The biennial Dissertation Colloquium brings together a select group of doctoral students from diverse institutional and disciplinary backgrounds working on dissertation topics related to the history, theory, and criticism of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape. 

The Buell Conference on the History of Architecture brings together scholars in architectural and urban history to discuss topics in architecture, urbanism, and modernity as broadly understood.

To celebrate the launch of Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (Harvard University Press, 2015) by Andreas Huyssen, the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Buell organized a public discussion and reception on Tuesday, April 21, 2015. In addition to a reading by the book's author, the event included comments by Reinhold Martin, Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and Anthony Vidler, Professor at the Cooper Union and Yale University.

Organized together with the Department of Germanic Languages and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University