Model Scholar Lecture Series

Past Events

February
16
Date
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:45pm
Location:
McClatchy Hall, Building 120, Studio 40 (2 floors below ground level)

We invite you to attend the Program on Urban Studies' 16th Annual Model Scholar Lecture, Incarceration and Mental Illness: Lessons from the Los Angeles County Jail, with Philippe Bourgois,…

October
21
Date
Thursday, October 21, 2021, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

We invite you to attend the Program on Urban Studies’ 15th Annual Model Scholar Lecture, Urban Alchemy: How Urbanists Can Save Us, with Dr.

November
12
Date
Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 4:30pm
Location:
Building 120, Studio 40 (2 floors below ground level)

NIMBY vs YIMBY: Balancing Neighborhood Stability and Dynamism

Tuesday, November 12, 4:30 PM
Building 120, Studio 40 (2 floors below ground level)
Free and open to the public

October
29
Date
Monday, October 29, 2018, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 120, Studio 40 (Sub-Basement)

We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live or work.

November
1
Date
Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 12:30pm
Location:
CERAS 101

The year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the publication of the landmark text Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton.

October
17
Date
Monday, October 17, 2016, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Obendorf Event Center, GSB - Knight Management Center, North Building, room 302

Today, poor families are facing one of the worst affordable housing crises in generations. Many are spending almost all they have to live in decrepit housing in our cities’ worst neighborhoods.

October
29
Date
Thursday, October 29, 2015, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Building 200, Room 203

The Program on Urban Studies presents Ananya Roy, "From South to North: Struggles for Land and Housing in Unequal Cities."

November
11
Date
Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 4:15pm - 5:45pm
Location:
Building 200, Room 002

The Program on Urban Studies presents:
Sharon Zukin.

October
28
Date
Monday, October 28, 2013, 4:00pm
Location:
Building 200, Room 034

Harnessing the potential of new technologies

Please join us in welcoming Professor Amy Hillier!