Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv Lecture by Blair A. Ruble Time: 3.30-5PM, Thursday, March 2, 2006 Location:569 HAMILTON HALL

Blair A. Ruble director of the Kennan Institute co-chair of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center

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How do urban communities accommodate this century's massive transnational migrations? This volume seeks clues about how a city's capacity for urban social sustainability, termed "diversity capital," may expand under such conditions.

Blair Ruble examines three cities, now receiving large numbers of new immigrants, that have long histories of division into just two communities of language and race: Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv. "The growing presence of individuals who do not fit into long-standing group boundaries fundamentally alters the social, cultural, and political contours of traditionally bifurcated metropolitan regions," says Ruble. "How does that presence change perceptions and institutions?"

Blair A. Ruble is director of the Kennan Institute and co-chair of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author, most recently, of Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka.

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