15 Apr 2019
17:30

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The Earth That Modernism Built

This lecture explores the roots of the modernist project - both heroic and tragic - to design the human by reshaping the environment, from the domestic sphere to the earth at large. It examines how statesmen, scientists, and designers…
03 Dec 2018
17:30

Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111

There is no More Land, there is Only Sand

Guest Lecturer: Milica Topalovic (ETH Zürich)
29 Nov 2018
14:15

Petersgraben 52, Seminarraum II, 2. Stock

Khanyisile Mbongwa, Unstable Grounds. Deconstructing Self: The Other in Public Space

Khanyisile Mbongwa is a Cape Town based independent curator and award winning artist and will present her work on Thursday, 29 November 2018 during our Research Studio.
29 Oct 2018
19:00

Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111

Citizen Participation in the Smart City: a Critical Approach

Guest Lecturer: Ginette Verstraete (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Professor of Comparative Arts and Media)
01 Oct 2018

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 antagonisms shape cities and citizenship, and how cities and citizenship are, in turn, shaped by…
01 Oct 2018

Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111

Violence by Design and Other Stories

Guest Lecturer: Michael Umewedimo (Collaborative Media Advocacy Project CMAP)
14 Sep 2018
17:00

Welcome Apéro

The Welcome Apéro for all students and faculty of Critical Urbanisms takes place on Friday, 14 September 2018
03 Sep 2018

African Cities

Before the start of the fall semester Sophie Oldfield and Laura Nkula-Wenz are teaching a block course called "African Cities" from 3 - 6 September 2018. The course explores critiques of African urban exceptionalism and engages with a…
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".
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".