Events on the Horizon

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
  • Featured Events
  
  “I Miss the Sound of Our Bells:” Massachusetts High School Students Reflect on Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  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
  • Featured Events
  
  Place Names, Boundaries, and Real-World Impacts: The Story of Upper Roxbury

  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
  • Featured Events
  
  How Culture and Creativity Build Power in Communities of Color

  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
  
  UMass Boston Spring Planning Lecture on Indigenous Planning featuring Dr. Laura Harjo

  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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