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September 14, 2013, 2:30-4:30 pm“One Last Cup of Coffee: The Decline of the London Coffeehouse”Brendan Mackie, Independent Scholar“Order in the Landscape: Structuring Life and Work in Bethlehem, PA Since 1741”Chloe Taft, Yale University

October 12, 2013, 2:30-4:30 pm“The Cultural Construction of Urban Renewal in Uptown Chicago, 1958-1964”Devin Hunter, Loyola University“Secular Temples to the Civilized City: The Politics of The-aters in São Paulo, Brazil, 1890-1920”Aiala Levy, University of Chicago

November 9, 2013, 2:30-4:30 pm“Incorporating the Conspicuous Consumer: Sumptuary Laws and the Problem of Female Publicity in Veblen’s Chicago”Emily Remus, University of Chicago“Class, Race, and Politics: Social Movements and Working-Class Identity”Naomi Williams, University of Wisconsin - Madison

December 7, 2013, 2:30-4:30 pm“Forgetting How to Hate? The Evolution of White Responses to Integration on the Southwest Side of Chicago, 1945-1987”Christopher Ramsey, Loyola University“ ‘Fair Employment is Good Business’: William G. Caples and Equal Employment Opportunity Voluntarism at the Inland Steel Co. of Chicago, 1946-1968”Johannes Steffens, Heidelberg University, Germany

Urban History Dissertation Group Sponsors: The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.

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February 8, 2014, 2:30-4:30 pm“Illegal Detroiters: Undocumented Europeans and Unions in America’s Motor City, 1924-1942”Ashley Johnson, Northwestern University“Performing Settler Colonialism, Constructing Race: African Americans, Native Americans, and White People at Detroit’s 1901 Bicentennial”Kyle Mays, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

March 8, 2014, 2:30-4:30 pm“Bleachman to the Rescue: Fighting AIDS with Comics and Spatial Restrictions”Lindsey Wieck, University of Notre Dame

April 5, 2014, 2:30-4:30 pm“‘They Wanted to be Choirboys’: Ambition and Abuse at Area 2 in the Violent 1970s”Andrew Baer, Northwestern University“‘Communities Must be Vigilant’: Grassroots Financial Regulation through the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977”Rebecca Marchiel, Northwestern University

May 10, 2013, 2:30-4:30 pm“Imagining Downtown Real Estate: Mobility and the Discovery of Property Values in Chicago, 1917-1933”Sam Kling, Northwestern University“Where Have All the Gardens Gone? The Domestic Pastoral and the Decline of Urban Agriculture in Chicago, 1833-1893”Courtney Wiersema, University of Notre Dame