Past Events
Alumni Mentoring - Urbs Alum Melissa Kushner, Founder Goods for Good
College Alumni Mentoring Series
January 20, 2012
Location TBD
12:30 PM
Melissa Kushner C'02 (Urban Studies)
Founder and…
Graduate Colloquium: "Rural-Urban Infrastructure for Waste-to-Energy and Food Production"
Author: Catherine Brinkley, a VMD-Ph.D. student in City and Regional Planning, will present her dissertation proposal entitled "Rural-Urban Infrastructure for Waste-to-Energy and Food Production."
Discussant…
Graduate Colloquium: "Modeling Rates of Chronic Homelessness"
Author: Tom Byrne, PhD student in SP2
Discussant: Penn Professor John Landis, Crossways Professor of City and Regional Planning
Meyerson Hall, Room G-12, at Penn's…
Stephen Graham's "Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism" Book Talk
Urban Studies and the Institute of Urban Research
Author: Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, Newcastle University UK
Graduate Colloquium: "Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico"
Author: Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Folklorist and Associate Professor of English at George Mason University.
Angela Davis Keynote Talk: Critical Refusals
International Herbert Marcuse Society
Angela Davis will be presenting the keynote address at the International Herbert Marcuse Society 2011 Conference at Penn, organized by Professor Andrew Lamas of Urban Studies.
The conference brings together…
George Galster's "Driving Detroit: The Quest for R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the Motor City" Book Lecture
Urban Studies
Author: George Galster, Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University
Christopher Klemek's "The Trans Atlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin" Book Talk and Panel Discussion
History, Institute for Urban Research, Urban Studies
Author: Christopher Klemek, Assistant Professor George Washington University, winner of the 2011 Davidoff prize from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)
Julian Brash's "Bloomberg's New York" Book Talk and Panel Discussion
Urban Studies Program and Institute for Urban Research
Bloomberg’s New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City
Author: Julian Brash, Asst. Prof. Anthropology Montclair State University
5:30-7 PM
In his book, Bloomberg’s New York…
Sociology Colloquium - Elijah Anderson talks about his new book, The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Sponsored by Penn Sociology and the Center for African Studies
Elijah Anderson
William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University
and the Charles and William Day…