The Division of Social Sciences Spring 2022 Luncheon Seminar Series

Speaker: Daniel Monk, George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies and Professor Geography

Date/Time:  Feb. 10th 12-1pm

Location: Hybrid event.

-in person: 27 Persson Auditorium

-zoom registration link: coming soon

Lunch: Grab & go lunches have been CANCELLED due to current Event Safety rules.

Title: The Global Shelter Imaginary:  IKEA Humanitarianism and the Rationalization of Rightless Relief. 

Brief Description:  The Global Shelter Imaginary concerns the legitimation horizons of the contemporary humanitarian order.  By reviewing the public career of a partnership between IKEA and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to sponsor the production of a universally-replicable camp dwelling called the ‘Better Shelter,’ this work examines how the same order has come to rely on architecture as a plenipotentiary for the same protections it is now abandoning.

The next talk in this series is on Feb. 24th with Professor Guzmán (EDUC).