21 Oct 2025
Time: 18:15 - 20:30
Location: Naturhistorisches Museum
Events, Public event, Inaugural lecture
Engaging the City in Digital Worlds: Southern Smart Urbanisms and the Everyday
Please join us for Prof. Dr. Nancy Odendaal's Inauguration Lecture, taking place on 21st October 2025 at the Natural History Museum, Augustinergasse 2, 4051 Basel. 16 Oct 2025
Time: 17:30
Location: Urban Studies, Hebelstrasse 3, Lecture Hall EO16
Organizer:
Urban Studies
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Book launch: Worlding Home: An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC
25 Aug 2025 - 29 Aug 2025
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NEW Block course coming up in the fall semester - "Observing and Restoring Border Landscape Continuities"
School's out for summer! We are pleased to announce that Fall 2025 Critical Urbanisms courses will also kick off again at the end of the summer with "Observing and Restoring Border Landscape Continuities," a block course happening from… 12 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Location: 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
Time: 15:00
Location: 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
Time: 10:15 - 17:00
Location: 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
Events, Informational event
Basler Infoabend Master 2025
Am Infoabend können sich Studierende über die Masterangebote der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät informieren 14 Mar 2025
Time: 15:00
Location: 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
Location: 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
Time: 09:30 - 12:00
Location: Alte Universität, Seminarraum -1, Rheinsprung 9, Basel
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Material Investigations: Concrete in Switzerland
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