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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.

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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.
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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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Registration open for hybrid seminar on "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy"

Dr Papia Sengupta- Urban Institute Visiting Fellow, Delhi, India - announces upcoming seminar "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy: Towards building 'differential solidarities'" as part of her British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2023

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UI launches Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023

The Urban Institute is excited to announce the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".

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New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities

Beth Perry, Vanesa Castán Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities".
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Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present “Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines” (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy
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'Decolonial’ city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

Please join the Decolonial Cities Collective’s second Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Peju Layiwola, Red City Solidarity Disco and AFRI - 17th July 2023, 3pm-4.30pm