2024-2025 Programme
Cities are Back in Town Seminar Series
FALL SEMESTER
26 September 2024 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Maîtresse de conférences at Aix Marseille University, Researcher at MESOPOLHIS, Visiting Scholar at CUBES, Wits University, Johannesburg
Presentation of the book “Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities. A view from post-apartheid South Africa”
Discussant: Laurent Fourchard, Research Professor, CERI, Sciences Po
10 October 2024 – 5-6:30 pm (online)
Suzanne Hall, Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, LSE
24 October 2024 – 5:30-7 (online)
Nora Elizabeth Barakat, Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University
Presentation of the book “Bedouin Bureaucrats. Mobility and property in the Ottoman Empire”
Discussant: Sukriti Issar, Associate Professor of Sociology, CRIS, Sciences Po
14 November 2024 – 5-7 pm (in-person)
Lucia Allais, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University
Topographic Modernism: Architecture, Land and Ground in Mid-Century Lebanon
28 November 2024 – 5.30-7 pm (online)
Des Fitzgerald, Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at University College Cork
Presentation of the book “The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow”
Discussant: Francesca Ferlicca, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban School, Sciences Po
12 December 2024 – 5-7 pm (in-person)
Tom Slater, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University
Municipal Housing and Community in Cape Town: Lessons from the Bloemhof Flats
SPRING SEMESTER
13 February 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person)
Diogo Silva Corrêa, Professor at Universidade Vila Velha, Visiting at CEMS, EHESS
06 March 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online) Postponed (Date TBA)
Maan Barua, University Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Cambridge
20 March 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person)
Angelo Martins Junior, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Birmingham
Coloniality of Migration & Moving Difference: Brazilians in London & Africans in São Paulo
3 April 2025 – 12:30-2 pm (online)
Holly Randell-Moon, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University
First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation
24 April 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person)
Kimberley Johnson, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis; Professor of Wilf Family Department of Politics at NYU
Upcoming Book Discussion | Dark concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis.
Discussant: Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research director and Professor, CEE, Sciences Po
5 June 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online)
Alisha Holland, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Book Launch
Discussant: Marcela Alonso Ferreira, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, CEE, Sciences Po
