UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Department of Geography will continue its fall 2024 "Coffee Hour" lecture series with a talk by Anne Bonds, professor of geography and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Bonds’ talk, titled “Infrastructures of exclusion: Real estate, resistance and racial regimes of property in the urban North,” will focus on the intersection of race and property in the context of urban housing and segregation.

The talk will take place from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11, in 319 Walker Building at Penn State University Park and will also be accessible via Zoom.

Bonds' research examines the impact of racial covenants and other anti-Black housing practices on racial segregation in Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County. Her presentation will draw from her Mapping Racism and Resistance Project, which maps racially restrictive covenants and the resistance of Black Milwaukeeans to those policies. Bonds will explore the ways in which housing is racialized, highlighting the relationship between property, race and the dynamics of (dis)possession and struggle.

Bonds is a recognized scholar in urban political economy, racial capitalism and carceral geographies, with a focus on the geographies of white supremacy in the United States. She is the co-director of the Mapping Racism and Resistance Project and the recipient of the 2022 American Association of Geographers' (AAG) Ruby and Wilbur Miller Award. Bonds is also an editor of Urban Geography and a past chair of the Urban Geography Specialty Group of the AAG.

Bonds' talk is part of the fall 2024 "Coffee Hour" seminar series hosted by Penn State’s Department of Geography. For more information and to access the Zoom link, visit the Coffee Hour event webpage.