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21 Mar 2025 / News, Events

Career Perspective Day at Urban Studies

The Career Perspectives Day supports MA Critical Urbanisms students as they prepare to enter the job market.

Poster Nominate your teaching star

20 Mar 2025 / News, Campus, Info

Teaching Excellence Awards 2025: nominations open

Students and staff have until 26 March to nominate their favorites for the University of Basel Teaching Awards

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20 Mar 2025

Welcome to the Critical Urbanisms family in 2025!

Two weeks ago we had the pleasure to welcome new members to our CU family here in Basel.

ESC 2025 Poster

06 Mar 2025 / News, Events

UniBasel and the ESC

United by music? Our interdisciplinary offers around the ESC

25-02_Application CU Fall

18 Feb 2025 / News, Studies

Apply Now! Fall 2025 Start

Don't forget, applications for a Fall 2025 start in the MA Critical Urbanisms program are still open.

25-02_Teaching African Cities

17 Feb 2025 / News

Teaching African Cities: Workshop Series

Sponsored by the African Urban Dynamics CRG under the auspices of AEGIS, this workshop series features scholars and teachers who focus on African cities. Organized around a series of themes, the workshops are intended to build on and…

12 Jun 2025 09:00 – 13 Jun 2025 17:30 / Events

Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaption with and through Water

Faced with rising sea levels, cities across the globe are being remade in an array of contact zones of the climate emergency to confront the threat of water. Recent scholarship has started to question the terracentric, territorially bound…

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