Visualizing the French Empire: The Question of the Archive | by Patricia Morton
The seminar “Visualizing the French Empire: The Question of the Archive” by Patricia Morton (University of California, Riverside & Past President of the Society of Architectural Historians - SAH), scheduled for Thursday 4 June 2026 at 4:00 pm, is organized within the framework of Colonial Echoes, Urban Futures: Archives, Memory, and Generative AI in Postcolonial Critique.
Speaker
Patricia Morton is former President of the Society of Architectural Historians and Associate Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris and has lectured and published widely on architectural history and race, gender and identity. She is also a former editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
The seminar will be moderated by Pelin Bolca from the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST at Politecnico di Torino.