Past Events

Join us for the fourth event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Climate”.  Discussion will be led by Max Auffhammer (George Pardee Professor of International Sustainable Development and Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies) and Daniel Aldana Cohen (Assistant Professor, Sociology). Light refreshments will be provided

Join us for the third event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Informality”. Discussion will be led by Sai Balakrishnan (Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning) and Dan Chatman (Chair and Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning). Light refreshments will be provided

Join us for the second event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Resilience”. Discussion will be led by Stephen Collier (Professor, City & Regional Planning) and Kenichi Soga (Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering and Chancellor’s Professor). Light refreshments will be provided

Join us for the first event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Housing”. Discussion will be led by Desiree Fields (Associate professor, Geography) and Carolina Reid (Associate and I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, Professor of City & Regional Planning). Light refreshments will be provided

The Cinema and the City Student Film Club presents their first Spring 2023 screening Man With a Movie Camera (1929, dir. Dziga Vertov, USSR.)*with selected shorts beforehand   The Cinema and the City is a GMS supported film club through which students can critically engage with the relationship between urbanism and film. Rather than show movies which simply happen to […]

Discussion will be led by Ross Doll, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has dramatically expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. New development programs, including “urban-rural coordination”, “new-type urbanization”, and, most recently, “rural revitalization”, […]

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RSVP for this Book Talk Join GMS and discussants Jovan Scott Lewis and Anna Livia Brand for a talk with the author about his new book,The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge, which charts the rise, metamorphoses, and fall of the racialized folk devil of the “underclass” in the long shadow […]

This event is co-sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies and the American Political Science Association. We are pleased to announce a first, online workshop designed to bring together the growing community of political scientists conducting research on urban politics in the Global South. This workshop aims to facilitate exchange among those contributing to our understanding of cities […]

This event is Co-Sponsored by the Institute of European Studies RSVP for this Book Talk Zoom link will be sent to registered guests ahead of the event Amalgamations are blunt instruments of public policy reform. Unlike inter-municipal cooperation arrangements, which have limited effects on local government autonomy and can target specific tasks for joint service […]