2007 Sagan National Colloquium

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 – Dr. Larry R. Ford – “World Cities and the Myth of a Golden Age”
Thursday, September 20, 2007 – Dr. Saskia Sassen – “The Global City: Where Rich and Poor Meet”
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 – Bruce Katz – “Metro Nation: How the United States is Changing and What it Means for National Policy and Politics”
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 – Thomas Homer-Dixon – “Can Cities Survive? Global Threats to Global Urbanization”
Thursday, October 4, 2007 – Henry Buhl – “The SoHo Partnership and the Homeless in New York City”
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 – Dr. Thomas Sugrue – “Jim Crow’s Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North”
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 – James McBride – “Chorus, Verse, and Chorus: The Raw Bones of Rap’s Rise into Popular Culture”
Thursday, October 25, 2007 – Dr. Thomas Shapiro – “The Racial Weatlh Gap: Assets for Change”
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 – Carol Galante ’76, Claudia Cappio ’76, Debora McColloch ’77 – “Politics, Urban Planning, and the Provision of Housing to Low Income Populations in America’s Cities”
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 – Robert Neuwirth – “The 21st Century Medieval City”
Thursday, November 8, 2007 – Kyle Ezell – “Promoting Downtown Living in the Midwest: Saving Heartland Cities by Choosing a Freak’s Lifestyle”
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 – Dr. Paul Robbins – “Intimiate Urban Ecologies: How the American Lawn Makes Us Who We Are”