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
Past
Individual, Social, and Environmental Factors Associated with Active Transportation Commuting during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Meagan Cusack, PhD Candidate of Social Welfare, School of Social Policy and Practice
Discussant: Erick Guerra, Associate Professor and Chair, Weitzman School of Design
The Urbicidal Violence of Massive Infrastructural Construction in Lahore
Presenter: Fatima Tassadiq, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation
Public Shaming and Social Policing in Republican Rome
Presenter: Jordan Rogers, PhD Candidate, Ancient History
Discussant: David Grazian, Professor of Sociology and Communication, Faculty Director of Urban Studies
Neighbors, Nightclubs, and Noise: Sound and Urban Relations in Mexico City
Presenter: Elizabeth Bynum, PhD Candidate, Music and Anthropology
Discussant: David Gouverneur, Associate Professor of Practice, Landscape Architecture
The Effect of a Death-in-Police-Custody Incident on Community Reliance on the Police
Presenter: Ruth Moyer, PhD in Criminology
Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: property and the construction of urban space
Presenter: Indivar Jonnalagadda, PhD Candidate, South Asia Studies and Anthropology
Discussant: Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History, Drexel University
Urban Gay Culture and the Active Accomplishment of Community
Presenter: Tyler Baldor, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Jason Orne, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
Land. Body. Prison. Dream. Freedom. - Scape
A Discussion on Visualizing Urban Violence
Presenter: Leniqueca Welcome, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: John L. Jackson Jr., Dean, Annenberg School for Communication
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