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The 2007 Sagan National Colloquium
Cities and Suburbs: Life in a Metropolitan World
| Title | Speaker | Time | Date | Place |
| “World Cities and the Myth of a Golden Age” | Dr. Larry R. Ford Dr. Ford is Prof. of Geography, San Diego State University. Author of (among others) Cities and Buildings. Internationally recognized scholar/writer on the interconnectedness of city growth and change and architectural traditions and style. Expert on the urban built environment. |
7:30 p.m. | Thu., Sep. 13, 2007 | Benes |
| “The Global City: Where Rich and Poor Meet” | Dr. Saskia Sassen Dr. Sassen is Ohio Wesleyan’s Phi Beta Kappa Scholar in Residence for 2007. She is a member of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Until July of 2007 she was Professor of Sociology at the Univ. of Chicago Dr. Sassen is a leading theorist on globalization and its impact on cities. She coined the term Global Cities, referring to powerful urban places like New York, London, Mumbai, Beijing and Tokyo. |
7:30 p.m. | Thu., Sep. 20, 2007 | Benes |
| “Metro Nation: How the United States is Changing and What it Means for National Policy and Politics” | Bruce Katz Mr. Katz is Vice President and Director, The Metropolitan Policy Program and The Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Katz conducts research on strengthening metropolitan economies, growing the urban middle class, and revitalizing cities. |
7:30 p.m. | Tue., Sep. 25, 2007 | Benes |
| “Can Cities Survive? Global Threats to Global Urbanization” | Thomas Homer-Dixon Mr. Homer-Dixon is Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological, and technological change. His work is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on political science, economics, environmental studies, geography, cognitive science, social psychology, and complex systems theory. Homer-Dixon is widely regarded as a central figure in the environment and security debate. |
7:30 p.m. | Tue., Oct. 2, 2007 | Benes |
| “The SoHo Partnership and the Homeless in New York City” | Henry Buhl Mr. Buhl is a retired investment banker and professional photographer who founded the SoHo Partnership in New York City designed to provide employment training and job placement for the homeless. This project has lead to similar ones throughout the N.Y. City area and Mr. Buhl is now spreading his ideas about training and supporting the homeless to other metropolitan areas in the U.S. |
7:30 p.m. | Thu., Oct. 4, 2007 | Benes |
| “Jim Crow’s Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North” | Dr. Thomas Sugrue Dr. Sugrue is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the relationship between the federal, state and local governments and the increasing racial and socioeconomic segregation of Americans in cities and metropolitan areas. His book Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit was awarded the 1998 Bancroft Prize in American History. He has recently published The New Suburban History on the role of suburbs in recent American history. |
7:30 p.m. | Wed., Oct. 17, 2007 | Benes |
| “Chorus, Verse, and Chorus: The Raw Bones of Rap’s Rise into Popular Culture” | James McBride James McBride is an award-winning journalist and jazz musician. He is currently Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University and author of the award winning book: The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. Recently he has published extensively on the urban origins of much of America’s modern (jazz, rock ‘n roll, blues, rhythm and blues, and hip hop) music. |
7:30 p.m. | Tue., Oct. 23, 2007 | Gray Chapel |
| “The Racial Wealth Gap: Assets for Change” | Dr. Thomas Shapiro Dr. Shapiro is Professor of Law ands Social Policy at Brandeis University. He has conducted extensive research on the relationship between race, social class and the accumulation of wealth in American society. He is the recent author of the highly regarded The Hidden Cost of Being African American. |
7:30 p.m. | Thu., Oct. 25, 2007 | Gray Chapel |
| “Politics, Urban Planning, and the Provision of Housing to Low Income Populations in America’s Cities” | Ms. Carol Galante, (OWU, ‘76), President, Bridge Corporation Ms. Claudia Cappio (OWU, ’76), Director of Development, Oakland, California Ms. Deborah McColloch (OWU, ’77), Director of Housing and Community Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These three OWU graduates are nationally recognized experts on the provision of housing to working class and low income Americans and the planning and development of large metropolitan areas. |
7:30 p.m. | Wed., Oct. 31, 2007 | Benes |
| “The 21st Century Medieval City” | Robert Neuwirth Mr. Neuwirth is a professional journalist who has spent considerable time conducting research in and living in large squatter settlements in the very large cities of the developing world. He recently published Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World. |
7:30 p.m. | Tue., Nov. 6, 2007 | Benes |
| “Promoting Downtown Living in the Midwest: Saving Heartland Cities by Choosing a Freak’s Lifestyle” | Kyle Ezell Mr. Ezell is an urban planner and consultant who works with cities and local community groups on revitalizing downtowns and encouraging urban re-development. He has spoken widely on the need to encourage people to live in cities not suburbs. |
7:30 p.m. | Thu., Nov. 8, 2007 | Benes |
| “Intimate Urban Ecologies: How the American Lawn Makes Us Who We Are” | Dr. Paul Robbins Dr. Robbins is Professor of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona. He conducts research on the relationships between individuals (e.g. homeowners), environmental actors (e.g. trees, lawns, etc.), and the institutions that connect them (corporations). He has recently published Lawn People: How Grasses, Weedsand Chemicals Make Us Who We Are. |
7:30 p.m. | Tue., Nov. 13, 2007 | Benes |
