The series, led this year by our Graduate Fellow Ruth Moyer (PhD candidate in Criminology), provides an opportunity for graduate students who are affiliated with the Urban Studies Certificate program to come together and share their work, and get feedback from a discussant who represents a different discipline from their own.
Upcoming
Past
Postponed: Urban Gay Culture and the Active Accomplishment of Community
Treats, tea, and an interdisciplinary discussion in the Urban Studies office, 414 McNeil Building
Please stay tuned for an updated date and time for this grad talk - thanks!
Presenter: Tyler Baldor, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Jason Orne, Assistant Professor of
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. candidate in the Sociology Department and the Education, Culture, and Society program at Penn GSE
Discussing Nora's work will be: Sara Jacoby, Assistant Professor