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
09:00–
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
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…
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.
A Non-Occidentalist West: Learning from Theories Outside the Canon
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ZoomDate: 18-19 February 2021 Even though it has been several years since Jennifer Robinson’s (2003) encouragement to postcolonise and “provincialize” the fields of geography and…
Workshop. BIDs in the Nordic Countries: Exploring Comparative Perspectives
15:15–
16:30ZoomThis workshop follows the webinar with Susanna Schaller. If you are interested in participating to the workshop or would like to receive more information, please…
Webinar with Susanna Schaller on Business Improvement Districts and the Contradictions of Placemaking
14:00–
15:00ZoomWelcome to a seminar with Susanna Schaller based on her latest book: Business Improvement Districts and the Contradictions of Placemaking: BID Urbanism in Washington, D.C. (2019)…
Comics, Space, and Class: Presentation of a Swedish-language Essay
12:00–
13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Magnus Nilsson. Comics, Space, and Class: Presentation of a Swedish-language Essay This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series,…
Malmö Life Stories: A Co-created and Participatory Oral History Approach to Study Urban Change and Urban Identity
12:00–
13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Robert Nilsson Mohammadi. Malmö Life Stories: A Co-created and Participatory Oral History Approach to Study Urban Change and Urban Identity This seminar…
The Urbanism of Exception? Scrutinizing the Role of State Actors in a Private Megaproject in Tbilisi, Georgia
12:00–
13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar David Gogishvili. The Urbanism of Exception? Scrutinizing the Role of State Actors in a Private Megaproject in Tbilisi, Georgia This seminar is…
Addressing Gender in Public Transport Planning Provision Programs
12:00–
13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Christina Lindkvist. Addressing Gender in Public Transport Planning Provision Programs This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series, check…
Redrawing the New York–Comics Relationship
12:00–
13:00ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Martin Lund. Redrawing the New York–Comics Relationship This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series, check out the rest…
Landscapes for Learning: Audiowalks as Critical Engagement
09:00–
12:00Museum of Movements. Bergsgatan 20, MalmöThe Landscapes for learning-workshop will explore needs and possibilities having to do with audiowalks as tools for learning and other forms of critical engagements with…
Transformative Education: Integrating Activist Understandings, Skills, and Action into Teaching
13:00–
15:00Zoom webinarProfessor Karen Suyemoto (University of Massachusetts), visiting scholar at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM). This webinar focuses on how, as…
The controversy over Google’s smart city plans for Toronto’s waterfront
09:00–
16:30Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of LiverpoolGuy Baeten will be a speaker at Building Smart Cities with Citizens and for the Public Good: A Symposium, organized by the Heseltine Institute for…
- 17December
Workshop: Tales of a city
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Museum of Movements, MalmöThis workshop has been postponed to December 2020 because of the Coronavirus situation. The information below has been updated to reflect the change but please…