The htc.Workshop provides a forum for new research in architectural history, theory and criticism through semi-annual symposia hosted by the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture + The Arts in Miami’s Florida International University. Emerging scholars discuss their work with peers and senior scholars representing a number of disciplines in order to work through difficult material in a collegial setting. Consistent with the international focus of FIU and the Department of Architecture, the htc.Workshop places special emphasis on contemporary research examining architecture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. The spring 2009 event will be held Friday, February 6, 2-5 pm, in the Reading Room at the Paul L. Cejas Architecture Building. Speakers and papers include Colette Apelian (Berkeley City College), Lamps in Local Character:  Electrifying the Historic City of Fez, Morocco during the French Protectorate; Vladimir Kulic (Florida Atlantic University), Strategies of Resistance: Architecture and the Stalinization of Yugoslavia, 1945-50; and Itohan Osayimwese (University of Washington), Prolegomena to an Alternative Genealogy of German Modernism: The Impact of World Cultures on German Architects ca. 1900. The event will be moderated by Marianne Lamonaca (The Wolfsonian-Florida International University), and Frances Hsu (Georgia Tech) will offer a response to conclude the workshop. The keynote lecture by Fasil Giorghis (Addis Ababa University), Between Tradition and Modernity, The Work of a Contemporary Ethiopian Architect, will begin at 6pm in the school auditorium (PCA135). Professor Giorghis will also speak Monday evening, February 9, 5:30pm, at the Frost Art Museum, with a lecture entitled From Villages to a Capital, The Birth and Growth of Addis Ababa from 1886 to the Present. The htc.Workshop is funded by a generous grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and supported by the College of Architecture + The Arts at FIU. The keynote lecture is co-sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Studies program. A grant from the Paul L. Cejas Architecture Endowment will enable publication of the workshop proceedings in fall 2009. Contact David Rifkind for more information. The fall 2008 htc.Workshop schedule and paper abstracts are archived here.