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.
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Street-level: Google Street View, Geovisuality, and the Broken Windows Theory
Presenter: Aaron Shapiro, PhD candidate Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Jessica Lingel, Assistant Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
In studies of the geoweb,
Book Talk! System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation
Author: Lauren Silver, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers - Camden
Discussant: John Jackson, Richard Perry University Professor, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Dean School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
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Domestic Publics: On Gender, Urban Water and the Matter of Government
Presenter: Nikhil Anand, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Farha Gannam, Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College
Abstract
This paper argues that hydraulic publics are constituted through the material relations that
Book Chapter Discussion! The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Riggan, Associate Professor International Studies, Arcadia University
Discussant: Dr.
The Necessity of Blight: Race, gender and capital in the making of North Philadelphia's material landscape
Presenters; Tali Ziv, PhD student Penn Anthropology, and Gabriel Dattatreyan, faculty Haverford College, Anthropology & Africana Studies
Discussant: Deborah Thomas, Penn Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies
Book Talk! Much Given, Much Required: Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in a New York City School
Presenter: Amy Brown, PhD, faculty member Critical Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Kathy Hall, Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology, Graduate School of Education
Urban-Rural Linkage, Urban-Rural Divide: Constructing Bangalore from the Village
Presenter: Dr. Arjun Shankar, Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Curiosity, School of Social Policy and Practice and Lecturer, Urban Studies Program
Discussant: Dr. Nikhil Anand, Upenn Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian-American Youth after 9/11
Author: Thea Abu El-Haj, Associate Professor of Education, Rutgers University
Discussant: Ameena Ghaffar Kucher, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, International Education Development Program, Graduate School of Education, University
Spring Colloquium: "'Preserving Our Way of Life': Annexation, Political Power, and the Color Line in Greater Denver, 1962-1974."
Please join us for the 2015 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series, in the Urban Studies Office: 130 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk.
Spring Colloquium: “Saving the School: The Moral Economy of Educational Work in Crisis”
Please join us for the 2015 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series, in the Urban Studies Office: 130 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk.