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.
Smart Housing and its role in smart urbanism
12:00–
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
12:00–
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
12:00–
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
12:00–
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
15:30–
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?
15:00–
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…