University of Basel

Department of
Social Sciences

Urban Studies

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23 Nov 2020
18:00

Online

"Thinking Through Buildings": Lecture by Madlen Kobi

The fifth lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Madlen Kobi, entitled "Thinking through Buildings: Urban Energy Infrastructure and Biopolitics in Postsocialist China".
23 Nov 2020
18:00

Online

News, Events

"Thinking Through Buildings": Lecture by Madlen Kobi

The fifth lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Madlen Kobi, entitled "Thinking through Buildings: Urban Energy Infrastructure and Biopolitics in Postsocialist China".
26 Oct 2020
18:00

Zoom

Organizer:
Maren Larsen

Guest lecture / Talk

"DWELLING IN LIMINALITIES: THE OTHERWISE CARE OF BUCHAREST UNDERGROUND" | Lecture by Michele Lancione

The third lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Michele Lancione, entitled "Dwelling in liminalities: The otherwise care of Bucharest underground".
26 Oct 2020
18:00

Zoom

Organizer:
Maren Larsen

News, Events

"DWELLING IN LIMINALITIES: THE OTHERWISE CARE OF BUCHAREST UNDERGROUND" | Lecture by Michele Lancione

The third lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Michele Lancione, entitled "Dwelling in liminalities: The otherwise care of Bucharest underground".
12 Oct 2020
18:00  - 20:00

Zoom

Organizer:
Maren Larsen

Guest lecture / Talk

"MO-FAYA: SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SURVIVALS IN NAIROBI'S OUTLAW SETTLEMENT " | Lecture by Wangui Kimari

The second lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Wangui Kimari, entitled "Mo-Faya: Socio-ecological Survivals in Nairobi's Outlaw Settlement."
28 Sep 2020
18:00

Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates (Lecture Series)

This course exposes students to schools of thought and concrete interventions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in…
24 Sep 2020 - 25 Sep 2020
00:00 - 15:01

Sustainable Urbanism Across Borders, Eurodistrict International Conference

In our increasingly contested global world, cities are becoming crucial political agents in addressing climate change and planetary survival. Yet cities are rife with borders between citizens and non-citizens, rich and poor, and between…
16 Mar 2020

Kollegienhaus

Organizer:
Urban Studies

NEW DATES: What is Critical Urbanisms? Exhibition at Kollegienhaus

Curated by Urban Studies, Department of Social Sciences **UPDATE 12 OCT 2020: It's finally up for viewing! The exhibition is open to all from 12 Oct - 31 October 2020. Check it out at the Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1, Basel.
11 Mar 2020
18:15  - 19:45

EIB, Hörsaal 00.015

Lecture series

Lecture Series European Global Studies: «Focus Belt and Road Initiative»

Remo Reginold: «Geopolitik mal anders – Chinas versteckte Seidenstrassen»
30 Jan 2020
12:30  - 14:00

Freiburg im Breisgau

Organizer:
Arnold Bergstraesser Institut

Public event

Postcolonial Logistics: Eni's African Empire

Giulia Scotto will present her ongoing research on oil logistics imperialism at the ALMA Research Series – Freiburg’s interdisciplinary colloquium on social transformations in Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa.
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11 Apr 2024
15:00  - 17:00

Zoom

Lecture series

Urban Undersides

Alanna Osbourne, Irene Peano and Rodrigo Castriota (Beyond Inhabitation Lab) moderated by Michele Lancione and Wangui Kimari
09 Apr 2024
16:15  - 18:00

Zoom

Events, Public event, Lecture series

South Designs: Planetary Futures

The series South Designs: Planetary Futures continues in 2024 with new speakers to discuss how design, thought and practice from the South, forges planetary futures.
26 Mar 2024
16:15  - 18:00

Zoom

Events, Public event, Lecture series

South Designs: Planetary Futures

The series South Designs: Planetary Futures continues in 2024 with new speakers to discuss how design, thought and practice from the South, forges planetary futures.
13 Mar 2024
18:15

Hybrid Event on Zoom and at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Colloquium

Namibian and Southern African Studies

(Re)defining the Modern Built Heritage of Mozambique by Patricia Noormahomed (Urban Studies)
05 Mar 2024
15:00  - 17:00

Zoom

Lecture series

Archival Futures

Bhavani Raman, Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, and Yahia Shawkat in conversation, moderated by Anwesha Ghosh
01 Mar 2024
09:00  - 16:00

Events, Informational event

Critical Urbanisms Career Perspective Day 2024!

The event will take place Friday, 01 March 2024, and will be entirely online (via Zoom).
15 Aug 2023
12:00  - 16:30

Online via zoom

Organizer:
Urban Studies, African Centre for Cities, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics (EBE)

Public event

Open Research Seminars in Urban Studies

We would like to invite you to the open research seminars in Urban Studies for the position of UCT-Unibas Associate Professor / Professor in Urban Studies, taking place on 15 August 2023 via zoom.
30 Jun 2022
19:00

Basel

Events, Public event, Exhibition / Opening

CANCELLED - Lecture: A Vademecum of ‘City Making’

In the exhibition ‘Napoli Super Modern’, Parisian practice LAN (Benoit Jallon and Umberto Napolitano), together with photographer Cyrille Weiner, draw attention to a series of buildings from the period 1930–1960. A timespan in which Italy’s…
13 Jan 2021 - 15 Jan 2021

Congress / Conference / Symposium

The Coloniality of Infrastructure: Eurafrican Legacies

When Eurafrica emerged in the 1920s as an intellectual and political project to connect Europe with Africa, its goal was to ensure European colonial dominance in a changing world.
07 Dec 2020
18:00

"Engaging Pluriversal Futures": Lecture by Giulia Torino

The sixth and final lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Giulia Torino, entitled "Engaging pluriversal futures: The politics of emplacement and relationality at Bogotá’s borderlands".
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