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This post is the first in a series by guest author, Carter Weeks Maddox.  Carter Weeks Maddox teaches English composition at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he recently completed a graduate degree in literature.… Read More →

La_Villa: .Exe is helped by curator .Pde in searching for clues about 2068 in front of La Villa de Guadalupe, the most important church in Mexico from street vendors such as the hat seller pictured, and visitors. Given security concerns, the duo is forced to conduct their inquiry a few blocks away from the church.

Why a Museum of the Future now, in Mexico

This is a guest post from Kate Balug, an artist and producer of cultural urban projects. Her current research includes an examination of critical imagination as a tool to redefine urban paradigms, intervention… Read More →

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Learning from Carrington

This is an entry by guest author Marcel LaFlamme, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, who is currently conducting fieldwork in North Dakota. Those of us who care… Read More →

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The Secret Conversations of Black Gentrifiers

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This is a new type of entry, which we call Conversations. Each month, we will choose an article from another source, send it out to a group of people, and post the conversation… Read More →

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Planning and Protest, Or, Freedom is Not Square

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Last Friday in Egypt, Tahrir Square played host to violent clashes between protesters and military forces. An image quite distinct from the ones we watched a little over two months ago, when Egyptians… Read More →

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How does Hip-Hop reframe our conception of space? DuBois Institute Colloquim, 4/13

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The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research at Harvard University is hosting independent scholar, Theodore Miller, on Wednesday April 13, 2011 from 12:00-1:30 PM. Deconstructing the Beggar’s Edifice: The Failure… Read More →

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The Geography of HUD’s LGBT Fair Housing Proposal

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  Comments were due March 25 on HUD’s proposed LGBT fair housing rule, entitled, “Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs – Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity.”  While we wait for… Read More →

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Making the B(r)and: Selling Cultural Geography

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This is an entry by Amber N. Wiley, an urban and architectural historian who examines the intersections of race, class, cultural production, and collective memory.                    … Read More →

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Closing Keynote Panel: Video Addendum

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The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA. As promised in the preceding post, here is video of Karen… Read More →

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Closing Keynote Panel: Making It Real – Bridging Theory and Practice

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This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA.… Read More →

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Final Day: Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces at MIT

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Phew, we are back, daylights savings time be damned!  It’s the final day of the Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces Conference at MIT.  The Closing Keynote Panel is getting set up in the… Read More →

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Panel Session: Transformative Armatures – The Performance of Gender as/in Architecture

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This is a live blog piece by guest author, Julianna Sassaman, who is studying architecture at MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies… Read More →

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Poster Session: Highlights

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These images were taken by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser, at the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies Conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA. Conference propaganda.. Urban Health Disparities for… Read More →

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Panel Session: Politics, Class, and Identity in the Queered City

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This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA.… Read More →

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Panel Session: Building Community Through Trust, Shelter, and Thread

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This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA.… Read More →

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