2007-2008

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Planning, Policy and Design—Seminar Series 2007-2008

Seminars are usually held every other Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30 in Social Ecology I, room 112. A light lunch is served at the seminars. Talks solely sponsored by the Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) are usually scheduled at different times and locations. Please check the PPD website for research papers, schedule changes and more information.

Date	Sponsor-ship	Speaker	Title
10/04/07	PPD, CUSA	Prof. Scott Bollens, Department of Planning, Policy and Design, University of California at Irvine	Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization
10/11/07	PPD, CAS	Prof. Michael Douglass, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa	Globalizing the City: Mega-Projects, Civil Society and the Production of Urban Space in Pacific Asia
10/25/07*	PPD	Prof. Randall Crane, Department of Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles	Place-based versus person-based economic development strategies: A Reconciliation
11/08/07	PPD, CUSA	Prof. Susan Greenhalgh, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine	An Anthropology of Public Policy: Theory and Methods
11/14/07	COPC*	Prof. Geneieve Guiliano, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California	Reflections on Equity in Transportation
11/29/07	PPD	Scott Smith and Anne Taufen Wessells, Ph.D. Candidates, Department of Planning, Policy and Design, University of California at Irvine	(1) Adapting Information and Communication Technologies for Collective Decision Making (2) Actor-Networks and Watershed Park Planning
01/17/08	PPD, CUSA, UWRC	Dr. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute	Water Resource Management, Property Rights, and Collective Action in South Asia
1/24/08*	PPD	Prof. Manuel Castells, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California	The Urban Form of the Information Age
01/31/08	PPD, DPS, CUSA	Prof. Susan E. Clarke, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder	Muslims and Local Governance in London
02/14/08	PPD, UWRC	Prof. Bipasha Baruah, Department of Geography, California State University Long Beach	Public-Private-NGO Partnerships in Water and Sanitation Service Delivery in India
02/28/08	PPD	Prof. David Snow, Department of Sociology, University of California at Irvine	Homelessness in Four Global Cities: Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paulo and Tokyo
04/10/08	PPD, COPC, DCLS	Prof. Abel Valenzuela, Department of Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles	Organizing Itinerant Workers: Worker Centers and the Day Labor Movement
04/24/08	PPD, CAS, DS	Prof. Nancy Peluso, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley	Property, Resources, and the Globalization of Legal Systems
05/08/08	PPD	Mia Lehrer, Mia Lehrer and Associates Landscape Architects	Creating a 21st Century Urban Park
05/22/08	PPD	Ananya Roy, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Urban Planning	Povertyscapes: Truth and Capital in the New Global Order of Development

Seminar co-sponsors: CUSA—Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, UWRC—Urban Water Research Center, COPC—Community Outreach Partnership Center, Center for Asian Studies—CAS, DPS— Department of Political Science, DS— Department of Sociology, DCLS—Department of Chicano/Latino Studies

* Check time and location on the website.

 

 

Revised 1/9/2008