Past Events
Postponed: Urban Gay Culture and the Active Accomplishment of Community
Treats, tea, and an interdisciplinary discussion in the Urban Studies office, 414 McNeil Building
Please stay tuned for an updated date and time for this grad talk - thanks!
Presenter: Tyler Baldor, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Jason Orne, Assistant Professor of…
Seniors: Interviews for Voter Registration job - Public Interest Research Group
Robin Donohoe, a Campus Organizer with the Student PIRGs, will be on Campus Monday 2/24 to Thursday 2/27 holding informational sessions and interviews for graduating seniors. There will be an informational…
The Politics of Informal Urban Growth
Measuring the Global Relationship between Clientelism and Informal Urbanization
Presenter: Chandan Deuskar, Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning
Discussant: Mariaflavia Harari, Assistant Professor, Real Estate Department
Julie K. Brown, Investigative Journalist for the Miami Herald
The award-winning reporter who helped break the Jeffrey Epstein case will be speaking to our Urban Journalism class Wednesday, and the lecture is open to anyone interested.
A Trans Ecology for Harlem: Speculative Planning and the Poetics of Environmental Design
Presenter:
Davy Knittle, Ph.D. Candidate Department of English
Discussant:
Akira Drake Rodriguez, Lecturer Department of City and Regional Planning
Discover West Philadelphia Social History
Wednesday, January 22 6:30 The Hamilton Mansion at the Woodlands, 4000 Woodland Ave. Register at this website:
Georgia O’Keeffe, Sky-shapes, and the Limits of the City
Presenter:
Lee Ann Custer, PhD Candidate History of Art
Discussant:
Eugenie L. Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education
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36th Annual Public Lecture: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
"Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University, is our 36th Annual Public Lecturer. Dr.…
A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City
Join the Urban Studies Program and URBS 290: Metropolitan Nature for the opportunity to hear Professor Stephen Danley, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers-Camden University, speak about…