June 13

9.30-10.00 Coffee
10.00-10.20 Welcome and introduction

Session 1: Co-production. Chair: Huda Tayob
10.20-10.40, Ruth Prince, Afterlives of Soviet Gifts in East Africa: The “Russia” hospital in Kenya
10.40-11.00, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Jovan Ivanovski, Vladimir Deskov, Building the City of Solidarity: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje
11.00-11.20, Miruna Stroe, The Parliament of Khartoum, Sudan: Cezar Lăzărescu and the Design Institute Carpați, 1972-1978
11.20-11.40, Ksenia Litvinenko, Accepting the Gift of Darkhan Youth Palace of Culture, 1971-1978
11.40-12.50, Response by Chair and discussion

12.50-14.30, Lunch break

Session 2: Temporalities. Chair: Albena Yaneva
14.30-14.50, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Given Time and the Time of the Gift at the Aswan Dam Construction, 1960-1970
14.50-15.10, Ke Song, China's Architectural Gifts from the 1950s to 1970s
15.10-15.30, Taoufik Souami, The International of Architectures and Urban Planning between “Brother Countries”: Modernity as a Gift? The case of Algeria.
15.30-15.50, Hannah Le Roux, Housing for all: South Africa’s Immanent Gift, 1937-2022
15.50-17.00, Response by Chair & discussion

June 14

9.00-9.30, Coffee

Session 3: Reciprocity. Chair Ksenia Litvinenko
9.30-9.50, Łukasz Stanek, From Imperial to Socialist Gift: The Campus of the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi.
9.50-10.10, Duanfang Lu, Gifts and Aid Projects in China’s Diplomatic Discourse, 1949-1965
10.10-10.30, Anna Bronovitskaya, Complexities of Soviet Architectural Policies in Central Asia: The Cases of Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
10.30-10.50, Fantahun Ayele, The Gift of Architecture: The Case of the Polytechnic Institute in Ethiopia
10.50-11.10, Michał Murawski, Violence, Hierarchy and Public Spirit: The Economic Aesthetics of the (Architectural) Gift, from High Stalinism to Wild Capitalism
11.00-12.00, Response by Chair & discussion

12.00-13.30, Lunch break

Session 4: Appropriation. Chair: Ola Uduku
13.30-13.50, Kuukuwa Manful, The Multifarious Gifts of School Building(s) in Ghana
13.50-14.10, Kojo Derban, Joseph Oduro-Frimpong, The National Theatre of Ghana and the Politics of Reciprocity
14.10-14.30, Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu, Many Gifts in One: Polish Architecture in Vietnam as a Resource in the Post-’89 World
14.30-14.50, Christina Schwenkel, Unplanned Obsolescence: The Capitalist Dilemma of Decayed Buildings as Solidarity Gifts in Vietnam
14.50-16.00, Response by Chair & discussion