The City of Our Dreaming
The Alchemy Lecture 2024
Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.
The third annual Alchemy Lecture took place in the fall of 2024 at York University, to a sold-out in-person audience and hundreds of online viewers tuning in from multiple continents. Gathered by Dr. Christina Sharpe, these Alchemists—four thinkers and practitioners who work across a range of disciplines and geographies—shared their ideas of city life, its structures and architectures, and how radically different these can and should be organized to support community needs. Their urgent, poignant, and inventive lectures have been captured and expanded in these pages.
Princeton assistant professor of architecture V. Mitch McEwen borrows the language of the swamp to suggest a city modeled on buoyancy: “Let’s dream a physics—which is to say…
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September 23, 2025LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist who is widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. An independent scholar who uses Nishnaabeg intellectual practices, Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada and the US. She is an award-winning musician and the author of eight previous books, including the nonfiction A Short History of the Blockade and the novels Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Dublin Literary Prize, and This Accident of Being Lost, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award. Her nonfiction collaboration with…
The City of Our Dreaming
Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Gabriela LeandroPereira
Theory of Water
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson