The Mansueto Institute hosts a colloquium series during the academic year, as well as symposium and other events, to support the exchange of new ideas and developments related to urban innovation and the science behind cities. We invite you to explore our calendar of upcoming events. Watch past events on our YouTube channel.
Events Calendar
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May 31, 2023 12:30-1:30 pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – The City as a Place for Just and Sustainable Transformation: Learnings from the Case of Amsterdam – Charlotte Cator, PhD Fellow, Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School |
1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge) or via Zoom
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| June 2, 2023 | Trauma Interest Film Festival |
Hybrid Event |
| May 18, 2023 12:00-1:00 pm CT |
Trauma Interest Working Group Brown Bag – Violence as a Social Risk Factor for Cardiometabolic Diseases – Elizabeth L. Tung, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago |
Hybrid Event |
| May 17, 2023 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – What if? Mining for Equitable Development and the Building of Mutualist Markets – Shawn Rickenbacker, Director, J. Max Bond Center; Associate Professor, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City University of New York (CUNY) |
Hybrid Event |
| May 5, 2023 12:00-1:00 pm CT |
Trauma Interest Working Group Brown Bag – Trauma-Informed Housing – Julianna Stuart Vice President of Community Impact, Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) |
Video |
| May 3, 2023 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Adapting to the Urban Environment: Studies of Social Deprivation in the UK – Urban Cognition Series – Daniel Nettle, Professor of Behavioural Science at Newcastle University and Researcher in the Evolution and Social Cognition team at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL |
Video |
| May 1, 2023 8:15am-6:30pm CT |
Missing Middle Housing: The Key to Scaling Affordability? Kreisman Housing Initiative on Law and Policy Symposium |
David Rubenstein Forum, 1201 E. 60th St., 3rd floor |
| April 19, 2023 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Unleashing the Transformative Potential for Energy Transitions in Cities – Lessons from Los Angeles, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Researcher V-Behavioral and Decision Support Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Video |
| April 12, 2023 12-1 pm CT |
EF Campus – Campus Environmental Lunch and Learn |
Video |
| April 5, 2023 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Developmental Adaptations to Adverse Conditions – Urban Cognition Series – Willem Frankenhuis, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University |
Video |
| March 29, 2023 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Making Sense of ‘A Sense of Place’: Examining the Collective and Relational Nature of Neighborhood Knowledge – Lydia Wileden, Mansueto Institute and Social Sciences Division Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago |
Video |
| March 22, 2023 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – A Socio-Ecological Perspective on Decision-Making in Low-Income Contexts – – Urban Cognition Series – Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science |
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| March 20, 2023 12:00-1:00pm CT |
Postdoctoral Candidate Talk – Distributive Economic Impacts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: A Case Study of Texas Applying the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model – Ziqi Liu, PhD Candidate in Community and Regional Planning, The University of Texas at Austin |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge) |
| February 22, 2023 12:00 – 1:00pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Spatial Network Characteristics of Crime – Alexandra Ciomek, Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge) |
| February 16, 2023 11:00am-12:00pm CT |
Postdoctoral Candidate Talk – The Clean Cooking Transition Observed in Sub-Saharan Africa – Cheryl Weyant, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge) |
| February 15, 2023 12:00-1:00pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Can Chicago Gangs be Studied Through Crowd-Sourced Online Data? – Riley Tucker, Mansueto Institute and Data Science Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago | Video |
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February 8, 2023 12:00 – 1:00pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Age, Death, and the Nucleus of Invention – Christopher Esposito, Mansueto Institute and Knowledge Lab Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago | Video |
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February 3, 2023 12:00 – 1:00pm CT |
TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series – Medicine and Human Rights: Screening for Torture and Trauma in Refugees, International and Local at-risk Populations in the Medical Setting – Dr. Irene Martinez, Attending Physician at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital | Virtual Event |
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February 1, 2023 12:00 – 1:00pm CT
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Postdoctoral Candidate Colloquium – Which Streets are Complete? Mapping Pedestrian and Transit Infrastructure at Scale in San Francisco, CA – Marcel Moran, Postdoctoral Candidate, University of California, Berkeley |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge)
