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,…
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.
Housing, Segregation and the Production of Inequality
10:00–
12:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYWorkshop This two-hour workshop seeks to present research around housing and urban inequality at IUR with the participation of Prof. Dr. Thomas Maloutas, Director of…
Athens and Öresund Urban Social Atlases
14:00–
16:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYThe IUR is developing an online Öresund Urban Social Atlas, a digital space that is accommodating to various formats of text and image-based research, and,…
State-Led Urban Transformation in Istanbul’s Informal Settlements
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Humboldt Universität zu BerlinWorkshop Changing Political Regime, Implications for Social Policy:Putting Turkey in Comparative Perspective Defne Kadioğlu will present State-Led Urban Transformation in Istanbul’s Informal Settlements. This workshop is…
Book launch: Investigating Spatial Inequalities
14:00–
17:00NI B0E15 (LECTURE HALL B1), NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYBook launch and conference of the book Investigating Spatial Inequalities: Mobility, Housing and Employment in Scandinavia and South East Europe, edited by Peter Gladoić Håkansson…
Horizon Europe from a Humanities and Social Sciences Perspective
14:00–
16:00NI:C0205, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYRickard Eksten, Senior EU Policy Officer at Lärosäten Syd — the network of Universities in South Sweden — will visit Malmö University to give a…
Who is telling the smart city story? Bringing feminist urban studies into the smart city research
12:15–
13:15Room 02.1.95, Roskilde UniversityCarina Listerborn will present within the Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies (MOSPUS) seminar series at Roskilde University.
- 10December
Screening the Nordic City: The Politics of Place and Space in Contemporary Crime Series
18:00–
20:00Salong 1, Panora (Friisgatan 19D, Malmö)MEDEA Talk For many people outside Northern Europe, what they know about Malmö comes what they see on their television screens. The worldwide success of…
Urban Underground Spaces: Future Questions
13:00–
16:00NIAGARA, A0502, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYWorkshop Marilu Melo Zurita (University of New South Wales) Urban underground space development is widely considered as an effective approach to help contemporary cities to…
The Imag(in)ed City: The (Geo)Politics of Nordic Noir’s Televisual Place-Making
14:15–
16:00Niagara, B0E07 (Lecture Hall B2), Malmö UniversityPublic lecture by Robert Saunders, Visiting Scholar at the IUR from Farmingdale State College (SUNY). Drawing on my previously-published analysis of Malmö as an imaginary…
- 20November
Praxis is the Doing
15:15–
17:00NI:C0542 (K3 Open Studio), Malmö UniversityExperimental lecture by Carolina Hicks, artist in residence at the IUR. (In collaboration with the School of Arts and Communication – K3) This event is…
Challenging Sub Terra Nullius: A Critical Underground Urbanism Project
15:15–
17:00Niagara, B0E15 (Lecture Hall B1), Malmö UniversityPublic lecture by Marilu Melo Zurita, Visiting Scholar at the IUR from the University of New South Wales. This event is part of our Visiting…
- 24October
Speaking of Places
16:15–
18:00Niagara, NI C0542 (K3 Open Studio), Malmö UniversityPerformance lecture by Gernot Wieland, artist in residence at the IUR. (In collaboration with the School of Arts and Communication – K3) Please note that…