Annual L&S Dean’s Humanities Lecture
Thursday, April 16 3:30-5:00 pm (Zelazo 250)
Coinciding with the Sustaining Cities Conference, the College of Letters and Science is pleased to host Saskia Sassen, author of Global Cities, for its Annual Dean’s Humanities Lecture. The topic is: The World’s Third Spaces: Neither Global nor National.
Conference Program
Friday, April 17
9:00-9:30 am
Welcome and Opening Statements
- Provost Rita Cheng
- Patrice Petro, CIE Director
- Linda Krause, Conference Co-Chair
9:30-10:45 am
Urban Place-Making
Moderator: Nancy Frank
- Charles Waldheim, University of Toronto
Planning, Ecology, and the Emergence of Landscape - Georgia Butina Watson, Oxford Brookes University
The Art of Place-Making
10:45-11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 pm
The Disappeared, the Dispossessed
Moderator: Tasha Oren
- Robert Neuwirth, independent journalist
System D: The Extroverted City - Andrew Kincaid,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
From “The Dead” to the Dead: The Disposable Bodies and Disposable Culture of Contemporary Dublin Noir
12:15-1:30 pm
Lunch and Presentation of Student Work
1:30-2:45 pm
Urban Lost and Found
Moderator: Linda Krause
- Bob Greenstreet, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois at Chicago
Milwaukee in Focus
Global Sprawl
2:45-3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 pm
Cocooning, Mobilities
Moderator: A. Aneesh
- Sherry Ahrentzen, Arizona State University
Stealth Sustainability and Housing Practices - John Urry, Lancaster University
The City and Car Futures
4:30-5:30 pm
UWM Department of Geography's Harold Mayer Lecture Series
- Jennifer Wolch, University of Southern California
Climate Change and the Carbon Hoofprint of Cities
Saturday, April 18
9:00-9:15 am
Welcome
Patrice Petro, Conference Co-organizer
9:15-10:30 am
Global Economic Pressures
Moderator: Ghada Masri
- Linda McCarthy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Questioning Unsustainable Competition for Corporate Investment in a Global Economy - Christine Scott Thomson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Laboratory for Responsive Urbanism: Sustainable Development Strategies
for Small Communities with an Inter-Cultural Focus
10:30-10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 pm
Sustainable Development
Moderator: Kris Ruggiero
- Alfonso Iracheta, Advisor and Consultant, World Bank
Sustainable City: Crisis and Opportunity in Mexico - Tim Ehlinger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sustainable Development in Romania
12:00-1:30 pm
Lunch and Presentation of Student Work
1:30-2:45 pm
Sustainable Art
Moderator: Lane Hall
- Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Sustainable Art in Urban Territories - Mo Zell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Northeastern University Veterans Memorial: An Urban University’s Role in Creating
the Public Realm Through a Single Architectural Gesture
2:45-3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 pm
Envisioning the Urban
Moderator: Arijit Sen
- Paula Massood, Brooklyn College
Imagining a Promised Land: (The Historical Precedents of) Recent African American Films Set in Harlem - Ackbar Abbas, University of California-Irvine
Chinese Cities: Design and Disappearance
4:15 pm
Closing Remarks and Wrap-up
Linda Krause and Patrice Petro
