Emerging Voices
Since 2009, PARG has organized the "Emerging Voices" speaker series. We invite up to three outstanding emerging scholars to campus per year who have completed a Ph.D. in architecture or urban planning in the past five years. We organize a lecture, a dinner, and a colloquium with doctoral students for each invited speaker. The primary goal of the Emerging Voices RIW is two-fold: to expose the doctoral students of architecture, urban planning and affiliated fields to the best new research in our areas, and to expose them to new scholars in our field. We aim to learn from these scholars not only in terms of the content of their research, but also to learn from them in terms of career development and networking. Since its inception in Winter 2009, we have sought parity in speaker representation, including but not limited to gender, race, color, and sexuality. Our series is generously supported by an interdisciplinary workshop grant from the Rackham Graduate School. We receive supplementary support from the Taubman College Lecture Fund.
Past Speakers
- Winter 2019: Fenaba Addo, "Racial Disparities in Student Loan Debt"
- Winter 2019: John Arroyo, "Shadow Suburbanism: Mexican Everyday Life, Fear, and Space in Greater Atlanta"
- Fall 2018: Jesse LeCavalier, “Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment”
- Fall 2017: Tarek Rakha, "Performative Built Environments: Transdisciplinary Necessity in the Age of Climate Change"
- Winter 2017: Kian Goh, "How to be an Accomplice: Urban Research and Practice in a Time of Socio-Ecological Uncertainties"
- Fall 2016: Francesca Ammon, "Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar America"
- Fall 2015: Javier Arbona, "Footprinting the Urban Security Cloud"
- Winter 2015: Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space"
- Winter 2015: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, "Panel Trajectories"
- Winter 2015: Charisma Acey, "The Fight for Institutional Voice: Making the Human Right to Water a Reality"
- Winter 2013: Brent Ryan, "Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities"
- Winter 2014: Bjorn Sletto, "Duty to Map: Insurgent Cartographies and the Struggle for Rights and Resources"
- Fall 2013: Lydia Kallipoliti, "Mission Galactic Household"
- Winter 2013: Todd Gannon, "A Confederacy of Heretics"
- Fall 2012: Lucia Allais, "Integrities"
- Winter 2012: Laura Wolf-Powers, "Teaching Planners to Deal: The Pedagogical Value of a (Simulated) Development Negotiation"
- Winter 2012: Kenny Kupers, "The Social Project of Architecture"
- Winter 2010: Zeynep Çelik Alexander, "Architecture and Knowledge circa 1900"
- Winter 2010: Sanjeev Vidyarthi, "Interpretations of the World-City Debate in Secondary Indian Cities"
- Winter 2010: Sonit Bafna, "The Visual Performance of Marcel Breuer's Atlanta Public Library"
