Past Events



Neighbors, Nightclubs, and Noise: Sound and Urban Relations in Mexico City

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Presenter: Elizabeth Bynum, PhD Candidate, Music and Anthropology

Discussant: David Gouverneur, Associate Professor of Practice, Landscape Architecture

 



The Effect of a Death-in-Police-Custody Incident on Community Reliance on the Police

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Presenter: Ruth Moyer, PhD in Criminology



Virtual Alumni Chat Series

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Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: property and the construction of urban space

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Presenter: Indivar Jonnalagadda, PhD Candidate, South Asia Studies and Anthropology

Discussant: Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History, Drexel University



Philadelphia Battlefields

Disruptive Campaigns and Upset Elections in a Changing City
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Join URBS instructor John Kromer, author of Philadelphia Battlefields: Disruptive Campaigns and Upset…



37th Annual Public Lecture: Forrest Stuart

"Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy"
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Forrest Stuart is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, the director of the Stanford Ethnography…



Urban Gay Culture and the Active Accomplishment of Community

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Presenter: Tyler Baldor, PhD Candidate, Sociology

Discussant: Jason Orne, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University

 



Land. Body. Prison. Dream. Freedom. - Scape

A Discussion on Visualizing Urban Violence
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Presenter: Leniqueca Welcome, PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Discussant: John L. Jackson Jr., Dean, Annenberg School for Communication

 



Hassenfeld Summer Grants for Undergraduate Research: Due by May 15th

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The Hassenfeld Grants provide several students with the opportunity to explore answers to questions arising out of their internship or other coursework in Urban Studies, by supporting independent research in the…



Honors Presentations

May 4, 2020 Apr 24, 2020 at -

Come through for your fellow Urbies, and enjoy the breadth of interesting Urban Studies subjects! Students will give a brief overview of their work, and describe the twists and challenges of their research process.…