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…
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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.
Open Lecture with Oriana Eliçabe and Leonidas Martin (Enmedio)
13:15–
14:45Orkanen OR:C231During week 47, members of the collective Enmedio are guests at Malmö University, supported by IUR, and in collaboration/within the design course Architecture for Diversity,…
Structuring and Strategizing Research on Green and Just Cities
13:00–
15:00Niagara C0826The purpose of this workshop is to work together with colleagues to structure priorities and strategize a collaborative approach to research within the Green and Just…
Misun Park Guest Seminar: Social Housing in the South Korean context
15:00–
17:00Niagara B0814Misun Park is part of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements. Her research interests include housing policy, housing welfare, social housing etc. She has a…
Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal
13:15–
15:00Niagara A0306In this seminar, Ida Danewid presents her book Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (2023) where she argues that state power is central to racial capitalism’s violent…
Walking to the bus: Comparative journeys of young male peer researchers in South Africa and the United Kingdom
12:00–
13:00Hybrid: Niagara C0826 and ZoomSpeaker: Bradley Rink (University of the Western Cape) In person at Niagara C0826 and on Zoom. Abstract: This seminar presentation brings together results of two…
Housing and Welfare Research Network/IUR Joint Seminar: Amber Howard
10:15–
11:30Hybrid: Niagara C1029 and on ZoomUrban grey markets: Rental sector transformation under platform capitalism Presentation by Amber Howard, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bristol (IUR Visiting Researcher 2025) This event will be hybrid in…
Book Talk: Flux Cities by Gregor Mews
11:30–
13:00Niagara C0826 and ZoomThis event will be hybrid in Niagara C0826 and Zoom. All are warmly welcome to a special edition in our Brown Bag Seminar series: a…
From practice to theory in the community intervention project “Lekande Kvarter” (Playing Neighborhood)
13:15–
15:00Niagara C1129Come join us for a seminar organized within the Green and Just Cities theme at IUR where Krister Svensson from the International Play Association and…
Biweekly Urban Humanities Research Group Meeting
10:15–
12:00Niagara B0824Note: these meetings have been changed from being held weekly to being held biweekly. Join us for biweekly Monday sessions (10:15–12:00) in room NI:B0824. These…
Biweekly Urban Humanities Research Group Meeting
10:15–
12:00Niagara B0824Note: these meetings have been changed from being held weekly to being held biweekly. Join us for biweekly Monday sessions (10:15–12:00) in room NI:B0824. These…
Biweekly Urban Humanities Research Group Meeting
10:15–
12:00Niagara B0824Note: these meetings have been changed from being held weekly to being held biweekly. Join us for biweekly Monday sessions (10:15–12:00) in room NI:B0824. These…
Transformative potential of sustainable housing developments? Politicisation and depoliticisation dynamics in everyday life and decision-making in new Swedish neighbourhoods.
12:00–
13:00Hybrid: Niagara C0826 and ZoomSpeaker: Hilda Wenander (Linköping University) In person at Niagara C0826 and on Zoom. Abstract: This presentation draws on the PhD thesis “Politics of Transformative Housing…