NOVEMBER 14
11:45 ~ Lunch
12:30-12:40 PM ~ Welcome remarks by James F. Jones, Jr.
President and Trinity College Professor in the Humanities
12:45-1:30 PM ~ Lunch keynote speaker and Q&A
Sharon Zukin
Broeklundian Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College and City University Graduate Center
"Destination Culture: How Globalization Makes All Cities Look the Same" [link]
1:45-3:30 PM
Panel One: Transnational Migration and Diasporic Communities
Chair: Paul Lauter
Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English, Trinity College
Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Yale University
“Deportation and State Terror in the Latin American Migrant Circuit: Views from Tapachula and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico” [link]
Keisha-Khan Perry
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
“From the “Margins of the Margins”: Black Women’s Struggles for Land Rights in Brazilian Cities” [link]
Beth Notar
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trinity College
“Off Limits: Taxi Driver Perceptions of Dangerous People and Places in Kunming, China” [link]
Q&A 3:30-3:45 PM ~ Coffee Break
3:45-5:30 PM
Panel Two: Crossborder Cultural Flows: Movements, Identities, Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Chair: Anne Gebelein
Visiting Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College
Nancy Naples
Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut
“Women's Community-Based Activism in the Context of Global Economic and Political Change” [link]
Scott Tang
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Trinity College
“Shaping Politics in Chinatown: The Intersection of Global Politics and Community Politics in Wartime and Cold War San Francisco” [link]
Richard Wright
Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Geography and Public Affairs, Dartmouth College
“Do Mixed-Race Households Live in Diverse Neighborhoods?” [link]
Thomas Harrington
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Culture, Trinity College
“What Are You Doing Here? Studying Urban and Transnational Phenomena from ‘within’ Hispanic Studies” [link]
Q&A
6:00 PM ~ Welcome Dinner (Faculty Club, Hamlin Hall)
Welcome remarks by Rena Fraden
Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Years
G. Keith Funston Professor of English and American Studies
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NOVEMBER 15
8:30-10:15 AM
Panel Three: Nations and Cities as Historical and Cultural Spaces
Chair: Kristin Triff
Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College
Zayde Antrim
Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, Trinity College
“Connectivity and Creativity: Baghdad in the Discourse of Place, 9th-11th Centuries” [link]
Andrew Walsh
Associate Director, Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College
“At Home: St. Patrick's Day Parades and the Assertion of Irish Catholic Presence in Mid-19th Century Hartford” [link]
Amitava Kumar
Professor of English, Vassar College
“The City Under Surveillance” [link]
Q&A
10:15-10:30 AM ~ Coffee Break
10:30-12:15 AM
Panel Four: Urban Place and the Built Environment
Chair: Kathleen Curran
Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College
Luis Figueroa
Associate Professor of History, Trinity College
"'Barriadas' and Suburbs: Modernity and Haussmannization in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1936-1968" [link]
Keller Easterling
Associate Professor of Architecture, Yale University
“Zone” [link]
Tomas de’Medici (’11) and Xiangming Chen
Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College
“First-Movers, Models, and Then What? “China’s Special Economic Zones and Shenzhen in 30 Years” [link]
Rachael Barlow
Social Science Data Coordinator, Trinity College
“What Buildings Do for a City (Middletown) in a State (CT) in a Country (USA)” [link]
Q&A
12:30-1:30 PM ~ Lunch keynote speaker and Q&A
Diane Davis
Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Planning and Head of the International Development Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
“Insecure and Secure Cities: Towards a Reclassification of World Cities in a Global Era” [link]
1:45-3:30 PM
Panel Five: Globalization and World Cities: A Network vs. a Case Study Perspective
Chair: James Trostle
Professor of Anthropology, Trinity College
Jason Beckfield
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
"The Geography of Globalization: Changes in the Structure of the World City System, 1981-2007" [link]
Ahmed Kanna
Visiting Fellow, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College
“The City—Corporation, the Arabization of Neoliberalism, and the Neoliberalization of Arabism in the Contemporary Gulf” [link]
Tyanai Masiya
Scholar Rescue Scholar, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College
“Social Accountability Mechanisms in African Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Participatory Budgeting in Harare, Zimbabwe and Johannesburg, South Africa” [link]
Q&A
3:30-3:45 PM ~ Coffee Break
3:45-5:00 PM
Panel Six: Globalization and American Cities: A Regional Comparative Perspective
Chair: Johnny Williams
Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College
Robert Forrant
Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
“Metal Fatigue: The Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley and Its Social and Economic Impact on Springfield, Massachusetts” [link]
Michael Sacks
Professor of Sociology, Trinity College
“Puerto Rican Population Growth and Spatial Relocation in the Hartford and Springfield Metropolitan Areas” [link]
Brent Ryan
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard University
"Global Pasts, Local Futures: Urban Megadevelopments and Market Competitiveness in Downtown Detroit-Windsor"
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Q&A
5:00-5:45 PM ~ Collective Reflections
6:00 PM ~ Farewell Dinner (Faculty Club, Hamlin Hall)
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