Refereed Conference Papers
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“Techniques of Appropriation,” Superpanel at The 101st meeting of the ACSA, March 2013.
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“Playing in The Time of Normalization. SIAL Skolka’s conditions of architectural practice as a site of resistance,” AHRA 2012: Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, London, October 2012.
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“The Allegory of the Socialist Lifestyle” for Anxious Dwelling / Postwar Spaces panel at The Association of Art Historians annual conference, Glasgow, April 2010.
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“Functionalism Expanded. Origins of Czech Environmentalism in Karel Honzik’s Theorization of Architecture’s Emotional Function,” Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, Vancouver, April 2005.
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“The Second World. The signifiers of history’s burdens and utopias since 1989,” for Art, History and Memory in post-war Eastern and Central Europe panel at The Association of Art Historians annual conference, Nottingham, April 2004.
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“The Logic of The Critical and The Dangers of ‘Recuperation.’ Or, Whatever Happened to the Critical Promise of Tschumi’s Advertisements for Architecture?,” Third Nethca Colloquium: Critical Tools, Brussels, Belgium, April 2003.
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“Kinofikatsiya: the Soviet Virtual Cities,” New Cities New Media conference, USC School of Architecture and the USC School of Cinema /TV, published in the conference proceedings, January 2003.
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“The Specter of the Medium. Notes on Television, Environments and Interiors in the Sixties,” Postwar Operations, a Critical Studies Graduate conference, UCLA School of Architecture, May 2002.
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“Critical Appropriations: Situationists’ Gay Science of Urbanism,” SpaceTactics Graduate symposium, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, February 2001.
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“Closely Watched Films: Transformations of Eastern European Urbanism,” Conference on East-European Art and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, organized by the History, Theory and Criticism Section, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, October 2001.
Invited Conference Papers
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“Skolka’s Parallel Aesthetic Realm: Another way to think about Second World’s referencing of the First,” Modernism in Late Socialist Art and Architecture, The Graduate Center / CUNY, April 2013.
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“Pop Ups Work Hard,” Urban Transformation of Sava Mala, Mikser Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, May 2012.
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“Playing Out: Operative Definitions of Postmodernism in Czechoslovakia,” Late Socialism and Postmodernism roundtable, MIT, April 2012.
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“On Limits” for the panel: “From Home to Housing,” in What is Foreclosed? symposium at the Buell Center for American Architecture, Columbia University, February 2012.
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“Disciplinary Promiscuity (via MOS’s Afterparty)” on the panel “Operative History,” The Future of History conference at the University of Michigan, April 2011.
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“Archival Probes,” HTC Forum’s Round Table event Publishing Archives, MIT, April 2011.
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“Architecture by All for All,” paper for Radcliffe seminar: Architectural Histories of Organization, January 2010.
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“Lifestyle. Definitions from the Postwar Czech Architectural discourse,” Words in Post War Architectural Discourse conference, ETH, Zurich, June 2009.
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“Optimum Aesthetic,” Cambridge Talks 1: Emerging Voices conference at Harvard University, GSD, April 2009.
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“Adaptations. Architectural Project in the Era of Postproduction,” Matters of Opinion conference, Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, April 2009.
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“Practicing Utopia. On Oskar Hansen’s Contemporary Relevance,” Team 10 Today symposium, Yale University School of Architecture, September 2006.
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“Flickers and Flares: On housing and protests in 1990s Belgrade,” Core Housing Studio Symposium, GSAPP, Columbia University, October 2001.
Invited Lectures
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“True Stories: On Architectural Storytelling,” Arguments Lecture Series, GSAPP Columbia University, August 2013.
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“Archives (of) Going Public,” Public Knowledge seminar at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, November 2011.
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“Relational Projects,” Schi Schen Univeristy, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2010.
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“Protest Archive,” MIT Visual Arts program’s City as Stage, City as Process lecture series, November 2009.
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“The Cool Look of Reasonable Consumption,” MIT HTC forum Producing Geopolitics, September 2009.
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“Politics and Architecture,” Yale University School of Architecture, April 2009.
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“Project_is as Project_ does,” Dialogues summer lecture series at GSAPP Columbia University, July 2008.
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“The shape of the contemporary American Architectural Discourse,” History and Theory of Architecture Program at the Belgrade University, Serbia, June 2008.
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“Project_hearts Architecture,” The Architectural League of New York, May 2008.
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“Program, Paradigm, Performance,” Harvard University, GSD, April 2008.
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“To Fabricate a Project: on the work of Alison and Peter Smithson,” Housing Studio Symposium at GSAPP, Columbia University, October 2005.
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“Flares and Flickers,” the Architecture and the Urban Studies departments, Columbia and Barnard Colleges, 2003.
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“Situationists’ Gay Science of Urbanism,” Dialogue series of the Masters Program at the Dessau Institute for Architecture, Germany, June 2001.
Refereed Conference Session Chaired
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“Pop Ups Work Hard,” Urban Transformation of Sava Mala, Mikser Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, May 2012.
Non-Refereed Conferences Organized
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Under the Influence Symposium, MIT, February 2013.
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Late Socialism and Postmodernism, MIT, April 2012.
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Departmental and Design Discipline Lecture Series, MIT, Summer/Fall 2011.
Invited Moderation of Symposia and Lectures
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Magazines and Their Role in Architecture and Artistic Research Practice, ACT symposium for MIT 150 celebration, April 2011.
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Publishing Archives, HTC Forum’s Round Table, MIT, April 2011.
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Respondent for Juliet Koss’s Monumental Snapshots of A Soviet Future, HTC Forum, MIT, November 2010.
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Respondent for Architecture and the State, 1940s to 1970s, GSAPP Columbia University, April 2010.
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Hosting and Moderation, Fumihiko Maki Conference, MIT, March 2010.
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Respondent for Research in Progress 2010: In the Distance, organized by HTC at MIT, February, 2010.
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Introduction and Moderation for Post Ductility conference at GSAPP Columbia University, October 2009.
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Introduction and Moderation of the panel Housing: The Masses and a Post-ethical City, Housing Conference, GSAPP, Columbia University, Fall 2005.
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Introduction and Moderation of the “Geometry” panel for the Loopholes: Within Discourse and Practice conference, GSD, Harvard University, Spring 2005.