Events
Stay up to date with upcoming events at the Institute, including public lectures, academic seminars, workshops, and guest talks. Our events are open to a broad audience and aim to spark dialogue on pressing urban issues.
Upcoming Events
Housing and Welfare seminar: Housing Affordability and Assetisation in the Finnish Housing Market
10:15–
12:00Hybrid in NIC0826 and on Zoom (register for link)This seminar is conducted by the Housing and Welfare Research Network and will be held in English. More information and registration are available here.
Housing and Welfare lunch talk
12:00–
13:00NIC0826The Housing and Welfare lunch talks are informal sessions where we chat about what’s happening within the housing and welfare theme – ideas for upcoming…
Brown Bag Seminar: Rafael Martínez
12:00–
13:00NIC0826 and ZoomThis seminar will be in person at Niagara C0826 and hybrid on Zoom (link here). Speaker: Rafael Martínez (Research Fellow, Asian Vision Institute) Title: Living…
- 19November
Urban Photography Seminar
13:15–
15:00Venue TBAThroughout 2026, Malmö-based artist Ikram Abdulkadir will join Urban Humanities as artist in residence. Participating in both our public activities and everyday routines, she will…
Film Screening: The Delivery Guy
16:00–
18:00Niagara K3 studioJoin us for a cozy late afternoon hosted by our Global Urbanism theme. We will screen the short film “The Delivery Guy” (2025). The film…
Brown Bag Seminar: Emelie Lantz
12:00–
13:00Niagara C0826 and ZoomThis seminar will be in person at Niagara C0826 and hybrid on Zoom (link here). Speaker: Emelie Lantz (PhD in Human Rights Studies, Lund University)…
Housing and Welfare lunch talk
12:00–
13:00NIC0826The Housing and Welfare lunch talks are informal sessions where we chat about what’s happening within the housing and welfare theme – ideas for upcoming events, seminars,…
Housing and Welfare seminar: Social mix och segregation
10:15–
12:00Zoom – link will be sent to those who registerThis seminar is conducted by the Housing and Welfare Research Network and will be held in Swedish. More information and registration are available here.
Day 1: Justice Still Not Settled
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Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus in Hägersten, SwedenJustice Still Not Settled 9–10 December, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus in Hägersten, Sweden When is justice settled? Can it ever be? Across two days of talks, conversations,…
Day 2: Justice Still Not Settled
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Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus in Hägersten, SwedenJustice Still Not Settled 9–10 December, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus in Hägersten, Sweden When is justice settled? Can it ever be? Across two days of talks, conversations,…
Past Events
Curious about what we’ve been up to? Take a look at some of our recent talks, workshops, and seminars.
Walking and Imagining Channels for Co-existence
12:00–
13:00Niagara A0826IUR Artist in Residence, Helena Fernandez-Cavada will participate in IUR´s brownbag series with a seminar titled Walking and Imagining Channels for Co-existence. In this session,…
Methods and Pitfalls in Artistic Investigations
15:00–
17:00Niagara A0826IUR artist-in-residence Helena Fernandez-Cavada will give a seminar titled Methods and Pitfalls in Artistic Investigations. In this session, I’ll share the questions and interests that…
From housing to infrastructures of power: Racial politics of smart interventions in housing in Delhi, India
12:00–
13:00Niagara A826Brown Bag Seminar Syeda Jenifa Zahan – From housing to infrastructures of power: Racial politics of smart interventions in housing in Delhi, India. Zoom This seminar is…
“Like holding a tiger by the tail…”: Post-apartheid economic liberalisation, commercial real estate players and local government.
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13:00Niagara A826Brown Bag Seminar Sarita Pillay – “Like holding a tiger by the tail…”: Post-apartheid economic liberalisation, commercial real estate players and local government. Zoom here. This seminar…
Political ecologies of housing decarbonisation: Key directions and pathways
12:00–
13:00NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar Melissa Garcia Lamarca – “Political ecologies of housing decarbonisation: Key directions and pathways”. Zoom here. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar…
Inauguration of Svartklubb: an exhibition about Malmö’s underground music scene
17:00–
Svartklubb is an exhibition about Malmö’s underground music scene from the 1990s until the present. The exhibition discusses the influence the svartklubb scene has had…
Book Discussion- The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) by Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov
13:15–
15:00NIC0826 and ZOOMZoom Link Abstract We live in a datafied world. Whether it’s social media platforms hoovering up their users’ personal data to sell advertising, governments engaging…
Governance Models for Metropolitan Areas: Exploring Variations of Governance Structures in Urban Regions in Europe
12:00–
13:00NICO826Brown Bag Seminar Mustafa Demirkol – ”Comparative Analysis of the Metropolitan Management of Istanbul, Paris and London” Zoom link This seminar is part of the IUR Brown…
- 31January
UNIC-What is it about?
12:00–
13:00NIC0929Brown Bag Seminar Brigitte Suter – ”UNIC-What is it about?” Zoom link UNIC, the European University of Post-Industrial Cities, is an alliance of 10 universities committed to…
The Art of Conviviality- MSA Nordic Conference 2024
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Malmö University, NiagaraThe Art of Conviviality conference and community art festival explores memory’s role in sustaining or confronting racism. Moreover, the conference and festival explore memory’s part…
Exercises in Losing Control – Urban Renewal and Loss of Home in Taiwan
12:00–
13:00NIC0826You are cordially invited to a talk by our current artist-in-residence, Karolina Bregula. We will provide a lunch buffet, so please confirm your attendance to defne.kadioglu@mau.se until…
Following frustration and skepticism: Methods for researching finance
13:15–
15:00NIC0826The lecture will be followed by a discussion and is the second part of the IUR mini-workshop series “Researching Finance: A IUR Methodological Self-Training Course…