Past Events
Course and Majors Fair
Talk to representatives from a wide range of courses and College majors.
Runs from 11:30am to 2:30pm
Lunch with Real Estate Developer Howard Kozloff
Please join the Urban Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board for lunch with Real Estate Developer and former Penn Lecturer Howard Kozloff on Wednesday, April 16!
Book Talk - The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America
The Price of Paradise is a national exploration of the legal and political assumptions that guide residential…
Graduate Colloquium: "Planting the Livable City: Initial Assessment of a Science-Practice Gap in Contemporary Urban Greening"
Please join us for the next Urban Studies Graduate Student colloquium, with coffee, croissants and conversation on Tuesday March 19, 9:30-11am, in the Office of the Institute of Urban Research, Meyerson Hall…
Book Talk -The Battle for Ground Zero: A Talk on Architecture, Public Space, and Democracy
Urban Studies Program and Institute for Urban Research University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Greenspan, Harvard University
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center site has been mired in countless controversies, and nearly all of them can be traced back to a central tension: competing senses…
Graduate Colloquium: "Religion and Economic Dignity in Neoliberal Los Angeles, 1985-1995"
Please join us for the next Urban Studies Graduate Student colloquium, with coffee, croissants and conversation on Tuesday March 19, 9:30-11am, in the Office of the Institute of Urban Research, Meyerson Hall…
Lifting Little Hands: National and Local Responses to Young Children Living in Poverty
Dr. John Fantuzzo, of Penn's Graduate School of Education, is the convener of a panel event taking place in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation, the 2014 Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Lecture. The panel will…
Graduate Colloquium: "Crumbling Grandeur, Global Dreams, and Colonial Legacies in Downtown Cairo"
Please join us for the next Urban Studies Graduate Student colloquium, with coffee, croissants and conversation on Tuesday March 19, 9:30-11am, in the Office of the Institute of Urban Research, Meyerson Hall…
Graduate Colloquium: "The Relationship Between Public Engagement and Sustainability Planning"
Please join us for the next Urban Studies Graduate Student colloquium, with coffee, croissants and conversation on Tuesday March 19, 9:30-11am, in the Office of the Institute of Urban Research, Meyerson Hall…
Penn IUR Sound and the City Seminar: City Soundscapes: Music, Words & Identities in Urban America
Nick Spitzer, producer of public radio's American Routes and professor of American studies and anthropology at Tulane University…