Global Studies Seminar presents Jon Calame

The Global Studies Seminar presents ‘Civic Disobedience’ by Jon Calame. Calame is author of “Divided Cities: Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia,” which is part of the University of Pennsylvania Press series on “The City in the 21st Century.” He has been recipient of a Rome Prize and a Fulbright Fellowship. Before founding Minerva Partners, a preservation and planning firm in New York, Calame served as partnerships manager for the World Monuments Fund in New York, and worked in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, toward a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme for neighborhoods and individual monuments. Calame has lectured widely on post-conflict reconstruction, divided cities and iconoclasm.