News

Image: Bas Princen (2021), Baloise Office Tower, Valerio Olgiati. Manipulated.

/ News, Studies, Events

Basel: The Materiality of Art Fairs

Summer School 2024, co-organized by Critical Urbanisms, University of Basel, and the Visiting School programme of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

/ News, People

Welcome Professor Nancy Odendaal

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Nancy Odendaal has been appointed as the new UCT-Unibas Professor of Urban Studies. She will take up her position on 1 August 2024.

/ News

Open Position: Lecturer in Urban Studies

The University of Basel, Switzerland, Departement of Social Sciences invites applications for a Lecturer (37,5%) in Urban Studies with the appointment scheduled to begin on August 1, 2024.

/ News, Doctorate/PhD

Open Position: Ph.D. Position/Assistantship in Urban Studies

The University of Basel, Switzerland, Departement of Social Sciences invites applications for a Ph.D. Position/Assistantship (60%) in Urban Studies with the appointment scheduled to begin on August 1, 2024.

/ News

Open Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Studies

The University of Basel, Switzerland, Departement of Social Sciences invites applications for a Senior Lecturer (60-80%) in Urban Studies with the appointment scheduled to begin on August 1, 2024.
book cover showing a street

New book by Sophie Oldfield - High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership

High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa.
Symbolbild

/ News

Climate Justice Public lecture Series - Spring 2023

A Public Lecture Series organized by: Graduate School of Social Sciences and PRECURBICA, University of Basel and History of the Anthropocene, University of Zürich
Symbolbild mit Studierenden

/ News, Studies

Apply Now for our Master's Programs

Apply NOW for our Master's Program Application deadlines: Master's studies with a degree from a foreign higher education institution (special deadlines below) Spring Semester 2024 Application open from 15th October 2023 to…
.

/ News, Studies, Info

Apply Now! Spring 2023 Start

Applications for the Master's in Critical Urbanisms are now open! The new curriculum combines interdisciplinary urban research methodologies to immersive learning in dynamic urban contexts. Students have the choice between a semester of…
.

/ News, Events

Lecture by Nitin Bathla: "The Extended City in the Planetary Age"

This lecture attempts to reconsider cities and cityness, and retool urban comparison for the times of multiple intersectional crises and uncertainty that Dipesh Chakrabarty has described in his recent book on the Climate of History as the…