5th Urban Transformations Symposium (UTS5):
“Sustaining a Chocolate City Without All Its Blues.”
Urban Transformation Symposium, since 2009, has gathers academics, community residents, activists, urban artists & designers, economic developers, and policymakers to explore issues of urban revitalization, housing access & affordability, urban aesthetics, community place-making, public safety, and gentrification, as well as other relevant matters important to creating equitable and inclusive cities.
The scheduled symposium, March 25 – 26, 2022, will foster conversations between anthropologists, sociologists, criminologists, legal scholars, African American Studies scholars, retired Black male and female police officers, and other community experts on the processes of gentrification, urban design, rights to the city, and racialized police violence.
UTS5, this year is the product of inter-disciplinary and collaborative organizing by ProfessorJacqueline Carmichael (Howard University), Keesha Turner Roberts, Esq. (Howard University Law School), Anthony Gualtieri Ph.D., (American University), Kayla Preito-Hodge, Ph.D. (Rutgers University-Camden), Ari Theresa, Esq. (Virginia Tech), and Kalfani Ture (Mount Saint Mary’s University and the Center for the Ethnographic Study of Public Safety).
Please consider joining the panel sessions beginning March 25, 2022, at 6:00pm with greetings from organizers, first session (Session 1) Black Police and Gentrified Spaces in the Settled Urban Frontier, and (Session 2) Sabiyha Prince’s Keynote Address: “Sustaining a Chocolate City Without Its Blues.” A full itinerary will be sent to those that register.
Please consider spreading the word and inviting your colleagues and students. This event will provide graduate and undergraduate students with a perfect extra-credit assignment opportunity. It will also provide a meaningful space for those concerned with social justice to engage in dialogue around solutions to inequitable development, gentrification, and public safety.
Please direct all questions to Assistant Professor, Kalfani Nyerere Ture (Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice & Human Services (African American Studies)) at k.n.ture@msary.edu.
Please register for the event via Eventbrite or Facebook.
