GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES
November 2025 Newsletter
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GMS 200 + 201 offered next semester!
GMS is pleased to offer both core courses for the Designated Emphasis next semester. GMS 200, the gateway course for the DE, will be taught by Sai Balakrishnan on Wednesdays 9am - noon, while GMS 201 will be taught by Alison Post on Mondays 1-4pm.
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GMS DE Summer Research projects profiled on website
Read about research conducted by GMS DE students drawing on their summer grants! Project descriptions have been posted to the GMS website.
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Registration Open for Urban Politics in the Global South Conference
Urban Politics in the Global South is an annual virtual conference series with which GMS has been involved since its inception four years ago. It brings together the growing community of social scientists conducting research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions, seeking to facilitate exchange among scholars within political science, related disciplines, and practitioners. Register today to attend this year's conference on November 6-7, 2025, 9am - noon PST.
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GMS co-sponsors panel on urban Bangladesh
November 4, 2025
9:00-10:30 am
on Zoom
GMS is Co-sponsoring "New Directions in Bangladesh Studies: Recent Scholarship and New Publications," November 4, 2025, 9 - 10:30 a.m, on zoom. The panel discussion will feature recent scholarship on Bangladesh by David Jackman, Tanzil Shafique, and Lutfun Nahar Lata. The event will highlight and discuss their newly published books. Jackman's book analyzes how syndicates systematically control labor, economic activity, and public order in Kawran Bazaar, Bangladesh’s largest market. Shafique's book presents an ethnographically rich case study of Karail—the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. Lata explores how street vendors and the urban poor in Dhaka negotiate formal and informal power structures to carve out counterspaces in contested public cityscapes. The event will be moderated by Zachary Lamb, UC Berkeley.
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GMS DE Practice Job Talk: DCRP Ph.D. Candidate Taesoo Song on immigration and housing stratification
Taesoo Song, UC Berkeley
November 21, 2025
3:30-5:00 pm
106 Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
On Friday November 21st, 3:30-5:00pm GMS and DCRP PhD Candidate Taesoo Song will give a practice job talk in 106 Bauer Wurster Hall titled: "Housing Stratification Beyond the Black–White Binary: Asian Americans and the Regimes of Immigration and Housing Governance." No RSVP required.
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Urban Politics in the Global South Online Conference
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Urban Politics in the Global South is an annual virtual conference series that brings together the growing community of social scientists conducting research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions. Organizers seek to facilitate exchange among scholars within political science, related disciplines, and practitioners. The virtual format allows scholars from different world regions, as well as US-based graduate students, to participate while based around the world. The conference is explicitly designed to mentor junior faculty and graduate students entering the field of urban politics. GMS sponsored the organization's first conference four years ago.
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