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All colloquia are in the PSTC Seminar room except noted.

Spring 2007 Colloquia:

Date Speaker Title

Feb. 16, 2007 noon

Paul Jargowsky
University of Texas ?Dallas
Immigrants and Neighborhoods of Concentrated Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation?
Announcement    
Feb. 23, 2007 noon Robert Beauregard
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation,
Columbia University
Cycles of Urbanization: The Growth, Decline and Resurgence of U.S. Cities
Announcement    
Mar.  1, 2007 noon Katherine White
Department of Sociology,
Brown University
Inequality and Crop Production in Puerto Rico 1900?1920
Announcement    
Mar.  2, 2007 noon Richard Wright
Department of Geography,
Dartmouth University
The Intrametropolitan Spatial Division of Labor
Announcement    
Apr.  6, 2007 noon John Mollenkopf
Department of Political Science,
CUNY Graduate Center
The Impact of Immigrants on New York City Politics
Announcement    
May 1, 2007 noon Geoff Cunfer
University of Saskatchewan
Historical GIS and Great Plains Environmental History
Announcement    
May 14, 2007 noon Peter Evans
Department of Sociology
University of California at Berkeley
Is 'Liveable Metropolis' an Oxymoron in the Global South? Speculations on 21st Century Urban Trajectories
Announcement    

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Note: 1--co-sponsored with Sociology.
Note: 2--in Zimmer Lounge, Maxcy Hall.
Note: 3--sponsored by PSTC.

Urban Studies Conference:

Date: Friday March 9, 2007
Location: Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer Street

This conference was organized by students in the Urban Studies DUG with support from several university sources including S4. It includes speakers on issues of health, crime, and housing, all framed in an international context, plus a keynote speech by Setha Low (CUNY Graduate Center). Click here to see the conference program.

Past Colloquia and Conferences:

Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004