The Urban Studies Graduate Colloquium series provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary conversations about excellent graduate student research in Urban Studies.
This year our series, hosted by our 2023-24 Graduate Fellow Tessa Huttenlocher (PhD candidate, Sociology), will represent a wide spectrum of departments and topics.
Past
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://upenn
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
The Relationship between Historic Redlining and Modern Zoning in Major US Cities
Presenter: Chris Quattro, PhD candidate, City and Regional
BIPOC Community Engagement in Community Media
Presenter: Antoine Haywood, PhD candidate, Annenberg School for Communication
Discussant: Aaron Levy, Senior Lecturer, English and History of Art
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