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January 27, 2023 12:00-1:00pm CT
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Postdoctoral Candidate Colloquium – Integrating Uncertainty into Urban Simulation: Potential Land Use Implications of Automated Vehicles – Daniel Engelberg, PhD Candidate in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge) |
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January 26, 2023 11:00am – 12:00pm CT
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Postdoctoral Candidate Colloquium – Social Networks in the Segregated City: Understanding Social Processes in the Emergence of Segregation – Laura Fürsich, Doctoral Candidate in Analytical Sociology, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge)
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| January 24, 2023 12:00-1:00pm CT |
Postdoctoral Candidate Colloquium – Urban Science for Sustainable Cities: How to Shape the Environmental and Social Performance of Cities Using Digital Tools – Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Doctoral Candidate in Computational Urban Science and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge)
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January 18, 2023 12:00-1:00pm CT
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“NOVA: Ancient Maya Metropolis” viewing, Q&A with Adrian Chase, Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and Department of Anthropology Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
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1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 Mansueto Lounge
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January 13, 2023 12:00 – 1:00pm CT |
TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series – Violence Here, Violence There: The Impacts of Compound Violence on Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration and US Settlement – Angela Garcia, Assistant Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice | Video |
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January 11, 2023 12:00 – 1:00pm CT |
Mansueto Colloquium – Indigenous Urban Structure in the Garden City of Caracol, Belize – Adrian Chase, Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and Department of Anthropology Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago |
Video
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December 2, 2022 12:00-1:00pm CT
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TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series: Jeannie Annan, Senior Research Associate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Chief Research and Innovation Officer for the International Rescue Committee | Video |
| 11/30/2022 | Mansueto Colloquium – Remote Work and City Structure – Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago |
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| 11/9/2022 | Mansueto Colloquium – A Decision-Making Quandary: Intergenerational Trauma and the Criminal Justice System – Micere Keels, Associate Professor in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago |
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11/4/2022
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TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series – The Forced Migration from Chicago Public Housing – Ben Austen, Lecturer, Division of the Humanities in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago |
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| 10/26/2022 | Mansueto Colloquium – Teasing Apart Among and within City Variation in Urban Biodiversity Through a Large-scale, Multi-city Collaboration – Mason Fidino, Quantitative Ecologist at Urban Wildlife Institute at the Lincoln Park Zoo | Video |
| 10/25/2022 | The Impact of Urban Development on Human Health |
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10/7/2022
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TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series – Aimee Hilado, Assistant Professor Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice | Event Recording |
| 10/6/2022 |
Forced Migration & the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Children, Youth, & Families | Ida Noyes, 3rd Floor Theater, 1212 E. 59th Street |
| 7/19/2022 – 7/22/2022 | IC2S2 Conference – 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science | Harper Center of the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago |
| 6/16/2022 |
Breakfast Colloquium – “Spatial Restructuring: Urbanization and Urban Systems in China” – Ming Lu, Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
1155 E. 60th Street, Mansueto Institute Lounge, or via Zoom |
| 6/1/2022-6/3/2022 |
MetroLab Summit |
David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street
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| 5/19/2022 | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival Minding the Gap – by Bing Liu |
1155 E. 60th St., Room 142
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| 5/16/2022 |
Kreisman for Housing Law and Policy Symposium – “Beyond the Single-Family Home: Zoning, Equity, and Access” | David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street |
| 5/13/22 |
Ecopod @ DuSable Museum for Green City Day |
