Forum Archives

19th Annual Student Forum
USP 50th Anniversary Spring Forum
City As Solution: Building the New Urban Agenda
April 26, 2014
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18th Annual Student Forum
Self-Propelling Agents and Social Flow
April 27, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Silvia Domínguez, “Self-Propelling Agents and Social Flow”
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17th Annual Student Forum
Occupy and Organize: Can Social Movements Fix the Urban Crisis?
April 28, 2012
Keynote Speaker: E.P. Clapp, “Occupy and Organize: Can Social Movements Fix the Urban Crisis?”
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16th Annual Student Forum
Retrenchment, Revitalization, or the Right to the City?
April 2, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Donald Mitchell

15th Annual USP Student Forum
The Changing City
April 10, 2010
Keynote Speakers: D. Bradford Hunt and Ronit Bezalel, “Restructuring Public Housing”

14th Annual USP Student Forum
City Life: Emerging Perspectives
April 4, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Laura McEnaney, “Peace in the City: Exploring War’s Aftermath as Urban History”

13th Annual USP Student Forum
Toward a ‘Just’ Sustainability
April 12, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Julian Agyeman

12th Annual USP Student Forum
Back on the Block: Sidewalks, Streets, and Neighborhoods
April 14, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Mary Pattillo, “The Mixed Blessings of Mixed Income Neighborhoods”

11th Annual USP Student Forum
America’s New Black Ghetto: Local Politics and the Global Trope
April 29, 2006
Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Wilson

10th Annual USP Student Forum
Processes, Challenges, and Change: A Decade of Urban Discourse, 1996-2005
May 7, 2005
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Douglas Rae, “Urbanism and Its End”

9th Annual USP Student Forum
Social Research and Urban Life
April 24, 2004
Keynote Speaker: John Logan, “Choosing Segregation in America’s Public Schools”

8th Annual USP Student Forum
The Politics of Knowledge in the Post-Liberal City
April 26, 2003
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alice O’Connor, “The Politics of Knowledge in the Post-Liberal City”

7th Annual USP Student Forum
2002

6th Annual USP Student Forum
The Urban Discourse: Problems and Prospects
March 31, 2001
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Steinberg, “The Death and Reincarnation of ‘White Sociology'”