"Renewal: Owning our histories and strengthening university-community partnerships"

Name: "Renewal: Owning our histories and strengthening university-community partnerships"
Start: 2025-09-12T15:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-12T16:30:00-04:00
Location: Geography/Geology Building, Room 200D

Schedule

Fri Sep 12 2025 at 03:30 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Geography/Geology Building, Room 200D | Athens, GA

The UGA Geography Colloquium Series presents -
"Renewal: Owning our histories and strengthening university-community partnerships."
Davarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized scholar, author, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books, most recently, In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities and served as the consultant and text author for The World of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle (2022). His commentaries and opinions have been featured in numerous outlets from NBC News, BBC, and HULU to USA Today, the Washington Post, and TIME magazine.

Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Georgia Community Geography Collective