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Entangled

Entangled Urban Inequalities, PGR/ECR Conference

Wednesday 1 July 2026, 9:00am
TBC
Bishop Auckland

Where Has Bish Vegas Gone?

Wednesday 24 June 2026, 12:30pm
Teaching room 1, Geography and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
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The Geopolitics of Urban Intelligence

Thursday 18 June 2026, 9:00am
Seminar room 11, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Act Now

Sheffield Urbanism Showcase 2026: Urban Research as Social Action

Monday 15 June 2026, 9:00am
Workrooms 2 and 3, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
Primary School

Kinships – Thinking with Doina Petrescu

Thursday 11 June 2026, 10:00am
TBC
Recognising Experience-Based Skills and Community Knowledge: Debates, Issues and Examples

Recognising Experience-Based Skills and Community Knowledge: Debates, Issues and Examples

Wednesday 10 June 2026, 10:00am
Ron Johnson Research Room, Geography and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
Studying China in the Age of Polycrisis

Studying China in the Age of Polycrisis

Thursday 28 May 2026, 9:00am
Seminar room 5, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Urban Dreams Creative Workshop

Urban Dreams / Future Cities Creative Workshop

Friday 22 May 2026, 9:30am
Classroom 8, Elmfield Building, The University of Sheffield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield, S10 2TU
Urban Dreams Public Talk

Urban Dreams / Future Cities Hybrid Public Talk

Thursday 21 May 2026, 1:30pm
Seminar room 4, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
The Nairobi skyline

Expatriate Nairobi: Migration categories and the making of urban privilege

Thursday 21 May 2026, 1:00pm
Online
UI Urban Dreams Exhibition

Urban Dreams/Future Cities Exhibition

Monday 18 May 2026, 12:00pm
The Foyer (opposite the reception), The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Urban Dreams Exhibition Opening

Urban Dreams/Future Cities Exhibition Opening

Thursday 21 May 2026, 12:00pm
The Foyer (opposite the reception), The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Amazon Rainforest Brazil

Online keynote lecture: Reproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia

Friday 15 May 2026, 3:30pm
Online

Past events

UI Book talk: Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Book Talk - Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Monday 23 March 2026, 3:00pm
GPL, Teaching Room 2, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
UI: Tanya Zack

Tanya Zack and The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a port city

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 1:00pm
GPL, Teaching Room 1, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
Film screening

Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization

Thursday 12 March 2026, 2:00pm
Site Gallery (Studio 1), 1Brown Street, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BS
xchange

Barriers to Inclusivity in the Solar Value Chain – Online Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 1:00pm
Online
UI A Place in The City, Film Screening

A Place in The City, Film Screening

Tuesday 3 February 2026, 2:30pm
Hicks Building, Lecture Theatre 5 , The University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH
UI Epistemic Tangles

Online lecture: The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation

Friday 16 January 2026, 11:30am
Online
JustGESI: Feminist Ways of Knowing

Feminist Ways of Knowing: From Institutional Ethnography to Ethnography in Practice

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 1:00pm
Online
JustGESI logo

UI 10th JustGESI Project Launch

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 4:30pm
Seminar room 5, Wave Building, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
A profile picture of Simon Marvin

Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 10:30am
This lecture will be live-streamed as part of an in-person (invite only) event
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Keynote Lecture 1: That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities

Monday 20 October 2025, 4:30pm
Online
Co Pro Futures Inquiry

Knowledge Co-production Across Borders: A Series of Online Dialogues

Monday 20 October 2025, 9:30am
Online
Sheffield City Centre

Social Founders in Sheffield and South Yorkshire

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 2:30pm
Room TBC, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
flyer

Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

Tuesday 7 October 2025, 9:00am
Online
Gated City

Book Launch - The Gated City

Wednesday 24 September 2025, 5:00pm
Online
Professor Diana Mitlin

Lecture: The contribution of academics to urban reform coalitions

Thursday 18 September 2025, 4:00pm
Seminar Room 5, The Wave Building, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
UI Flooding Argentina

