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Urban Lifelines: The Future Between Foreclosure and Foreshadowing

UI Emeritus Professor Maliq Simone and colleagues have published a new book on Urban Lifetimes with Polity Press.

Multilocal mobility in times of polycrisis
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Multilocal mobility in times of polycrisis: Reworking centre and periphery

Call for papers for a two-day workshop on 15-16 December 2026 bringing together scholars interested in multilocal practices across the world and related implications for centre-periphery thinking. Deadline 1st November.
Call for papers AAG 2027NYC: Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corrido

Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor

Call for papers AAG 2027NYC: Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor
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Writing the City

Delivered by the University of Sheffield Off the Shelf Festival of Words is one of the most vibrant literary festivals in the UK, bringing the best in local, national and international literary talent to Sheffield.
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Pathways to desirable urban futures with Prof Beth Perry

You are invited to join a Director's Seminar with the UI's Prof Beth Perry on "Pathways to desirable urban futures", as organised by UCL's Institute for Global Prosperity UK week. This is part of the Soundbites and Director's Seminars collection.

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Resilient community energy systems webinar

The CESET project and Loughborough University are co-organising a webinar on Wednesday 6th November 2024 11am to 12.30pm to explore the strategies to realize resilient community energy systems.

UI participates in the evidencing impact internship programme

The UI has participated in the University’s impact internship programme, with the CESET project receiving support from Shirley Jeque Mutemba, a current student at 51²è¹Ý¶ù studying MSc Management.

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Global Corridor: Techno-Territorial Constellations on a Transforming Planet

The Urban Institute is excited to announce the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture series will return in hybrid format on 6th, 13th and 27th November led by UI's Deputy Director and PI of the ERC funded project GlobalCORRIDOR.

Gabriela Leal

UI delighted to host anthropologist Gabriela Leal until December 2024

Gabriela is an anthropologist from São Paulo currently based in Lisbon. As a PhD Candidate in Urban Studies, she is affiliated with CICS.NOVA, at NOVA University of Lisbon.