Together with the Sociology Department, CURE is co-sponsoring the visit on April 12 of Philippe Bourgois, the Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Bourgois will deliver a talk regarding his most recent book, Righteous Dopefiend: An Ethnographic Representation of Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America. Time and place to be announced.
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“Can Camden Come Back,” Upcoming Roundtable Session
The Urban Affairs Association will hold its annual research meeting in Pittsburgh from April 18-21. There will be a roundable session organized by CURE on April 20th at 2:05pm, “Can Camden Come Back.” Paul Jargowsky will be the moderator, and the panel will feature Howard F. Gillette, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers-Camden; Anthony Perno, President, Cooper’s Ferry Development Association; and Gwendolyn Harris, Executive Director, Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs. UAA is the premier interdisciplinary organization of urban scholars in the US.
Seminar: Patrick Sharkey, NYU, March 21, at 12:20 p.m.
The Center for Urban Research and Education is pleased to announce a seminar presentation by Patrick Sharkey, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Sociology and Wagner School of Public Service at NYU.
The title of the talk is “Thinking in Generations: The Persistence of Neighborhood Inequality and The Implications for Urban Policy.”
Sharkey is the author of the forthcoming book from the University of Chicago Press, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality. The seminar will be held in Armitage Faculty Lounge (third floor) at 12:20pm.