Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley

Global Metropolitan Studies is a community of scholars across disciplines at UC Berkeley that investigates major transformations in cities around the world.

[Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley @gmsberkeley]

📰 Pleased to share the publication of faculty affiliate @TrapenbergFrick's article in @JPER7, celebrating the work of ACSP Distinguished Educator Betty Deakin! Betty played a critical role in the development of GMS, and we are happy to see her so honored. https://t.co/pZM8XzBJwI

[Irene Farah @IreneFarah]

Fue un gusto participar del panel “Trabajos móviles” en la @UNAM_MX. Muy importante escuchar las ponencias sobre el movimiento de trabajadores “informales”, su visibilidad en la Ciudad y sus implicaciones para la gobernanza urbana.

[giuseppina forte @pina_forte]

As the semester is officially over, there is no better news than the publishing of "Embodying Peripheries," free for download at
https://t.co/lYcoJdFmve.
The book will be launched in June at the Milan Triennale (Arch Week, OffCampus @Polimi) and will be available in print by then

[Laura Belik @laurabelik]

Opens today (05/15) @ced_berkeley !

[Laura Belik @laurabelik]

"BUNKER: The optimism of the pessimistic"-- a photo exhibition I have curated is about to open at @ced_berkeley on May 15th!

Special thanks to the sponsors: The Joan E. Draper Architectural Research Endowment, @gmsberkeley, and the Environmental Design Library.

[SocialScienceMatrix @SocSciMatrix]

Join us in-person on Thurs. 5/4 for a Matrix on Point, "Expropriation: Global Perspectives on Property and Power," with Sai Balakrishnan, @puckengman, and @gwbusiness's @noel_maurer, mod. by @CC_Rosenthal. @ced_berkeley @gmsberkeley @UCBHistory. REGISTER: https://t.co/F3tyTEp1st

[Isabel Peñaranda Currie @ipenarandac]

Am so excited to be part of this amazing cohort of scholars studying the history of political economy with my project "Capturing Public Value: A Genealogy of Neoliberal Approaches to Land Value Capture Instruments in Colombia". Thank you @llchristyll and the selection committee

[American Bar Foundation @ABFResearch]

ABF Speaker Series presents a talk by this Wed., 4/26, by @BerkeleyGeog's @FieldsDesiree on technological progress as a fundamental part of how relationships to land are constituted and reconstituted—and in whose interests—throughout global capitalism. https://t.co/3a9wAAuTvH

[Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley @gmsberkeley]

🎙️GMS former co-director Alison Post is speaking next week at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (@HarvardDRCLAS). Register for the event here!

[DRCLAS @ Harvard @HarvardDRCLAS]

04/25 @ 12PM EDT: Why Are Urban Services Still So Bad in Large Cities?

More than 80 percent of Latin Americans live in cities. This panel explores why and how governments improve urban services, and how these policies vary across Latin American cities.

https://t.co/pnj7CIpi5o

[Isabel Peñaranda Currie @ipenarandac]

Join us for the roundtable "Beyond Ag and Water: New Directions in the History of California’s Central Valley" made possible by @gmsberkeley - this Wed (4/12)

💪Research by scholars of and from the CV about religion, race, gender, finance, and policing

https://t.co/1cIGzzL8vK

[Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley @gmsberkeley]

📅 GMS DE students (current and prospective) mark your calendars for the final talk of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series to be held in the
@SocSciMatrix! In-person only.

*Note that the April 6th event has an updated speaker and time.

RSVP: https://t.co/IXM0y5rYsZ

[Sur-Urbano Podcast @latam_cities]

Episodio especial #TrafficAmericas sobre abolicionismo y activismo trans 🏳️‍⚧️ con Daniela Maldonado (@toloposungo y @redcomunitariat), @amyritterrbusch y Álvaro Escobar, en colaboración con @labna_uniandes @sergemont

https://t.co/2BIhnKBV9w

Hosts: @sebastiandsz +@ipenarandac!

[SocialScienceMatrix @SocSciMatrix]

Please spread the word: tomorrow (3/8) at 12pm, a talk by @joguldi! Join in person if you can: @gmsberkeley @ced_berkeley @ESPM_Berkeley @ERGBerkeley @UCBHistory @UCBLettersSci @EthnicUc @BerkeleyLaw @BerkeleyGeog @ISASatBerkeley @UCBerkeleyISSI REGISTER: https://t.co/sYcTVYecXp

[Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley @gmsberkeley]

Tonight! RSVP here:

https://t.co/qSqUO94uG1

[Irene Farah @IreneFarah]

Really exciting to see this book chapter come out! A pleasure to have worked with both @KevinCredit and Luc and discussing the “retail apocalypse” 🔥🔥🔥

[Sur-Urbano Podcast @latam_cities]

Episodio nuevo de #Sur_Urbano 👏Este episodio surge del evento “Afro-Feminismos en Colombia: políticas anti-racistas, producción de conocimiento y artivismo” con @glendapalaciosq y Yanith Cristancho, y moderado por @castilloangela_ . Y es 💪🎇https://t.co/ub0lBRgkmD