Past Events
2012 Alumni Brunch
Coming to Alumni Weekend? Stop by for brunch at the Urban Studies headquarters, 11am to 1pm!
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Sponsors: Penn Institute for Urban Research, Penn Department of Criminology, Urban Studies Program
Robert Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Social Sciences Program at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will discuss his latest book, Great American…
Urbanized: Film Screening and Conversation
Sponsors: Penn Institute for Urban Research, PennDesign, Penn Cinema Studies, Urban Studies Program
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners,…
28th Annual Public Lecture: Bruce Western
"Mass Incarceration and the Prospects for Reform"
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology at Harvard and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, will deliver Urban Studies’ twenty-eighth annual…
Graduate Colloquium: "We called for labor but people came instead"
Author: Osman Balkan, a graduate student in political science, will present his paper on guest worker migration and patterns of neighborhood change in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
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Secure Communities: Immigration, Deportation, and Sanctuary Cities
Sponsor: Urban Studies Program
The Obama administration has deported more immigrants than any president ever, partly through Secure Communities and related links between federal and local law enforcement. Yet Philadelphia and many other cities…
Educate or Incarcerate? Policies and Programs that Keep Youth in the Classroom and Out of Prison
Sponsors: Penn Law, Urban Studies Program
A session of the Edward V. Sparer Symposium organized by Toll Public Interest Law Scholars at Penn Law
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The Criminalization of Homelessness in Europe
Sponsors: School of Social Policy and Practice, Urban Studies Program, VA Natl. Center for Homelessness Among Veterans
Dr. Eoin O'Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Social Policy and Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin and Fellow of Trinity College. He is a member of the European…
Surveillance and Civil Liberties in Inner City Neighborhoods
Sponsor: Urban Studies Program
The proliferation of video cameras, stop-and-frisk policies, and other forms of surveillance have raised new questions about urban residents' safety and rights, especially in heavily policed inner city neighborhoods…
No Exit? The Challenge of Re-Entry
Join Urban Studies for the first of our Spring 2012 Public Conversation Series: Criminalizing the City
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