The CITY institute is proud to co-sponsor and present Performing Diaspora 2013: The History of Urban Music in Toronto. This full day conference will feature the “scholarship…
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Events
The CITY Institute hosts and co-sponsors numerous events throughout the year, with professionals and academics sharing their views on pressing urban issues. Check the list below to learn about our CITY Seminar series and what else is coming up.
May 17, 2013 2:26 pm : Events
April 2, 2013 1:22 am : Events, News
On Thursday April 4, the CITY Institute presents the next in its series of SUBURBSTALKS.
Anna Kramer (University of Waterloo) and Christian Mettke (Darmstadt University of Technology)…
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March 21, 2013 3:24 pm : Events
CITY welcomes Bernd Belina (Department of Human Geography, Goethe-University) as the next guest speaker in the CITY Seminar lecture series.
Bernd has taught and researched…
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March 14, 2013 7:16 pm : Events
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research jointly present “Disasters, Climate Risk, and Exclusionary Modernity in Manila″ with Kenneth Cardenas (Department…
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February 20, 2013 5:06 pm : Events
The next lecture in the CITY Seminar series welcomes Jean Paul Addie (PhD Candidate, Geography York University) who will be presenting “Flying high (in the competitive …
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January 21, 2013 7:13 pm : Events
As part of the City Institute’s “City Seminar Series”, this seminar entitled “Casino City?” will feature a panel that will critically address the current…
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January 17, 2013 4:27 pm : Events
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research jointly present “Precarious Work and Persistent Poverty in a Resettlement Site: A Study of Kannagi Nagar, Chennai″ …
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January 17, 2013 4:16 pm : Events
The CITY Institute in partnership with the Department of Geography at York University and the Geography Alumni Association present “What We Talk About When We Talk About City…
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January 16, 2013 8:20 pm : Events
The CITY Institute and Faculty of Environmental Studies welcome Michael Logan and Norah Forrest, from the Ontario Growth Secretariat, to York University for a talk on the province’s…
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January 3, 2013 8:35 pm : Events
As part of the SUBURBSTALK series, Dr. Alex Schafran (Paris School of International Affairs) presents “The Strange Case of the Bay Area”. This event will be held on Monday,…
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December 11, 2012 4:03 pm : Events
The CITY Institute and the Canadian Homelessness Research Network jointly present a special CITY Seminar on Homelessness Research. Please join us for a snapshot of what’s new …
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November 27, 2012 3:25 pm : Events
CITY and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies jointly present ”Contradictions in the Neoliberalization of the Urban” with Margit Mayer (Department…
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November 27, 2012 3:14 pm : Events
CITY and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies jointly present ”Urban cultures against right wing activism: Challenging the spatial hegemony of racism…
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November 7, 2012 7:12 pm : Events
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research jointly present “Socialities of Indignation: Denouncing Party Politicy in Karachi, Pakistan″ with Tania Ahmad (Department…
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November 7, 2012 3:19 pm : Events
CITY and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies present “High-Modernism and Mass Utopia in Twentieth-Century Urban Planning” with Dietmar Schirmer …
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November 6, 2012 7:02 pm : Events, News
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) present the Urban Asia series with five lectures from prominent researchers on major Asian cities. The presentations…
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October 24, 2012 5:15 pm : Events
Cathy Molloy (Director, Markham Museum) presents “Markham Museum: Growing with Markham”. This event will be held on Friday, November 16th in HNES 142 from 12:30-2:30pm.
Cathy…
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October 10, 2012 8:28 pm : Events
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research jointly present “Both Spectacular and Mundane: The Greening of Urban China, 1990-2010″ with Prof. Alana Boland…
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October 4, 2012 11:09 pm : Events, News
The City Institute at York University (CITY) and the Faculty of Environmental Studies present:
The City Seminar
Jennifer Keesmaat
Chief Planner, City of Toronto
“Re-imagining…
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October 3, 2012 7:44 pm : Events
Shelley Hornstein (Faculty of Visual Arts) will be presenting as the Gillmor Visiting Lecturer at the University of Calgary Architecture Program within the Faculty of Environmental…
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September 17, 2012 7:35 pm : Events, News
The “Going to School: A Transit Summit” will take place on Friday September 28, 2012 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, followed by a reception.
