Graduate Colloquium Series

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



Racial Stratification in the Mortgage Market: The Role of Co-Applicants

Presenter: Jose Loya, PhD Candidate in Sociology
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Discussant: Lisa Servon, Professor and Chair of City & Regional Planning

Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!



Black Muslim Cosmopolitanism: The Global Character of New York City’s Black Muslim Movements, 1936-1990

Presenter: Rasul Miller, PhD Candidate in History & Africana Studies
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Discussant: David Kofi Amponsah, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies



Megalopolis, USA

Presenter: Kristian Taketomo, Doctoral Candidate in History
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Discussant: Mark Stern, Professor of Social Policy and History

Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!



Power, Privilege, and Peril: Governing in a Majority Black and Middle Class County

Presenter: Angela Simms, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
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Discussant: Nina Johnson, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology and Black Studies, Swarthmore College

Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil



Design, Control, Predict: Cultural Politics in the Actually Existing Smart City

Presenter: Aaron Shapiro, PhD Communication, Annenberg School, and Urban Studies Graduate Certificate
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Starts in McNeil Room 169

Happy Hour after in Room 130,the urban studies office

Are you a graduate student doing urban-focused research? Join us for the kick-off of



Mass School Closures and the Politics of Race, Value and Disposability in Philadelphia

Presenters: Julia McWilliams & Erika Kitzmiller
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Discussant: Elaine Simon, Co-Director Urban Studies Program

BREAKFAST PROVIDED



‘We have many ways to make you leave’: The Struggle for Land Rights in Old Lahore

Presenter: Fatima Tassadiq, PhD candidate Anthropology
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BREAKFAST PROVIDED

Discussant: David Gouverneur, Associate Professor, Penn Design



The Potential of Place-based Philanthropy in Legacy Cities

Presenter: Mary Rocco, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Penn's Department of City Planning, and graduate of Urban Studies Graduate Certificate Program
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Breakfast included.

Discussant: Ira Goldstein, President of Policy Solutions at Reinvestment Fund



CA Conrad and the Queering of Urban Boundaries

Presenter: Davy Knittle, PhD Student in English, and current member of the Urban Studies Graduate Certificate Program
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Breakfast included.

Discussant: Jennifer Ponce de Leon, Assistant Professor of English

Abstract:



Street-level: Google Street View, Geovisuality, and the Broken Windows Theory

Presenter: Aaron Shapiro, PhD candidate Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Discussant: Jessica Lingel, Assistant Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

In studies of the geoweb,