2015-2016 Workshops

  • Jenny Lendrum - Sociology, WSU

    October 1, 2016

    Detroit’s Informal Economy: Neighborhood Networks & Spatial Arrangements

  • Eric Seymour Urban Planning, U of M

    November 20, 2016

    Foreclosure, Federal Financial Institutions, and the Fortunes of Detroit's Middle- and Working-Class Neighborhoods

  • Andrew Hnatow - History, WSU

    December 10, 2016

    “Ghost Towns in the Very Near Future”: Local 600’s Campaign Against Industrial Decentralization, 1950-1952

  • Claire Herbert - Sociology, U of M

    January 29, 2016

    Survival and Lifestyle: Different Praxes of Property Appropriation

  • Alex Elkins - History, Temple University

    February 24, 2016

    Liberals and “Get-Tough” Policing in Postwar Detroit

  • Nelson Saldaña - Sociology, U of M

    April 1, 2016

    Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Unpacking Meanings of Entrepreneur-ship and the Role of Small Businesses in the Revitalization of Detroit

  • Simon Renoir - Sociology, U of M

    April 22, 2016

    The Structuring and the Role of the Creative Industries in Detroit in the Current Urban and Economic Revitalization of the City

  • Meagan Elliott - Sociology, U of M

    June 22, 2016

    Mapping Midtown: The Significance of Boundary Work Along Woodward Avenue

2015-2016 Lectures

  • Panel: "The 'Detroit School' & 'Urban Studies Cluster' as Works-In-Progress" - Angela Dillard will moderate a discussion with Heather Thompson, Alexandra Murphy, and Kimberley Kinder. The panelists will discuss their perspectives on what a "Detroit School" could and should encompass; the challenges and rewards of doing research in Detroit and Detroit-like cities, individually and with students; and their thoughts on what we are learning, and could be learning, from Detroit and the greater metropolitan region.

    October 30, 2015 4:15PM

    West Conference Room // Rackham Building

    Lecture Audio

  • Book Launch: "Reinventing Detroit" with Lucas Kirkpatrick - We will celebrate the launch of the new book, Reinventing Detroit: The Politics of Possibility, by Transaction Publishers. Co-editor Lucas Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Methodist University and Michigan Society of Fellows alumnus, will introduce the book and moderate a panel of contributors.

    November 17, 2015 6:00PM

    RM 2104 // Art & Architecture Building

    Lecture Video

  • Lecture: "Pheasants, Farms and Trees of Heaven: Re-examining the Ecological Paradigm in Postindustrial Detroit" - Paul Draus, Director of Public Administration, Director of Public Policy, and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan Dearborn, and Juliette Roddy, Chair of the Department of Health and Human Services and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan Dearborn.

    December 4, 2015 4:15PM

    West Conference Room // Rackham Building

    Lecture Audio

  • Lecture: "New Style Governance: Reshaping Public Schooling in Detroit, 1981-2014" - Leanne Kang completed her dissertation, “The Dismantling of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1980-2014,” in 2015 at the University of Michigan. She is now a Visiting Professor at the College of Education at Grand Valley State University. In this talk, Kang will discuss a working article adapted from her dissertation.

    January 22, 2016 4:15PM

    West Conference Room // Rackham Building

    Lecture Audio

  • Lecture: "The Reproduction of Environmental Injustice: The Promise and Limitations of Community Benefits Agreements" - Amy Krings is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. She earned her PhD in Social Work and Political Science at the University of Michigan in 2015. In this talk, Krings will present research from her dissertation, "Building Bridges Where There is Nothing Left to Burn: The Campaign for Environmental Justice within a Southwest Detroit Border Community."

    March 11, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Michigan Room // Michigan League

    Lecture Audio

  • Book Launch: "DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services" - Kimberley Kinder is an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Please join us as we celebrate the launch of Kinder’s new book, DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services, which will be released in mid-March by University of Minnesota Press. Kinder will briefly introduce the book, and then a panel of respondents will discuss the book and the new questions it raises for research. Copies of the book will be available for sale by cash or check.

    April 15, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Michigan Room // Michigan League

    Lecture Audio




2013-2014 Lectures

  • Panel: "Dialogue on Detroit: Learning from and with the Motor City" - Details to come

    April 4, 2014

    Wolverine Room // Michigan Union

  • Lecture: "Mourning Mayberry: Gun Politics in an Age of Decline" - Jennifer Carlson, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto

    March 31, 2014 5:30PM

    West Conference Room (4th Floor) // Rackham Building

  • Panel: "Lessons from Youngstown" - Hunter Morrison; Ian Beniston, Deputy Director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation; John Russo, Visiting Research Fellow at Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute ; June Thomas and Margaret Dewar, professors of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. The event is co-sponsored by CLOSUP

    March 19, 2014 4:00PM

    Annenberg Auditorium // 1120 Weill Hall, Ford School of Public Policy

  • Lecture: "Vibrant Northeast Ohio 2040: Sustainable Regional Planning with Slow Growth" - Hunter Morrison, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium

    March 19, 2014 12:00PM

    RM 1227 // Art & Architecture Building

  • Lecture: "Occupied: Matchmaking and Landscaping in Residential Detroit" - Kimberley Kinder, Michigan Society Fellow in Urban & Regional Planning and in Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan

    February 21, 2014 4:15PM

    Anderson Room C&D // Michigan Union

  • Lecture: "Framing Detroit" - Jamie Peck, Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia

    January 31, 2014 4:15PM

    Amphitheater (4th Floor) // Rackham Building

  • Lecture: "Beyond Corporate Abandonment: General Motors and the Politics of Metropolitan Capitalism in Flint, Michigan" - Andrew Highsmith, Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio

    November 15, 2013 4:15PM

    West Conference Room // Rackham Building

  • Lecture: "Why Walls Don't Work" - Michael Dear, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley

    November 5, 2013 4:00PM

    RM 2104 // Art & Architecture Building

  • Seminar: "Thoughts on Schools of Urban Studies" - Michael Dear, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley

    November 4, 2013 6:30PM

    RM 2213 // Art & Architecture Building

  • "Design after Decline" - Brent Ryan (MIT - Urban Studies and Planning) Lecture and Book Signing - organized and sponsored by P+ARG

    February 14, 2013 6:00PM

    RM 2104 // Art & Architecture Building

    • Brent Ryan: Design after Decline from Taubman College on Vimeo.

  • Lecture: "Feeding Cities: Urban Decline, Shifting Market Infrastructures, and the Rise of Food Access Inequalities" - Andrew Deener, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut

    October 18, 2013 4:15PM

    East Conference Room // Rackham Building

    Lecture Audio

  • Film: "Burn" - a documentary on the Detroit Fire Department. The screening is sponsored by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the Ford School

    September 25, 2013 4:00PM

    Annenberg Auditorium // Weil Hall

  • Colloquium: "Notes for a Detroit School of Urban Studies" - William K. Tabb, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Queens College and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at theGraduate Center, City University of New York

    September 20, 2013 4:00PM

    Kalamazoo Room // Michigan League

    Lecture Audio

  • Lecture: "Urban Fiscal Crises and Austerity Regimes" - William K. Tabb, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Queens College and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York

    September 19, 2013 6:00PM

    Rackham Amphitheatre




2012-2013 Lectures