This forum is a call to action for …
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June 19, 2012 8:50 pm : Events, News
The event co-sponsored by CITY, “Populating the New Transit Corridors: Vancouver’s Recent Experience along the Cambie Cooridor of the Canada Line” is now available to be …
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June 19, 2012 3:05 pm : Events
Dr. Florian Koch (Department of History and Social Sciences Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia) will be presenting “Urban planning and governance processes at the…
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May 22, 2012 5:43 pm : Events
The City Institute and the Global Suburbanisms MCRI Project at York University are proud to co-sponsor the Toronto launch of Rohan Quinby’s new book, Time and the Suburbs:…
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April 24, 2012 4:37 pm : Events
The CITY Institute and the NDP jointly presented a summit addressing social and economic challenges for Toronto, titled “Re-imagining Our Cities: Towards a Comprehensive…
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April 12, 2012 7:56 pm : Events, News
NDP AND CITY INSTITUTE TO HOST SUMMIT ADDRESSING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FOR TORONTO
Friday April 13, 2012
The latest federal budget focuses heavily on resource extraction,…
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April 9, 2012 9:46 pm : Events, News
The CITY institute and the Goethe Institute jointly present the “Future of Cities” Tour at Das Haus, on Saturday, April 21 from 2:00-3:00m. This event will be held at …
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February 21, 2012 6:00 pm : Events
Shawn Micallef (Spacing Magazine) presents “How to fall in love with your city, while avoiding a culture war” as part of the City Seminar Series. This event will be held on …
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February 21, 2012 4:12 pm : Events
Markus Kip, graduate student with CITY, and will be promoting the launch of the new book “Lumpencity: Discourses of Marginality / Marginalizing Discourses”. Markus was…
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February 9, 2012 7:20 pm : Events
John van Nostrand (founding principal of planningAlliance) presents “Planning and Unplanning Toronto” as part of the City Seminar Series. This event will be held…
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February 7, 2012 6:55 pm : Events
The City Institute is co-sponsoring a presentation with the Neptis Foundation, the Cities Centre at the University of Toronto, the Toronto Society of Architects and the City of Vaughan.…
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January 9, 2012 12:54 am : Events
On Thursday, February 16th please join us to hear Adaoma C. Patterson, (Specialist at the Peel Region Poverty Strategy) present “Does Poverty Exist in Peel Region?” as part…
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January 8, 2012 7:16 pm : Events
Carl James (Director, Centre for Education & Community at York University), presents “Growing up in the suburbs: The hidden costs of social mobility for the children of immigrant…
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January 8, 2012 6:52 pm : Events
Pamela Blais was a guest speaker in the Faculty of Environmental Studies as part of two graduate courses (Planning Theory and Ecological Economics). Pamela Blais (Principal of Metropole…
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January 7, 2012 4:47 pm : Events
Roger Keil (Director, CITY Institute) will be participating in a panel discussion presented by the Hart House Social Justice Commitee, entitled ”Global Austerity, Access…
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January 7, 2012 2:46 pm : Events
The Faculty of Environmental Studies at York and the CITY institute jointly present a seminar by Stefan Kipfer (FES) entitled ‘Ghetto or not’ is the (only) question: Comparative…
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January 6, 2012 7:11 pm : Events
The CITY institute and the Goethe Institute jointly present the City Seminar: “Pop-Up Democracy: towards an ‘enabling city’”. The seminar will be …
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December 8, 2011 6:55 pm : Events
Shelley Hornstein, a faculty member with CITY, will be promoting her new book Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place. The launch will be held on Sunday, December 18th from …
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November 18, 2011 9:29 pm : Events
On Wednesday, November 30, please join us to hear Christian Mettke, PhD candidate at the Darmstadt University of Technology and current Visiting Scholar at the CITY Institute, present…
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November 18, 2011 9:24 pm : Events
On November 29, 2011, join us for a special session on the ins and outs of publishing in both scholarly and popular formats. Speakers will include publishers’ representatives…
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November 10, 2011 7:40 pm : Events
Marianna Valverde (Director, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto) presents ”Exclusion, Expulsion and Extraction: The death of planning?…
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October 22, 2011 11:27 pm : Events
Wolfgang Andexlinger (Institute for Urban Planning and Spatial Design at the University Innsbruck, Austria) will be presenting “Tourbanized Alpine Regions: Tourism and…
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October 5, 2011 7:41 pm : Events
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Karen Murray (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at York University) presents “The City and Colonial Spatial Regimes in Wolastoqiyik Territory: A |
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September 25, 2011 4:41 pm : Events
Laura Taylor (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University) and Douglas Young (Professor, Department of Social Science, York University) will…
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September 25, 2011 4:39 pm : Events
Roger Keil is scheduled to speak at “Infrastructure, Growth and the Shape of the Suburbs; York Region’s Infrastructure Challenges in the Next 20 Years” on Tuesday, October…
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September 15, 2011 6:23 pm : Events
Eliot Tretter (University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment) will be presenting “Branding Austin ‘Live Music Capital of the World’” …
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September 9, 2011 6:35 pm : Events
On September 22, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES), the Goethe-Institut and the City Institute at York University (CITY) will jointly present “Intrinsic…
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September 2, 2011 7:57 pm : Events
The Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES) and the City Institute at York University (CITY) jointly present the City Seminar: an interdisciplinary series of …
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June 7, 2011 3:54 pm : Events
Melanie Pooch (PhD Student, Graduate Program “Formations of the Global”, University of Mannheim, Germany) will be presenting “Cultural Diversity and the …
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June 7, 2011 1:34 pm : Events
Claire Major (PhD candidate, Department of Geography, York University) will be presenting “Tap her cool, but give ‘er” and other contradictions of working …
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