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CITY Seminar Series

Winter 2025

Date

Time

Title

Speakers

January 30 2025

5:00 to 6:30 PM

Bringing Lefebvre to urban planning in Geneva

Karine Duplan & Sebastien Lambelet

February 27th 2025

12:30 to 1:30 PM

Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Labour and Buildings

Lindsey Rolheiser

March 7 2025

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions

Abidin Kusno, Kanishka Goonewardena, Shubhra Gururani, Kenneth Cardenas

March 21 2025

4:30 to 6:00 PM

Contested Security Politics in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit

Stefan Treffers

March 31 2025

12:00 to 1:30 PM (TBD)

Seeing Democracy Like a City

Ross Beveridge

Summer 2024/ Fall 2024

Date

Time

Title

Speakers

April 9 2024

5:30 - 7:30 PM

Access to Post-Secondary Education: For whom? For what?

Beverly-Jean Daniel, Tanya Aberman, Miles Turner, Vidya Shah, Sonia Lewis

April 24 2024

1:00pm to 2:30 pm

Problematising cycling equity: City-wide networks and differentiated infrastructures in Mexico City and Toronto

Thomas Van Laake

May 9 2024

1:00pm to 2:30 pm

Graduate students roundtable: Researching Climate Change in Canadian Cities (co-sponsored by Robarts)

Graduate Students

June 14 2024

1:00pm to 2:30 pm

Building an “inclusive city”: The production of “winning” and “losing” communities as part of the “urban revitalization” of old pericentral neighborhoods of Brussels

Alexandre Donnen

August 12 2024

1:00pm to 2:30 pm

Walking the City Series: Aki’s Echo with Professor Lisa Myers

Lisa Myers

September 19 2024

11:00 to 1:00 PM

"Parochial Territorializations. Towards a critique of insular worldbuilding"

Anke Schwarz

October 25 2024

8:00 AM to 7:00 PM

** CITY Institute Graduate Student Conference

Graduate Students

December 6 2024

11:00 to 12:30 PM

Book Talk – Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development

Jennifer L. Tucker

December 12 2024

3:30 to 5:00 PM

Social spatial patterns of urban development and how they are affected by ‘big tech’

Constance Carr

Fall 2022 / Winter 2023

DateTimeTitle Speakers
October 28 1:00pm to 2:30 pmTime and Race in Postwar Urban AmericaProf. Paul Lawrie
November 25 1:00pm to 2:30 pmPower to the People: Electricity and Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century NigeriaProf. Damilola Adebayo
January 271:00pm to 2:30 pm (t.b.d.)Dr. Araby Smyth
February 241:00pm to 2:30 pm (t.b.d.)(t.b.d.)
March 171:00pm to 2:30 pmUrbanism without Guarantees: A parallax view of everyday life and place-based urban political economy, by Prof. Christian Anderson, University of Washington Bothell, EUC Scholar-in-Residence
April 141:00pm to 2:30 pm Art in the Korean Smart CityDr. Melanie Wilmink

Fall 2021 / Winter 2022

DateTimeTitle Speakers
September 24 4-5:30 pmThe Impact of Federal Election on the GTAShannon Holness
John Lorinc
Saman Tabasinejad
October 28 1-2:30 pmHousing in a State of Emergency: Shelters, Encampments,
and Human Rights Discourses in Toronto
Allison Evans
Luisa Sotomayor
Estair Van Wagner
November 23-24 8:30-4:15 pmCivicLabTO SummitCity of Toronto officials & academics from
Centennial College, George Brown College,
Humber College, OCAD University, Ryerson
University, Seneca College, University of Toronto, & York University
December 612:30 - 2 pmUrban Research Methodology: NVivo and Feminist Urban ResearchElsa Koleth
Biftu Yousef
January 28 1-2:30pm Making Place: Indigenous Education in the CitySusan Dion
February 18 1-2:30pm The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Everyday Lives of Women of Cochabamba,
Delhi, Georgetown, Ibadan, and Shanghai: A Comparative Analysis
Nasya Razavi
March 171-2:30pmCities and the Climate CrisisLaura Taylor
April 2012-5:30pm Graduate Student Conference in Urban StudiesKeynote Speaker: Dr. Nidhi Subramanyam (University of Toronto)