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- Scott S. Cowen:
President, Tulane University
"Welcome to the Urban Planning Symposium "
Scott Cowen is the 14th president of Tulane University. He has established
the series of Presidential Symposia as part of Tulane’s ongoing
effort to share the expertise of the program’s faculty with members
of the campus community and the greater New Orleans community.
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- Lawrence Powell:
Executive Director, Tulane/Xavier National Center for the Urban Community
Moderator
Lawrence Powell is the executive director of the Tulane/Xavier National
Center for the Urban Community. A professor and researcher of Southern
history, race relations and Holocaust studies, Powell was vice chair
and a founding member of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and
Nazism and a board member of the Amistad Research Center. He was recognized
in 1999 as the Louisiana Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment
for the Humanities.
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- Todd Boyd:
Associate Professor,
University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television
Topic: "The New HNIC: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of
Hip Hop"
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1991
Todd Boyd, associate
professor in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of
Southern California, is an internationally recognized expert on film
and popular culture. Boyd, who is a member of USC’s “Brain
Trust,” an elite group of the university’s most prominent
professors, is the author of the critically acclaimed Am I Black
Enough For You? Popular Culture from the ’Hood and Beyond
, which has been described by cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson as
“one of the most important and insightful books yet written
on Black popular culture.” Boyd was a producer and co-writer
on the Paramount Pictures film The Wood, one of the most
profitable Hollywood movies of 1999. His expert commentary in this
regard has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post,
Chicago Tribune, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report.
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- Michael Dear:
Professor of Geography and Director, Southern California Studies Center,
University of Southern California
Topic: "Learning from Los Angeles"
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania,
1974
Michael Dear,
professor of geography and founding director of the Southern California
Studies Center at the University of Southern California, is among
the most-cited authorities in geography and author and/or editor of
10 books and more than 100 journal articles and reports. His most
recent works, Postmodern Urbanism and The Service Hub
Concept in Human Service Planning are forthcoming, and an edited
collection, Rethinking Los Angeles, was published by Sage
Publications in 1996. Dear was a fellow at the Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1995-96, and held
a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989. He received honors from the Association
of American Geographers in 1995 and, in the same year, received the
University of Southern California’s Associates Award for highest
honors for creativity in research, teaching and service.
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- Myron Orfield:
Minnesota State Senator; President, Ameregis; Adjunct Professor, University
of Minnesota Law School
Topic: "American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality"
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1987
Myron Orfield,
Minnesota state senator, president of Ameregis and adjunct professor
at the University of Minnesota Law School, has become a nationally
recognized expert in the area of metropolitan planning and policymaking.
Orfield’s book, Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community
and Stability, redefined the field of regional studies. His latest
work, American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality, provides
an analysis of the economic, racial, environmental and political trends
of the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the United States. Before
joining the state senate, Orfield served five terms in the Minnesota
House of Representatives. He has authored legislation for reforming
land-use and fiscal-equity laws in the Twin Cities area. As president
of Ameregis, a research and geographic information system firm, Orfield
is working on more than 40 studies of regional development throughout
the United States and Canada. His research has been featured in The
Wall Street Journal and USA Today, as well as ABC News’
“Nightline,” and National Public Radio’s “Talk
of the Nation” and “Morning Edition.”
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- Daphne
Spain: Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, School
of Architecture, University of Virginia
Topic: "Approaching the Incessant City"
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Massachusetts, 1977
Daphne Spain,
professor of urban and environmental planning at the University of
Virginia’s School of Architecture, worked as a statistician
at the United States Bureau of the Census and as a freelance writer
before joining the planning faculty. Spain’s publications include
Back to the City: Issues in Neighborhood Renovation and Gendered
Spaces, as well as articles on housing and neighborhoods in the
Journal of the American Planning Association, The Journal
of Planning Literature and The Journal of Urban Affairs.
Her most recent book is Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage, and
Employment Among American Women . Spain’s forthcoming book,
How Women Saved the City, explores the “redemptive”
urban places built by women at the turn of the century through voluntary
associations. She has been elected to the Board of the Association
of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
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