The Urban Studies Graduate Colloquium series provides an opportunity for graduate students who are affiliated with the Urban Studies Certificate Program to come together, share their work, and get feedback from a discussant who represents a different discipline from their own.
Write to urbs@sas.upenn.edu for the Zoom link to join any of our 2020-21 grad talks!
This year our series, hosted by our 2020-21 Graduate Fellow Irteza Binte-Farid (PhD candidate in Anthropology and Education), will represent a wide spectrum of departments and topics focusing on how young scholars are thinking through ideas of urban space, both in the US and internationally. What is considered urban, how ideas of the urban shifts due to broader sociocultural changes, and how individuals and communities police space are all topics that will open up new ways of thinking about space. Scholars will also consider how their research on urban spaces have changed due to the effects of a pandemic.
Upcoming
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A Discussion on Visualizing Urban Violence
Presenter: Leniqueca Welcome, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: John L. Jackson Jr., Dean, Annenberg School for Communication
Urban Gay Culture and the Active Accomplishment of Community
Presenter: Tyler Baldor, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Jason Orne, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
Public Reliance on Police after Death in Custody Incidents
Presenter: Ruth Moyer, doctoral candidate in Criminology
Discussant: TBA
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What is Urban: Land Bureaucracy in Hyderabad
Presenter: Indivar Jonalaggada, PhD Candidate, South Asia Studies and Anthropology
Discussant: Dr. Anuradha Mathur, Professor of Landscape Architecture
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The Politics of Informal Urban Growth
Measuring the Global Relationship between Clientelism and Informal Urbanization
Presenter: Chandan Deuskar, Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning
Discussant: Mariaflavia Harari, Assistant Professor, Real Estate Department
A Trans Ecology for Harlem: Speculative Planning and the Poetics of Environmental Design
Presenter:
Davy Knittle, Ph.D. Candidate Department of English
Discussant:
Akira Drake Rodriguez, Lecturer Department of City and Regional Planning
Georgia O’Keeffe, Sky-shapes, and the Limits of the City
Presenter:
Lee Ann Custer, PhD Candidate History of Art
Discussant:
Eugenie L. Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education
Bullets, Books, and Brotherhood: Grief and Recovery in an Urban All-Boys High School after Three Fatal Shootings of Friends
Presenter: Nora Gross, Ph.D. joint-degree candidate in Sociology and the Education, Culture, and Society program at Penn GSE
Discussant: Sara Jacoby, Assistant Professor, Nursing, University
When “Place” Meets Community Philanthropy: Exploring The Place Dilemma and Value Creation Beyond Generosity
Presenter: Viviana Chiu-Sik Wu, PhD Candidate in Social Welfare
Discussant: Michael X.
Which School Districts Are Credit Constrained in Their Efforts to Invest in School Infrastructure? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Presenter: J. Cameron Anglum, PhD Candidate in Education Policy
Discussant: Robert Inman, Professor of Finance, Business Economics, and Public Policy
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!
Activist Populations and Possibilities for Organizing in High-Poverty Urban Neighborhoods
Presenter: James Morone, PhD Candidate in Political Science
Discussant: Rand Quinn, Associate Professor of Education
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!
Racial Stratification in the Mortgage Market: The Role of Co-Applicants
Presenter: Jose Loya, PhD Candidate in Sociology
Discussant: Lisa Servon, Professor and Chair of City & Regional Planning
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!
Black Muslim Cosmopolitanism: The Global Character of New York City’s Black Muslim Movements, 1936-1990
Presenter: Rasul Miller, PhD Candidate in History & Africana Studies
Discussant: David Kofi Amponsah, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
Megalopolis, USA
Presenter: Kristian Taketomo, Doctoral Candidate in History
Discussant: Mark Stern, Professor of Social Policy and History
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!