Wednesday, February 12 · 1:30 - 3:30pm EST - Online
"Conditions of Life Calculated..." on the Gaza Genocide
Eyal Weizman gives the 2024-2025 David Graeber Memorial Lecture.
By Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS
Co-sponsored by:
Anthropology and Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
The Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University
Rojava University
Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (ICSyH) at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)
The Élisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation
The Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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Eyal Weizman is the Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine.
He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, FORENSIS, and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability.
Eyal has held positions in universities worldwide including Princeton, ETH Zurich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is on the board of directors of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ).
In 2019, he was elected life fellow of the British Academy. In 2020, he received an MBE for ‘services to architecture’. He was the recipient of the London Design Award (2021) and the Mark Cousins Theory Award (2024). Forensic Architecture is the recipient of a Peabody Award for interactive media, the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture, and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award.
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