Past Events
Graduate Colloquium: "Mundane Mommies & Doting Daddies: Family-Oriented Consumption & Gendered Parenting in Philadelphia Museums"
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 Institute for Urban Research Office, Meyerson G-12. The series…
Graduate Colloquium: "The Occupy Movement and the Privatization of Public Space"
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 Urban Studies Office, McNeil Building Room 130.…
29th Annual Public Lecture: Carl Nightingale
"How American Urban Segregation Outlived Apartheid"
Listen to Dr. Nightingale's talk:
How American Urban Segregation…
"Urban Itineraries and Peripheral Spaces"
Penn Humanities Forum
The Penn Humanities Forum presents architectural historian Swati Chattopadhyay (Associate Professor and Chair, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), who invites…
Graduate Colloquium: "Beyond the Crimson Lily: The Founding of Florence in Medieval Political Propaganda"
NOTE: RESCHEDULED FROM MARCH 12
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 Urban…
"The Meadows Neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia: Recovering a Lost Landscape"
PennDesign
PennDesign invites Anne Krulikowski, Adjunct Professor and West Chester University and the University of Delaware, for a historic preservation lecture.
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Film Screening: Pull of Gravity
Penn Law
Penn Law is hosting a screening for the hour-long documentary Pull of Gravity…
Graduate Colloquium: "The changing landscape of Hauz Khas: Historical transformations in boundary and land use in ‘rural’ Delhi"
Author: Sudev Sheth, South Asian Studies
Discussant: Shahana Chattaraj, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Lauder Institute
Abstract: …
The Debate for America's Future: Assessing the Viability of Public Education
This year’s annual L.E.A.R.N. education innovation conference, The Debate for America’s Future: Assessing the Viability of Public Education Solutions, examines current efforts to improve the American public education…
Graduate Colloquium: "Islands of growth in seas of decline or the engines for takeoff? An Exploration of Increasing Educational Attainment and Labor Markets in Metropolitan America"
Author: Stuart Andreason, City and Regional Planning
Discussant: Janice F. Madden, Professor Regional Science, Sociology and Real Estate
Abstract:…