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THE CENTER FOR URBAN AND GLOBAL STUDIES
AT
Trinity College

 

Current Events (Fall 2009)

November 3, 2009

The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College is proud to present the second event as part of the  "World Cities - Trinity Faculty Public Lecture Series." 

Entitled "Jakarta: Prospects for a Southeast Asian MegaCity in the 21st Century," the lecture will be delivered by Sarah Moser, Paul E. Raether Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Urban Studies at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College

The Lecture will be held Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:20pm at 70 Vernon Street.

*A reception will follow each lecture / All Lectures hosted by The Center for Urban  and Global Studies at Trinity College located at 70 Vernon Street -  North Campus

*To learn more, please view the World Cities Faculty Lecture Series Abstract
*for photos of this event, please see Photos of Lecture on Tokyo

*For a complete listing of Events in this series, from fall 2009 through spring 2010, please see 2009-2010 World Cities Faculty Public Lectures

For more information, please email cugs@trincoll.edu, or contact Xiangming Chen at xiangming.chen@trincoll.edu or Jay Percy at 860.297.5175 / jason.percy@trincoll.edu

Sponsored by The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College

October 27, 2009

The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College and the Historical Media Colloquim are proud to present, "Steven Colbert, Stalin and Stiob: what late socialist parody teaches us about U.S. political culture today" - a Lecture by Professor Dominic Boyer, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rice University.

This event begins at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. It will be held at 70 Vernon Street, 1st Floor CUGS Library, and a Reception will immediately follow.

Please view the Abstract of the Lecture.

For more information, please email cugs@trincoll.edu, or contact Xiangming Chen at xiangming.chen@trincoll.edu or Jay Percy at 860.297.5175 / jason.percy@trincoll.edu

Sponsored by The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College

October 20, 2009

The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College is proud to present a special Common Hour event: "Trinity Students in the World" – on Tuesday, October 20, 12:15pm - 1:50pm in Mather Hall’s Washington Room. These seven projects and programs from the summer of 2009 feature nine student presentations that reflect the wide scope and great variety of Trinity students’ global research and engagement activities. This event marks the second official anniversary of the Center for Urban and Global Studies inaugurated on October 19, 2007.

*For additional details, please view the Symposium Abstract
*Please view a sampling of the Trinity Students Symposium Photos.

 For more information, please email cugs@trincoll.edu, or contact Xiangming Chen at xiangming.chen@trincoll.edu or Jay Percy at 860.297.5175 / jason.percy@trincoll.edu

Sponsored by The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College

October 20, 2009

The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College is proud to present "World Cities - Trinity Faculty Public Lecture Series." The Series debuts on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 4:20pm at 70 Vernon Street.

*A reception will follow each lecture / All Lectures hosted by The Center for Urban  and Global Studies at Trinity College located at 70 Vernon Street -  North Campus

*To learn more, please view the World Cities Faculty Lecture Series Abstract
*For images of this event, please see Photos of Lecture on Tokyo


For more information, please email cugs@trincoll.edu, or contact Xiangming Chen at xiangming.chen@trincoll.edu or Jay Percy at 860.297.5175 / jason.percy@trincoll.edu

Sponsored by The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College

Recent Events: Spring and Summer, 2009

May 2009


THE CENTER FOR URBAN AND GLOBAL STUDIES

AT TRINITY COLLEGE

announces the publication of our

 

INAUGURAL WORKING PAPER SERIES
Vol. I. Nos. 1-5
Spring 2009

April 16, 2009

Common Hour Symposium: "Region-Making in Connecticut:  Fostering Greater Cooperation and Improving Governance."  This Special Event was held from 10:45 am to 3:00 pm, Thursday, April 16, 2009 in the Washington Room in Mather Hall, located on the historic Trinity Colllege campus in Hartford, Connecticut. For additional information, please peruse our event abstract by clicking on the following link: Symposium Regionalism in the Land of Steady Habits.pdf.

 

Please see our collection of Photos of the April 16 Symposium.

 

 

We invite you to view a presentation of the major themes articulated in Dennis Heffley's Keynote Address "Seeking Common Ground."* Professor Herffley is Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Connnecticut.

 

In addition, we hope that you will peruse a summary presentation of Brian Osoba's address here.*  Professor Osoba is Assistant Professor of Economics at Central Connecticut State University.

 

Should you have any additional inquiries or comments, please do not hesitate to contact Jason C. PercyAssistant to the Director, The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College, either via phone at 860.297.5175, or by emailing him at jason.percy@trincolll.edu.

 

*Please contact these authors directly for permission if you are interested in citing any of their Powerpoint material.

