The Murphy Institute, CUNY and

The Center for Urban Research and Education,

Rutgers University-Camden

invite you to a conference

Violence & the City

This day-long, interdisciplinary conference will consider the nature and effects of various types of urban violence, and is organized around two themes: violence and urban society; and, crime, politics, and policy. Featured speakers will address these concerns in theoretically, methodologically, or empirically innovative ways.

 Speakers and Discussants include:

 Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center.

Marie Gottschalk, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Ruth Gilmore,Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies,

and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center

Mimi Abramovitz, Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy, Silberman School of

Social Work, Hunter College

Lawrence Mead, Professor of Politics, New York University

Paul Jargowsky,Professor of Public Policy and Director of Center for Urban Research and

Urban Education, Rutgers University-Camden

John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for

Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center