School of Architecture associate professor Eleni Bastéa will present an illustrated talk titled “Memories of Place” on Thursday, September 23, at 2 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library on the UNM campus. The free event will be followed by a reception.
Bastéa is the latest faculty member to be honored with the University Libraries Faculty Acknowledgement Award. The award is presented to faculty members who publish work in their field of specialty.
Bastéa is currently working on a book, “The Memory of Place, Echoes of a Common Past in Modern Greek and Turkish Thought”. Her own past, as the granddaughter of Christian Greeks living in Turkey and forced to immigrate to Greece in 1922, is a driving element for the book. The underlying hypothesis of “The Memory of Place” is that people are bound to have shared memories of space after centuries of cultural co-existence, just as they share culture and cuisine.
In her classes at the School of Architecture, Bastéa teaches general courses on the history of architecture, seminars on 19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism and on memory and architecture.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627