City and Society – Archive
Events
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Wednesday, March 1st, 3-5PM
509 O’Brian
Sam Magavern, Co-Director, Partnership for the Public Good will present on community land trusts, inclusionary zoning and other anti-displacement strategies.
Monday, March 27th, 12-1:30PM
532 Park Hall
Fred Klaits, Works in Progress, “‘Catch the Word’: Prophecy and Mentoring in African American Pentecostalism.”
Friday, Mar. 31, 3-5 pm
104 O’Brian Hall
Co-Sponsored event, Prof. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, University of Chicago, “History and the Megalopolis.”
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Tour of PUSH Buffalo’s Green Development Zone
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Max Page, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Why Preservation Matters,” Book Talk
Fall 2016
Friday October 28, 12:30-2PM
532 Park
Nancy Kwak, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, “Selling American Homeownership in the Global South.”
Friday November 18, 12-1:30PM
532 Park Hall
Camilo Trumper Assistant Professor, Transnational Studies, Work-in-Progress Brown Bag, “Dictatorship’s Children: Youth, Protest and the Culture of the Barricade in Pinochet’s Chile.”
Spring 2016
Thursday, February 25, 6:30pm
Merriweather Library, Jefferson and East Utica
Community Benefits Agreements: Development by the People for the People of Buffalo
Robert Silverman (Urban Studies), John Washington (PUSH Buffalo), Sam Magavern (Open Buffalo)
Wednesday, March 9, 12pm
1004 Clemens Hall
Settler Colonialism in the City: From Theory to Global History
Carl Nightingale, Transnational Studies
Fall 2015
Friday, September 18, 12:30-2pm
532 Park Hall
Discussion
Davarian Baldwin, “The ‘800-Pound Gargoyle’: The Long History of Higher Education and Urban Development on Chicago’s South Side”
Tuesday, October 27, 3-4:30PM
107 Capen Hall
Brian Milbrand and Grace Andriette
Friday, December 4, 12:30-2PM
532 Park Hall
Works in Progress
Adam Wolkoff
“Every Man His Own Avenger: The Politics of Property Seizure from Urban Tenements to Tenant Farms in the Nineteenth Century United States”
