Events
Urban Studies
Elsa Davidson: “The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElsa Davidson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling, rapid social and […]
Julie Sze: “Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is drawn from Sze's current book project which examines flows, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan, a failed eco-city proposal, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American […]
Scott Saul, “What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul, ""What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA". This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum), examines […]