BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Chua’s Bangkok Utopia (University of Hawai’i Press\, 2 021) outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a p art of the world that has often been overlooked by scholars of both. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources\, the book demonstrates how t he new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation\, uto pian desires\, political hegemony\, and social unrest\, arguing that the m odern city was a space of antinomy—one able not only to sustain heterogene ous temporalities\, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape.Lawrence Chua is an associate professor of architectural history at the School of Architecture\, Syracuse University. He has been&n bsp\; \;a Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research Institute\, a Mar ie S. Curie fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the A lbert-Ludwigs-Universität\, and a fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden. He is the author of \;Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist felicities \;(Honolulu: University of Hawai ’i Press\, 2021). His writing has also appeared in the \;Journal of th e Society of Architectural Historians\, \;the \;Journal of Archite cture\, \;and the \;Journal of Urban History. \;He is co-edito r\, with Cole Roskam\, of the book series \;ArchAsia: Histories and Fu tures of Asia's Architecture\, Urbanism\, and Environments \;for Hong Kong University Press. \;With the artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeif fer\, he is a founding board member of Denniston Hill\, a queer artist of color-led arts and social justice organization in upstate New York.Anoma P ieris is a Professor of Architecture in \;the Faculty of Architecture\ , Building and Planning at \;The University of Melbourne. Her previous publications include Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trous er under the Cloth (2012)\, Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal H istory of Singapore’s Plural Society (2009)\, Sovereignty\, Space and Civi l War in Sri Lanka (2018) and the anthology Architecture on the Borderline : Boundary Politics and Built Space (2019). She is co-author with Lynne Ho riuchi of The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Paci fic War (forthcoming in 2022). DTEND:20220126T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T170901Z DTSTART:20220126T000000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Bangkok Utopia: A Book Talk with Lawrence Chua and Anoma Pieris UID:RFCALITEM639141881413967384 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lawrence Chua’s Bangkok Utopia< /strong> (University of Hawai’i Press\, 2021) outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has of ten been overlooked by scholars of both. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources\, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city be came arenas for modern subject formation\, utopian desires\, political heg emony\, and social unrest\, arguing that the modern city was a space of an tinomy—one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities\, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape.

Lawrence Chua is an associate professor of architectural hist ory at the School of Architecture\, Syracuse University. He has been \ ; \;a Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research Institute\, a Marie S . Curie fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the Alber t-Ludwigs-Universität\, and a fellow at the International Institute of Asi an Studies in Leiden. He is the author of \;Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist felicities \;(Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press\, 2021). His writing has also appeared in the \;Jour nal of the Society of Architectural Historians\, \;the \; Journal of Architecture\, \;and the \;Journal of Urban Hi story. \;He is co-editor\, with Cole Roskam\, of the book series& nbsp\;ArchAsia: Histories and Futures of Asia's Architecture\, Urbanis m\, and Environments \;for Hong Kong University Press. \;With the artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer\, he is a founding board memb er of Denniston Hill\, a queer artist of color-led arts and social justice organization in upstate New York.

Anoma Pieris is a Professor of Architecture in \;the Faculty of Architecture\, Buildin g and Planning at \;The University of Melbourne. Her previous publicat ions include Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser un der the Cloth (2012)\, Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Pen al History of Singapore’s Plural Society (2009)\, Sovereignty\, S pace and Civil War in Sri Lanka (2018) and the anthology Architec ture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space (2019). She is co-author with Lynne Horiuchi of The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War (forthcoming in 2022).

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