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Don't forget, applications for a Fall 2024 start in the MA Critical Urbanisms program are still open.
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Basel: The Materiality of Art Fairs

Summer School 2024, co-organized by Critical Urbanisms, University of Basel, and the Visiting School programme of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
"Last Flight (2009) by Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, JUT Art Museum Taipei

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Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance (ASPIRA)

We are excited to announce that Dr. Julie Ren (University of Amsterdam) has been awarded an SNF Starting Grant for her project “Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance (ASPIRA)”. The SNSF Grant will begin January 2025 and…

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Welcome Professor Nancy Odendaal

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Nancy Odendaal has been appointed as the new UCT-Unibas Professor of Urban Studies. She will take up her position on 1 August 2024.
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From the Global to the Planetary Turn in the Humanities

Welcome Dipesh Chakrabarty for our Distinguished Lecturer position in Urban Studies

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Open Position: Lecturer in Urban Studies

The University of Basel, Switzerland, Departement of Social Sciences invites applications for a Lecturer (37,5%) in Urban Studies with the appointment scheduled to begin on August 1, 2024.

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Open Position: Ph.D. Position/Assistantship in Urban Studies

The University of Basel, Switzerland, Departement of Social Sciences invites applications for a Ph.D. Position/Assistantship (60%) in Urban Studies with the appointment scheduled to begin on August 1, 2024.

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Open Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Studies

The University of Basel, Switzerland, Departement of Social Sciences invites applications for a Senior Lecturer (60-80%) in Urban Studies with the appointment scheduled to begin on August 1, 2024.
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New book by Sophie Oldfield - High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership

High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Climate Justice Public lecture Series - Spring 2023

A Public Lecture Series organized by: Graduate School of Social Sciences and PRECURBICA, University of Basel and History of the Anthropocene, University of Zürich