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.
Lunch Seminar: Tanisha Sequeira
12:00–
13:00Niagara C0826Visiting master’s student Tanisha Sequeira will present her research from Malmö and seek feedback before traveling back to Radboud University and submitting her thesis.
Breakfast Seminar: Sarah Klosterkamp
09:00–
10:30Niagara C0929Meet visiting researcher Sarah Klosterkamp! Sarah is an urban and feminist legal geographer who is currently affiliated as postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe University Frankfurt,…
Public Launch of IUR
16:00–
18:00Form/Design Center, Lilla torg 9, 211 34You are warmly invited to IUR’s public launch as one of Malmö University’s research centers with the theme “Urban Research for a Just City.” The…
Film screening and lecture: Black mothers’ memory activism
13:15–
15:00Hörsal B1 (NI:B0E15), Nordenskiöldsgatan 1Join us for a screening of the film Desova and a lecture and discussion with professor Tereza Ventura from Universidade do Estado in Rio de Janeiro.…
Teaching the African City workshop: Kenny Cupers and Nancy Oldendaal
15:00–
16:30ZoomIUR member Steve Marr‘s African Urban Dynamics Research Collective is organizing a series of pedagogy-focused workshops on Teaching the African City, in which thoughtful and engaged scholars…
Global Urbanisms Reading Series: First Meeting
13:00–
15:00Niagara NICO929In this series, the plan is to discuss book chapters and articles that explores the theme of Global Urbanism and discuss them in relation to…
Teaching the African City Workshop: Garth Myers and Shakira Hudani
15:00–
16:00ZoomTeaching (African) Cities Relationally IUR member Steve Marr‘s African Urban Dynamics Research Collective is organizing a series of pedagogy-focused workshops on Teaching the African City, in which thoughtful…
Urban Humanities Symposium: How Do We Learn About the Urban?
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17:00Niagara, A0407, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1The Institute for Urban Research at Malmö University invites practitioners from diverse communities of practice to a full-day exploration of urban humanities—both as a field…
- 8April
‘South-South-North’ Knowledge Diplomacy as a Frame to guide Urban Research and Networks?
12:00–
13:00Niagara NIC0826Brown Bag Seminar Paul Rabé – “‘South-South-North’ Knowledge Diplomacy as a Frame to guide Urban Research and Networks?” In-person only: NI:C0826 Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss…
City walk: labour movements and social movements in Malmö and Möllevången
16:30–
18:00Meet at Möllevångstorget by the statue "The Glory of Labour"Malmö is in many ways the heart and birthplace of the Swedish Labour movement, but it is also a place where many other social movements…
Open Urban Seminar: Exploring contemporary class formation through everyday tenant struggles
13:15–
15:00Orkanen C231In this talk, Kirsteen Paton will connect the project set out in her new book ‘Class and Everyday Life’ with her ongoing research around housing…
Teaching the African City Workshop: Wangui Kimari and Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
15:00–
ZoomNative, Worker, Owner: Theorizing African Embodiments in the City IUR member Steve Marr‘s African Urban Dynamics Research Collective is organizing a series of pedagogy-focused workshops on Teaching…