#  Urban Conversations | Urban waters: rethinking city histories, futures and collective life under climate change 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 31, 2025** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)**  



 

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## [Urban Conversations](/urban-conversations)

## Speaker: Mariana Cavalcanti

## In conversation with Sidney Chalhoub

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Registration is required for this event. Lunch will be provided.

### About the Speakers

[Mariana Cavalcanti](https://ilas.columbia.edu/visiting-scholars-and-fellows) is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and Spring 2025 Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is co-coordinator of research collectives Grupo CASA: estudos sociais sobre moradia e cidade and of ResiduaLab: laboratório de estudos sociais sobre resíduos. She was co-founder of Casa Fluminense, a civil society association aimed at deepening democracy in metropolitan Rio, and served as DRCLAS Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar in 2020-21.

[Sidney Chalhoub](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/sidney-chalhoub) is the David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Chair of the Department of History, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

*Artwork by Joao Vitor Velame.*

*This event is co-sponsored by the* [*David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)*](https://www.drclas.harvard.edu/)*.*

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### About the Series

As our planet becomes increasingly urban, this series seeks to expand our understanding of cities and urbanization across sites and scales. The Urban Conversations aim in particular to link humanistic approaches with spatial investigations. We host public talks, and provide a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress with an interdisciplinary community, in a conversational format. Urban Conversations is chaired by [Bruno Carvalho](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/bruno-carvalho) and [Daniel Agbiboa](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/daniel-agbiboa), and is co-sponsored with the [Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/).



 

 



 

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