We look forward to hosting a symposium organized by our urban humanities theme group on Friday, April 11th from 09.00 – 17.00 at Malmö University, room NI:A0407. Please register by March 28 by contacting Robert Nilsson Mohammadi at robert.mohammadi@mau.se.
Details and Program
The 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 of study and as an opportunity. This gathering brings together people from different backgrounds to examine how we learn about cities, whether through art, planning, research, or everyday experience, and to imagine new ways of collaborating in the future.
The program is designed to be more than just a series of talks—it is a space for conversation, reflection, and exchange. Participants will have time to pause, think, and share their perspectives, moving between presentations and roundtable discussions where they can connect their work with shared questions about how we understand and shape urban life.
This symposium is part of the IUR’s ongoing commitment to urban humanities and its vision of building an Urban Humanities Hub—a place for dialogue and collaboration among those invested in the urban, whether through research, practice, or lived experience.
Introductions and Presentations
09:00 – Welcome and Introductions by Carina Listerborn and Robert Nilsson Mohammadi
09:30 – Workshop: Our learning practices
Learning about the urban in praxis
10:00 – Annika Enqvist
10:45 – Anna Wahlstedt and Rena Baledi, ”Beyond Monuments: Public Art, Collective Memory, and Urban Humanities”
11:30 – Roundtable Discussion
12:00 – Lunch
On the Worldliness of the Humanities
13:00 – Ragni Svensson Stringberg: “Urbana bokcaféer som centrum för humanistiskt kunskapsutbyte”
13:45 – Kristoffer Hansson: “Where are the steam?”
14:30 – Roundtable Discussion (with coffee)
Humanities Research on the Urban
15:00 – Jason Finch: “Novels, Poems and Plays as Materials for Expanding Urban Knowledge”
15:45 – Gruia Bădescu: “Urban Imaginaries and Memoryscapes: Cities, Ruptures, and Spatial Remakings”
Conclusions
16:30 – Final Roundtable Discussion
17:00 – Ending
