2019-2020 Faculty Seminar
During the academic year 2019-20, the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative will host for a fifth year in a row an interdisciplinary research seminar. The seminar, which takes place once per month, is intended to direct our collective attention toward scholarship about urban conditions, be those historical, contemporary, or speculative. It seeks to further the focus within the larger Urban Humanities Initiative on the spaces of everyday life in mega-cities of the Pacific Rim, Mexico City and Los Angeles, among others. This year, the scholar research seminar will consist of three types of activities:
“Scholar-Activist dialogues”: These will be discussions and dialogues between scholars participating in the seminar and community activists on topics such as homelessness, gentrification/displacement, and public spaces as a commons. UHI will invite community-based activists from Westlake to participate in these scholar-activist dialogues as part of our new neighborhood partnership.
"Individual scholar research" that is relevant to urban humanities. Scholar affiliates will have the opportunity to workshop a current research project of theirs that is relevant to urban humanities work.
“Conversations in Urban Humanities”: For a couple of sessions, invited scholars will lead conversations about work and methodologies of studying the city that inspire the work, methods, and pedagogy of urban humanities.
Participants
Liz Koslov, Genevieve Carpio, Kelly Turner, Kian Goh, Sean Metzger, Ilse Helbrecht, Maricela Becerra, Saree Makdisi, LeighAnna Hidalgo, Veronica Paredes, Jacqueline Barrios, Gustavo Leclerc, Todd Presner, Maite Zubiaurre, Dana Cuff, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Jesse Lerner, Gus Wendel, Kenny Wong