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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. Percy, Assistant 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.pdf.  For 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