‘Water Blew Up Everything’: from Critical Urbanisms to Situated Planetary Care

Tuesday 2 September 2025, 10:00am
Arts Tower, Floor 13, rooms 13.18 + 19, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN
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Film Screening of ‘Contained: A New Silk Road Story’

Thursday 3 July 2025, 6:00pm
Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS
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Public Talk: “Exploring Social and Environmental (In)Justice Along the EACOP"

Wednesday 2 July 2025, 6:30pm
Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS
Sheffield Urbanism Winter Programme

The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025

Tuesday 1 July 2025, 9:00am
Workroom 2, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
Conflict

Urban Research Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth (IN-PERSON PUBLIC EVENT)

Tuesday 1 July 2025, 4:45pm
Lecture Theatre 5, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
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Emerging Urban Inequalities: The Experiences of Voluntary Action Sheffield

Friday 27 June 2025, 2:15pm
Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD
Sir Frederick Mappin Building

Emerging Urban Inequalities Conference 2025

Thursday 26 June 2025, 9:00am
Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD
London digital connection

New Frontiers of Urban Inequality, Keynote by Dr Saffron Woodcraft

Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00am
Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD
A hand writing into a notebook.

Climate Pluriversations Grant Writing Workshop (Hybrid event)

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 12:30pm
ICOSS Conference Room, The University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP
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Anarchitectures of the Future, Dr Martin Savransky, University of Bath (HYBRID KEYNOTE LECTURE)

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 5:30pm
Lecture room 5, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
GYM

Young Men, Mental Health & Community Resources: New Evidence New Directions

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 12:00pm
Israac Centre, Vestry Hall, Cemetery Road, Sheffield, S11 8FP
Cyborg military

Neurotechnically-Enabled Urbanism: What are the issues and challenges for urban life?

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 1:00pm
Seminar Room 14, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
"Chapter House Ceiling - York Minster" by nick.garrod is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Future Religions / Religious Futures

Monday 23 June 2025, 9:00am
St Mary's Church, Bramall Lane, Sheffield, S2 4QZ
Building bridges

Building bridges: Queer and feminist approaches to interdisciplinarity

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 4:00pm
Room A09a/Ron Johnston/Online, Geography and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
CEO capitalism

Global CEO peer groups and the capitalist class in Johannesburg, London and Mumbai

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 4:00pm
Lecture Theatre 6, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
China workshop

ECR China Studies Workshop: Studying China in Uncertain Times

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:45am
Seminar room 5, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram stood in front of a brick wall

Head North: Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram

Monday 19 May 2025, 7:30pm
Octagon Centre, The University of Sheffield, Clarkson Street, Sheffield, S10 2TQ
City of Desire by Tanzil Shafique

Book launch (hybrid): City of Desire by Tanzil Shafique

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 4:00pm
Workroom 3 , The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Squatting London Flyer

Book launch: Squatting London - the Politics of Property

Thursday 6 March 2025, 12:30pm
Teaching Room 1, Geog and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
Image credit: Oatsy40

Book Talk: Isaac Rose's 'Rentier City'

Thursday 30 January 2025, 6:30pm
To be announced
Image credit: Andriy Onufriyenko

Shaping the International Urban Agenda: The 2024 World Cities Report (IN PERSON)

Thursday 30 January 2025, 1:00pm
Seminar room 5, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Image credit: Andriy Onufriyenko

Shaping the International Urban Agenda: The 2024 World Cities Report (ONLINE)

Thursday 30 January 2025, 1:00pm
Online
Image credit_Cheryl Ramalho

(Urban) Infrastructures, (Urban) Informalities and (Urban) Climate Policies (ONLINE)

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 3:30pm
Online
Image credit_Cheryl Ramalho

(Urban) Infrastructures, (Urban) Informalities and (Urban) Climate Policies (IN PERSON)

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 3:30pm
Seminar room 5, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Co Pro Futures Inquiry

Co-Pro Futures Inquiry – Call for Evidence and Ideas (Online Event)

Thursday 5 December 2024, 9:30am
Online
Djursholm_Marcus Lindstrom

The Power of Space: Consecration and Premier Elite Community

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 1:00pm
Ron Johnson Room, School of Geography and Planning
Crates

Corridor Urbanisation: A New Global Geography?

