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2014 Urban Affairs Association Conference

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8:05am CDT

Thursday - Plenary Session: A Different Kind of Riverwalk: Reflections on San Antonio and Latino Grassroots Movements Navarro Ballroom (Westin 2nd Floor)Ernesto Cortés, Jr. • David Montejano

9:15am CDT

TH1.08 Evaluating Whether Higher Education Institutions Are Adequately Preparing International Graduate Students To Lead Their Urban Communities El Rincon De Maria (Westin 1st Floor)Clifford Blumberg • Nita Clark • Zoranna Jones • Rod Hissong TH1.13 Fiscal and Intergovernmental Influences Facing Texas Cities Encino Room (Westin 1st Floor)Richard Cole • Jeff Coyle • James Fisher • Mike Foreman • Scott Wayman • Bob Whelan TH1.19 Urban Trends in Central & South America and the Caribbean: Poverty, Informality, Housing Policies, Labor Force and Migration in the XXI Century. [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND... Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Janina Leon • Flavio A M de Souza • Cecilia Giusti, Texas A&M University • Mercedes Di Virgilio • Cecilia Giusti, Texas A&M University

10:55am CDT

TH2.01 Into the Twenty-First Century: North American Urban Governance and Development in a Global Context Olivares Room (Westin River Level)Lindsay Morgia • James Smith • Martin Horak, Western University • Thomas Vicino, Northeastern University • James Smith TH2.06 Low Wage Workers: Inspiring a New Labor Movement and Urban Social Movements El Rincon De Maria (Westin 1st Floor)Virginia Parks • Nik Theodore • James DeFilippis TH2.09 Urban Studies Graduate Programs - Relevant and Sustainable? Encino Room (Westin 1st Floor)Robert Blair • Dana-Ain Davis • Renia Ehrenfeucht • Helen Liggett • Karen Gibson, Portland State University • Jasmine Alinder TH2.17 Community Land Trusts: Challenging Concepts of Propertied Citizenship Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Hillary Caldwell • Deshonay Dozier • Jeffrey Lowe • Susan Saegert • Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University • Susan Saegert

1:30pm CDT

TH3.05 Connecting People and Place: Improving Communities through Integrated Data Systems El Rincon De Maria (Westin 1st Floor)Claudia Coulton • Leah Hendey • Sabina Deitrick, University of Pittsburgh • Kathy Pettit TH3.09 Toward a New Politics for Urban America? Possibilities and Prospects in the Post-Obama Age Sabino Room (Westin 1st Floor)James DeFilippis • Desiree Fields • David Imbroscio, University of Louisville • Elvin Wyly • David Imbroscio, University of Louisville TH3.16 Place-Based Philanthropy and Community Development – Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons from the Field Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell • Joe Horiye • Maria Martinez-Cosio • Maria Martinez-Cosio TH3.19 Detroit, A City in Crisis: Recent Research in the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Peter Eisinger • George Galster • Tim Hodge • Erica Raleigh • Laura Reese, Michigan State University

3:10pm CDT

TH4.17 Place-based Initiatives of the Obama Administration: Emerging Findings about Choice and Promise Neighborhoods Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Megan Gallagher • Sarah Gillespie • Laura McKieran • Molly Scott • Peter Tatian • Amy Khare • Rolf Pendall

8:05am CDT

Friday - Activist Scholar Plenary Session Navarro Ballroom (Westin 2nd Floor)

9:15am CDT

FR1.01 Beyond Complete Streets: Reclaiming San Antonio’s Streets to Promote Active, Healthy Living Retama (Contessa 2nd Floor)Andres Andujar • Susan Goltsman • Mukul Malhotra • Susan Goltsman

10:55am CDT

FR2.01 Publishing in the Journal of Urban Affairs Zapata (Westin 2nd Floor)Jill Simone Gross • Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore • Rachel Garshick Kleit • David Imbroscio, University of Louisville • Laura Reese, Michigan State University

2:05pm CDT

FR3.07 The Past, Present, and Use of Urban Regime Theory across Disciplines: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Colloquy on Regime Politics Sabino Room (Westin 1st Floor)Catherine Guimond • Katherine Hankins • Cameron Herman • Marion Orr • Clarence Stone • Michael Webb • Marion Orr FR3.16 Teaching: Institutional Contexts and Pedagogy—What Really Matters? El Rincon De Maria (Westin 1st Floor)Yasminah Beebeejaun • Barbara Ferman • Laura Solitare • Noah Toly • Jocelyn Taliaferro