For the Fall term, universities are using their lecture series as opportunities to discuss the ongoing issues of racial inequality, climate, change, and politics within the field of architecture. Join Rice University for its Fall 2020 virtual lectures focusing on race, social justice, and allyship. 

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Rice start off the months of August and September with lectures from Mikki Hebl, Anzilla Glimore, Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, Jesús Vassallo, Ana María León, Stephen Fox, Kadambari Baxi, and Nonya Grenader. Leading into the week of October 21st the school welcomes a lecture from Michael Stone-Richards Professor and Director of Critical Theory at the College for Creative Studies as he discusses "Negation and Disavowal in Spatial Politics." On October 28th the school will conduct their PLAT Roundtable and welcome guest panelists to discuss the recent release of Plat Journal: 9.0 Commit. Thomas J. Sugrue of The Cities Collaborative at NYU will present his lecture on Less Separate, Still Unequal: Cities, Suburbs, and the Unfinished Struggle for Racial Justice on November 4th and on November 11th Rice will host its Design Alliance Civic Forum: A House of One's Own.

Rice shares their lectures are "part of an initiative to acknowledge, understand, and act on systemic racism in the built environment. Invited designers, scholars, and activists will speak on the relationship between race, architecture, and, by extension, related questions of social equity, environmental justice, and gender parity. The aim of the lecture series is to foreground these issues in the school’s curriculum while more broadly fostering solidarity and action in architecture."