Zeynep Çelik
Zeynep Çelik is a scholar with a research focus on cross-cultural exchanges in architecture and urbanism in the 19th and 20th century. Selected publications include The Remaking of Istanbul (1986), Displaying the Orient (1992), Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations (1997), Empire, Architecture, and the City (2008), Camera Ottomana (2015, co-editor), and About Antiquities (2016). Çelik has co-curated the exhibitions Walls of Algiers, Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2009), Scramble for the Past, SALT, Istanbul (2011), and Camera Ottomana—Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire 1840—1914, Anamed Gallery, Istanbul (2015). She is currently Distinguished Professor of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Adjunct Professor of History at Columbia University.
After the Wildly Improbable
Trains in the Past, Tracks in the Present
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity, lecture
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train, lecture
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel That Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track, staged literary reading
- After the Wildly Improbable -
Sep 15, 2017
Unsmooth, Broken Flow of Travels
Zeynep Çelik: Railways and the Politics of Archaeology, lecture
Yazid Anani: an imaginary train ride, 1926, lecture performance
Shahana Rajani & Zahra Malkani: Afterlives of Imperial Formations, lecture performance
- After the Wildly Improbable -
Sep 16, 2017