Geography Colloquium: Dr. Sara Safransky
200 MacNaughton Hall (in Falk College)
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The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Post-Industrial Detroit
As part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, Sara Safransky, assistant professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, based on her research on the legacies of redlining, disinvestment and industrial decline in Detroit and the possibilities for creating a more just city.
Professor Safransky is trained as a geographer and urban planner whose research interests lay at the intersection of urban and environmental studies, decolonial theory, critical race studies, feminist geography, social movements and participatory research.
Her research and teaching are motivated by a concern for social and ecological justice. Her current research deals with several themes including urban displacement and land justice, the politics of collective memory work, and forms of algorithmic violence associated with data-driven planning.
Additional supporters: Engaged Humanities Network and Unlearning the Urban (via CUSE Grant).
Category
Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Talks
Region
Campus
Open to
Faculty
Staff
Students, Graduate and Professional
Cost
None
Organizers
MAX-Geography and the Environment, Humanities Center
Accessibility
Contact Deborah Toole to request accommodations
We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.