{"id":2917,"date":"2015-08-24T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:36:19","slug":"leading-cities-from-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2015\/08\/24\/leading-cities-from-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Cities From The Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ioc\/files\/2015\/08\/Headshot_ThomasGeisel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2015\/08\/Headshot_ThomasGeisel-636x484.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot_ThomasGeisel\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2918\" height=\"191\" width=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/\">Center for the Study of Europe<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/\">Pardee School of Global Studies<\/a>, the Initiative on Cities is\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">pleased to host Mayor Thomas Geisel of D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, as part of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/what-we-do\/future-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaker Series<\/a> featuring<\/span>\u00a0urban leaders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?llr=sgxoeyrab&amp;oeidk=a07ebew3toh5bf0e325\"><em>Leading Cities From The Left <\/em><\/a>will feature a conversation with Mayor Geisel on the city of Dusseldorf and the challenges of leading a European city as a social democratic mayor. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 22nd, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Pardee School, located at 121 Bay State Road, First Floor. Lunch will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Geisel joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2014\/01\/20\/wunderkind-but-chief-staff-for-mayor-martin-walsh-has-public-service-his-dna\/LAlTNRCosPU66GgqG4hpAN\/story.html\">Dan Koh<\/a>, Chief of Staff to Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/kaija-schilde\/\">Kaija Schilde<\/a>, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Pardee. The conversation will be moderated by <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/who-we-are\/leadership\/graham-wilson\/\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, Director of the Initiative on Cities.<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebew3toh5bf0e325&#038;oseq=&#038;c=&#038;ch=' class='button button-primary'>Register here<\/a>\n<p>After 15 years of conservative leadership, the city of Dusseldorf elected Thomas Geisel, a social democrat, as its new Mayor in June 2014. What are the challenges of leading a European city from the political left? What are Mayor Geisel&#8217;s primary policy goals? What are the parallels between Dusseldorf, Boston, and other Western cities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the Center for the Study of Europe at the Pardee School of Global Studies, the Initiative on Cities is\u00a0pleased to host Mayor Thomas Geisel of D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, as part of our\u00a0Speaker Series featuring\u00a0urban leaders. Leading Cities From The Left will feature a conversation with Mayor Geisel on the city of Dusseldorf and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[20,23,19,26,24,21,22,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22090,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/22090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}