Upcoming Events

We invite prospective students and faculty, as well as current GMS students and faculty affiliates, to join us for lunch at our Fall 2024 open house!  For current GMS students and faculty affiliates, we look forward to reconnecting in person. For prospective GMS students, we would love to meet and talk with you about the Designated Emphasis (a PhD minor) in Global Metropolitan Studies. […]

The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, housed in the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, is currently the only university center in North America focused on the study of Bangladesh. For the past decade, it has shaped and popularized the field of Bangladesh studies through innovative public programs, research awards, […]

Rachel Weber, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago Where most accounts of the financialization of space critique the rentier but overlook the work of the forecasters and the calculative knowledge practices that inform property capital’s (dis)investment decisions, Weber sheds critical light on the professionals that produce knowledge for the investment funds […]

Laura Wolf-Powers, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning in the School of Arts and Sciences at the City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College The housing policy mainstream perceives a supply shortage at the root of North America’s intensifying housing affordability crisis. The standard remedy, proposed for already-dense cities and single-family home-dominated suburbs and […]