{"id":10519,"date":"2021-10-12T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T00:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/?page_id=10519"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:22:09","slug":"city-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/news-events\/city-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"CITY Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The CITY Institute Seminar Series is open to the public and includes talks and events on all things urban. Speakers include: academics, practitioners, alumni, CITY visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows, and others.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter 2026 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>Time<\/th>Title<\/th>Speakers<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
January 22, 2026<\/td>2:45 - 3:45 pm<\/td>The Urban Dimensions of Wildfires (Y-EMERGE Disaster Seminar Series)<\/a>
<\/td>		Harris Ali (Director, CITY Institute, Professor, Sociology, 快播视频)<\/td><\/tr>
February 4, 2026<\/td>2:00 - 3:30 pm<\/td>Psychiatric Epidemiology and Urban Sociology in 20th-Century Canada: Another History of Knowledge in the field of Mental Health<\/a>
<\/td>		Emmanuel Delille, Associate Researcher, Centre Marc Bloch (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Associate Professor, Nagoya University<\/td><\/tr>
March 5, 2026<\/td>2:00 - 3:30 pm<\/td>Beyond Poverty: Socially Embedded Push Factors in Adolescent Rural-Urban Migration<\/a><\/td>Sylvia Gyan, Visiting Faculty Fellow, University of Ghana and Visiting Scholar, Global & Environmental Health Lab, Dahdaleh Institute<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>Time<\/th>Title<\/th> Speakers<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
September 11 2025<\/td>2:30 to 4:00 PM<\/td>Inhabiting the afterlives of extended urbanization in Noida, India The hauntings of housing in a city stretched between the state and capital<\/td>Devra Waldman (Florida State University) <\/td><\/tr>
September 12 2025<\/td>1:00 - 3:00 PM<\/td>BOOK LAUNCH - Queerburbia: A Dialogue about LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-making<\/td>Alison Bain (快播视频) and Julie Podmore (John Abbott College)<\/td><\/tr>
October 30 2025<\/td>2:30 to 4:30 pm<\/td>The State of (Anti-)Racism in Germany<\/td>Mahir T\u00fcrkmen ( PhD Student, Institute for Social Research Frankfurt, CITY Institute Visiting Scholar, Fall 2025)<\/td><\/tr>
November 7, 2025<\/td>10:00 - 11:00 am<\/td>Nurturing Infrastructures of Care: Centering Healing, Imagination and Solidarity in Polycrisis Response with Dr. Chiara Camponeschi<\/td>Chiara Camponeschi (Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute)<\/td><\/tr>
November 18, 2025<\/td>3:00 - 4:00 pm<\/td>The Misrecognition of Misrecognition: Caste, Recognition and the Politics of Waste Work in Urban India<\/td>Harsha Anantharaman (YCAR Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies), Aarushie Sharma (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, 快播视频)<\/td><\/tr>
November 25, 2025 <\/td>1:30 - 3:00 pm<\/td>City Hall \u2013 a material expression of elite power, urban democracy or an active civil society?<\/td>Laura Kolbe (Professor, Department of History, University of Helsinki, CITY Institute Visiting Professor, Fall 2025)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Winter 2025<\/h2>\n\n<\/10519_b4a51b-de>\n\n