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



Book Talk! System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation

Author: Lauren Silver, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers - Camden
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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
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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
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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
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 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
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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
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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
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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."

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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”

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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: "Urban Toponymy and Crime in Hector Berthelot’s Mystères de Montréal"

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Please join us for the 2015 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series, in the Urban Studies Office: 130 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk.