Recent Invited Lectures

Chakraborty, Arnab, “Module on Land Use Policy,” Rotterdam, The Netherlands, sponsored by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Institute for Housing Studies at Erasmus University, 21-25 April 2008.

Chakraborty, Arnab, “Maryland Scenario Project,” Smart Growth @ 10 Conference: A Critical Examination of Maryland's Landmark Land Use Program, Annapolis, MD, 5 October 2007.

Chakraborty, Arnab, “Statewide Scenario Analysis using Grid-based Allocation Model,” Scenario Analysis Workshop, Landover, MD, 19 September 2007.

Chakraborty, Arnab, “Module on Planning Economics,” Hangzhou, China, sponsored by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Peking University, 6-18 July 2007.

Deal, Brian. "The Landuse Evolution and Impact Assessment Model." Featured speaker at Place and Purpose: Spatial Models for Natural Resource Management and Planning, Conference of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Land, and Water, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 30 May 2007.

Deal, Brian. "Dynamic Spatial Modeling of Complex Urban Systems." Invited lecture, the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Application, University of Maryland, 27 November 2006.

Deal, Brian. "Landuse Modeling and Simulation." Invited lecture, Geography Colloquium, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, 15 September 2006.

Edwards, Mary, "Survey of Graduate Programs and State and Local Revenues Beyond the Property Tax," Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Workshop on the Fiscal Dimensions of Planning, Cambridge, MA, 25 July 2006.

Feser, Edward, “Regional Approaches to Understanding the Knowledge Economy,” invited presentation, Conference on the Many Faces of Regionalism: From the Mega to the Micro,” Purdue Center for Regional Development, Indianapolis, IN, 17 April 2008.

Feser, Edward, “Building new foundations for data-driven regional economic strategy: Integrating workforce and economic development planning,” with Ken Poole, Scott Cheney, Mark White and Tom Tveidt, a two-day workshop, Forum 2008, National Association of Workforce Boards, Washington, DC, 22-23 February 2008.

Feser, Edward, “Understanding the technology and innovation economy: Setting a research agenda for Hawaii,” with Ken Poole and Mark White, Hawaii Science and Technology Council, Honolulu, HI, 14 February 2008.

Feser, Edward. “Industry clusters: A backwards perspective,” 11th Annual Conference of the State Science & Technology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, 19 October 2007.

Feser, Edward. “Knowledge-intensive activity in U.S. metro areas: An occupation-based analysis of 1990-2000 trends,” Regional Research Institute Seminar, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 11 October 2007.

Feser, Edward. “Data for economic development, and some resources for detecting regional competitive advantage,” 2007 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Development Council, Peoria, IL, 19 July 2007.

Feser, Edward and Geoffrey Hewings, "U.S. Economic Fragmentation and Integration: Selected Empirical Evidence and Implications," Healdsburg Research Seminar on Megaregions, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Regional Plan Association, Healdsburg, CA, 5 April 2007.

Feser, Edward, "Clusters and Economic Development Outcomes: Assessing the Link Between Clustering and Economic Growth," Workshop on Innovation, Clusters, and Regional Development: Lessons for Cluster-Based Policy in Korea, Korea University, Seoul, 5 February 2007.

Feser, Edward, "Why Cross-Border Initiatives Matter: Three Stories of Interregional Interdependence,” keynote address, Conference on Creating Wealth: Regional Development through Cross-Border Collaboration, Asheville, NC, 8 September 2006.

Feser, Edward, "Clusters and the Design of Innovation Policy for Developing Economies," Keynote address, Fifth International Conference on Industrial Clustering and Regional Development, Peking University, Beijing, China, 15 July 2006.

Harwood, Stacy, "The East St. Louis Design Workshop: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Community-based Problem Solving," keynote address, Midwest Ecological-Community Psychology Conference, Saugatuck, MI, 6 October 2006.

Isserman, Andy. “Rural Policy and Programs in the United States.” Workshop on Public Policy and Rural Development, an EU/US Comparison, Sponsored by Economic Research Service, USDA, Wye campus, Imperial College, London, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom, 25 June 2007.

Isserman, Andrew, "Toward Better Rural Policy," Invited lecture, National Association of Counties, Chicago, 4 August 2006.

Isserman, Andrew, "What is Rural?," keynote address, NeighborWorks America, Chautauqua 2006, Polson, MT, 30 August 2006.

Johnson, Laurie A., Robert B. Olshansky, and Kenneth Topping, “Recent Developments in Large-Scale Disaster Management in the U.S,” Keynote Presentation, presented at 2nd International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, Taipei, Taiwan, 28 November 2007.

Johnson, Laurie A., and Robert B. Olshansky, “Pre-Disaster Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery,” presented at National Academy of Sciences, 21st Disasters Roundtable Workshop: Recovering From Disaster, Washington, D.C., 17 October 2007.

Kim, T J, “Role of Transportation in Smart Cities in the Information Age,” University of Maryland, 18 April 2008.

Kim, T J, “Technology and Urban Space,” Presidential Address at the 47th Annual Meetings of the Western Regional Science Association, Kona, Hawaii, 16 February 2008.

Kim, Tschangho J, "Planning for Cities in Ubiquitous Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges," Keynote address, International Symposium on Digital Livings, Bergen, Norway, 26 January 2007.

Kim, Tschangho J, "Modeling an Interoperable Multimodal Travel Guide System using the ISO 19100 Series," ACM-GIS 06, Arlington, VA, 10 November 2006.

Kim, Tschangho J, "Planning for Sustainable Future Cities in Ubiquitous Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges," keynote address, 2006 UnJung New Town U-CITY International Symposium, Hotel Shilla, South Korea, 7 July 2006.

