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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 »December 2022
Celebrating our Partners & Marking Ten Years of
Agenda 4:00 p.m. Welcome, Teresa Córdova, Director, Great Cities Institute 4:15 p.m. Democracy Now – More than Ever, Juan González, Co-Host, Democracy Now! 4:45 p.m. Panel Conversation, Moderated by Professor Kathleen Yang Clayton: Maria Hadden, Alderwoman, 49th Ward Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Illinois State Senator, 20th District Erica Swinney Staley, Executive Director, Manufacturing Renaissance Heather Van Benthuysen, Executive Director, CPS Student Voice and Engagement Department 5:30 p.m. Greetings, Chancellor Javier Reyes 5:40 p.m. Closing Remarks, Lieutenant Governor…
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. The event is free to the public and you can RSVP here. The event is cosponsored by Dis/Placements Project, UIC University Library, and Global Asian Studies Program.
Find out more »Chicago’s 2023 Mayoral Race: Reclaiming Harold Washington’s Multiracial Coalition
Chicago's 2023 Mayoral Race: Reclaiming Harold Washington Multiracial Coalition In 1983, Harold Washington forged a multiracial, progressive coalition that propelled him to victory as Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington’s triumph marked a turning point in U.S. urban politics, one cut short by his tragic death in 1987. Forty years after his stunning victory, a new Chicago mayoral contest raises the question: what can we learn from the Washington era? Monday, March 27, 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm RSVP for Virtual…
Find out more »City / Cité Chicago x Paris: Re/Inventing City Planning to Address Contemporary Issues
View the flyer as a PDF here. Please join Great Cities Institute for an event titled Chicago and Paris on the importance of Mobility and Logistics. The event will be moderated by Great Cities Institute Director Teresa Córdova and include the following guests: Jeffrey Sriver (City of Chicago) Transportation / Logistics Projects and Metropolitan Strategies Marion Albertelli (Université Paris 1 / Sorbonne Université) Variations in the Urban Integration of Parisian Railway Stations: from Services to Urban Logistics Thorsten Johann (Studio…
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…
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