Programme

Programme 2026-2027 

Fall semester

• 17/9/2026 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Rome, promenades sociologiques
  Marco Cremaschi
• 1/10/2026 (17:00 Online)
  The Expectancy Machine: Speculating on the Future City
  Rachel Weber
• 15/10/2026 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Le Capital d'une capitale
  Gilles Postel Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
• 5/11/2026 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Spectral Urbanism: The Illusive Role of Telecos in City-Making
  Liza Rose Cirolia
• 19/11/2026 (17:00 Hybrid)
  "Something must have happened”: State actors and (not) stateness in urban development politics in Accra, Lilongwe and Dar es Salaam
  Jennifer Robinson
• 3/12/2026 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Theorising the religion–city nexus: political economies and moral topographies
  Hélène Thiollet, Azadeh Mashayekhi

Spring semester

• 28/01/2027 (All day In-person)
  Doctoral Student Publication Workshop
  Call for abstracts to be posted
• 11/2/2027 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Epistemologies of Property: Power and Politics in Early Colonial Bombay
  Sukriti Issar
• 25/2/2027 (12:30 Online)
  Navigating Thermalscapes: heat, inequity and adaptive cooling practices in southern cities
  Soha Macktoom
• 11/3/2027 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Street by Street. Dispossessing Jewish Apartments in Wartime Paris
  Sarah Gensburger
• 1/4/2027 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Spatializing the Concatenation of Household Debts: Mortgaged Housing, Precarious Work, and the Urban Periphery 
  Hanna Hilbrandt
• 15/4/2027 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Urban extractivism in informal settlements: criminally-managed land and rental markets of Medellín, Colombia
  Elena Butti
• 29/4/2027 (17:00 Hybrid)
  La ville électrique dans les Suds
  Eric Verdeil, Sylvie Jaglin
• 13/05/2027 (17:00 Hybrid)
  Le savoir de l'expérience : inégalités, démocratie, action publique
  Nicolas Duvoux
• 1/10/2026 (17:00-18:30 Online)
  The Expectancy Machine: Speculating on the Future City
  Rachel Weber