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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…

Announcement Poster for City Collaboratory Event on 22 May 2026
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Save the Date – City Collaboratory 2026 in Basel

At the last City Collaboratory meeting in Geneva in May 2025, Urban Studies Basel was announced to host the City Collaboratory 2026. The City Collaboratory 2026 meeting is scheduled for Friday, 22 May. We are excited to host you in Urban…

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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.…

Call for application poster - deadline 1st September 25
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Urban Popular Economy School, Nairobi 2-6 February 2025 - Call for participation - deadline 1st September 2025

The Critical Urbanism Program at the University of Basel, the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, and the Socio-Cultural Anthropology Program at KU Leuven invite early-career researchers to participate in a School of Urban…

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