Past Events

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 […]

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS   Join us for a policy breakfast talk in the Social Science Matrix. Many cities are seeking solutions for the housing affordability crisis that was temporarily paused by eviction moratoriums, state funded rental assistance programs, and stimulus payments. While the Bay Area has expressed a commitment to […]

The Fall 2022 GMS Open House will be held in the Social Sciences Matrix (8th floor of the Social Sciences Building) on Tuesday, October 4, at 3:30 pm. Please share this information with any prospective DE students. We look forward to reconnecting in person with faculty and with both returning and prospective students. This year’s open […]