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.
Oral History and the Art of Participatory Practice: Rethinking Research in the 21st Century
11:15–
12:30NIA0507, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYLecture by Professor Steven High (in English) Utifrån erfarenheterna av Montreal Life Stories Project (MLS) kommer professor Steven High från Concordia Center for Oral History…
Worlding smart cities: A view from Latin America
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HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT, ROTTERDAM, NLClaudia Fonseca Alfaro and Lorena Melgaço will present a paper within the panel Rethinking smart city scholarship at the Beyond Smart Cities Today symposium. Abstract:…
Keynote: Smart cities for city officials
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Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NLCarina Listerborn will be one of the keynote speakers at Beyond Smart Cities Today, a symposium that will take place at the New Institute in…
- 27November
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #13
12:00–
13:00NIC1029, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresenter: Markus Holdo Title: The Quiet Politics of Participating: Boundaries, Ethics, and Leverage (Please note that this seminar will take place in NI C1029). This is a…
- 30October
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #11
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresenter: Hoai Anh Tran Title: Public space and the performance of property. The case of Apple’s attempted store in the King’s Garden Park in Stockholm This is…
- 16October
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #10
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresenter: Lorena Melgaço Title: Epistemic dialogues South-North: Decolonising the smart city agendaP This is a Brown Bag Seminar, feel free to bring your own lunch. Want to…
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #9 (canceled)
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPlease note that this event has been canceled. Presenter: Maria Engberg Title: The Data Society Research Program This is a Brown Bag Seminar, feel free to bring…
- 18September
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #8
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresenter: Defne Kadıoğlu Title: Comparably Cheap? The Context to Berlin’s Housing Crisis This is a Brown Bag Seminar, feel free to bring your own lunch. Want to…
- 4September
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #7
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresenter: Claudia Fonseca Alfaro Title: Smart cities in the global south: a case from Mexico This is a Brown Bag Seminar, feel free to bring your own…
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #6
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPresenter: Magnus Nilsson Title: Urban perspectives in working class poetry This is a Brown Bag Seminar, feel free to bring your own lunch. Want to know more…
Docent Lecture: No Escape from Balkan – Investigating Spatial Inequalities in Scandinavia and South East Europe
15:00–
15:45NIA306, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYPeter Gladoic Håkansson will present his inaugural docent lecture “No Escape from Balkan – Investigating Spatial Inequalities in Scandinavia and South East Europe.”
IUR Brown Bag Seminar #5
12:00–
13:00NIC826, NIAGARA, MALMÖ UNIVERSITYWelcome to the fifth IUR Brown Bag Seminar of the semester! Presenter: Tina Gudrun Jensen Title: The transformation of Vesterbro: an ethnographic film project on gentrification in…