Past Events
Book Talk! System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation
Author: Lauren Silver, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers - Camden
Discussant: John Jackson, Richard Perry University Professor, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Dean School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Sponsored with…
Kurt L. Schmoke | Tapping The Wire: The Power of Social Change
Kurt L. Schmoke was appointed President of the University of Baltimore in May, 2014. He earned his undergraduate degree in history from Yale University. Mr. Schmoke served as the mayor of Baltimore City for 12 years…
Film Screening and Lecture: Buried River, Opened Lives: Reflections on the West Philadelphia Landscape Project
Free and open to the public!
Domestic Publics: On Gender, Urban Water and the Matter of Government
Presenter: Nikhil Anand, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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
Discussant: Dr. Krystal Strong, Assistant Professor Education, Culture, and Society Division, Penn GSE
Abstract
In Eritrea, an authoritarian country where military service has…
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
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
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
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
Discussant: Ameena Ghaffar Kucher, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, International Education Development Program, Graduate School of Education, University…
32nd Annual Public Lecture: Abigail Perkiss
"Ideals Unfulfilled: Integration, Liberalism, and Urban Education in Postwar Philadelphia"
Abigail Perkiss, Assistant Professor of History at Kean University in Union, NJ, is our 32nd Annual Urban Studies Public Lecturer. Her lecture is entitled "…