University of Basel

Department of
Social Sciences

Urban Studies

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19 Dec 2019
09:30  - 14:00

Kollegienhaus, Mehrzweckraum 35

Organizer:
Urban Studies

Informational event

What is Critical Urbanisms?

Thesis Work Presentations and Roundtable Discussion
03 Dec 2019
12:00

Rheinsprung 9, Room 207

Lecture series

Noon-Talks: Hybrid spaces in the state developmentalist - incrementalist nexus. The case of Hawassa, Ethiopia

Presented Thomas Betschart (Urban Studies) Discussant: Ernest Sewordor (Urban Studies)
21 Nov 2019
09:15  - 18:00

Universität Zürich, Hauptgebäude, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

Public event

Sicherheitspolitik anders denken

Interdisziplinarität und Wissenstransfer in der Sicherheitspolitik (Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Transfer in Security Politics)
19 Nov 2019
09:30  - 14:00

Kollegienhaus, Mehrzweckraum 35

Organizer:
Urban Studies

Public event

What is Critical Urbanisms? Thesis Work Presentations and Roundtable Discussion

Join us and get a sense of MA in Critical Urbanisms thesis work and explore together with the invited discussants the potentials of interdisciplinary research in urban studies.
12 Nov 2019
19:00

Union, Klybeckstrasse 95, Basel

Organizer:
Urban Studies

Public event

Insane Contrast: Critical Photography Exhibition

A tragic line: Moria Camp vs Lesvos Island
11 Nov 2019
18:00

Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111

Lecture series

Urbanism in Conflict: Cities, Conflict and Contestation

Conflict is associated both with democratic politics and with hegemonic forms of violence. This seminar and lecture series will explore how conflict shapes cities and citizenship, and how cities and citizenship are, in turn, shaped by…
04 Oct 2019
09:00  - 17:00

Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111

Mediterranean Fascism(s) Workshop

Over the course of this day-long workshop, participants from a range of disciplines will analyse and theorize the manifold legacies of fascism and colonialism that endure in the myriad crises that now reverberate across the Mediterranean…
09 Sep 2019

Alte Gewerbeschule, Seminarraum II -160

Organizer:
Urban Studies

Critical Urban Theory

Blockcourse with Professor Ananya Roy
02 Sep 2019

Studio, Petersgraben 52, 3rd floor

Organizer:
Urban Studies

African Cities

Blockcourse with Professor Sophie Oldfield
10 May 2019
20:00

Paris

Un sentiment d'étrangeté

Un sentiment d’étrangeté est un festival d’architecture et de cinéma qui propose le temps de six soirées, des projections de films suivies de débats. Chaque séance explore une thématique soulevée par le sentiment d’étrangeté.
RSS iCal
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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