University of Basel

Department of
Social Sciences

Urban Studies

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12 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025
09:00  - 17:30

Division of Urban Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland, Hebelstr. 3, 4056 Basel 

Organizer:
Armelle Choplin, Silvia Balzan, Jon Schubert & Dany Tiwa 

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…
14 Apr 2025
15:00

ZOOM

Organizer:
Garth Myers & Shakirah Hudani

Events, Workshop

Teaching (African) Cities Relationally

Sponsored by the African Urban Dynamics CRG under the auspices of AEGIS, this workshop series features scholars and teachers who focus on African cities.
21 Mar 2025
10:15  - 17:00

Zoom and in person at Urban Studies, Grosser Hörsaal E016, Hebelstrasse 3, Basel

Organizer:
Fabrizio Furiassi

Events, Informational event

Career Perspectives Day 2025

20 Mar 2025
17:15  - 20:36

Events, Informational event

Basler Infoabend Master 2025

Am Infoabend können sich Studierende über die Masterangebote der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät informieren
14 Mar 2025
15:00

ZOOM

Organizer:
Wangui Kimari & Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye

Events, Workshop

Native, Worker, Owner: Theorizing African Embodiments in the City

Sponsored by the African Urban Dynamics CRG under the auspices of AEGIS, this workshop series features scholars and teachers who focus on African cities.
17 Feb 2025

ZOOM

Organizer:
Kenny Cupers and Nancy Oldendaal

Events, Workshop

Modes of Experiential Pedagogy

Sponsored by the African Urban Dynamics CRG under the auspices of AEGIS, this workshop series features scholars and teachers who focus on African cities.
16 Dec 2024
09:30  - 12:00

Alte Universität, Seminarraum -1, Rheinsprung 9, Basel

Events

Material Investigations: Concrete in Switzerland

Student Project Presentations
12 Dec 2024
16:15  - 18:00

Urban Studies HS, Hebelstrasse 3, 4056 Basel

Public event, Guest lecture / Talk, Lecture series

Book Launch "The Earth that Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" by Kenny Cupers

Public Discussion and Apéro
06 Dec 2024
16:15  - 18:00

Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, HS-101

Organizer:
Urban Studies

Public event, Lecture series

Jacob S. Dlamini (Princeton University): "The Archive Machine: The Truth Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid"

Public lecture in the framework of the course Africa, Method, Theory, followed by refreshments
22 Nov 2024
16:15  - 18:00

Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, HS-101

Organizer:
Urban Studies

Events, Guest lecture / Talk, Lecture series

Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University): Lagos Life: Streets, Maps, History (Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2024)

Public lecture in the framework of the course Africa, Method, Theory, followed by an apéro riche
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