Schedule of Events / Spring 2006

2 February / Golden Auditorium / 4:30 p.m.
The Urban Question in the 21st Century
Christine Boyer, School of Architecture, Princeton University
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15 February / Love Auditorium / 4:30 p.m.
The Roots of Racial Tensions: The Changing Face of Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods
William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Dean of the College and the Africana and Latin American Studies Program
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2 March / Persson Hall Auditorium/ 4:30 p.m.
Dangerous Spaces of Citizenship: Gang-talk, rights-talk, and the rule of law in Brazil
James Holston, University of California, San Diego
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23 March/ Persson Hall Auditorium/ 4:30 p.m.
Left-Handed Cities: How They Evolved, and How They Can Become Ambidextrous
Douglas Rae, Yale University
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30 March / Colgate Chapel / 8:00 pm
Hotel Rwanda: a lesson yet to be learned
Paul Ruseabagina
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28 April / Colgate Bookstore, 3rd floor, 3 Utica St. / All-Day
Workshop: Exploring Upstate Cities – A Dialogue in Practice and Theory
This workshop on urban revitalization in upstate New York, will include policymakers, scholars, and practitioners from Hamilton, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Ithaca, Saratoga, Schenectady, and Binghamton to discuss the problems and challenges of upstate cities in New York. They will examine different approaches to rejuvenating the downtown and changing urban space from projects for urban greening, to partnerships with business, to links with universities.
Co-sponsored by the Upstate Institute.
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Schedule of Events / Fall 2005

28 April / Colgate Bookstore, 3rd floor, 3 Utica St. / All-Day
Workshop: Exploring Upstate Cities – A Dialogue in Practice and Theory
This workshop on urban revitalization in upstate New York, will include policymakers, scholars, and practitioners from Hamilton, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Ithaca, Saratoga, Schenectady, and Binghamton to discuss the problems and challenges of upstate cities in New York. They will examine different approaches to rejuvenating the downtown and changing urban space from projects for urban greening, to partnerships with business, to links with universities.
Co-sponsored by the Upstate Institute.
Read more about it - books, articles and websites of interest

Schedule of Events / Fall 2005

8 September / Picker Art Gallery / 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
A Celebration of the City: Opening Reception for CEWS 2005-06
New York Stories, Photographs by Frank Paulin
Gallery talk, a capella performances, and more.
Organized in conjunction with the Picker Art Gallery
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22 September / Love Auditorium / 4:30 p.m.
Haussmann's Paris and the Politics of Public Space
David Harvey, City University of New York
Co-sponsored with Peace and Conflict Studies
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6 October / Golden Auditorium / 4:30 p.m.
Postcolonial Modernities: Citizens and Subjects in Lusaka and Zanzibar
Garth Myers, University of Kansas
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20 October / Golden Auditorium/ 4:30 p.m.
City, Body, Pleasure, Terror: Moscow
Nancy Ries, Colgate University
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9 November / Golden Auditorium/ 4:30 p.m.
The Cosmopolitan Imaginary of Bombay
Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
Co-sponsored with Core Cultures and Asian Studies
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16 November / Golden Auditorium/ 4:30 p.m.
Battleground Mesopotamia: Cultural Heritage, History, and Human Rights in the Iraq War
Zainab Bahrani, Columbia University
Co-sponsored with the Department of Art and Art History
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1 December / Golden Auditorium/ 4:30 p.m.
State Transitions, Citizenship Shifts, and the City in 'Modern' China, 1980 to 2005
Dorothy Solinger, University of California-Irvine
Co-sponsored with Core Cultures and Asian Studies
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