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…
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…
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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…
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.
Commons and Pathways: Is Public Space an Issue of Justice?
09:00–
12:00StormIUR members Karin Grundström, Peter Parker, Martin Grander and Mathilda Rosengren (together with Anders Larsson from SLU Alnarp) will organise a workshop and walk on…
“Real Estate Financialization in Latin America: from socio-economic specificities to spatial contradictions”
13:15–
15:00NIC0929 and ZoomLink: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/63394329851?from=addon This study presents and discusses the real estate financialization trajectory in Brazil and Argentina, especially the spatial contradictions of the process played out in…
CONNECT 4- Fabrication of bus station shed element in Lund, Sweden.
15:00–
17:00OnlineInspirational webinar for the Digital Fabrication architecture competition Connect 4. Moderated by Marwa Dabaieh – Malmo University, Sweden. The invited speakers are: Hanna Dahy- ِAalborg…
BOOK LAUNCH- Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism
16:00–
18:00Board Room, ICOSS University of Sheffield (Hybrid)Join IUR member Claudia Fonseca Alfaro (Malmö University and University of Sheffield) for a conversation with Lindsay Sawyer (University of Sheffield), Jonathan Silver (University of Sheffield) and…
Book Discussion- ”The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg”
10:15–
11:45NICO929 and Zoom.Political scientist and sociologist Dr Matthias Bernt is visiting IUR and the Housing and Welfare Research Network to discuss his new book published with Wiley. …
Carina Listerborn and Guy Baeten – Past, Present and Future of Urban Studies
12:00–
13:00NI: C0826Brown Bag Seminar Carina Listerborn and Guy Baeten – Past, Present and Future of Urban Studies. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series;…
Laleh Foroughanfar- The Street of Associations: Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö.
12:00–
13:00NI:C0826Brown Bag Seminar Laleh Foroughanfar – “The Street of Associations: Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö” This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series;…
Defne Kadioglu- Debt, Risk and Return: From ‘Vulnerable Neighborhoods’ to Financial Imaginaries.
12:00–
13:00NI:C0826Brown Bag Seminar Defne Kadioglu – Debt, Risk and Return: From ‘Vulnerable Neighborhoods’ to Financial Imaginaries This seminar will be in person only event.
Gunhild Askehave – Spatial Images: Urban Sustainability in Practice
12:00–
13:00NI:C0826Brown Bag Seminar Gunhild Askehave – Spatial Images – Urban Sustainability in Practice This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the…
Erik Jönsson- The right to landscape, the right to the city, and the politics of framing the struggle over urban space in Norra Sorgenfri.
12:00–
13:00NI:C0826Brown Bag Seminar Erik Jönsson – The right to landscape, the right to the city, and the politics of framing the struggle over urban space in Norra…
Global Urban Dialogues: Ivan Tosics
17:00–
18:00https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/68207173623In the next interview in the Global Urban Dialogues series in the context of the Urban Agency III network, Bert De Munck (University of Antwerp) will…
Interstitial space at the peri-urban Hanoi: tensions and opportunities
12:00–
13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Hoai- Anh Tran: Interstitial space at the peri-urban Hanoi: tensions and opportunities This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar…