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.
Open Guest Lecture: Predicting their futures – Think Family as a case study
10:15–
12:00Orkanen C231Increasing pressures on local authorities to utilise reduced workforce and economic resources in child and family welfare contexts and drivers emanating from serious case reviews…
Housing and Welfare breakfast seminar: “Corporate landlords and disruption through consolidation in post-crash Dublin’s private rental sector”
09:30–
11:00Niagara C0826September 5, 9.30-11.00 In person: NIC0826 The IUR Housing and Welfare theme invites you to a breakfast seminar with Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn, Ph.D., visiting from…
Radical Care-work, Critical Pedagogy and the Livable City: Revisiting the History of Urban Squatting in West Berlin, 1968-1977
12:00–
13:00Hybrid: Niagara C0826 and ZoomSpeaker: Alex Vasudevan (University of Oxford) In-person at Niagara C0826 and on Zoom. Abstract: This paper re-traces the early history of housing struggles in West…
Between Prefiguration and Normalisation: Housing and Energy Renovations in the ‘Free Town’ of Christiania
12:00–
13:00Hybrid: Niagara C0826 and ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Speakers: Defne Kadioglu, Edgar Sarmulis, Guy Baeten In-person at Niagara C0826 and on Zoom. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown…
- 10September
“The Land Ownership Never Changes”: Elite Power and Gated Living in Waterfall City
12:00–
13:00Hybrid: Niagara C0826 and ZoomBrown Bag Seminar Speaker: Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand) In-person at Niagara C0826 and on Zoom. Abstract: This seminar…
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…
Weekly Urban Humanities Research Group Meeting
10:15–
12:00Niagara B0824Join us for weekly Monday sessions (10:15–12:00) in room NI:B0824. These gatherings are dedicated to building urban humanities at IUR through collaborative writing, research development, shared reflection,…
Weekly Urban Humanities Research Group Meeting
10:15–
12:00Niagara B0824Join us for weekly Monday sessions (10:15–12:00) in room NI:B0824. These gatherings are dedicated to building urban humanities at IUR through collaborative writing, research development, shared reflection,…
Weekly Urban Humanities Research Group Meeting
10:15–
12:00Niagara B0824Join us for weekly Monday sessions (10:15–12:00) starting September 1 in room NI:B0824. These gatherings are dedicated to building urban humanities at IUR through collaborative…
Book Launch: People-led urban development in Vietnam. Interstitial practices and the production of differential spaces in Hanoi
15:15–
17:00Niagara A0507All are warmly welcome to the release event for Hoai Anh Tran‘s book People-led urban development in Vietnam: interstitial practices and the production of differential spaces…
TRANSITION Talk with Kate Brown: Tiny Gardens and the Self-Provisioning City
09:00–
10:00University of Copenhagen, South Campus, room 4A.0.69From Mikkel Thelle and the University of Copenhagen: How have city dwellers historically sustained themselves in times of scarcity and transformation? What role did small-scale…
TRANSITION Dialogue with Alberte Bové Rud: Urban-Rural Divides in Contemporary European Politics
14:00–
15:00University of Copenhagen, South Campus, room 4A.2.78From Mikkel Thelle and the University of Copenhagen: Join us for the launch of TRANSITION Dialogues, a new conversation series by TRANSITION: Center for Changing Urban…