Past Events



Getting Ahead: Immigrants, Business, and Ethnic Identity

American Museum of Jewish History and the University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program
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Panel Discussion: "Getting Ahead: Immigrants, Business, and Ethnic Identity"

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Beth Wenger, NMAJH…



Mega Projects: Can We Balance Individual and Social Good?

Annenberg Center for Performing Arts and Penn Design
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Megaprojects: Can we balance individual and social good?

JAN 31 @ 7 PM (Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Room 511)



In the Footprint: The Battle over Atlantic Yards

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
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Elaine Simon, Urbs Co-Director, will lead a discussion with Marion Friedman Young, Managing Director of The Civilians, Investigative Theater, which created this play about a real life redevelopment saga in Brooklyn…



Alumni Mentoring - Urbs Alum Melissa Kushner, Founder Goods for Good

College Alumni Mentoring Series
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January 20, 2012


Location TBD

12:30 PM

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Melissa Kushner C'02 (Urban Studies)
Founder and…



Graduate Colloquium: "Rural-Urban Infrastructure for Waste-to-Energy and Food Production"

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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." 



Graduate Colloquium: "Modeling Rates of Chronic Homelessness"

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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
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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"

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Author: Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Folklorist and Associate Professor of English at George Mason University.



Angela Davis Keynote Talk: Critical Refusals

International Herbert Marcuse Society
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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…



George Galster's "Driving Detroit: The Quest for R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the Motor City" Book Lecture

Urban Studies
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Author: George Galster, Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University