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.
The Urbanism of Exception? Investigating Panorama Tbilisi Mega-project (POSTPONED)
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPlease note that this seminar has been postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Brown Bag Seminar David Gogishvili. The Urbanism of Exception? Investigating Panorama Tbilisi Mega-project…
Space and Place in School Geography in Sweden
12:00–
13:00Zoom webinarBrown Bag Seminar David Örbring. Space and Place in School Geography in Sweden This Zoom webinar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series.…
Climate change related water security and sustainable communities: The case of Lilongwe peri urban areas, Malawi (POSTPONED)
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPlease note that this seminar has been postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Brown Bag Seminar Isaac Tchuwa and Thoko Mtewa (Malawi University of Science and Technology).…
The geopolitical dimensions to smarting southern Africa’s cities (POSTPONED)
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPlease note that this seminar has been postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Brown Bag Seminar Patience Mususa. The geopolitical dimensions to smarting southern Africa’s…
Tensions between policy objectives for climate change and everyday practices – emotional engagement in transport planning (CANCELED)
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBrown Bag Seminar Christina Lindkvist and Jakob Allanson. Tensions between policy objectives for climate change and everyday practices – emotional engagement in transport planning This…
- 26March
Behind the scenes of the city. The hidden, the forbidden, the forgotten (CANCELED)
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBrown Bag Seminar Rebecka Lennartsson. Behind the scenes of the city. The hidden, the forbidden, the forgotten (Please note that this seminar will take place…
Fixing Tracks: Urban Land Valorization through Land Value Financing of a New Tram Line in Lund, Sweden
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBrown Bag Seminar Lina Olsson. Fixing Tracks: Urban Land Valorization through Land Value Financing of a New Tram Line in Lund, Sweden This seminar is…
Living alone – sociological and sustainability perspectives
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBrown Bag Seminar Tullia Jack. Living alone – sociological and sustainability perspectives This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series so feel…
Consumption, everyday racism and everyday resistance
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBrown Bag Seminar Paula Mulinari, Johanna Sixtensson and Carina Listerborn. Consumption, everyday racism and everyday resistance. Presentation of a new research project This seminar is…
Approaching capital at the urban level – expectations and risks
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBrown Bag Seminar Mikael Stigendal. Approaching capital at the urban level – expectations and risks This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar…
Value in Urban Development – A Pragmatist View
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBrown Bag Seminar Stig Westerdahl.Value in Urban Development – a Pragmatist View This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series so feel…
- 13December
Open Urban Seminar: Free to Move Along – The demolition of the Sorgenfri camp in context
15:15–
17:00LECTURE HALL B2, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYOpen Urban Seminars Free to Move Along – The demolition of the Sorgenfri camp in context Presenter: Maria Persdotter It has been five years since…