Steiner, O. 2025. “City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism'”. Cities.
18 July 2025
Laurence Rocher – Circularités urbaines: Du gouvernement (extra)territorial des flux résiduels. 11.09.2025, 5:00pm-7:00pm CEST
28 August 20252025-2026 Programme
Cities are Back in Town Seminar Series
FALL SEMESTER
11 September 2025- 5-7 pm (hybrid)
Laurence Rocher, Professeure des Universités, Université Lyon 3
Book Presentation “Circularités urbaines. Du gouvernement (extra)territorial des flux résiduels”
Discussant: Marta Tramezzani, PhD Candidate, CEE, Sciences Po
2 October 2025 – 5-6:30 pm (online)
Ana Beraldo de Carvalho, Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow, Sciences Po
Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
Discussant: Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor, CEE, Sciences Po
16 October 2025 – 5:30-7 (online)
Maren M. Larsen, Senior Lecturer, University of Basel
Book Presentation “Worlding Home: An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC”
Discussant: Laurent Fourchard, Research Professor, CERI, Sciences Po
6 November 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online)
Amani Hassani, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Brunel University London
Navigating Colourblind Societies: Racial Governance and Urban Erasure in Denmark’s Ghetto Policies
Discussant: Tommaso Vitale, Full Professor of Sociology, CEE, Sciences Po
13 November 2025 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)
Clément Barbier, Professor of Sociology, LARSH, Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France
Book Presentation: “En quête d’attractivité. Le renouvellement urbain par grand projet dans les métropoles de Lille et Hambourg”
Discussant: TBA
4 December 2025 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)
Thomas Aguilera, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Deputy Director of ARENES, Sciences Po Rennes
Francesca Artioli, Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning, Paris-Est Créteil University
Claire Colomb, Professor of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Book Presentation: “Housing Under Platform Capitalism”
Discussant: TBA
SPRING SEMESTER
5 February 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)
Joanie Cayouette-Remblière, Sociologist, Researcher at INED, Head of the Housing, Spatial Inequalities, and Trajectories Unit (LIST)
The relational side of urban segregation
19 February 2025 – 10:30-12 am (online)
Malini Sur, Associate Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
Title TBA
12 March 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)
Dominique Rivière, Professeure au Département de Géographie de l’Université Paris Cité
Présentation de l’ouvrage collectif “Les métropoles d’Europe du Sud à l’épreuve des crises du XXIe siècle”
26 March 2026 – 5:30-7:00 pm (online)
Stephanie Ternullo, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
Suburban Blues: The Clash of Local and National Politics in America’s Suburbs
9 April 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)
Christian Schmid, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich
Book Presentation: “Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space”
30 April 2026 – 5:30-7:00 pm (online)
Michael Albertus, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Book Presentation: “Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies”