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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
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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APPLY NOW

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.