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…
- 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…
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.
Urban Seminar with Simone Vegliò “Urbanization, logistical infrastructures, and (neo)extractive operations: the ‘planetary’ making of Dock Sud, Buenos Aires”
14:15–
16:00NI:C0929As part of an ongoing research project, this presentation will discuss the socio-material and political aspects about the making of Dock Sud area in the South of Buenos Aires. The area is marked by…
Comparative dialogues on the infrastructure-led urbanization of Global China
15:30–
17:00Niagara, Room NIA0607Keynote of the International Workshop: Comparative dialogues on the infrastructure-led urbanization of Global China. Speakers: Elia Apostolopoulou (Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona) Francesca Governa (Polytechnic of…
Open Urban Seminar with Jonathan Silver: “Extra-territorial urban development and the ‘new’ state capitalism: Entanglements of national and local states in the UK and Abu Dhabi”
16:00–
18:00Niagara, Room NI:A0607New state capitalist actors including from the Gulf are increasingly involved in urban development beyond their own jurisdictions. For the ruling elites of those regimes,…
- 30November
Nazem Tahvilzade- Class and the city: how class analysis can enrich urban theory
12:00–
13:00NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar Nazem Tahvilzade – Class and the city: how class analysis can enrich urban theory. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar…
William Kutz- Changing places: Radical Geography’s Lost Transatlantic History
12:00–
13:00NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar William Kutz – Changing places: Radical Geography’s Lost Transatlantic History This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest…
Alexander Kalyukin – Soviet Urban Heritage: Between Renewal and Renovation
12:00–
13:00NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar Alexander Kalyukin – Soviet Urban Heritage: Between Renewal and Renovation. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series, check out the…
- 12October
“The state of tenancy: Rental housing and municipal statecraft in Malmö, Sweden”
12:00–
13:00NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar Jennie Gustafsson – “The state of tenancy: Rental housing and municipal statecraft in Malmö, Sweden” This seminar is part of the IUR Brown…
The potential for LGBT-centered seniors housing in Canada: Findings from a national survey
12:00–
13:00NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar Ren Thomas – The potential for LGBT-centered seniors housing in Canada: Findings from a national survey This seminar is part of the IUR…
- 21September
Z-free Homes
12:00–
13:00NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar Marwa Dabaieh – Z free home This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the…
Navigating Stigma in the Context of Islamophobia: Muslim Women’s De-stigmatization Strategies in Everyday Urban Encounters
15:00–
17:00NIC0826 / ZoomDidem Ünal Abaday, postdoctoral researcher at the Religion, Conflict and Dialogue Research Center at the Faculty of Theology of University of Helsinki and IUR visiting Scholar…
Neo-Extractive Capitalism and Logistical (Dis)Orders: Understanding Global Change from Buenos Aires
12:00–
13:00ZOOMBrown Bag Seminar Simone Vegliò – Neo-Extractive Capitalism and Logistical (Dis)Orders: Understanding Global Change from Buenos Aires This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag…
Global Urban Dialogues- Carina Listerborn Interviews Marc Pradel Miquel
17:00–
18:00zoomThe Global Urban Dialogues series explores the functioning, interests and institutional settings of the urban studies institutes participating in the Urban Agency III network through…