 

March 5, 2009

Common Hour Event: "Academic Freedom and the Political Crisis in Zimbabwe." Held at 12:15-1:30 in the Washington Room in Mather Hall at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.  Please see the Official Trinity College Media Advisory: Press.Release.Zimbabwe.March5.pdfFor more information, please contact Dean Xiangming Chen at Xiangming.Chen@trincoll.edu.



Past Events (Fall 2008)

November14-15, 2008

Conference: "Rethinking Cities and Communities". For the program and paper abstracts for this conference, please click here. For more information, please contact Dean Xiangming Chen at Xiangming.Chen@trincoll.edu.

 

November 13, 2008

Symposium: "Dealing with Sustainability Challenges: Lessons from Trinity, Hartford, and Connecticut." Please view our Lecture Poster.pdf

*For earlier events of the Hartford Research Seminar 2008-10, see the menu on the left.

 

October 23, 2008

"Conference: "Cultural Identity through the Arts in Urban Communities." Please view our Conference Flyer.pdf

 

Archived Events (2007-08)

 

April 18, 2008
"Studying Chinese and a Foreign Service Career: an
Information session for Trinity students by David Murphy, ’77, Commercial Counselor for Australia and New Zealand at the American Consulate General in Sydney, Australia."

Read all about it!

 

April 10, 2008
"When History, Culture, and Place Meet:  Race and Ethnicity in Greater Hartford."  This is part of the Hartford Research Seminar 2008-10. Please see our
Panel Discussion Flyer.pdf   Photos

 

Friday, March 7, 2008

It Takes a City-Region: Economic Development and Political Governance in Greater Hartford

Part of the Hartford Research Seminar 2008-10

Panel Discussion Flyer.pdf                              Photos

 

Friday, February 8, 2008

"The Transformation of Hartford Through the Early 21st Century: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives"

Part of the Hartford Research Seminar 2008-10
Panel Discussion Flyer.pdf                                Photos

 

Monday, December 3, 2007

Gerald Frug: "Boston Bound"

Gerald Frug Lecture Flyer.pdf                          Photos 

 

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Deborah Davis: "Space and Place after the Privatization of Chinese Urban Housing"

Deborah Davis Lecture Flyer.pdf                      Photos

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Bill Freund: "Dystopias and Utopias: Ways of Seeing African Cities in the 21st Century"

Bill Freund Lecture Flyer.pdf                           Photos

 

Friday, October 19, 2007

Celebration and Opening of the Center for Urban and Global Studies: "From Trinity to Hartford to the World: Building an Urban Bridge"

Schedule of Events       Press Release             Photos

 

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Park River Watershed Symposium

Symposium's web page 

 

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Europeans' Preferences for Ethnic Residential Segregation across 20 countries: A Response to Global Migration

Moshe Semyonov Lecture Flyer.pdf                  Photos

 

FALL 2007
Inaugural Lecture Series

Inaugural Lecture Series Flyer

The Center's Initiatives:

 

·       Hartford Research Seminar 2008-10

The Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) has launched a

research seminar titled the “The Transformation of Hartford Through the

Early 21st Century: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives,” which

will bring together Trinity and non-Trinity faculty with different research

and teaching interests in Hartford, as well as some interested students

and community representatives, to discuss the most critical questions and

issues regarding change and continuity in Hartford from a local,

regional, and global perspective.  Please click here to see the Hartford

Research Seminar page on this site for details.

 

·       Faculty Conference, November 14 and 15, 2008

The Center organized a symposium "Rethinking Cities and Communities" on November 14-15, 2008 that created a dialogue between globally-oriented faculty (globalists) and scholars on American society (Americanists) at Trinity and other academic institutions on the relationship between globalization, transnationalism with a comparative reference to both Hartford and non-U.S. cities.  A number of scholars from Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, UConn, UMass, Dartmouth, Vassar, and Brooklyn College gathered at Trinity and presented their work with some Trinity faculty. See the conference program and abstracts elsewhere on the Website.

·   The Urban-Global Senior Research Prize

      (implemented in May 2008 and will continue annually)

CUGS introduced an Urban and a Global Senior Research Prize, which is given annually to the best senior thesis or research projects starting with the Class of '08. See the Student Grants and Opportunities page for details.

 

·        The “Urban-Global Day” for Student Research Presentations (to be implemented for Spring 2010)

CUGS is also planning to introduce the annual “Urban-Global Day” for a group of students to present their research sponsored and supervised by faculty with other faculty serving as commentators.  We will implement this program in Spring 2009.

 

Other initiatives and activities will be developed as the CUGS becomes more institutionalized and fully endowed.


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