Past Events

Come join fellow faculty and DE students for a celebration of accomplishments, including completed dissertations! Also, come test your urban knowledge against that of your peers in our annual quiz bowl. There will be food, drinks, and prizes! Please RSVP. NOTE – This event has been changed. The new date is May 8, 2026. Location […]

GMS students, Tahir de Noronha and Emma Go (along with Aaditee Shankar) are co-organizing a graduate student conference, Planning Beyond the State. This conference is supported by the Global Metropolitan Studies and Social Sciences Matrix programs. The conference will take place next weekend, May 2–3 (hybrid), and brings together graduate students from Berkeley and beyond […]

In her upcoming book, Suburban Blues, political scientist Stephanie Ternullo explores the tensions within suburban communities that increasingly support liberal policies at the national level but work to sustain exclusionary housing and education policies at the local level. What could change this suburban status quo and convince suburban Democrats to support local politics in line with […]

On Friday, April 17 (12:00-1:30pm), Professor Anu Ramaswami (Civil Engineering, Princeton University) will deliver a joint GMS/CEE/ISAS distinguished lecture. The lecture will be held in Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall. Co-sponsored with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Institute for South Asian Studies. No RSVP required. Abstract Anu Ramaswami has pioneered a […]

Liza Weinstein, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University Co-sponsored with Institute for South Asian Studies. No RSVP required.

On Monday, March 16th, 2:30 – 4pm, Professor Liza Weinstein (Sociology, Northeastern) will give a graduate student workshop for Designated Emphasis students. The workshop will take place in SSB 291. She will facilitate an informal discussion on how, and why, we should historicize dispossession in longer time frames and discuss how one can accomplish this […]

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.