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

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 and Daniel Agbiboa, and is co-sponsored with the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative.

Speaker: Mariana Cavalcanti, Associate Professor, Institute for Social and Political Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); Spring 2025 Tinker Visiting Professor, Columbia University

Moderated by Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies; Chair of the Department of History; Affiliated Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Organized by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.