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Urban Laboratory: Archives, Voices, Fringes

Exhibition- Urban Laboratory: Archives, Voices, Fringes

In this year’s Urbanisms Across Geographies track, the students of the Critical Urbanisms programme have spent the last semester observing, analysing and tracing the historical and contemporary relationship between Basel’s pharmaceutical…

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Save the Date – City Collaboratory 2026 in Basel

Dear City Collaborators, we at the Urban Studies unit of the University of Basel are excited to welcome you to the fourth edition of the annual City Collaboratory meeting on Friday, 25 September 2026. The day’s programme will reinvigorate…

Career Perspective Day 2026
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Career Perspective Day 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the Critical Urbanisms Career Perspectives Day 2026, an event designed to support you as you prepare to enter the job market and take the next steps in your professional journey. Building on earlier editions,…

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Plotting Sovereignty, Staging Liberation

Join Prof. Kenny Cupers for his public lecture titled "Plotting Sovereignty, Staging Liberation" on Tuesday, March 17 at 16:00 CET.

Students waiting for the UCT Shuttle Bus at the Mowbray Interchange

Trading Connections of Spaces and People: The Mowbray Interchange, a Ghetto Paradise?

Lea Helfenstein | Master Thesis, 2026

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Double Book Launch - Dr. Jacob Geuder: Between Streets & Screens & Dr. Maren Larsen: Worlding Home

SAVE THE DATE: Come join us for a double book launch on December 8 at 5pm, at the University of Neuchâtel. We are celebrating two new books by CC members Jacob Geuder and Maren Larsen.

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Engaging the City in Digital Worlds: Southern Smart Urbanisms and the Everyday

Please join us for Prof. Dr. Nancy Odendaal's Inaugural Lecture, taking place on October 21, 2025 at the Natural History Museum Basel.

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Newsletter Fall 2025 Out Now!

We are happy to announce that our newsletter Fall 2025 is out now! Check out our upcoming lectures and conferences, research perspectives, book launches, pedagogy and MA Thesis highlights, publications, awards and achievements of the past…

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Unfinished Dreams: Dwelling in China's Lanweilou Housing Projects

Jane Gao | Master Thesis, 2025

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Understanding Coloniality of Infrastructure from Urban Africa

The final scientific output resulting from an SNF-funded project titled How Infrastructure Shaped Territory has been published under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers, Chair of the Urban Studies programme at the University of Basel.…