Past Events



36th Annual Public Lecture: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership"
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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

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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…



Bullets, Books, and Brotherhood: Grief and Recovery in an Urban All-Boys High School after Three Fatal Shootings of Friends

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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,…



Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City

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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,…



A Contest Without Winners

How Students Experience Competitive School Choice
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A Contest without Winners follows a diverse group of Chicago students through the processes of researching, applying to…



Global Urban Education Fall Film Series

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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

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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

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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

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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…