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| 5/12/22 | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival Deej, Speaker: Ralph Savarese – by Robert Rooy | |
| 5/5/22 | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival Any Given Day – by Margaret Byrne | |
| 4/28/22 | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival It Shoudda Been Me – by Doriane Miller | |
| 4/22/22 |
Trauma Interest Work Group Brown Bag: “Capitalizing on Crisis: Chicago Policy Responses to Homicide Waves” – Robert Vargas, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago |
Event Recording |
| 4/20/2022 | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: “Strategic COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Can Simultaneously Elevate Social Utility and Equity” – Fengli Xu, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Knowledge Lab Postdoctoral Scholar |
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| 4/15/2022 |
Trauma Interest Working Group Brown Bag: “Listening to Community: The Origins of the Wellness Resilience Arts Program (WRAP)” – Doriane C. Miller, Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality and Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago |
Event Recording |
| 4/8/2022 |
Environmental Data Science Lunch Colloquium (Hosted by Data Science for Energy and Environmental Research Program) – “Mapping Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa” – Nico Marchio, Research Data Scientist, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation |
Event Recording |
| 4/6/2022 | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “Divergent Definitions? How Social Network Analysis Detects ‘Gangs’ and What It Means for Policing” – Alex Ciomek, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Postdoctoral Scholar |
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| 3/25/2022 | Distinguished Speaker Colloquiumon Biological Sciences and Climate Change – “Managing Landscapes to Reduce the Triple Anthropocene Threat” – Claire Kremen, Professor and President’s Excellence Chair in Biodiversity at University of British Columbia |
Event Recording |
| 3/23/2022 | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “How Racial Heterogeneity in Contextual Frames Subvert Choice-Based Policies: The Case of Community Crime and School Enrollment in Los Angeles County” – Jared Schachner, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar |
Event Recording |
| 3/11/2022 | Distinguished Speaker Colloquiumon Biological Sciences and Climate Change – “Adaptation Response to Climate Change: Evidence for Public Health,” Sari Kovats, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Event Recording |
| 3/9/2022 |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “The Creation of Urban Hinterlands: An Archaeological Perspective from Turkey, 3000 BCE-1900 CE,” Michele Massa – Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Oriental Institute Postdoctoral Scholar |
Event Recording |
| 2/25/2022 |
Trauma Interest Working Group Brown Bag Session with Dr. Candice Norcott – “Mental Health & Reproductive Justice: Binding our Liberation Together” |
Event Recording |
| 2/23/2022 |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “Where did Redlining Matter?: Regional Heterogeneity and the Uneven Distribution of Advantage” – Wenfei Xu, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Center for Spatial Data Science Postdoctoral Scholar | Event Recording |
| 2/18/2022 | Distinguished Speaker Colloquium on Biological Sciences and Climate Change – Actions on the Climate Crisis offer Major and Immediate Health Gains Virtual Event | Event Recording |
| 2/9/2022 |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – Chris Esposito, Institute & Knowledge Lab Postdoctoral Fellow | Online |
| 2/4/2022 |
EFCampus Student Information Session – Research Assistant Positions Summer 2022 | Event Recording |
| 1/20/2022 |
Chicago’s Array of Things: Pioneering Intelligent Urban Sensing | Online |
| 12/1/2021 | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Stuart Lynn and Dylan Halpern – A New Forever Open Platform for Spatial Data Analysis | Event Recording |
| 11/10/2021 | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Madeleine Daepp – The Design and Deployment of a Chicago Air Quality Sensing Network | Event Recording |
| 10/28/21 | Luis Bettencourt Book Talk – Introduction to Urban Science | Online |
| 10/27/2021 | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Lav Varshney – Graph Augmentation for Equitable Access via Reinforcement Learning | Event Recording |
| 10/13/2021 | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Francis “Alvin” Pearman – Gentrification, Educational Inequality, and the Future of Urban Schooling |
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5/18/2021
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Chicago Futures: The Data-Driven City with Luis Bettencourt
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Online |
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5/17/2021
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Occupations: A Collective, A Pedagogy, A Politics
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Online |
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5/13/2021
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The Formation of Fin de Siècle Vienna
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Online |
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5/7/2021
