Samia Henni
Lectures

CONFERENCE PAPERS



Camps de Regroupement: French Military Forced Displacements in Algeria. Session: “Spaces of Displacement” chaired by Irit Katz and Felipe Fernandez. Annual International Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Glasgow, Scotland, June 7-11, 2017.

French Planning Bureaucrats in Algeria. De Gaulle's Mass Housing Regulations, 1959-1963. Session: “A Question of “Shared Culture” or of “(Selective) Borrowing(s)”? 20th Century Colonial Public Works Departments seen from a Transnational Perspective” chaired by Johan Lagae and Ana Vaz Milheiro, respondent: Professor Peter Carleton Scriver. Fourth International Meeting, European Architectural History Network, Dublin, Ireland, June 2-4, 2016.

From Habitat Musulman to de Gaulle's Cells in French Algeria. Session: “Post-war Architecture and African Legacy: Which Tradition?” chaired by Elisa Dainese, Annual International Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 6-10, 2016. 




Does Culture Enable National Reconciliation? Algerian Post-Civil War Creative Economy. Session: “Designing African creative cities” chaired by Jenny Fatou Mbaye, respondent: Edgar Pieterse. Fifth European Conference on African Studies: African dynamics in a multipolar world, Center of African Studies - ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, 2013. 





CONFERENCE POSTERS



Architecture and Colonial Warfare: The Case of France in Algeria. 3rd Swiss Congress of Art History, biennial conference of the Association of Swiss Art Historians, University of Basel, Switzerland, June 23-25, 2016.

Annotations on the Code of El Houma, Un mot qui tient lieu aux Lieux. 5th African Perspectives Conference: Dialogues on African Metropolis, Architecture School, Casablanca, Morocco, November 3-5, 2011.


LECTURES



"Vers une dé-propagande des archives militaires: mais ou se trouve donc l'architecture?"
Laboratoire InVisu, CNRS/INHA, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, March 21, 2017.

"C as in Colonialism," CCC Research-based Master programme, Geneva University of Art and Design, HEAD Geneva, Switzerland, October 10, 2016.

"From Camps, Homes, Borders to Laws," the Side Room, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 23, 2016.

"Colonial Architecture in North Africa," Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, March 4, 2016.

"Migration and Housing in Postwar France," 
Chair of Prof. Günter Vogt, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, October 4, 2015. 




"Press Architecture: Unclassified Buildings in Algeria (1958-1962)," The Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom, June 26, 2014.

"On the Spatial Order of Military Laws: the Case of the French Army in Algeria," Chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas Tönnesmann, gta, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 8, 2014.

"The Imaginary Algiers," Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, MArch in Urban Design, London, United Kingdom, April 15, 2013.

"L’école d’Alger: French Colonial Architecture and Planning in Algiers," Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, November 1-2, 2012.

"Footnotes on Platitudes, Perception, Memory and the City," Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, the Netherlands, November 23-26, 2011.

"Plans and Platitudes, Experimenting with the two-dimensional in Architecture and Urbanism," with Prof. Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2010- 2011.