PAST EVENTS

PAST TURN EVENTS

TURN Greet N Meet 2017

October 6 2017

TURN hosted its annual Greet and Meet on Friday. Graduate students interested in urban research came, share their research backgrounds, and discuss TURN future events. Click here for the event information.

Jane's Walk

May 6 2017

TURN member and PhD candidate Susann Lagore organized a walking tour of the U of C campus, during which participants learned about its academic and architectural history. Click here or more information.

Graduate Student Workshop with Dr. Linda Peake

April 12 2017

Dr Linda Peake addressed issues of current publishing practice and pitfalls for feminist, open source, and other journals drawing on her experience as Managing Editor of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (2002 - 2008), a founding editor of Social and Cultural Geography (1998 – 2001), the editor the Social Geography entries in the AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography (2013 – 2016) and as a current member of the International Advisory Board of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2012 – present) and of the editorial board of The Canadian Geographer (2015 – present).

Lecture: Urban Feminist Knowledge Production in the 21st Century

April 12 2017

Urbanization is a deeply gendered process, yet academic knowledge production on the urban has rarely engaged with women as urban citizens or feminism as a mode of thought and action. Dr Linda Peake discussed what it means to engage with feminism in the urban twenty-first century and consider feminism’s role in urban knowledge production and democratic futures.

Dr. Linda J. Peake is Director of the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Canada, and Professor in the Urban Studies program in the Department of Social Science. Her recent edited books include Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban (with Martina Reiker, Routledge, 2013) and Urbanization In A Global Context (with Alison Bain, OUP, 2017). She has published in a wide range of academic journals and is a previous editor of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.

Special thanks to the Urban Research Group for their support of this lecture.

TURN Movie Night III - 70 Acres in Chicago

29 March 2017

In partnership with Movies That Matter, TURN co-host this screening, with director Ronit Bezalel in attendance!

Twenty years in the making, 70 Acres in Chicago tells the story of the Cabrini Green public housing development located in Chicago. With its prime central location, Cabrini Green was initially hailed as a public housing triumph, then more recently demonized as an urban disaster, and demolished bit by bit. The mainly black residents of Cabrini were forced out and the new white middle-class homeowners moved in.

Thank you to everyone who attended.

Cities in the Pub IV - Politics of Affordable Housing

23 March 2017

Decent housing is a human right. But many Calgarians struggle to afford this basic need: about 60,000 Calgarian homeowners are over extended on their shelter costs; only half of Calgary’s households have sufficient income to afford to buy a starter home in the condominium market; and 68 % of low-income renters are over spending on shelter.

TURN organised a panel discussion to examine and explore homelessness, secondary suites, renting and owning in Calgary. Thank you to everyone who attended.

Cities in the Pub III - Food in the City

February 2017

An examination of urban inequalities through access to food from 5pm to 8pm at Last Defense Lounge on February 16, 2017.

Food is basic need. Yet access to healthy and nutritious food is not universal. From food desert to food bank, from cheap junk food to expensive organic food, what does inequality in food access indicate about urban inequalities? How does the geography of food intertwine with territorial, socio-economic, and gender inequalities?

How can “food” also be used as an object to empower people and communities? Can local initiatives such as urban farms or community kitchens be part of the solution, and if so, what are their limits without institutional and policy supports?

TURN host Cities in the Pub III on this topic and provide a critical and constructive discussion. Thank you to everyone who attended.

Commodification of Knowledge panel discussion

January 2017

Faculty, students and support staff from across campus came together for an insightful, thought-provoking and open discussion. Panelists included Dr. Alan Smart, Dept. of Anthropology and Archeology; Dr. Gwendolyn Blue, Dept of Geography; and Ms. Christie Hurrell, Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Librarian. Thank you to everyone who attended.

TURN Movie Night II - Edible City

January 2017

TURN sponsored a screening of Edible City, a 55-minute documentary film that introduces a diverse cast of extraordinary characters who are challenging the paradigm of our broken food system.
Thank you to all for an amazing discussion afterwards. We look forward to our next film!

image: By Jonathan McIntosh - Own work, CC BY 2.5

TURN's Annual Member Meet n' Greet

November 2016

TURN hosted a Meet and Greet for graduate students doing urban research in the Last Defence Lounge Red Room. We provided food and initiated a lively chat about future events as well as participants' own research backgrounds.

Cities in the Pub II: Urban Resilience

November 2016

Another lively discussion featuring a variety of expertise and experience surrounding resilience in cities. This event was part of a virtual conference broadcast live to urban planners and researchers across the globe as part of World Town Planning Day.

Click here to view/re-view the event online.

TURN Movie Night I - Climate Change

October 2016

As part of Global Climate Change Week, TURN screened Naomi Klein's acclaimed film 'Now This Changes Everything'. Group discussion at the LDL afterwards.

Cities in the Pub I: Smart City

September 2016

at the Last Defense Lounge
A free panel discussion on the applications, pitfalls, and opportunities associated with the smart city movement. Featuring four lively panelists:
Professor Victoria Fast, Department of Geography

Professor Tom Keenan, Faculty of Environmental Design

Karen Zurek, Spatial Analyst at the University of Calgary

Jeremy Zhao, Process Engineer and Civic Camp volunteer

Low-Carbon Alberta Conference

November 2015

An all-day conference featuring two expert panel discussions with:

- Dr Sasha Tsenkova, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Design

- Chris Jordan, Manager, Calgary Green Line LRT project

- Dr Byron Miller, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Department of Geography

- Jesse Raw, Director, Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance

And student research presentations by graduate students from the Departments of Engineering, Geography and the Faculty of Environmental Design.