Past Events
2020-2021 Urban Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship: Due April 30th
This competitive fellowship with a service component is geared to doctoral students in the final year of their dissertation work. In addition to completing their dissertation, the fellow will be responsible for…
Seniors: Interviews for Voter Registration job - Public Interest Research Group
Robin Donohoe, a Campus Organizer with the Student PIRGs, will be on Campus Monday 2/24 to Thursday 2/27 holding informational sessions and interviews for graduating seniors. There will be an informational…
The Politics of Informal Urban Growth
Measuring the Global Relationship between Clientelism and Informal Urbanization
Presenter: Chandan Deuskar, Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning
Discussant: Mariaflavia Harari, Assistant Professor, Real Estate Department
Julie K. Brown, Investigative Journalist for the Miami Herald
The award-winning reporter who helped break the Jeffrey Epstein case will be speaking to our Urban Journalism class Wednesday, and the lecture is open to anyone interested.
A Trans Ecology for Harlem: Speculative Planning and the Poetics of Environmental Design
Presenter:
Davy Knittle, Ph.D. Candidate Department of English
Discussant:
Akira Drake Rodriguez, Lecturer Department of City and Regional Planning
Discover West Philadelphia Social History
Wednesday, January 22 6:30 The Hamilton Mansion at the Woodlands, 4000 Woodland Ave. Register at this website:
Georgia O’Keeffe, Sky-shapes, and the Limits of the City
Presenter:
Lee Ann Custer, PhD Candidate History of Art
Discussant:
Eugenie L. Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education
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36th Annual Public Lecture: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
"Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University, was our 36th Annual Public Lecturer.…
A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City
Join the Urban Studies Program and URBS 290: Metropolitan Nature for the opportunity to hear Professor Stephen Danley, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers-Camden University, speak about…