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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
Market

Dialogue: The Global Urbanisms of the Corridor

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 3:15pm
Online Event
Co Pro Futures Inquiry

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

Thursday 5 December 2024, 9:30am
Online

Past events

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
4:00pm
Dainton Building, Dainton Building, The University of Sheffield, 13 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7HF
Inequalities

Interdisciplinary Talks: Researching Emerging Urban Inequalities

Friday 7 June 2024
11:45am
Workroom 3, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Inequalities

Panel Discussion: Emerging Urban Inequalities

Thursday 6 June 2024
4:00pm
Workroom 3, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Inequalities

Interdisciplinary Talks: Understanding Emerging Urban Inequalities

Thursday 6 June 2024
11:30am
Workroom 3, The Wave, 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
0900-1700
The Wave, 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
10.30am - 5.00pm
Online, The Wave, 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
3:00pm
The Wave, University of Sheffield, The Wave, 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, Geography and Planning Building, 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 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 Wave, 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), Alfred Denny Building, 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
GettyImages_1164821077_Maiquel Jantsch

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 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 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 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 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, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS), 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, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, 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, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (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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