Past Events
Bullets, Books, and Brotherhood: Grief and Recovery in an Urban All-Boys High School after Three Fatal Shootings of Friends
Presenter: Nora Gross, Ph.D. joint-degree candidate in Sociology and the Education, Culture, and Society program at Penn GSE
Discussant: Sara Jacoby, Assistant Professor, Nursing, University…
Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
Join us for this talk by Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, director of the Latina/o Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at Penn State University. He is the author of Hotel: An American History, coeditor of…
A Contest Without Winners
How Students Experience Competitive School Choice
A Contest without Winners follows a diverse group of Chicago students through the processes of researching, applying to…
Global Urban Education Fall Film Series
Join the Global Urban Education class for a mini Fall Film Series!
Kick of your weekends by enjoying film screenings of several critically acclaimed films from around the world! Professor Alec Gershberg,…
Richard Florida: From the Creative Class to the New Urban Crisis
Please join Penn IUR for a lecture by Richard Florida, University Professor and Director of Cities, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto; Inaugural Philadelphia Fellow, Lindy Institute for Urban…
CITY PLANNING POETICS 8: Urban Ruins
A rundown hotel building, a decaying medieval church, a deserted wartime bunker, all set alongside the freshly erected skyscrapers of a modern cityscape. What do urban ruins say about our relationship to time and…
R Workshops
R is an open-source, object-oriented scripting language, an extremely useful tool for analyzing a large dataset. With a little bit of R coding knowledge, you can make R quickly find the answer to a simple question…
Freedom Fighter James Lawson
Meghna Chandra (URBS '13 and current PhD student at Penn's School of Social Work) is a member of the Saturday Free School, and this year they are…
Gentrification in Austin: Lessons Learned with Dr. Eric Tang
The Office of Immigrant Affairs, Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Asian American Studies Program of the University of Pennsylvania host a discussion on gentrification with professor and long-time activist…
2019 Urban Studies Alumni Brunch
Penn Urban Studies Program
Come in anytime during our Alumni Brunch! Meet up with alums from your class, and meet new alums from other years to expand your Urban Studies network.
This year the Urban Studies office will be moving…