Spring 2014

February 14 – Peter Kwong (Hunter College)

February 28 – Sam Roberts (Columbia)

March 7 – Tom Looser (NYU)

March 21 – William T.S. Mazzarella (University of Chicago)

April 4 – discussion

April 25 – Shalini Shankar (Northwestern University)

May 2 – Presentations

May 9 – Presentations

Fall 2013

September 20 – Introductions

October 4 – Saskia Sassen (Columbia) Cities as Today’s Frontier Zone: From empire’s edge to its center

October 18 – Steven Gregory (Columbia) The Radiant University: Space, Urban Redevelopment, and the Public Good

November 1 – Tim Mitchell (Columbia) Carbon Democracy

November 15 – Arlene Davila (NYU) On The Immateriality of the Mall: Financial Regimes, Urban Policies and the “Latin American Boom”

December 6 – Robin Nagle (NYU) Future(s) of Urban Waste