GCI Events: 2006-2007
Faculty Scholar Seminars
April 17, 2007
Art, Race and Place: Transforming Self and Community.
Essie Robeson and Community Murals in Chicago: Two Case Studies
Olivia Gude
Associate Professor, School of Art and
Design
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
Barbara Ransby
Associate Professor, Department of
African American Studies/Department of History
UIC College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences
March 6, 2007
Reforming Reform in Urban Schools: Efficiency,
Deficiency, and Equity
Olivia Gude
Associate Professor, School of Art and
Design
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
David Mayrowetz
Assistant Professor, Policy Studies
UIC College of Education
Thomas Moher
Associate Professor, Department of Computer
Science
UIC College of Engineering
Kimberly Potowski
Assistant Professor, Department
of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese
UIC College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences
February 13, 2007
Neighborhoods and Heritage: The Lawndale Experience
Robert Bruegmann
Professor and Chair, Department of
Art History
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
Roberta Feldman
Co-Director, City Design Center
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
Charles Leeks
Director, Lawndale Office of Neighborhood
Housing Services of Chicago
January 23, 2007
The Changing Nature of Spatial, Linguistic,
and Cultural Communities
John Betancur
Associate Professor, Urban Planning
and Policy Program
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Kimberly Potowski
Assistant Professor, Department
of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese
UIC College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences
Barbara Ransby
Associate Professor, Departments of
African American Studies and History
UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
GCI Seminar Series
April 12, 2007
A Puerto Rican Community Responds to the HIV/AIDS
Crisis:
The Role of Social and Cultural Capital
Michele Kelly
Associate Professor, Division of Community
Health Sciences
UIC School of Public Health
Alejandro Luis Molina
Puerto Rican Cultural Center
April 3, 2007
Challenges in Planning for Hajj, the Annual
Muslims’ Pilgrimage to Makkah:
Spatial Modeling for Complex Planning
Kheir Al-Kodmany
Director of Graduate Studies and
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
March 20, 2007
Moments of Hesitation: Situating Citizenship
in the Excess of Fact
Helen Liggett
Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College
of Urban Affairs
Cleveland State University
March 13, 2007
Civic Capacity and Urban Power: A Theory of
Governance
Dennis Judd
Fellow, Great Cities Institute
Professor,
Department of Political Science
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public
Affairs
February 27, 2007
Gangs in the Global City: A Lecture and Book
Signing
John Hagedorn
Senior Research Fellow, Great Cities
Institute
Associate
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
UIC College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences
February 20, 2007
Saul Alinsky in Berlin? Citizen Organizing in
Modern Germany
Thomas Lenz
Lead Organizer, Lake County United
February 15, 2007
The Lawndale Health Promotion Project: Engaging
Communities
in Creating a Healthier Community in Chicago’s North
and South Lawndale
Cynthia Barnes-Boyd
Director, UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Great Cities Institute
Assistant Dean, Community
Health Initiatives
UIC College of Nursing
Berenice Tow
Reach 2010 Project Director
City of
Chicago Department of Public Health
Michael Quinn
Education Specialist in Research
Department
of Medicine
Diabetes Research and Training Center
University of Chicago
February 6, 2006
Urban Form and the Institutional Context in
Southeast Asian Cities
Tingwei Zhang
Associate Professor, Urban Planning
and Policy Program
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
January 30, 2007
The Many Meanings of Governance: How Should
We Develop Research and Theory?
Karen Mossberger
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Program
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
November 28, 2006
Transaction Costs and Cooperation in Economic
Development Ventures
Annette Steinacker
Visiting Fellow, Great Cities Institute
October 23, 2006
What will the United States' Population Footprint Look Like in 2050?
Modeling the Spatial Dynamics and Environmental and Resource Impacts
of U.S.
Metropolitan Growth and Change
John D. Landis
Professor of City and Regional Planning
University of California at Berkeley
The Vernon D. Jarrett Lecture Series on Race and Education
April 18, 2007
Roland Martin on Race and Education in the 21st Century
Roland Martin
CNN Contributor
WVON-AM Morning Host
September 12, 2006
The HistoryMakers: A New Primary Source for Scholars
Julieanna Richardson
2006 Vernon D. Jarrett Senior Fellow,
Great Cities Institute
President and Founder, The HistoryMakers
Special Events
January 18, 2007
Global Dialog on Local Government and Metropolitan
Regions in the United States
Roundtable on Federalism, Forum of Federations series
November 13, 2006
The HistoryMakers Interviews
Interviews with Joyce Owens and Dr. Herman
White
Interviews conducted by Julieanna Richardson,
Vernon
D. Jarrett Senior Fellow, Great Cities Institute
November 17, 2006
Yamuna Gently Weeps: A Film Screening
Followed by a discussion with
Ratoola Kundu, Ph.D. Candidate, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Leon Morenas, Ph.D. Candidate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
October 13, 2006
Discussion with the Editors and Authors of 'Where
Are Poor People to Live? Transforming Public Housing Communities'
Larry Bennett
Professor, Political Science
DePaul
University
Janet Smith
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and
Policy
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Co-Director,
Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement
Patricia Wright
Former Director, Nathalie P. Voorhees
Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement
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