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April 2022
IMPACT 2022
This panel will explore the the impact of gentrification and displacement with the potential benefits for existing community residents.
Find out more »Public Space, Rivers, and Climate Change
Conversation on public space and climate change at Studio Gang with urban planner and architect Jennifer Buyck, resident of Villa Albertine Chicago.
Find out more »September 2022
Climates of Inequity
Join the UIC Latino Cultural Center for a series of online conversations with environmental and climate justice leaders from across the country this fall. Their work reveals frameworks and strategies to address the disproportionate impacts of climate change and environmental pollution on communities of color, indigenous, and low-income earners. Students in the Environmental & Climate Justice course* will facilitate the conversations. RSVP: go.uic.edu/COI22 ClimatesOfInequlity_Fall2022
Find out more »Organizing Knowledge to Challenge Inequality
Join us for a talk by Professor Ananya Roy! Professor Ananya Roy is a scholar of global racial capitalism and postcolonial development whose research is concerned with the political economy and politics of dispossession and displacement. At the very heart of her work is an insistence on the transformation of the public university – through teaching, public scholarship, and community engagement – so that it can be a force for social justice. She is the author of numerous books, including:…
Find out more »October 2022
City/Cité Chicago x Paris Symposium
Designed in 2015 and first implemented in Chicago and San Francisco, CITY CITÉ is a transatlantic cooperation and exchange program on urban issues and city making, initiated by Villa Albertine. The 3rd Chicago edition entitled " Re/Inventing City Planning to Address Contemporary Issues " will be a two days of professional conference and visits on the renewal of the urban fabric and territorial planning in both cities. Thursday, October 13 – 8.30 am - 5 pm @ Studio Gang –…
Find out more »March 2023
Helen Shiller Book Talk and Archive Launch
Join us and Dis/Placements Project for a book talk and celebration of Former 46th Ward Alderperson Helen Schiller! We look forward to seeing you at the event on March 14, 2023 from 5-6:30 pm, Student Center East, Room 302, at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Find out more »April 2023
Equicity: On the Origins, Development and Future Prospects of the Urban Commonwealth
Please join Great Cities Institute for a lecture with Simon Park on Tuesday April 11, 2023 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. In this lecture, Parker explores the struggle for housing and basic income in the Global South, and argues that the re-discovery and re-assertion of the urban commonwealth as a space and vehicle for social justice is the best guarantee our highly urbanized world has to meet the multiple challenges of the climate catastrophe, structural inequality, racism, misogyny and forced migration and displacement in order to generate more equitable, tolerant and sustainable societies.
Find out more »September 2023
Launching the Latino Research Initiative at Great Cities Institute
Great Cities Institute is launching the Latino Research Initiative (LRI) and would like to invite all who are interested to come to join us on September 12 to hear about some of the work of the initiative and to network among yourselves. Juan González, Senior Fellow at GCI and the co-host of Democracy Now, is our keynote speaker and will discuss Chicagoland Latinos in the larger context of national and international issues.
Find out more »November 2023
Latino Environmental Justice Leadership Along Industrial Waterways
The Freshwater Lab and the Great Cities Institute are co-hosting the Latino Environmental Justice Leadership Along Industrial Waterways event, featuring several prominent environmental justice leaders from Chicago and Joliet as event speakers. We would like to invite all who are interested to join us on November 7 to hear more from these speakers about environmental justice issues/actions in Chicago and the Greater Chicagoland Area.
Find out more »January 2025
Real Time Chicago Lecture Series – Spanish Coalition for Housing: Providing Housing Services to the Community for 50+ Years
The Real Time Chicago Lecture Series is back for Spring 2025, as it continues with its focus on Reimagining Housing Support and Access: Bridging Research, Action, and Community-Centered Process. This session will spotlight the Spanish Coalition for Housing, a vital organization that has been providing housing services to the community for over 50 years. Join Emilio Carrasquillo, Program Manager at the Spanish Coalition for Housing, as he shares insights into the organization’s impactful work and its role in fostering equitable access to housing through innovative, community-driven approaches. This engaging event will take place on January 29, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM at the Great Cities Institute Conference Room, located at 412 S Peoria St, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the Coalition’s transformative efforts and their vision for the future of housing support.
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