

🌾 An urgent plea to our followers here and anyone who has taken a workshop with us, bought a book from our bookstore, or attended a reading group:

First, we appreciate you so much. Without your support and participation our workshops would mean nothing.

Please join us Thurs May 22 + Fri 23 online! It’s been a dream to organize this symposium with such spectacular speakers @curryhackett.bsky.social @celinaabba.bsky.social @thefunambulist.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social

Between 1910-1940, some 175,000 mostly Chinese arrivals were detained on Angel Island. In 1970, when the detention center’s buildings were due to be torn down, a park ranger noticed that the walls were inscribed with layers upon layers of poetry. Some 200 poems survive.
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Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child.

It's a genocide.

cover image for Reconsidering Reparations, featuring small black hands planting a seedling. Text of the cover: "Reconsidering Reparations Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. With a new preface by the author."

the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context

Settler Militarism — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $30). Step 2: Register for “Settler Militarism” here . In this workshop, Juliet Nebolon will discuss how settler colonialism and ...

Next week, we have Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire, with Juliet Nebolon.

At least 2 watch parties/study groups are participating. We love this idea, and encourage teachers to set one up for their students!

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Octavia's Bookshelf owner Nikki High doesn’t know the state of her own house in Altadena — most houses burned — but she's turned her Pasadena bookstore into a help center for fire victims.

Follow the IG/Threads accounts for updates. They still need first aid kits. We also brought bottled water.

Happy New Year and happy germination to my next book, approved by @uwapress.bsky.social for publication in early 2026!

An unconventional history of the Philippine nation-state told through return migration. Very proud of this one. "Going home" won't be the same after reading this, promise!

Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies

Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
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I was just interviewed by a Finnish architect abt this piece and ongoing campus security restrictions; he seemed 🤯 when I told him that uni administrators have made perfectly clear to some activist faculty + students that their comings + goings, their email, their social media are all under 👁️

Reimaging Space — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to the Abu Al-Kombuz family here (suggested donation $75USD). Step 2: Register for “Reimagining Space” here . This workshop is a two-part lecture and discussion series ...

Little-known fact: I dislike receiving gifts, which is fun to deal with at this time of year! If you want to give me something, please consider using that $ to register for my upcoming lecture series with @divyampersaud.com through @workshops4gaza.bsky.social: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei...

Chicago activists push for universities to pay for city services to ease budget woes • The TRiiBE Universities like Brown and Harvard contribute to municipal budgets. Chicago organizers are asking that local universities do the same.

Did y’all know that there are universities like Yale that contribute to municipal budgets to make up for not paying property taxes, but the University of Chicago — which has a sizable footprint on the south side — does not?! Phenomenal reporting by @corli.thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2024/12/chic...

Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

The Avery Review | Land Acknowledgment and the Palestine Exception The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.

A little over a month ago Andrew Herscher and I wrote about university's defense of private property.

Their acknowledgments become anti-political run conterminous with militarized shutdowns of encampments protesting genocide and asking for divestment.

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My new article, "The settler homeland: racial violence, frontier colonialism, and Filipino repatriation," just came out with the Settler Colonial Studies journal.

Really proud of how this one turned out, and thanks to everyone here who helped.

Link here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I noticed that Forensic Architecture has not posted here yet. One of the most important documents on Gaza. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...