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,…
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,…
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 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.
- 19January
The Self-Playing Piano. Calculations & Capital creating the Swedish housing crises
12:00–
13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Stig Westerdahl – The Self-Playing Piano. Calculations & capital creating the Swedish housing crises. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag…
Guy Baeten interviews Lavinia Bifulco from the University of Milano-Bicocca
05:00–
06:00zoomAs part of the Global Urban Dialogues series of the Urban Agency III network, IUR’s director Guy Baeten will Interview Lavinia Bifulco from the University of Milano-Bicocca.…
IUR research proposal retreat
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Örtofta Slott, EslövOn March 11th, 2022, the IUR will offer a retreat for members who are planning to submit a research proposal. The aim is to create…
Book Release: The Self-Playing Piano. Calculations & Capital creating the Swedish housing crises.
13:00–
15:00NI:CO315 and ZOOMIUR member Stig Westerdahl will release his book The self-playing piano, calculations & capital creating the Swedish housing crises. In The self-playing piano, Stig Westerdahl…
- 6December
When Housing goes Global: Financialization and Tenant Resistance in Sweden and Beyond
15:15–
17:00Niagara, NIC0319In spring 2020, just a few weeks into the pandemic, the Institute for Urban Research (IUR) at Malmö University embarked on a pilot project. We departed…
Spaces and practices of self-organised reception: The case of the City Plaza hotel in Athens
14:15–
16:00MIM’s seminar room- 9th floor of Niagara.Valeria Raimondi, PhD, Gran Sasso Science Institute L’Aquila, guest researcher at the IUR. This seminar is part of the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and…
Interrupting the Anthropo-obscene: The Political Ecology of Immuno-biopolitics or Traversing the Fantasy of “Fixing” the Climate
13:15–
15:00Niagara, NIC0826.Research seminar with Henrik Ernstson, University of Manchester / KTH Royal Institute of Technology In this seminar we will try to understand the depoliticising nature of…
Urban Agency III- Global Urban Dialogues- Interview 1
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 (being…
Det självspelande pianot – kalkyler och kapital i svensk bostadspolitik
10:15–
12:00ZoomThe Housing and Welfare Research Network, in collaboration with the IUR, offers the seminar “Det självspelande pianot – kalkyler och kapital i svensk bostadspolitik” by…
- 3December
Show your research day
13:00–
17:00TBAPitch your research in 5 minutes IUR launches a new (and hopefully annual) activity: a show your research day where people can shortly present their…
Beyond Smart Cities Today: Power, Justice and Resistance
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Beyond Smart Cities Today is a two-day conference that aims to provide time and space to question the differences within smart cities, reflect on issues of…
Financialization of everyday life in Sweden. Intersectional perspectives on housing and labor precarity
12:00–
13:00Brown Bag Seminar Chiara Valli. Financialization of everyday life in Sweden. Intersectional perspectives on housing and labor precarity. This seminar is part of the IUR…