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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: “When Your City Becomes a Campus”
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of History as it sponsors a public lecture by scholar and author Davarian L. Baldwin who will disucss his most recent book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower which explores higher education’s growing control over urban America and the costs for those living in the shadows.\n\nDavarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized scholar, author, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books, most recently, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. He also served as the consultant and text author for The World of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle (2022). His commentaries and opinions have been featured in numerous outlets from NBC News, BBC, and HULU to USA Today, the Washington Post, and TIME magazine. Baldwin was named a 2022 Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for his work in racial and economic justice.\n \n
URL:https://events.yorku.ca/events/public-lecture-when-your-city-becomes-a-campus/
ORGANIZER;CN=Paul Lawrie:MAILTO:lawriep@yorku.ca
CATEGORIES:Graduate Program in History,LA&PS Addressing Anti-Black Racism,LA&PS Department of History
LOCATION:4700 Keele Street
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