Miraftab, Faranak, "Business Improvement Districts: Giuliani Factor from Mexico City to Cape Town," Doctoral Program in Development Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAZ), Mexico, 10 May 2007.

Miraftab, Faranak, "De Pueblo 'Ocaso' a Pueblo Mexicano: El Processo de Cambio Social en el Medio Oeste Estadounidense (Sundown Town to Mexican Town: the Processes of Social Change in Midwest U.S.)," Teatro de Gollado, Zacatecas, Mexico, 10 May 2007.

Miraftab, Faranak, “Cities, Women and Neoliberalism: Reflections from the Global South,” Women and Gender Studies Program, Illinois State University, 7 March 2007.

Miraftab, Faranak, "Historicizing Neoliberal Urban Policies: Does it Make a Difference?" International Studies in Planning (ISP) Speaker Series, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 24 February 2007.

Miraftab, Faranak, “Enduring Colonialism: the Case of City Improvement Districts in Cape Town, South Africa,” School of Planning (SoP), College of Design, Arizona State University, 12 October 2006.

Miraftab, Faranak, “Governing Post Apartheid Spatiality: Implementing City Improvement Districts in Cape Town,” Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, 28 September 2006.

Nedovic-Budic, Zorica, “GIS and Urban Indicator Analysis (Infrastructure),” Institut za arhitekturu i urbanizam Srbije (IAUS, Institute of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of Serbia), Belgrade, Serbia, 27 May 2008.

Nedovic-Budic, Zorica, “The Missing Links, “11th AGILE Conference on GI-Science, Pre-conference workshop, Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research on Spatial Data Infrastructure Development, Girona, Spain, 5 May 2008.

Nedovic-Budic, Zorica, “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Metropolitan Structure: Case Study of Washington DC, USA,” with Da-Mi Maeng, Sustainable Spatial Development of Towns and Cities – International Scientific Conference, Belgrade, Serbia, 25-26 January 2008

Nedovic-Budic, Zorica, “SDI Effectiveness from the User Perspective,” with Nama Raj Budhathoki, Multi-view Framework to Assess National Spatial Data Infrastructures, workshop organized by Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 23-25 May 2007.

Olshansky, Robert, moderator and organizer, “Land Use Planning for Earthquakes,” National Earthquake Conference, Seattle, Washington, 23 April 2008.

Olshansky, Robert, “The Role of Plans in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” presented at 2nd International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, Taipei, Taiwan, 27 November 2007.

Olshansky, Robert,“What We Know about Post-Disaster Recovery,” presented at National Academy of Sciences, 21st Disasters Roundtable Workshop: Recovering From Disaster, Washington, D.C., 17 October 2007.

Olshansky, Robert B., “Planning in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Progress Report,” Tuesdays at APA, Chicago Illinois, 12 June 2007.

Olshansky, Robert, "Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans,” 7th Workshop for Comparative Study on Urban Earthquake Disaster Management, Kobe Japan, Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Kyoto University, 19 January 2007.

Olshansky, Robert, "Sustainability and the Rebuilding of New Orleans," International Symposium on Global Sustainability, Kyoto Sustainability Initiative, Kyoto University, 16 January 2007.

Olshansky, Robert, "Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans," Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 1 December 2006.

Olshansky, Robert, "Recovering from Natural Disasters: Reflections on Kobe, Northridge and New Orleans,” distinguished lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 30 November 2006.

Olshansky, Robert, "Rebuilding New Orleans: Lessons from Other Places," National Academy of Sciences Roundtable Workshop: Rebuilding for Health, Sustainability, and Disaster Preparedness in the Gulf Coast Region, New Orleans, 2 June 2006.

Salo, Ken, “Environmental Racism,” Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center, 18 April 2008.

Salo, Ken, “Campus-Community Relations in the North End of Champaign, IL,” UIUC Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society Conference on Race, Diversity & Campus Climate, 10 April 2008.

Salo, Ken, “Mapping Environmental Racism in the North End of Champaign, IL,” UIUC African American Studies & Research Program Conference on Rupture, Repression and Uprising, 3-5 April 2008.

Schneider, Daniel, “Managing Industrial Ecosystems: Implications of Sewage Treatment Plants for Ecosystem Management,” Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 14 November 2007.

Schneider, Daniel, "Using Metapopulation Theory to Control Invasive Species: The Zebra Mussel in River and Estuarine Ecosystems," Romberg-Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, 25 April 2007.

Schneider, Daniel, "Public vs. Private Science: Biological Sewage Treatment and the Struggle Over Patents, 1896-1937," Science Technology and Society Center and Office for the History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, 25 October 2006.

Schneider, Daniel, "Science, Technology and the Role of the Worker in an Industrial Ecosystem: The Story of Sewage Treatment, 1914-Present," Illinois Wesleyan University, 16 February 2006.

Sweet, Elizabeth, “Diversity in Planning: From the Discipline to our Department’s Diversity Code,” University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Conference on Society Race, Diversity and Campus Climate, Educational and Workplace Environment Assessment & Evaluation, 10 April 2008.

Sweet, Elizabeth, “Economic Justice, Globalization and Urban Planning: The Case of Juarez,” De Paul University, International Women’s Day Conference, 6 March 2008.

Sweet, Elizabeth, “Economics for Survivors,” Keynote Speaker, Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network, Chicago Il, 28 February 2008.

Sweet, Elizabeth, “Ethnography and other Qualitative Tools in Planning: Old Uses and New Opportunities,” Using Plans Symposium, UIUC, Champaign, Il 7 September 2007.

Sweet, Elizabeth, “Culture and Gender as a Guide for Economic Empowerment: The Case of Low-Income Latinas in Chicago The Changing Face of Illinois Community, UIUC Extension Program, Champaign IL, 16 August 2007.