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Cities Across the Globe: People and Places Across Borders
November 20, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - November 21, 2013 @ 6:00 pm CST
Free
GCI Fall 2013 Symposium
“Cities Across the Globe: People and Places Across Borders”
Wednesday, November 20. 2013
3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Great Cities Institute
412 South Peoria Street
Suite 400, CUPPA Hall
Chicago, IL 60607
This interdisciplinary symposium on cities across the globe launches the Great Cities Institute research cluster: Dynamics of Global Mobility. Spatial planning, public space, urban landscapes, economic restructuring, displacement and mobility, everyday insurgencies, youth engagement, safety and security, and the politics of neoliberalism are just some of the topics to be discussed in a roundtable format. You are invited and welcome to attend as much or as little of what promises to be a very exciting time with scholars from both UIC and other parts of the world.
Convener & Moderator:
Teresa L. Córdova, Director
UIC Great Cities Institute
Discussants:
John-Jairo Betancur
Urban Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Tim Imeokparia
Visiting Scholar, Great Cities Institute
University of Illinois at Chicago
Lynette A. Jackson
Gender and Women’s Studies and African American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Pauline Lipman
Educational Policy Studies, College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
Patrisia Macias-Rojas
Visiting Scholar, American Bar Association &
UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
Tingwei Zhang
Urban Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Wednesday, November 20
Session I: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
“City and the Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Central Europe”
Hana Cervinkova
University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Reception: 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 21
Session II: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
“Resisting The Privatization of Public Space: Oaxaca, Mexico”
Ivan Arenas
UIC Social Justice Initiative
“Myth to Megacity, the Urban Landscape Evolution of Mexico City”
Moises Gonzales
University of New Mexico
Session III: 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
“Neoliberalism, Urban Restructuring and the Battle for Hyderabad City”
Sangeeta Kamat
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Pursuing Fairness, Prosperity and Localism
in a Superdiverse, Supercomplex, and Disassembled City”
Deborah Youdell
University of Birmingham, U.K.
Discussion I: 11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
“People and Places: Comparing Cities across the Globe”
Lunch Session: 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. (Provided)
“Citizens in the Present: Youth Engagement in the Americas”
Maria de los Angeles Torres
University of Illinois at Chicago
Session IV: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
“Internally Displaced Women in Medellin, Colombia:
Food Insecurity, Violence, Health and Mobility”
Elizabeth L. Sweet
Temple University
“Violence, Infrapolitics and Everyday Insurgencies in Peri-Urban Mumbai”
Tarini Bedi
2013-14 GCI Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
Session V: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
“Policing Precariousness in South Africa and Palestine/Israel”
Andy Clarno
2013-14 GCI Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Building a ‘World Class Heritage City’ in Jaipur, India:
Resurgent Local Planning and Civic Pride or More of the Same?”
Sanjeev Vidyarthi
University of Illinois at Chicago
Discussion II: 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
“People and Places: Comparing Cities across the Globe”
Reception: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
To request disability accommodations, please contact Christiana Kinder, Great Cities Institute, (312) 996-8700, christia@uic.edu
Video from this event can be found on the GCI YouTube channel.
