The Princeton Mellon Forum for Research on the Urban Environment
Fall 2014 Lectures
American Places (view lecture series poster pdf)
Sept. 22, 4:30 p.m., Chancellor Green 105: Thinking Hemispherically about Cities
Stan Allen (Architecture), Fabrizio Gallanti (Princeton-Mellon Senior Fellow), and Alison Isenberg (History)
Sept. 29, Noon, SoA 107: Stadium Cultures in North and South America
Sigrid Adriaenssens (Civil Engineering), Bruno Carvalho (Spanish/Portuguese), William Gleason (English/American Studies)
Oct. 13, Noon, SoA 107: Postwar New York
Mariana Mogilevich (Princeton-Mellon Fellow) and Aaron Shkuda (Princeton-Mellon Project Manager); Discussant: Zahid R. Chaudhary (English)
Nov. 3, Noon (Prospect House Presidential Dining Room): Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Suburbs: Race, Space and American Culture After World War II
Eric Avila (History, UCLA)
Nov. 11, Noon: Unequal Ties: Gilberto Freyre’s Recife and the Challenges of Urban History in the Global South
Brodwyn Fischer (The University of Chicago)
Nov. 17, 4:30 pm: Cities of the Americas
Zaire Dinzey-Flores (Rutgers, Sociology), and Johana Londono (Princeton-Mellon Fellow), additional participants TBD
Dec. 8, Noon, SoA 107 – New Orleans
Josh Guild (History) and Malik Rahim (Community activist)
For more information, visit the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities website.
