Global Metropolitan Studies: October 2024 Newsletter

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GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES October 2024 Newsletter News        Events        Research Spotlight NEWS Announcing GMS Co-Directors The GMS Executive Committee would like to thank Associate Professor Anna Livia Brand for stepping in to serve as interim Co-Director during the 2023-2024 academic year.  This academic year, Brand returns to our Executive Committee. GMS will be directed by Sai Balakrishnan (GMS, DCRP) and Alison Post (GMS, Political Science).   GMS Annual Report GMS is pleased to share its Annual Report for the 2023-2024 academic year. The report is available here on the GMS website.   Conference Travel Grant Funding for Fall conferences DE students are encouraged to apply for travel grants to present their research at academic conferences.  The fall call for proposals is open.  Details are available on the GMS website.   EVENTS Global Metropolitan Studies Fall 2024 Open House October 11, 2024 12:00 - 1:30 pm Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building We invite prospective students and faculty, as well as current GMS students and faculty affiliates, to join us for lunch at our Fall 2024 open house! If you plan to attend and would like lunch, please RSVP here.   Thinking from Bangladesh, Building with Justice | Celebrating 10 Years of the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies October 12, 2024 2:00 - 6:00 pm David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 The event marks the 10th Anniversary of the Chowdhury Center with a kick-off event bringing together scholars and practitioners for an afternoon of conversations on ecological and architectural practices towards sustainable collective futures.  For more information – see Chowdhury Center webpage for this event   Seizing the Means of Prediction: How Finance Speculates on the Future City October 31, 2024 3:30 - 5:00 pm Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building Research presentation by Professor Rachel Weber of the University of Illinois at Chicago (Urban and Regional Planning).  Please RSVP here. Responding to the housing affordability crisis with land affordability interventions: some reflections November 1, 2024 12:00 - 1:30 pm Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building Research presentation by Professor Laura Wolf-Powers (Urban Policy and Planning in the School of Arts and Sciences  at the City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College).   RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT Irene Farah Rivadeneyra, GMS alum   Irene Farah is a 2024 graduate from the GMS Designated Emphasis Program. She currently serves as a postdoctoral research associate with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and will start as an Assistant Professor next fall. As a doctoral student at DCRP and GMS DE student, Irene studied how regulations and the intermediation between local governments and street vendors impact how public space is assigned and contested in Mexico City and San Francisco. As part of her research, she worked closely with street vendors and street vending associations to understand their relationship with state actors and the impact that regulations have on workers’ livelihoods. One of the more impressive aspects of Irene's Berkeley trajectory was her ability to straddle the field of Urban Planning and Political Science. Quite unusually -- and in line with the spirit of GMS -- she also combined ethnography with data science in her research.   GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES University of California, Berkeley Our mailing address is: globalmetrostudies@berkeley.edu Website: https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/