Please join us for the 2016 Fitch Colloquium, organized by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director of the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia GSAPP. **Speakers** Azra Akšamija, Lucia Allais, Leila A. Amineddoleh, Zaki Aslan, Erica Avrami, Zainab Bahrani, Robert Bevan, Julián Chapapría, David Gissen, Rodney Harrison, Nikolaus Hirsch, Mark Jarzombek, Laura Kurgan, Rosalind C. Morris, William Raynolds, Laurie Rush, Clive Van Den Berg, and Tim Winter **About Preservation and War** What are the moral limits to war? The destruction of heritage has, at least since the Enlightenment, been considered a threshold beyond which military action becomes unjust, even criminal. To what degree, we may ask, is preservation thinkable outside of militarization, and its prewar—war—postwar continuum? What is the range of acceptable preservation actions and non-actions in the face of today’s wars, when spectacles are made of the dynamiting of monuments and the killing of preservationists? The 2016 Fitch Colloquium brings together some of the world’s leading experts in the spirit of dialogue and common pursuit of answers to these urgent questions. **About James Marston Fitch** Architect, preservationist, and founder of the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University (1964) where he was a member of the faculty from 1954 to 1977. Fitch taught and lectured widely and was a true internationalist—studying and writing in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Jane Jacobs considered Fitch “the principal character in making the preservation of historic buildings practical and feasible and popular.” The James Marston Fitch Colloquium became an annual event at Columbia GSAPP in 2000.