Oct. 10 Lecturer is Zeynep Celik From the New Jersey Institute of Technology

The DePaul University Center for Black Diaspora will hold a year-long colloquium, “Inscribing Identity: The Intersectionality of Architecture and Race,” to explore the hidden and explicit ways that racial ideology is inscribed in the practices of architecture.

“The ways in which the built environment and architecture affect our everyday lives are myriad,” said Sandra Jackson, director of the center and associate professor of women’s studies. “This topic related to architecture and race is important in that it is an area of research and scholarship that has not received the attention that it warrants.”

The October 2002 lecture series is as follows:

Oct. 10 – Zeynep Celik, professor of architecture and history, New Jersey Institute of Technology, “Symbolism and Resistance in a Colonial Context: Houses of Algiers,” 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., John T. Richardson Library, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Dorothy Day Room, 4th floor.

Oct. 17 – Fifth Annual Frederick Douglass Distinguished Lecturer George W. Fredrickson, Edgar E. Robinson professor of history, Stanford University, “The Historical Construction of Racism: A Comparison of White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism,” 7 p.m. Schmitt Academic Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., Room 154.

Oct. 30 – Darell W. Fields, professor of architecture, Harvard University, “Historical Errors and Black Tropes: A Representational Scheme for Architecture and Blackness,” 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave.

The Center for Black Diaspora lectures are free and open to the public. For more information about the “Inscribing Identity” series or other programs of the center, please call 773/325-7512 or visit the center’s Web site at http://condor.depaul.edu/~diaspora.