City, Society, and Space

Announcements:

The first meeting of this workshop will be on October 7, 2009, at noon. Room TBA.

Autumn Schedule:

10/7/2009	Rachel Jean-Baptiste - Assistant Professor of African History, University of Chicago. Areas of Interest: Central Africa; history of women, sexuality, and gender; urban history; customary and modern law; post-colonial social and cultural history.
10/21/2009	Albert Hunter - Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. Areas of Interest: urban sociology, community, civil society, ethnicity, culture and literature, and methods.
11/04/2009	Nik Theodore - Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago/Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development. Areas of Interest: conditions in low-wage labor markets; community-based responses to violations of basic labor standards; the informal economy; and global social policy.
11/18/2009	Kathleen Fernicola - Department of Sociology. "Controlling Interests: Labor-community Coalitions and Urban Development."
12/02/2009	David Schalliol - Department of Sociology. Areas of Interest: urban sociology, social stratification, visual sociology, culture and the sociology of education.