Sony Devabhaktuni Author Talk and Book Signing
Sony Devabhaktuni Author Talk and Book Signing
At Bleak House Books, Honeoye Falls, NY, 3pm, Saturday May 4th, 2024
Facebook LiveStream @Bleakhousebooks (https://www.facebook.com/bleakhousebooks/)
Curb-scale Hong Kong: Infrastructures of the Street
By Sony Devabhaktuni, Assistant Professor, Art Program in the Department of Art and Art History, Swarthmore College
In conversation with:
Juan Du, Dean, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and Jenny Smith, historian and co-owner of Bleak House Books
Reception to follow
"The drawings and writing in Curb-scale Hong Kong put together an idea about the street as an infrastructure of infrastructures. This scale of infrastructures comes apart and is put together in a constant instantiation by people who clean, maintain and repair the street instructed by chains of command and pages-long .pdfs comprising drawing standards and guidance notes. The curb-scale of infrastructure not only conducts, channels, and prescribes the movement of information and energy that make the city possible, but also is part of a larger field of affective registers that constitute the city as an ambivalent site of attention."
This event is supported by The Aydelotte Foundation as part of the Scholarly Promotion program
Roseann Liu in Conversation with Kendra Brooks
The Aydelotte Foundation is pleased to support this event as part of our Scholarly Promotion program
Roseann Liu in Conversation with Kendra Brooks
Wednesday, May 8 at 3pm
Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Free and open to the public
Please join Roseann Liu, faculty member in Educational Studies and Asian American Studies, as she is in conversation with Councilmember Kendra Brooks about Liu’s new book, Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve. They will discuss the racially inequitable state of education funding in Philly and other underresourced school districts, how we got here, and pathways forward.
For more information on the book, past, and upcoming events go to roseannliu.com
