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Dr. McOmber’s Global Vantage Point Lecture, How Understanding the Gendered Effects of Climate Change in the Global South can Help to Build a Climate Resilient Future, examined the gendered impacts of climate change in the context of communities of the Global South. Dr. McOmber explored four key dimensions of the way in which climate change is changing the gendered roles and the ways in which people adapt. Whilst Dr. McOmber interrogated Transformation and Adaptation and Resilience, her focus on Vulnerability and Development Intervention was particularly thought provoking.

Our team was busy traveling, researching, and writing around the world this summer. Here is what we’ve been up to:

On Saturday, September 7, the new cohort of the Cities Program (class of 2023) took a tour of Hartford. The group first stopped at Colt Park, where Prof. Myers led the students on a walking tour of the park, highlighting a site on Wawarme Ave that is believed to have been visited by the spirit of the Virgin Mary as an example of the tension between the City’s intended purpose for the roadside site and the cultural and spiritual importance of the site to some of the residents of Hartford. After walking past the revitalizing factory, the group returned to the bus to head to downtown.

We have some stellar students in our programs. Here we introduce a few of our graduating superstars.

CUGS awards a number of student research and engagement grants each year. Check out the full list of 2019 awardees below: Photo from Nayantara Ghosh ’22, Kelter and Grossman grant recipient Photo ...

Trinity’s Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) recently celebrated a decade of summer study in China by hosting a gathering of more than 20 past participants of the college’s China summer study away program. Alumni traveled back to campus from around the United States and overseas to join members of the faculty who have led the program and current students who have participated in China summer study, reconnecting with one another and making new connections as they reflected on their experiences and how they have influenced their educational and professional careers.

Trinity College’s Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) recently hosted a panel discussion on Turkey’s shift from a democratic to an autocratic regime. The March 28 event, titled “At the Crossroads: Identity and Conflict in Turkey,” served as both an academic exploration of the topic and a celebration of Trinity’s commitment to hosting academics in exile. Since 2008, CUGS has hosted seven visiting rescue scholars facing severe and targeted threats to their lives and/or careers because of their academic work in their home countries.

Trinity College alumna Mariam Avagyan ’18 was welcomed back to campus recently to give a presentation about a robotics and coding camp for children that she hosted last summer in her home country of Armenia using a Davis Projects for Peace grant. The April 9 presentation was part of the Global Vantage Point Lecture Series at Trinity’s Center for Urban and Global Studies. Avagyan, who double-majored in mathematics and electrical engineering at Trinity and is now an engineering Ph.D. student at Columbia University, was awarded a Davis Projects for Peace grant in 2018, as one of two Trinity students to receive the grant that year.

Students visited NYC on Friday April 26 as part of the Urban Studies course The Politics of Real Estate with a community learning component. Taught by Kelter Post-Doctoral Fellow Emily Yen, the course examines the political, social, and economic dimensions of real estate in Hartford and New York. It delves into the tension between use and exchange values and how political context shapes the balance of power between stakeholders in these cities. On the trip, students had the opportunity to learn from non-profit, business, and academic leaders about the various stakeholders affecting real estate in New York.