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Historical Society of Southern California Webinar: “Public Los Angeles.” a Book Talk About Housing, Popular Politics, and the Formation of Modern LA H-Announce Historical Society of Southern California Webinar: “Public Los Angeles.” A book talk about housing, popular politics, and the formation of modern LA. Announcement published by Amy Essington on Monday, August 17, 2020 Type: Event Date: August 19, 2020 Location: United States Subject Fields: Local History, Urban History / Studies, American History / Studies “Public Los Angeles.” A book talk about housing, popular politics, and the formation of modern LA. Wednesday, August 19, 2020, at 6pm PDT on Zoom Public Los Angeles: A Private City’s Activist Futures is a collection of unpublished work by the late Los Angeles historian and urban scholar Don Parson presenting insights into the collectivism, networks of solidarity, and government policy in early to mid-twentieth century LA. The book also contains essays by twelve friends and mentors that contextualize how Public Los Angeles can help shape our understanding of public housing, judicial activism, gender and housework, and the geography of race and class in modern-day Los Angeles. The publication was supported by a grant from the HSSC/Ahmanson Foundation. Please join us on Zoom for a conversation with the book’s co-editors Judy Branfman (UCLA) and Roger Keil (York), Rachael Baker (Detroit Renter City), Mike Davis, Sue Ruddick (University of Toronto), and Marques Vestal (UCLA) to discuss the region’s complex political and cultural history, Parson’s legacy, and visions for the future. Click Here to register for the webinar. Send questions about the event or for the panel to Donna Schuele, HSSC President, at [email protected] by Wednesday, August 19 at 6pm PDT. Click here to purchase the book through the University of Georgia Press bookstore website with a 30% discount (use promotion code 08PubLA20). Citation: Amy Essington. Historical Society of Southern California Webinar: “Public Los Angeles.” A book talk about housing, popular politics, and the formation of modern LA.. H-Announce. 08-17-2020. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6338145/historical-society-southern-california-webinar-%E2%80%9Cpublic-los Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Announce The Historical Society of Southern California is the oldest historical society in California. It published the Southern California Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal published since 1884. Information about the organzation and the event can be found at thehsssc.org. Questions about the HSSC should be directed to Amy Essington at [email protected]. Information about the Panelists Co-editor Roger Keil is a Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University in Toronto. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, and regional governance. Keil is the author of Suburban Planet (Polity 2018) and ofLos Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization and Social Struggles (Wiley 1998). Co-editor Judy Branfman is a writer, activist, artist, and independent scholar in Los Angeles. She is a research affiliate with UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and turned to documentary filmmaking to pursue a hidden family story of free speech history. She has done arts, writing, outreach and education, and planning projects with cultural workers, non-profits, unions, and municipalities. Rachael Baker is a housing organizer and public scholar and member of Detroit Renter City and Urban Praxis Workshop, based in Detroit Michigan. Rachael has a PhD in Critical Geography from York University. Her areas of specialization include urban geography, housing and tenants movements, critical race theory and feminist praxis in the struggle to create decolonial and anticapitalist futures. Mike Davis is a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. His books includePrisoners of the American Dream, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, and Planet of Slums. His latest book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Jon Wiener, is out now. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Sue Ruddick is a Professor in Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She works at the intersections of geography and philosophy and has published on questions of urbanization, affect, nondialectical thought, and human-nature relations, in Society and Space, Theory Culture and Society, Gender Place and Culture, Philosophy Today and Antipode. Marques A. Vestal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UCLA, where Citation: Amy Essington. Historical Society of Southern California Webinar: “Public Los Angeles.” A book talk about housing, popular politics, and the formation of modern LA.. H-Announce. 08-17-2020. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6338145/historical-society-southern-california-webinar-%E2%80%9Cpublic-los Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2 H-Announce he also earned his M.A. in what is now the Department of African American Studies. His dissertation research examines the social history of property in Black Los Angeles between 1920 and 1965. He is Team Leader for the Archives Division of Million Dollar Hoods. Marques is a Los Angeles native and member of the South Central local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Contact Email: [email protected] URL: http://thehssc.org Citation: Amy Essington. Historical Society of Southern California Webinar: “Public Los Angeles.” A book talk about housing, popular politics, and the formation of modern LA.. H-Announce. 08-17-2020. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6338145/historical-society-southern-california-webinar-%E2%80%9Cpublic-los Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 3.
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