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 3:15pm
The Wave
Financialization of global corridors

The Multiple Urban Histories of the Corridor

Wednesday 6 November 2024, 3:15pm
Arts Tower LT08
Solar grid

Resilient community energy systems webinar

Wednesday 6 November 2024, 11:00am
Online Event
Matthew Soules Talk

Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday 18 June 2024
Dainton Building, The University of Sheffield, 13 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7HF
Inequalities

Interdisciplinary Talks: Researching Emerging Urban Inequalities

Friday 7 June 2024
Workroom 3, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Inequalities

Panel Discussion: Emerging Urban Inequalities

Thursday 6 June 2024
Workroom 3, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Inequalities

Interdisciplinary Talks: Understanding Emerging Urban Inequalities

Thursday 6 June 2024
Workroom 3, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Inequalities Credit:Andy Brown

Sheffield Urbanism PhD Conference: Emerging Urban Inequalities

06-07 June 2024
The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Everyday urban in Hanoi, Michele Lancione (2019)

The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation - ONLINE PARTICIPATION

23-24.05.2024
Online, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Everyday urban in Hanoi, Michele Lancione (2019)

Workshop: "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation" (Applications now OPEN)

23rd-24th May, 2024
University of Sheffield
Produçao Verônica Alkmim França

Living & working in a changing climate: women waste pickers' experience

Wednesday 17 April 2024
The Wave, University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
UI - Interrogations - Woodstock Graffiti

Cultural Heritage and the Just City: A Dialogue between Cape Town and Sheffield (IN-PERSON)

Tuesday 9 April 2024
The University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
For a Liberatory Politics of Home

Book launch: For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione

Tuesday 12 March 2024
Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street Sheffield City Centre S1 2LG
Image credit Krzysztof Nawratek

Book launch - Epistemic Ambivalence: Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

Wednesday 7 February 2024
The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
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The Tangles Amongst Us: An Interweaving of Urbanities, Ontologies and Times

Wednesday 31 January 2024
Online
The Infrastructural South

Book talk by Dr Jon Silver - The Infrastructural South

Tuesday 30 January 2024
The Wave, University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
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Hybrid Seminar: Rethinking Urban Resistance and Democracy

Thursday 7 December 2023
Alfred Denny Building (Conference Room), The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN
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Book Talk - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa

Tuesday 5 December 2023
Online Event
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Book launch of Simone Toji’s new book “The Immensity of Being Singular"

Wednesday 8 November 2023
Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street, Sheffield City Centre, S1 2LG
UI - Robot Restructuring Ecology Climates

Urbanism Lecture Series, Session 2 - Robotic Restructuring: Ecology and Climate

Wednesday 18 October 2023
The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Credit: Andy Brown

Celebration of the Urban Institute's 3rd year of its Sheffield School

Wednesday 11 October 2023
Online
UI - Robots Restructuring Cities

Urbanism Lecture Series, Session 1 - Robotic Restructuring: Cities

Wednesday 4 October 2023
The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
amtitus

Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Thursday 14 September 2023
Online
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Guest seminar: anti-planning narratives in Australia, Professor Nicole Gurran

Tuesday 11 July 2023
The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Schools and communities

Workshop on Schools, Communities and Sustainability

Tuesday 11 July 2023
The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Citizens of the world

Dialogue on Citizens of Worlds

Tuesday 16 May 2023
Online
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Book launch - Producing Mayaland

Wednesday 10 May 2023
ICOSS Boardroom, The University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP
Music gig

Free Live Music Gig in Sheffield: Dearthworms, Lightning Threads, DJ Nightowls

Tuesday 25 April 2023
Shakespeares Pub, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, S3 8UB
Tim Morton

The Silence of the Lawns: Guest lecture by philosopher and ecologist Tim Morton

Tuesday 25 April 2023
Sir Henry Stephenson Building or Virtual Event, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 4DT
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Dialogues On Urban Inhabitation and the Urban Technical

Thursday 30 March 2023
Virtual Event
GettyImages-593949932_Jean-Philippe Tournut

Why are we still talking about Silk Roads?

