Abstract: The Center for Urban and Global Studies will host a year-long faculty lecture series about World Cities. The series will begin on Tuesday, October 20 at 4:20pm and conclude in spring 2010. A reception immediately follows each lecture in the series / All lectures to be held at 70 Vernon Street, in the CUGS first floor library. For more information, please view the event abstract attached hereto, or contact Dean Xiangming Chen at Xiangming.Chen@trincoll.edu, or Jay Percy at (860) 297-5175 or jason.percy@trincoll.edu.

Abstract: Focusing on Tokyo, the first lecture in this series will be given by Jeff Bayliss, Assistant Professor, Department of History. Hosted by The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College at 70 Vernon Street. Lecture begins at 4:20pm on Tuesday, October 20 and concludes with a reception. All lectures in this series will be held at the Center located at 70 Vernon Street and followed by a reception.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 4:20PM   70 Vernon Street, 1st Floor Library

Abstract: “JAKARTA: PROSPECTS FOR A SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEGACITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY" A WORLD CITIES FACULTY PUBLIC LECTURE BY SARAH MOSER Sarah Moser is currently the Paul E. Raether Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College where she is teaching a course on Religion and the City, and Globalization in Urban Southeast Asia. Sarah has a Ph.D. in cultural geography from the National University of Singapore and in 2008-09 held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sarah`s current research broadly investigates how political and religious ideology influences urban form in Southeast Asia and the Muslim world. She is presently working on an edited collection called New Cities in the Muslim World which investigates a variety of cities with Muslim-majority populations that have been recently built or are under construction in Africa, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Sarah has studied, worked and traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, and has conducted research in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 4:20PM   70 Vernon Street, 1st Floor

Abstract: Eric Galm is Assistant Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at Trinity, where he directs the Trinity Samba Ensemble, a student Brazilian drumming and singing group. He is also the coordinator for the music track of the Trinity in Trinidad Global Learning Site. In April 2006, he was elected president of the Society for Ethnomusicology`s Northeast Chapter. He has lived, studied and traveled extensively throughout Brazil, and conducted research in Cuba and Trinidad. Galm holds degrees in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan and Tufts Universities, Percussion Performance from the University of Michigan, and performance certificates from the Escola Brasileira de Música and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, respectively. He defines music-making processes within a broader socio-cultural context.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 4:20PM   70 Vernon Street, 1st Floor