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
- 19September
Bostadsvrålet dag 1
09:30–
18:00Rosengårds FolketshusBostadsvrålet kommer i år koppla hyreskamper till bredare frågor om urban och rumslig rättvisa. Vi bjuder in flera aktörer för att diskutera hur bostaden är…
- 20September
Bostadsvrålet dag 2
09:30–
15:00Rosengårds FolkethusBostadsvrålet kommer i år koppla hyreskamper till bredare frågor om urban och rumslig rättvisa. Vi bjuder in flera aktörer för att diskutera hur bostaden är…
Startup seminar: Ikram Abdulkadir (IUR Artist in Residence 2026)
13:15–
15:00Niagara K3 studio (5th floor)Throughout 2026, Malmö-based artist Ikram Abdulkadir will join IUR and Urban Humanities as artist in residence. Participating in both our public activities and everyday routines,…
Brown Bag Seminar: Magnus Gustafson
12:00–
13:00Hybrid: Niagara C0826 and ZoomThis event will be hybrid in Niagara C0826 and on Zoom (link here). Title: In the Tracks of Cement – Aspects of Cement’s Impact on…
- 1October
(Conference) Learning with Place: Place-Based Learning, Education, and Citizenship
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16:30Niagara A0507Att lära med platsen: Platsbaserat lärande, undervisning och medborgarskap Vi bjuder in forskare, universitetslärare samt lärare i grundskola och gymnasium till ett gemensamt utforskande av…
Brown Bag Seminar: Chad Boda
12:00–
13:00NIC0826 and ZoomThis seminar will be in person at Niagara C0826 and hybrid on Zoom (link here). Speaker: Chad Boda Title: An emerging restoration movement in southern…
Housing and Welfare lunch talk
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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…
Day 1: A Space Called Free
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Venue TBA21–22 October, Malmö Venue TBA What makes a space feel free? Is freedom something a space can offer, or something people create together? Across two…
Day 2: A Space Called Free
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Venue TBA21–22 October, Malmö Venue TBA What makes a space feel free? Is freedom something a space can offer, or something people create together? Across two…
- 4November
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…
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…
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,…
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.
Smart Housing and its role in smart urbanism
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13:00Brown Bag Seminar Carina Listerborn. Smart Housing and its role in smart urbanism This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series, check…
International Housing Transactions
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13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Magnus Andersson, Helena Bohman and Peter Palm. International Housing Transactions This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series, check…
Resistance to housing financialisation: how local protest challenge the expansion of indebtedness
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13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Vitor Peiteado Fernández. Resistance to housing financialisation: how local protest challenge the expansion of indebtedness This seminar is part of the IUR…
DIY Urbanism and Everyday Practices of Sustainability in Detroit: Lessons from Urban Africa in America’s “Comeback” City
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13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Stephen Marr. DIY Urbanism and Everyday Practices of Sustainability in Detroit: Lessons from Urban Africa in America’s “Comeback” City is part of…
- 18December
Housing displacement: conceptual issues, and how they unfold in a Swedish town
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16:20OnlineConference: Urban Europe, Precarious Futures? Keynote 3. Housing displacement: conceptual issues, and how they unfold in a Swedish Town Speaker: Guy Baeten Urban Europe, Precarious…
Trump v. Biden: Who will win the US Election?
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16:30ZoomIUR Researcher Stephen Marr will moderate a Zoom discussion on the upcoming US elections. Panelists include: Ryan Bakker, PhD, Reader of Comparative Politics, Department of…
Short-term rentals (STRs) impacting housing and impacted by Covid-19
10:00–
12:00ZoomShort-term rental (STR) digital platforms like Airbnb is a growing trend with millions of listings in thousands of cities worldwide. This phenomenon affects the local…
Revisiting the Concepts of Critical Urban Studies
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ZoomDate: 17-18 May 2021 In the last decade, scholars have questioned whether there is and should be a “cohesive concept of the city” (Scott and…
Challenging Methodologies and Methods
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ZoomDate: 15-16 April 2021 Urban studies have witnessed a broad spectrum of methodological practices in critical urban scholarship, including discourse analysis, urban ethnography, case studies,…
Places “Off the Map”: Bringing to Light the Hidden Locations of Urbanisation
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ZoomDate: 18-19 March 2021 Cities that were not forged by the industrial revolution and are outside the Anglo-American and European heartland are many times under-represented…