Universität Basel

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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

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Apply Now for our Master's Programs

Apply NOW for our Master's Program Application deadlines: Master's studies with a degree from a foreign higher education institution (special deadlines below) Spring Semester 2024 Application open from 15th October 2023 to…

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Apply Now! Spring 2023 Start

Applications for the Master's in Critical Urbanisms are now open! The new curriculum combines interdisciplinary urban research methodologies to immersive learning in dynamic urban contexts. Students have the choice between a semester of…

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Lecture by Nitin Bathla: "The Extended City in the Planetary Age"

This lecture attempts to reconsider cities and cityness, and retool urban comparison for the times of multiple intersectional crises and uncertainty that Dipesh Chakrabarty has described in his recent book on the Climate of History as the…

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Public Lecture: "Theater as Decolonization - NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O 'I WILL MARRY WHEN I WANT' AND KAMIRIITHU"

Told through the voices of some of its original actors and community members, Kamiriithu is a documentary film project about the Kamiriithu decolonial theater and its legacy today. Soon after its establishment in 1976, the theater was…

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Beyond the Text: Film as Research

In this session, we will present various interventions that employ film as a medium through which academic research is activated. Showing short screenings of our works, the session examines filmmaking as a form of practice research that can…

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PRECURBICA: Introducing the Team

In this article, SNF Eccellenza Prof. Dr. Jon Schubert from the field of Urban Studies offers an Insight into the research project “PRECURBICA” and introduces his team.

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Lecture by Rosa Ficeck: Post-Colonial Cities: Extractive urbanisms and climate justice

This public seminar aims to facilitate a multi-disciplinary discussion on how (urban) spaces that have been built on extractivist processes, and/or as spaces of (social) exclusion shape the experiences of urban dwellers today, and what the…

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