Global Summit XV

Monday, October 23, 2023 through Monday, Novermber 13, 2023 at the Jefferson Educational Society and Gannon University. 

Join us, as the JES celebrates its 15th anniversary of serving the Erie community with a new Global Summit lineup of groundbreaking researchers, writers, and presenters. The JES invites speakers from around the world to speak on a broad range of globally important issues each year as part of our Global Summit Speaker Series. 
Click here to view the full lineup of speakers.
                                               

Thomas B. Hagen Dignitas Award Winners:

2011: Steve Scully; 2012: Barry Casselman; 2013: Harry Markopolos; 2014: Sister Joan Chittister; 2015: Drs. John and Silvia Ferretti; 2016: Hon. Tom Ridge; 2017: Lt. Gen. James Dubik, Ret.; 2018: James and Deborah Fallows; 2019: Eleanor Smeal; 2021: Robert Pape; 2022: Rev. Charles Brock; 2023: Major General Ed Bolten
       

An Afternoon with Richard Florida

October 26th,2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Gannon University
Professor / Instructor / Speaker: Richard Florida with Bruce Katz

The Future of the American City

  

Richard Florida is a university professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and School of Cities and a distinguished visiting fellow at New York University's Schack Institute of Real Estate. His books include The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis. Most notably, he is the author of multiple books including The Rise of the Creative Class, The New Urban Crisis: How Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What to Do About It.

This presentation will be moderated by Bruce Katz. 

 

LocationGannon University, Yehl Ballroom in Waldron Campus Center – 124 W. 7th Street Erie, PA 16501.

Date/Time: Thursday, October 26 at 1:00 p.m.

Admission: GA: $35 ($25 Early Bird) / Preferred Seating: $60 ($50 Early Bird) 

Parking:Gannon University parking garage on Peach Street.

Richard Florida with Bruce Katz

Richard Florida is a university professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and School of Cities and a distinguished visiting fellow at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate. His books include The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis. Most notably, he is the author of multiple books including The Rise of the Creative Class, The New Urban Crisis: How Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What to Do About It.

 

Bruce Katz is the Founding Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Previously he served as inaugural Centennial Scholar at Brookings Institution and as vice president and director of Brooking’s Metropolitan Policy Program for 20 years. He is a Visiting Professor in Practice at London School of Economics, and previously served as chief of staff to the secretary of Housing and Urban Development and staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs. Katz co-led the Obama administration’s housing and urban transition team. He is coauthor of The Metropolitan Revolution and The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism, editor or coeditor of several books on urban and metropolitan issues, and a frequent media commentator.