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Day #1, March 26, 2025
9:30am Coffee, Welcoming Remarks, Anita Patterson, Associate Dean of Humanities, BU
I. Art and Art History: Sandback and Pedestrian Space
Chair, Juliet Floyd (Philosophy, Boston University)
9:00–9:50 a.m.
Edward A. Vazquez (History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury)
9:55–10:45 a.m.
Chair, Juliette Kennedy (Mathematics, University of Helsinki, Founder, Math + Art Collective)
Comments on Vazquez, Sandback and pedestrian space
- Edward A. Vazquez (History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury)
- David Gray (Fred Sandback Archive)
- Gregory Williams (History of Art & Architecture, Boston University)
10:45–10:55 a.m. Coffee Break
II. The Math + Art Collective: Mathematics in Pedestrian Space
11:00–11:50 a.m.
Chair, Juliette Kennedy (Mathematics, University of Helsinki, Founder, Math + Art Collective)
11:10–12:00 p.m.
Andrés Villaveces (Math); María Clara Cortès (Art, Art History, Video Artist, Universidad Nacional de Colombia) (attendance via zoom)
12:05–12:55 p.m.
Liam Bierschenk (Psychoanalyst, Mathematical Creativity, Art, Therapy, and Education; South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust)
1:00–1:45 p.m. Catered Lunch at KCILSE Building
III. Architecture and Pedestrian Space
Chair, Daniel Abramson (History of Art & Architecture, Boston University)
1:50–2:40 p.m.
Margaret Crawford (Berkeley, Built Environments, Everyday Urbanisms of Design in US and China)
2:45–3:35 p.m.
Klaske Havik (Delft University of Technology, Architecture, Urban Place, Writing, Poetry, Design)
3:40–3:50 p.m. Coffee Break
3:55–4:45 p.m.
Marta Gutman (City College of New York, Women, Children, Just Spaces in Urban Design, Schools)
IV. BU Lecture in Criticism, 2026
Chair and Introduction, Susan Mizruchi (English, Boston University)
5:00–6:00 p.m.
Susan Stewart, (English, Princeton University)
6:00–6:30 p.m.
Reception, KCILSE. Conference Dinner Afterwards, Eastern Standard
Day #2, March 27, 2025
9:00–9:45 a.m. Coffee, Welcoming Remarks
V. Politics and Action in Philosophies of Pedestrian Space
Chair, Ana María Reyes (History of Art & Architecture, Boston University)
10:05–10:45 a.m.
Heba Alnajada (History of Art & Architecture, Architecture of Refugee Camps, Boston University)
10:50–11:30 a.m.
Darien Pollock (Philosophy, Street Philosophy, Boston University)
11:35–12:15 p.m.
Liisa Bourgeot (History, Philosophy, Art Studies, Russian Philosophy and Street Dissidents, Helsinki/NYU Fulbright)
12:20–1:00 p.m.
Roundtable on Politics and Action (Speakers from Session V)
1:05–1:55 p.m. Catered Lunch in KCILSE
VI. Displacement, Vulnerability and Care in Pedestrian Space
Chair, Jeff Rubin (History, Boston University)
2:00–2:50pm
Sandra Laugier (Philosophy, Univ. of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, “Forms of Life and Democratic Space”)
2:55–3:45pm
Ana María Reyes (History of Art & Architecture, Boston University, “Space and Artistic Processes of Reparation and Peace in Colombia”)
3:45–3:55pm, Coffee Break
4:05–4:55pm
Laura Roush (Anthropology, El Colegio de Michoacán, Anthropology, “On the insomnia in Zamora: what we don’t speak of, but the night lets us show”)
5:00pm Closing Remarks