Past Events



Book Talk | Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties Among the Poor

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Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor

Join Joan Maya Mazelis, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Camden, who will be speaking about…



‘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



Book Talk | City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens

Free and open to the public
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A synthesis of archival sources, oral history, and ethnography,…



Info Session | MS in Urban Strategies at Drexel

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Join program director Dr. Andrew Zitcer (SAS ’00 Design ’04), as well as some of his Drexel colleagues for an info session this Thursday.



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:

This paper reads the poetry of CA Conrad as a site in…



Urban Studies Book Talk

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The Rise of the Market City:
Unfettered Capitalism and Urban Transformation in the U.S. and the U.K.      

Please join Urban Studies for our first event of the Spring semester!



33rd Annual Public Lecture: Matthew Desmond

"Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City"
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Free and open to the public.

From Harvard sociologist and 2015 MacArthur “Genius” award winner Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at…



PHS Pop Up Garden Visit

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Join Jeff Barg (Associate Director for Planning at Pennsylvania Horticultural Society) for a discussion on…



URBS Alumni Event - Politics & the American City: Urban Policy in 2016 and Beyond

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Panel: 2-3:30pm | Light Reception: 3:30-6pm