Photo: Christina Schoppert '04

Graduate student colloquia 2007-2008

Please join us for Coffee, Croissants and Conversation during the Urban Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series! This year the series will be held all year, and is a way for graduate students who are or have been a part of the Urban Studies Certificate program to come together to share their work. All colloquia run from 9:15-11:00AM and meet in Meyerson Hall room G-12 unless otherwise noted; Breakfast will be served.

2008 Dates

wednesday, january 23, 9:15Am

• BENJAMIN CHESLUK, Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology will discuss his book
  Money Jungle: Imagining the New York Times Square.
  
  Location: Meyerson Hall, G-12

monday, february 25, 9:15am

• MELISSA MORABITO, Postdoc, School of Social Policy & Practice
  
  Discussant: Dr. Marie Gottshcalk, Political Science
  
  Location: Meyerson Hall, G-12

read a copy of the paper here

wednesday, march 5, 9:15am

• MATT RUBEN, who recently graduated from Penn with a Ph.D. in English,
  will present his paper: "Hearts of Darkness: The City and the Suburbs in the Neoliberal Imagination"
  
  Discussant: Dr. Melissa Gilbert from Temple University's Department of Geography and Urban Studies

Location: Meyerson Hall, G-12

read a copy of the paper here

wednesday, March 19, 9:15am

• CHERYL JONES-WALKER, Ph.D. Graduate School of Education
  
  Discussant: Dr. John Jackson, Annenberg/Anthropology
  
  Location: Meyerson Hall, G-12

read a copy of the paper here

wednesday, april 9, 9:15am

• ANITA CHIKKATUR, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Education
  
  Discussant: Dr. Michael Katz, History

read a copy of the paper here

tuesday, april 22, 9:15am

• DANIEL AMSTERDAM, Ph.D. Candidate, History
  
  Discussant: Dr. Rogers Smith, Political Science

read a copy of the paper here

2007 dates

wednesday, september 12, 9:15am

• JESSICA LAUTIN, PhD Candidate, Department of History
  Paper Title: "Learning from Levittown": Venturi and Scott Brown's Approach to Architecture in Teaching and Suburbia
  
  Discussant: DAVID BROWNLEE, Professor and Chair, Department of History of Art
  

  Location: Meyerson Hall, G-12