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25-02_Application CU Fall

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Apply Now! Fall 2025 Start

Don't forget, applications for a Fall 2025 start in the MA Critical Urbanisms program are still open.
25-02_Teaching African Cities

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Teaching African Cities: Workshop Series

Sponsored by the African Urban Dynamics CRG under the auspices of AEGIS, this workshop series features scholars and teachers who focus on African cities. Organized around a series of themes, the workshops are intended to build on and…
25-02_Planetary Design

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Audio series "Planetary Design: Reclaiming Futures"

Debates and conversations on the role of design in making, unmaking and remaking worlds.
24-11_Banner LNdK 2024 Universität Basel

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Long Night of Career 2024

The Long Night of Career 2024 of the University of Basel will take place at the Kollegienhaus, University of Basel, Petersplatz 1, on Thursday, 07.11.2024 from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. organized by the Career Service Center.
24-09_Master Thesis_Embodied Holligen

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MA Thesis Highlights

We are happy to share two successful MA theses submitted by CU students in the Spring 2024.
24-10_Africa, Method, Theory

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Course and lecture series: "Africa, Method, Theory"

This joint course and public lecture series brings Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen’s University), Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida), Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University) and Jacob S. Dlamini (Princeton University) to Basel…
24-09_Welcome to the CU Family

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Welcome to the Critical Urbanisms family!

Last week we had the pleasure to welcome new members to our CU family here in Basel.
24-09_CU_Newsletter Fall 2024

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Newsletter Fall 2024 Out Now!

We are happy to announce that our newsletter Fall 2024 is out now! Check out our upcoming lectures and conferences, research perspectives, pedagogy and MA Thesis highlights, publications, awards and achievements of the past and fortcoming…
24-09_Department Courtyard

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+++ News +++ Urban Studies has moved

Hold on to your textbooks, folks! Our Program (aka Urban Studies and MSG Critical Urbanisms) has moved to our new HQ at Hebelstrasse 3, 4056 Basel.
Part of the book cover "one planet many worlds, the climate parallax"

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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