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.
This year our series, hosted by our 2022-23 Graduate Fellow Michael Brinley (PhD candidate, History), 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
Persistently mixed-income neighborhoods and the role of planning and housing policy: A study of Philadelphia
Join via Zoom!
Speaker: Yeonhwa Lee, PhD Candidate in City and Regional
"A Very Racist Neighborhood:" Reputation, Stigma, and Narrative Framing in a Chicago Neighborhood
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McNeil Building 414, Urban Studies space
3718 Locust Walk
Speaker: Andres Villatoro, Ph.D. Student, Sociology
'Slavs Only': Understanding the Spatialization of Race in Urban Russia
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Speaker: Mariana Irby, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Interest in Anthropology of the state, citizenship, urban studies,
Poverty's Capital; the Social Construction of Savings in Early New York
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McNeil Building 414
3718 Locust Walk
Speaker: Anders Bright, third-year Ph.D. student studying early American intellectual, cultural, and
Marx and Reparations: Moral and Non-Moral Arguments
Join in person, in the Urban Studies office
McNeil Building 4th floor
3718 Locust Walk
Or via Zoom! https://
Designers, Ecosociologists, Human Geographers, and Urban Ethnographers
A New Wave of Soviet City Planning Expertise, 1968-1975
Speaker: Michael Brinley: PhD Candidate, History Department
Discussant: Domenic Vitiello, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and City Planning
Translanguaging in Classrooms with Multilingual Speakers
Speaker: Shiyu Jiang || PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Educational Linguistics at GSE
Discussant: Dr. Kate Menken || Professor of Linguistics and TESOL, Queens College
