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05-2024_Mangrove Ecologies

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Life between Ebb & Flow: Mangrove Ecologies

Open Call for Artists from Kenya & Switzerland
Image: 2024-05_Kamĩrĩĩthũ Afterlives

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Voices from Kamĩrĩĩthũ Afterlives

Kamĩrĩĩthũ Afterlives is a collaborative project to commemorate and reactivate this heritage and to support struggles and debates about social and environmental justice in Kenya today. Led by Kenny Cupers and Makau Kitata, it brings…
Image: Mercato di Ballarò, Palermo, by Fiona Hager, 2023

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Don't forget, applications for a Fall 2024 start in the MA Critical Urbanisms program are still open.
Image: Bas Princen (2021), Baloise Office Tower, Valerio Olgiati. Manipulated.

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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.
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

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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.