Past Events

Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor Community + Regional Planning, University of New Mexico Jennifer Tucker’s book Outlaw Capital shows how transgressive economies are central to globalized capitalism. With an ethnography of the hemisphere’s largest contraband economy on the Paraguay/Brazil border, including a vibrant popular economy, Outlaw Capital shows how race/class conflicts over everyday illegalities shape capitalist […]

GMS Alum Jennifer Tucker (Associate Professor, University of New Mexico) will hold a workshop for GMS DE students on turning fieldwork observations into dissertation chapters on Monday, February 9th, 2:30 – 4:00pm. Social Sciences Building Room 291. RSVP required.

On Monday, December 1st, GMS DE Candidate Flavia Leite will give a practice job talk titled “Debt and Dwelling: Housing and the Remaking of Welfare in Brazil.” The talk will be at Bauer Wurster 106, 1:30-3:00pm. No RSVP required

On Friday November 21st, 3:30-5:00pm GMS and DCRP PhD Candidate Taesoo Song will give a practice job talk in 106 Bauer Wurster Hall titled: “Housing Stratification Beyond the Black–White Binary: Asian Americans and the Regimes of Immigration and Housing Governance.” No RSVP required.

GMS is Co-sponsoring “New Directions in Bangladesh Studies: Recent Scholarship and New Publications,” November 4, 2025, 9 – 10:30 a.m, on zoom. The panel discussion will feature recent scholarship on Bangladesh by David Jackman, Tanzil Shafique, and Lutfun Nahar Lata. The event will highlight and discuss their newly published books. Jackman’s book analyzes how syndicates […]

On October 29th, (12:00 – 1:00pm), GMS alum Dr. Alex Werth will speak with graduate students regarding book publishing over lunch at the Social Science Matrix. RSVP here by October 26th.

On October 29th (3:30-5:00pm), GMS alum Dr. Alex Werth will present his new book, “On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland.” The seminar will take place in McCone Hall 575. This event is jointly sponsored with the Department of Geography. No RSVP required.

On October 16th (12:30-2pm), Noah Nathan (MIT) will present on “Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics is Embedded in Residential Design” at a joint GMS – Political Science Comparative Politics Colloquium workshop. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Professor Noah Nathan (MIT) will hold an informal workshop for doctoral students in GMS and Political Science on October 15th (4:30-6:00pm, Social Science Matrix). The workshop will focus on using satellite imagery and GIS to study urban political and social processes. Discussion will focus on Nathan’s experiences using this data, including his reflections on opportunities […]

On Friday, September 19th, 12:00-1:30pm, GMS will hold an Open House for potential and existing DE Students. Come learn about our programming, reconnect with friends, and hear about colleagues’ summer research projects! And come celebrate longtime GMS friends Prof. Matt Kondolf and Prof. Isha Ray’s contributions to GMS and water-related research! Lunch will be provided. […]