Monday 30 January 2023
Online
Portal frames at a Greek port

Global Corridors Seminar Series: The Contested Politics of Ports in Greece - Event Information

Monday 23 January 2023
Online
An Expressway in Eastern Africa - Photo by Joel Ongwech

Expressways to the Future? - Event Information

Thursday 19 January 2023
British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), Nairobi - Kenya
Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 3

Third Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series on Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics

02/11/2022, 23/11/2022, 14/12/2022
ICOSS, The University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP
Credit: Ron Case/Stringer Editorial #:71340576

Global Urbanisms

Wednesday 18 May 2022
Online
Houses reflected in the water during a flood

The future of Climate Urbanism: The second Sheffield Urbanism lecture series

Wed 6 October, Wed 20 October, Wed 3 November
Virtual event
A picture of a housing structure in Africa

Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions in East Africa: Project launch + keynote address

Thursday 21 January 2021
Virtual event
A man crouching in the middle of branches of wood

Rethinking energy poverty and best practices for the governance of renewable energy access

Thursday 11 February 2021
Virtual event
An electricity plant in Ethiopia

Access to electricity in Ethiopia – 3rd RELA webinar

Thursday 11 March 2021
Virtual event
Poster to advertise book launch

Book launch - Realising Just Cities

Thursday 18 March 2021
Virtual event
A picture of a housing structure in Africa

Implementing community-centred off-grid energy projects in informal settlements

Thursday 13 May 2021
Virtual event
The UI logo

Urban Institute September School

9-30 September 2020
Virtual event
Large wall in Lagos

The Urban Surrounds: from extinction to abolition

7 October - 4 November
Virtual event
Speakers from the event

The City in a Time of Social Distancing

Thursday 14 May 2020
Virtual event
A mountain range in Negev Israel

From Displacement to Displaceability: Reshaping Urban Citizenship

Wednesday 20 November 2019
Arts Tower, 16th Floor, The Well
The UI logo

Reflections Seminar Programme 2019-2020: Urban Explorations

October 2019 - March 2020
Arts Tower
The UI logo

Dwelling in Liminalities: Uncanny conversations

February - June 2020
Virtual event
A mountain range in Negev Israel

Black Urbanism Consultative Forum

Past event
Virtual event
Living walls on a building

The New Climate Urbanism

4-5 September 2020
Virtual event
Aerial view of a UK estate

Co-Producing Climate Urbanism: Learning From Experience

Thursday 5 September 2019
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, Conference Room
Nairobi

Heterogeneous Infrastructures

12-15 November 2018
Virtual event
Houses

Seminar – “Housing informality in Italy: marginality, criminality, activism or speculation?”

Wednesday 12 December 2018
Teaching Room 1, Geography and Planning Building
The UI logo

Making Music, Making Communities

Friday 29 June 2018
Seminar room G14, 9 Mappin Street
The UI logo

Workshop: Sustainable Energy Access in Mozambique

Monday 25 June 2018
Pam Liversidge Building, Room PLB-D06
Labels that read 'Devolution should lead to...'

Jam and Justice Discuss Devolution at Manchester Histories Festival

Monday 11 June 2018
Manchester Central Library
Ice

Department of Geography Seminar: Urban energy landscapes- comparative analyses

Tuesday 5 June 2018
Department of Geography, Ron Johnston Research Room (C Floor)

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