Past Events

Riverfronts are increasingly valued as public space, but along some large rivers, cities and towns are cut off from their rivers by levees and other flood control infrastructure.  For example, until the 1990s, one could visit New Orleans and never see the river because visual access was cut off by artificial levees built on top […]

Floods are the most destructive natural hazard, both at the national and international scale, and they disproportionately affect people of color and the poor.  To understand this uneven exposure to floods requires that we understand the history of land use and institutional structures that have resulted in current exposure and inequitable allocation of resources for […]

Since the 17th-century invention of the surveyor’s chain, new technologies have been embedded in real estate market devices. While technologies targeting land are not new, the capture and application of big data, as well as the technological affordances of digital platforms and the structural power of their corporate owners, are catalysing novel processes of claiming […]

Alison Post (Global Metropolitan Studies and Political Science) and Jane Macfarlane (Institute of Transportation Studies) will present interdisciplinary research on equity in smart transportation programs. David Harding (Sociology) will serve as discussant.   All attendees need to show their green Campus Access badge for admittance.   We will update this page with location information when […]

Please join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on academic publishing. Participants include GMS Affiliates Daniel Kammen (ERG), Alison Post (GMS and Political Science), Daniel Rodríguez (City and Regional Planning), and Brandi Summers (GMS and Geography). The talk will be from 11 am-12 pm, and a lunch for participants will immediately follow from 12 pm-1pm.   […]

Global Metropolitan Studies and the Social Science Matrix are please to invite you to a panel discussion   ’Threading the interdisciplinary needle: Advancing your work across fields while maintaining your home base’   Panelists: Marta Gonzalez (Civil Engineering and City & Regional Planning), Brandi Summers and Desiree Fields (both Geography)    Thursday 28 October 330pm-430pm […]

The Fall 2021 GMS Open House will be held in the Social Sciences Matrix (8th floor of the Social Sciences Building) on Tuesday, October 14, at 4:00 pm. Please share this information with any prospective DE students. We look forward to finally reconnecting in person with faculty and with both returning and prospective students. We […]

Pre-Registration Required by October 6: register here. Co-Sponsored by the Social Sciences Matrix   The Center for Global Metropolitan Studies and the Social Science Matrix are pleased to invite you to participate in our campus-wide, interdisciplinary research initiative on “Critical Infrastructure Under Stress.” The objective of the year-long series of events is to build connections across disciplines […]

This symposium begins with a keynote talk on ‘Restoring ecological processes in an urban river: the Isar in Munich’, presented by Dr Aude Zingraff-Hamed (Technical University of Munich).  The Isar demonstrates how an important urban river can be restored to yield ecological and social benefits.  Next are graduate student research projects on riparian vegetation along […]