Events on the Horizon
Don’t miss out on our upcoming events!
All Topics (January 3 through April 1)
Wednesday, February 2
- 1:00 PM
Menino Survey Findings on Mayors and Homelessness: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions
This is a public event hosted by the National League of Cities (NLC)
The report’s co-authors, Katherine Levine Einstein of Boston University and Charley E. Willison of Cornell
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Friday, February 11
- 2:30 PM
Urban Inequalities Doctoral Workshop: Blindfolded and Bound: The Homonormative Urban Lens
Each semester, the Initiative on Cities hosts a doctoral workshop, led by Professor of Sociology and IOC Faculty Fellow Japonica Brown-Saracino, that invites post graduate and Ph.D. candidates to explore
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Thursday, February 17
- 4:30 PM
How are young people experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic? Hear stories of lived-experiences that illuminate the diminished academic learning, increased family responsibilities, shrinking peer groups, and growing
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Wednesday, March 2
- 12:00 PM
In 2019, Roxbury residents made their voices heard, voting to rename Dudley Square to Nubian Square. This transition was the latest in a long and storied history of name and
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Tuesday, March 15
- 4:00 PM
Amid Boston’s development boom, communities of color are grappling with maintaining and amplifying their identity. Questions of who belongs to places — and to whom places belong — will determine
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Friday, March 25
- 2:30 PM
Urban Inequalities Doctoral Workshop: The Pest We All Live With: Cultural Meaning and the Life and Death of Rats
Each semester, the Initiative on Cities hosts a doctoral workshop, led by Professor of Sociology and IOC Faculty Fellow Japonica Brown-Saracino, that invites post graduate and Ph.D. candidates to explore
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Thursday, March 31
- 4:00 PM
The Boston University Initiative on Cities is co-hosting the UMass Boston Department of Urban Planning and Community Development's 7th Annual Spring Planning Lecture. This year's speaker will be Dr. Laura
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