GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES
February 2025 Newsletter
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Summer Research Funding Available
GMS DE students are invited to apply for summer research funding! Applications are due on February 23rd through the GMS website. Applicants must have taken or be currently enrolled in GMS 200.
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GMS alum Gautam Bahn publishes new book
Gautam Bhan (GMS alumnus) has co-authored a book with Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse, titled Cities Rethought: A new urban disposition, published by Wiley. The book suggests that "we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to rethink how we act and intervene within them. To this end, it offers the contours of a new urban disposition." Book available here.
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GMS alumna Malini Ranganathan wins book award
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City, co-authored by GMS alumna, Professor Malini Ranganathan, has been awarded the 2024 Anthony Leeds Book Award by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association. Book available here.
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CER talk on aging in urban america
Stacey Torres, University of California, San Francisco
February 5, 2025
12:00-1:30 pm
2111 Bancroft Way, #104
The Center for Ethnographic Research is hosting a presentation by Professor Stacey Torres (University of California, San Francisco) on her new book, At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America.
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GMS Co-sponsored talk with David Brown
David Brown, Former Artistic Director, 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
February 26, 2025
6:30 pm
Bauer Wurster Auditorium
GMS will co-sponsor a talk by David Brown (Former Artistic Director, 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial): "Community-driven Futures We Could Have Today." at 6:30pm on February 26th at Bauer Wurster Auditorium (Reception at 6pm in the Bauer Wurster Gallery). No RSVP required.
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GMS Co-sponsored talk: "Urban Form, Land Use Mix, and Transport Networks"
José Carpio-Pinedo, Polytechnic University of Madrid
February 28, 2025
3 pm
410 McLaughlin Hall
GMS is delighted to co-sponsor a talk by Professor José Carpio-Pinedo (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Fulbright Visiting Scholar, at ITS Berkeley. He will speak at a joint ITS-GMS seminar on "Urban Form, Land Use Mix, and Transport Networks." The presentation is on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 at 3 pm in 410 McLaughlin Hall. Join us for Cookie Hour at 2:30 in the ITS Library (412 McLaughlin Hall). No RSVP required.
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Faculty Affiliate and Former GMS Co-Director Matt Kondolf
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G. Mathias (Matt) Kondolf is a fluvial geomorphologist and Professor of Environmental Planning in the College of Environmental Design. He teaches the course, Rivers and Cities, as well as courses on river restoration, environmental planning, and environmental science. Prof Kondolf researches human-river interactions, including managing flood-prone lands, urban rivers, sediment in rivers and reservoirs, and river restoration. In a collaboration with Jackson State University (co-sponsored by GMS), he co-led research to assess priorities for flood risk management in Jackson,
Mississippi, where the US Army Corps is considering a project that would not address current inequitable flood risk affecting low-income communities of color, but would rather develop a new reservoir to provide lakefront property for real-estate development. Author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers and three books, his work has been published in leading journals and received over 20,000 citations. Prof Kondolf has advised governments and non-governmental organizations on sustainable management of rivers around the world, providing expert testimony before the US Congress, the California legislature, California Water Resources Control Board, the US Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (the Hague), and in other fora.
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