Global Metropolitan Studies: September 2025 Newsletter

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GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES

September 2025 Newsletter

News        Events        Research Spotlight

NEWS

Announcing the GMS Fall lecture series! 

GMS is hosting an exciting set of research presentations on urban themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives this fall, in collaboration with partner departments. Read about the series here.

 

GMS 2024-2025 Annual Report published

The GMS Annual Report for the 2024-2025 Academic Year is now available here

 

GMS DE Student Research Group Funding Available!

GMS is pleased to offer funding of $500-$1500 for new or continuing interdisciplinary student groups working on urban issues.  Visit website for details and to apply.

 

GMS DE Student Conference Travel Grants

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.

 

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EVENTS

Joint GMS-DCRP lecture by Rahim Kurwa on Policing and teh Struggle for Housing

Rahim Kurwa, University of Illiniois, Chicago

September 18, 2025
3:30-5:00 pm
106 Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

On Thursday, September 18th, 3:30-5pm, GMS and DCRP will jointly host Professor Kahim Kurwa (University of Illinois, Chicago) for a presentation on his new book, "Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing." 106 Bauer Wurster Hall.

GMS Open House for new applicants and DE students and faculty!  Featuring a celebration of Matt Kondolf and Isha Ray!

On Friday, September 19th, 12:00-1:30pm, GMS will hold an Open House for potential and existing DE Students. Come learn about our programming, reconnect with friends, and hear about colleagues' summer research projects!  And come celebrate longtime GMS friends Prof. Matt Kondolf and Prof. Isha Ray's contributions to GMS and water-related research! Lunch will be provided.  Please RSVP.

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

Professor Cihan Tuğal, Sociology

 

Cihan Tuğal is a Professor of Sociology. He studies social movements, populism, capitalism, democracy, and religion. In his recent publications and book manuscript, he discusses the far right, neoliberalization, state capitalism, and populist performativity in several countries. His widely cited first book Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford, 2009) studied pro-capitalist Islam and its popularization among the poor. In his second book The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (Verso 2016), Tuğal analyzed Islamic movements and regimes in Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and Iran. His third book Caring for the Poor (2017, Routledge) discusses liberalism's uneasy relations with charitable ethics. Tuğal has also published research on American, Turkish, Eastern European, and South and Southeast Asian politics, eco-social dynamics, and social movements in scholarly journals, as well newspapers, political journals and print and e-magazines such as New Left Review, New York Times, Guardian, Jacobin, New Politics, OpenDemocracy, Spectre, and Jadaliyya, and written extensively in Turkish.

GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES

University of California, Berkeley

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