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Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series featuring Tynisha Jointer from CPS on the Power of Space in the Midst of Harm
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View event recording here |
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4/20/2021
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EFCampus Student Project Showcase: students-staff-faculty partner to address campus sustainability
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Online |
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4/9/2021
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Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series featuring Dr. Emiliana Vegas, Co-Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, on the Unequal Impact of COVID-19 School Closures Globally
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Online |
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3/30/2021
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Research Center for Computing Mind Bytes From AI to Quantum Computing: Towards a Transformative Research Ecosystem
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Online |
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3/22/2021
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Global Urban Network Seminar Series: Building Sustainable Cities at the Neighbourhood Scale featuring Luis Bettencourt
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Online |
| 3/17/2021 | Lunch Colloqium: “Ancient Cities in their Ecological and Socio-Political Landscapes: a Case Study from Turkey” featuring Michele Massa, Mansueto Fellow and Oriental Institute Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago | Online |
| 3/10/2021 | Lunch Colloqium: “Neighborhood Effects in the 21st Century: Disadvantage, Density and the Spatial Distribution of Institutional Resources” featuring Jared Schachner, Mansueto Fellow and Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago | Online |
| 3/8/2021 | EFCampus Undergrad Summer RA Info Session | Online |
| 3/5/2021 | Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series: Rebecca Winthrop, Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution | Online |
| 2/24/2021 | Brunch Colloquium: “COVID-19 Risks in Urban Space: A Human Mobility Perspective” featuring Fengli Xu, Mansueto Fellow & Knowledge Lab Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago | Online |
| 2/12/2021 | Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series: Dr. Valerie Adams-Bass, University of Virginia Curry School of Education | Online |
| 2/10/2021 | Art of Captivity Book Launch with Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker | Online |
| 2/8/2021 | CDAC Distinguished Speaker Series: Brian Christian, “The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values” | Online |
| 1/22/2021 | “Reopening K-12 Schools during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Equity, Ethical and Policy Considerations” Trauma Interest Workgroup Speaker Series: Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD | Online |
| 1/11/2020 | CDAC Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop: Interdisciplinary Data Science Panel with Luis Bettencourt | Online |
| 12/9/2020 | Brunch Colloquium: Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong | Online |
| 11/18/2020 | Storytelling with Urban Data Visualizations: A Chicago Studies Data in Dialogue session with Nicholas Marchio | Online |
| 11/18/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Geoff Boeing, USC Urban Data Lab | Online |
| 11/04/2020 | “The effect of urban environmental features on mental and physical health,” by The Centre for Urban Mental Health, featuring Prof. Marc Berman | Online |
| 10/30/2020 | Local Innovations, SDGs and COVID-19: World Cities Day 2020 presented by the UN-Habitat New York Liaison Office, featuring Prof. Luis Bettencourt | Online |
| 10/28/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Nico Marchio, Research Data Scientist, Mansueto Institute | Online |
| 10/21/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Hannes Taubenböck, German Aerospace Center | Online |
| 10/19/2020 | UN World Data Forum: The Million Neighborhoods Map and OpenReblock: Spatial data-driven processes and tools to accelerate sustainable and equitable human development in fast-growing cities | Online |
| 10/14/2020 | Design and the Post-Pandemic City: A conversation with Bruce Mau | Online |
| 9/16/2020 | Becoming Urban: Complexities in Contemporary Developing Cities | Online |
| 9/9/2020 | Student Q&A: Certificate Program in Urban Science and Sustainable Development | Online |
| 7/21/2020 | US COVID Atlas: Exploring Data to Move to Action | Online |
| 7/15/2020 | AESS 2020 Conference: “Environmental Frontiers: Collaborative Campus Sustainability at the University of Chicago” | Online |
| 7/5/2020 | State of the Map 2020: Detecting Informal Settlements via Topological Analysis | Online |
| 6/4/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Victoria Romeo Aznar, Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Evolution and Ecology Postdoctoral Scholar | Online |
| 5/22/2020 | Food in Focus: Global Hunger and the COVID Pandemic | Online |
| 4/23/2020 | 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Virtual Happy Hour | Online |
| 3/10/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 3/5/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Tamma Carleton, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 2/28/2020 – 3/1/2020 | Inter-Policy School Summit: Climate Change and Urban Adaptation | Harris School of Public Policy |
