Past Events

Lalitha Kamath, Professor, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Fullbright-Nehru Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (2024-25) Urban planner and policy analyst Lalitha Kamath examines Mumbai’s east coast, highlighting the Koli fishing community’s environmental stewardship and its challenge to both colonial and contemporary coastal development plans. Event moderated by Sai Balakrishnan, Associate Professor […]

Assistant Professor Julia Payson (UCLA, Political Science) will present “Local Taxes and Economic Voting: Evidence from City Ballot Measures” at the Research Workshop on American Politics on January 22, 2025 at noon at 119 Moses Hall. No RSVP required.

Professor Jessica Trounstine, Vanderbilt University (Co-sponsored with the Research Workshop on American Politics) Since the 1980s, schools in the United States have become increasingly segregated along race and class lines. Scholars understand that the underlying driver of this pattern is residential segregation along race and class lines. I propose that exclusive communities seek governmental policies […]

A inter-university consortium in which GMS participates is holding an online conference Nov. 14th and 15th on Urban Politics in the Global South. Registration is free and we strongly encourage students and faculty with urban politics interests to attend!

GMS is pleased to invite a limited number of affiliates and DE students to the Research in American Politics Workshop session given by Justin de Benedictis-Kessner (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard). He will present “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things in American Cities: How Voters Struggle to Hold Their Local Governments Accountable” on Wednesday, Nov. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]