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Calendar

The calendar below lists discussion topics covered in class based on required readings.
SES #TOPICS
1General readings - more theoretical in nature -- on the "promise" of the city and the importance of thinking about cities as hosts for difference, diversity, and equality.
2Readings that explore legal and jurisdictional dynamics of cities, the nexus between cities and nations, and the relations between or ethnic, racial, religious, or class identities, cities, and/or nations.
3Guest Lecture: "Reimagining Governance: Policy and Politics in Post-Apartheid in Johannesburg"
Professor Robert Beauregard, Milano School of Urban Policy and Management, New School for Social Research.
4Studies of local, national, and international dynamics that create intolerance, polarization, oppression, or conflict in cities.
5Claims and case studies of activities theorized as creating tolerance, harmony, or cosmopolitanism in cities.
6Guest Lecture: "Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America."
Professor Jennifer Lee, University of California-Irvine.

7Case study readings of cities that have moved (or tried to) from peace to conflict, or vice-versa.
8Guest Lecture: "The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences" 
Professor Richard Schweder, University of Chicago.

9Readings that see cities as transcending national boundaries or that explore alternative territorial dynamics in which to situate the urban experience and/or establish cosmopolitanism.

 








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