Graduate Colloquium Series

Graduate Colloquium: "Islands Of Growth In Seas Of Decline Or The Engines For Takeoff?" Cancelled - stay tuned for new date

Please join us for coffee, croissants and conversation during the Urban Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series! The series provides a way for graduate students who are or have been a part of the Urban Studies

Graduate Colloquium: "We called for labor but people came instead"

Author: Osman Balkan, a graduate student in political science, will present his paper on guest worker migration and patterns of neighborhood change in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Graduate Colloquium: "Rural-Urban Infrastructure for Waste-to-Energy and Food Production"

Author: Catherine Brinkley, a VMD-Ph.D. student in City and Regional Planning, will present her dissertation proposal entitled "Rural-Urban Infrastructure for Waste-to-Energy and Food Production." 

Graduate Colloquium: "Modeling Rates of Chronic Homelessness"

Author: Tom Byrne, PhD student in SP2

Discussant: Penn Professor John Landis, Crossways Professor of City and Regional Planning 

Meyerson Hall, Room G-12, at Penn's

Graduate Colloquium: "Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico"

Author: Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Folklorist and Associate Professor of English at George Mason University.

Graduate Colloquium:"People out of Place or a Home for the Homeless?"

Dr. Andrew Deener, a visiting scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Society program, will be presenting his work entitled, "People out of Place or a Home for the Homeless?" Dr.

Graduate Colloquium: "Ideas, Coalition Building, and Political Development in the City: Urban Policy and Politics in the U.S. and the UK, 1976-2000"

Tim Weaver, a graduate student in Political Science, will be presenting his work entitled,

Graduate Colloquium: "Newspapers, Government, and the Perception of Crime: How the Phoenix 40 Saved Itself From a City"

Please join us for the next in our 2010-11 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series.

Graduate Colloquium: "Community Organizers or Community Representatives?"

Michelle Kondo, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Social Policy and Practice, will be presenting her work entitled "Community Organizers or Community Representatives? Tensions Surrounding

Graduate Colloquium: "Model Cities and the 'House of Love' on Germantown Avenue."

Jessica Lautin, PhD Candicate in History, will present her work "Model Cities and the 'House of Love' on Germantown Avenue."

Professor Randall Mason, Chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at