Changing Urban Spaces
A Conference Presented by the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, with the support of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Berkeley Department of Sociology, Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative, the Graduate Assembly, and the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop.

Free and open to the public.

Friday, March 13, 2009
9 a.m.-6 p.m.

9:00 a.m. Registration

9:30 a.m. Morning Panel: Sociological Approaches - Ethnicity and Urban Spaces

11:15 a.m. Graduate Student Panel I: Cities in a Time of Transition

2:15 p.m. Graduate Student Panel II: Contesting Space

4:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Academic Director, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World

6:30 p.m. Dinner - To RSVP, email BJS.Conference@gmail.com