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,…
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,…
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 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.
IUR Lecture: Dominika Polanska
10:15–
12:00NI A611, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPublic lecture: Contentious Politics and the Welfare State Dominika Polanska, Associate Professor in Sociology, Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University Dr. Polanska will…
City of Segregation: Housing and Neo-liberalism, Hegemony and Social Movements
15:15–
17:00LECTURE HALL B2, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYOpen Urban Seminars Andrea Gibbons from the University of Salford, UK, explores how racial ideologies have come to play such a key role in property valuation…
Survival Pending Revolution: The Black Panther Party, Intercommunalism and the post-capitalist Horizon
15:15–
17:00LECTURE HALL B2, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYOpen Urban Seminars In 1971 the Black Panther Party (BPP) seemingly went through an ideological transformation. It built a strong support on politics of revolutionary…
Development through colonisation: Governing movements in the urban periphery
15:15–
17:00LECTURE HALL B2, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYOpen Urban Seminars “Förortspolitik” is here to stay. But how can we understand the wide-spread use of Swedish urban policies that aim to “combat segregation”? Nazem…
IUR Workshop: Planning for Diversity
09:00–
15:00STORM, Malmö UniversitySegregation and inequality predominate cities in general, including Malmö and Copenhagen. This workshop set focus is on city planning for diversity as a tool to…
- 27September
Bostadsvrålet 2019
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StockholmCarina Listerborn will participate in three sessions (in Swedish) within the event Bostadsvrålet (Housing Scream). Om en ökande bostadsojämlikhet Söndag 29/9, Hökarängen. Konsthall C kl…
- 8October
Smart Cities
14:00–
16:00Ross North 120, York University, CanadaA talk hosted by the CITY Institute at York University (CITY) and the Department of Geography. Sidewalk Labs’ plans for Toronto shake the foundations of…
IUR Seminar: Professor Iain Borden
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresentation of on going work on the urban experience of large, everyday pieces of architecture such as bridges, cranes, tunnels and observation wheels. Article: The…
IUR Lecture: Professor Iain Borden
08:15–
10:00OR:D328, Orkanen, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYProfessor Iain Borden is invited by the IUR to give a lecture on “Urban Space, Experience and Skateboarding” In this talk, Iain introduces his thinking about…
- 25September
Alternative Urban Futures
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Centre for Urban Studies, Amsterdam, NLPeter Parker will be a speaker at the event Alternative Urban Futures taking place at the Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) in Amsterdam. The event…
Comparing local and regional development within and between countries – what information and data is needed?
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ERSA Congress, Lyon, FranceWith the theme “Cities, regions and digital transformations: Opportunities, risks and challenges” the 59th European Regional Science Association (ERSA) will take place in Lyon, France. IUR…
- 6November
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #12
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresenters: Pål Brunnström and Peter Gladoic Håkansson Title: Migration Regimes and Housing Policy in Sweden 1739-1982 This is a Brown Bag Seminar, feel free to bring your own lunch.…