For this seminar day we will be joined by Jesse Connuck and Lennaart van Oldenborgh who will discuss writing practices and image research.

Jesse Connuck is an interdisciplinary researcher investigating the importance of home to military power. Her PhD thesis analysed the multi-scalar project of homemaking at overseas United States military bases, especially with regards to the idea of the nation as home and how that is expressed through the built environment and everyday material cultures. Her work considers colonialism and imperialism through the lens of home, with a careful attention to the ways that gender and race inflect global geopolitics. She previously worked as an editor at e-flux Architecture and Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

Lennaart van Oldenborgh is a BAFTA-winning documentary film editor with a broad range of freelance experience over 20 years. With in his latest projects he moved into docu-drama editing, but his experience is mostly on long-form documentary for broadcast (art, science, history, politics, observational), and also some feature documentaries and multichannel art installations. In 2018, his feature-length documentary 'Basquiat: Rage to Riches' won the BAFTA TV Specialist Factual award. Lennaart van Oldenborgh has a background in fine arts and film theory, and has taught Film Theory and Media Studies in higher education in London (Goldsmiths and Royal College of Art).