| 2/20/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Diego Rybski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 2/12/2020 | The Million Neighborhoods Network: Localizing Sustainable Development Through Better Connected Communities (WUF10 Networking Event) | Abu Dhabi Exhibition Center, Hall 2, Room 9, NE 149 |
| 2/11/2020 | Chicago WUF10 Reception (Hosted by Mansueto Institute and Chicago Council on Global Affairs) | Relax@12 at Aloft Hotel, Abu Dhabi |
| 2/5/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Anni Beukes, Institute Resident Fellow | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 1/28/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Nicole Rosner, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Anthropology Postdoctoral Scholar | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 1/21/2020 | Urban Readers Series: Lee Anne Fennell – “Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life” | Seminary Co-op Bookstore |
| 1/21/2020 | Race, Space, and the Built Environment: Exploring the Intersection of Place and Social (in)Justice | University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, 969 E. 60th St |
| 1/14/2020 | Chi Hack Night presents Million Neighborhoods: Mapping Slums on a Global Scale | Braintree office, 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60654 |
| 1/14/2020 | Lunch Colloquium: Kyoung Whan Choe, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Psychology Postdoctoral Scholar | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 12/4/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Christof Brandtner, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 12/3/2020 | Motown’s Makeover: What Worked, and for Whom? | Ida Noyes Hall |
| 11/20/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Daniel Zünd, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Evolution and Ecology Postdoctoral Scholar, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 11/13/2019 | Urban Readers Series: George Galster – “Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves” | School of Social Service Administration Library |
| 11/6/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Deborah Strumsky, Assistant Research Professor, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 10/25/2019 | Urban Readers Series: Angela S. García – “Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law” | Seminary Co-op Bookstore |
| 10/23/2019 – 10/25/2019 | Global Symposium on Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods | University of Chicago |
| 10/16/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Devin White, Manager, Autonomous Sensing & Perception, Sandia National Laboratories | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 7/15/2019 – 7/26/2019 | Global Sustainability Summer School (GSSS) | Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM |
| 7/1/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Charlotta Mellander, Professor of Economics at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240A |
| 6/13/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. J. W. Hanson, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Reading | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 6/4/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Celine Rozenblat, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Lausanne | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 5/7/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Daniel T. O’Brien, Associate Professor, Northeastern University | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 4/16/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Roland Fletcher, Professor of Theoretical and World History, University of Sydney | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 4/15/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Haneen Khreis, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transport Institute | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 4/4/2019 | Panel Discussion “Revisiting a Trailblazing Text: Robert Park and Ernest Burgess’ The City” | Regenstein Library |
| 3/13/2019 | Mansueto Institute Lecture: The Kind of Problem a City Is | University of Chicago, Hong Kong Center |
| 2/14/2019 | Mansueto Mapathon: One Million Neighborhoods Initiative | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 1/16/2019 | Kreisman Panel Discussion: Space, Equity, and Lessons Learned from the Housing Field | International House, University of Chicago |
| 11/30/2018 | Lunch Colloquium: Rongjun Qin | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240A |
| 11/4/2018 | San Francisco Harper Lecture: The Kind of Problem a City Is | San Francisco, CA |
| 11/1/2018 | Citizenship, Migration, and Urban Space Symposium | Chicago Cultural Center |
| 10/30/2018 | Urban Innovations Series: A Conversation on the Future of Cities | Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago |
| 7/19/2018 | Lunch Colloquium with Juval Portugali: Complexity, Cognition, Information, and the City | University of Chicago |
| 5/15/2018 | Roundtable Discussion: Housing and Racism in the Age of Trump and Grenfell | National Public Housing Museum, Chicago |
| 5/2018 | Urban Innovations Series: Designing Re-entry for Women and Cities | Chicago Cultural Center |
These convenings are open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.