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Jerome W. Haferd [Lecture] What do we mean by history? By preservation heritage? How do we memorialize outside the archive? Professor Haferd explores these ideas along side concepts of tangible vs intangible history, blackness/otherness, Erasure vs futurity. His work spans all these topics through architectural practice and academia.
Jerome W. Haferd is a New York–based licensed architect, public artist, and educator, known for his deep engagement with re-centering marginalized histories in Harlem's built environment.
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Imani Rashid [Lecture] Imani Rashid is an entrepreneur, teacher, visionary, event planner, Godmother to many, leader, Yoruba Priestess, mentor, friend and sister to others and a founding member of Salsa Soul Sisters (the oldest Black lesbian organization in the United States). Imani has dedicated her life to enriching and expanding the education of young children using the principles of Kwanza and creative practices such as drumming and aviation. Imani founded the Yoruba Cultural Center of New York City in Harlem in 1990 to gather Afro-diasporic people, primarily of the NJ-NY-CT area, to share history, language, divination, songs and dances of the Orishas, and the cosmology of the Yoruba People of Southwest Nigeria. The Yoruba Cultural Center closed in 1993, but its community-building and impacts have been lasting, and the center will resume its Saturday Night Lecture Series on Saturday, February 15, 2025.
In this lecture, Imani Rashid discusses her Caribbean familial heritage, her spirituality, and how she started the Yoruba Cultural Center. She reflects on her own spaces and how architecture reminds of us the time it was created.
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Glenn Hunter [Lecture] Are NICHA students concentrated in a few schools? If so what are the characteristics of the schools that children living in public housing attend different from other schools? Do public housing students perform at the same level as students of similar background who do not live in NICHA housing? Does performance of NICHA students vary depending on the neighborhood they live in? Glenn Hunter explores these questions and the integral relationship between public housing and education.
Glenn Hunter is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Harlem Cultural Archives, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit historical society dedicated to gathering important oral history from the Harlem community. To date, the organization has conducted videotaped interviews with nearly 200 accomplished Harlem residents. Glenn is a career educator specializing in math and information technology. In addition to his role as an Adjunct Lecturer at Baruch College, Glenn is a dedicated community organizer and advocate.
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Emily Holloway & Amber Jamilla Musser [Lecture & Discussion] The Place Memory and Culture Incubator at Spitzer is pleased to invite all students, faculty, staff, and guests to the upcoming Presentation & Discussion / Q&A featuring Amber Jamilla Musser and Emily Holloway and moderated by jah elyse sayers.
Using Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (previously exhibited at the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn), Amber and Emily will discuss their work in relation to the spatial, historical, and Afrodiasporic histories embedded in Walker’s previous intervention.
This event will be held in person at the Spitzer School of Architecture, first floor, Sciame Auditorium (Room 107) and will occur this Thursday April 10th, 2025 at noon.
Amber Jamilla Musser is a professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She writes and researches at the intersections of race, sexuality, and aesthetics. In addition to writing art reviews for The Brooklyn Rail. She has published widely in queer studies, black feminism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press,
2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press, 2024).
Emily Holloway, PhD, is the Associate Managing Editor of Urban Affairs Review and a postdoctoral fellow at Drexel University. Her book project, “Domino in the Longue Durée: Racial Capitalism and the Urban Question,” reconstructs the prehistory of the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, through the site’s connections to the Caribbean sugar plantation complex. She has a PhD in Geography from Clark University and a master’s degree in urban policy from Hunter College. She has worked with several different community development and urban research institutes in New York City and Philadelphia, including the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center, and the Urban Heritage Project at the University of Pennsylvania.
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NAC Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Lanterns Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Yoruba Cultural Center Activation Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Shrine to Shrine Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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The Beating Heart of Harlem Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Curiosity Cubes Final Assignment for ARCH 2400 (Spring 2025)
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Broken Blocks: The Influence of the Abyssinian Church
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Harlem YMCA Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Memory and Nostalgia Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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The Schomburg Center Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Built By Harlem Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Preserving the Power: Malcolm X in the Archive Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Harlem Hospital Murals Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Harlem Hospital Center Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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The Urban Fabric of Lenox Terrace Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Lenox Terrace Last Stand Final Assignment for Generative Histories Harlem Pt. 2
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Syllabus: Generative Histories Harlem Part 2: 135th Street Corridor Spring 2025 SSA Core IV Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator Studio