News

News stories

Barbed wire
Credit Andy Brown

Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

This online workshop will take place on 7 October 2025 between 0900-1700 and is co-organised by the University of 91直播, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
Credit_XH4D
Credit XH4D

Professor Simon Marvin delivers keynote in Bangalore

Simon was invited to give a keynote on 鈥淯rban AI: The 鈥渢echnisation of everything?鈥 at the The AI and the City conference on 4th and 5th January 2025.

Artificial Intelligence and the City
Artificial Intelligence and the City

Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

Credit Catherine Falls Commercial
Credit Catherine Falls Commercial

Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers with expertise around a series of themes.

gettyimages-184118901-612x612_hidesy

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

Beth Perry, Vanesa Cast谩n 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".
amtitus

Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present 鈥淩ecursive Philosophy and Negative Machines鈥 (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy
GettyImages-1421218720_La Cassette Bleue

'Decolonial鈥 city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

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

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI

Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the University of 91直播鈥檚 Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself.
UI - Visiting Fellow, Papia Sengupta

UI welcomes Dr. Papia Sengupta, Visiting Fellow from Delhi, India

Papia is a political scientist and public policy expert who works on the intersectionality between gender, language, education, and urban living in culturally diverse societies.