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CITY Seminar Series

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)