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Senior Spotlight posted by Matin Yaqubi

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: SAMIA KHODER ’21

Over the next few weeks, CUGS will be celebrating members of the class of 2021 who have left a mark on Trinity College and those around them. We’ll be posting interviews with selected seniors as our Senior Spotlight series. Meet Samia Khoder ’21, a senior Urban Studies major from Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

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China posted by Xiangming Chen

TRINITY STUDENTS IN CHINA PARTICIPATE IN SPECIAL PROGRAM AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY IN SHANGHAI FOR THE FALL SEMESTER

In Fall 2020, through a partnership between Trinity College and Fudan University, twenty-two of Trinity’s first-year students from the class of 2024 and twenty continuing students will enjoy a special semester by taking in-person classes at Fudan University in Shanghai. They will be enrolled over twenty classes through the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan and receive transferred credits for Trinity college and major requirements. These classes include Shanghai Studies, Political Economy of China, Big Data and Research Methods. A number of the Fudan faculty teaching the Trinity students this time have taught some of these Trinity students when they previously studied away at Fudan. The teaching faculty also includes two professors who have previously taught at Trinity supported through the Fudan-Trinity faculty exchange program and by the Karen and David Thomas Endowment at the Center for Urban and Global Studies. Two Trinity juniors including an Urban Studies major studying there will serve as mentors for the new students.

From the CUGS Director posted by Garth Myers, Director of CUGS and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies

NOTE FROM THE CUGS DIRECTOR SUMMER 2020

As Summer comes to a close and a new school year begins at Trinity, there is a lot of new energy around CUGS – despite all of the uncertainties that come with the COVID-19 pandemic and traumas of the crisis in racial injustice. We welcome (virtually) our new Kelter Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Laura Delgado, and we welcome (or welcome back) several other colleagues – Sean Fitzpatrick, Dr. Don Poland, and Dr. Jonathan Elukin – into the CUGS orbit.

Urban Studies posted by Matin Yaqubi

A FAREWELL MESSAGE FROM VISTING SCHOLAR SAVAS ERGUL

“In April of 2020, I was accepted into the PAUSE Program at the University of Paris 8. The program provided me with the opportunity to study ‘political topology and place,’ specifically focusing on the work of French philosopher Alain Badiou, which was my original research project while I was applying to the program. My hope is that this program will allow me to eventually publish some of my own original work. Recently, one of my colleagues in Turkey and I wrote an article titled “Jacques Ranciére’s Politics Theatre,” which is set to be published this fall. I am also working with a number of exiled scholars who are members of The New University in Exile Consortium, a program directed by Arien Mack at The New School whose mission is to assist and empower academics and scholars who have been under attack around the world. The program has now been expanded to 19 universities across the United States, including Trinity College.

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Senior Spotlight posted by Matin Yaqubi

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: GAVIN XU ’21

Over the next few weeks, the Center for Urban and Global Studies will be highlighting students of the class of 2021 who have left a mark on Trinity College and those around them. Kicking off our Senior Spotlights series, we have Gavin Xu, a senior Urban Studies major from China.

Meet the Team posted by Gabby Nelson

WELCOMING SEAN FITZPATRICK TO THE CUGS TEAM

This summer we were happy to formally welcome Sean Fitzpatrick, Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Urban Studies, to the CUGS team.

posted by Gabby Nelson

URBAN STUDIES PROGRAM LETTER AND RESOURCES TO STUDENTS REGARDING THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD

The following letter was emailed to our urban studies students on June 5, 2020. Dear students, We, the Urban Studies Program at Trinity College, write today to express our solidarity with those communities peacefully protesting the murder of George Floyd and we would like to add our voices to their call for an end to racism and police brutality. We want to reach out to you—our community of urban studies scholars—because we are all experiencing the deleterious impacts of this event amid the larger COVID-19 pandemic.

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From the CUGS Director posted by Garth Myers and Yipeng Shen

SPRING 2020 NOTE FROM THE DIRECTORS

We hope that this newsletter reaches you in a safe and healthy place. What a strange semester we have had! We began our series of GVP talks, and we managed to hold our March 6 workshop on Revitalization, Diversity and Gentrification – one of the last public events at Trinity before the COVID-19 Pandemic upended the entire world. Nothing has been the same since then. But we are still looking forward, as we begin to feel the Spring sun on our shoulders.