Past Events



"A Very Racist Neighborhood:" Reputation, Stigma, and Narrative Framing in a Chicago Neighborhood

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Join in person!
McNeil Building 414, Urban Studies space
3718 Locust Walk

Speaker: Andres Villatoro, Ph.D. Student, Sociology 

Discussant:…



'Slavs Only': Understanding the Spatialization of Race in Urban Russia

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Join here

Speaker: Mariana Irby, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Interest in Anthropology of the state, citizenship, urban studies,…



Poverty's Capital; the Social Construction of Savings in Early New York

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Join in person
McNeil Building 414
3718 Locust Walk


Speaker: Anders Bright, third-year Ph.D. student studying early American intellectual, cultural, and…



Dissertation chapter on history of New York City's savings banks in the early 19th century

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Speaker: Anders Bright, PhD Candidate in History  

Discussant: Lisa Servon



Marx and Reparations: A Moral and Non-Moral Reply

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Speaker: Ezekiel Vergara, PhD Student in Philosophy

Discussant: Akira Drake Rodriguez and Lance Freeman

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Stable mixed-income neighborhoods and the role of planning and housing policy: A comparative case study

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Speaker: Yeonhwa Lee, PhD Candidate in City and Regional Planning

Discussant: Mark Stern or Ira Goldstein

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Marx and Reparations: Moral and Non-Moral Arguments

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Join in person, in the Urban Studies office
McNeil Building 4th floor
3718 Locust Walk

Or via Zoom! https://…



Managing Blackness in "White Space"

39th Annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies: Elijah Anderson
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MEYERSON HALL, B1 AUDITORIUM
210 South 34th Street (The School of Design Building)



Book Talk with Domenic Vitiello

The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia
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Domenic Vitiello introduces his new book, The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia in a book talk in October.



2022 URBS Honors Presentations

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Please join us to hear this year's Urban Studies Honors students describe their research!
 

If attending in person, we will be in the URBS office, 4th floor McNeil, with Dizengoff for snacks.