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 fall 2008 event will be held Friday, November 21, 2-5pm, in the Reading Room at the Paul L. Cejas Architecture Building. Speakers and papers include Esra Akcan (University of Illinois at Chicago), History of Possibility: The Discarded Cases of German-Turkish Exchanges in Housing; Adnan Morshed (Catholic University), Architecture Without (Male) Architects: Women's Empowerment and Ecology in Grameen Housing, Bangladesh; and Sarah Teasley (Northwestern University), The Drawing as Object: Technical Drawing and Ideology in Modern Japan. The event will be moderated by Katherine Wheeler (University of Miami). 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. A grant from the Paul L. Cejas Architecture Endowment will enable publication of the workshop proceedings in spring 2009. Contact David Rifkind for more information.