Past Events



The Urbicidal Violence of Massive Infrastructural Construction in Lahore

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Presenter: Fatima Tassadiq, PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Discussant: Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation

 



The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

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Carlo Rotella, author and professor of American Studies at Boston College, analyzes the urban class divide through observation of his childhood neighborhood in Chicago.



Public Shaming and Social Policing in Republican Rome

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Presenter:  Jordan Rogers, PhD Candidate, Ancient History

Discussant: David Grazian, Professor of Sociology and Communication, Faculty Director of Urban Studies

 



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