2025-2026 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: Céline Gipoulon, Deputy Director, École du Renouvellement Urbain

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: Beatriz Botero Arcila, Assistant Professor of Law, Sciences Po Law School

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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

Discussant: Audrey Chamboredon, PhD Candidate in Sociology, CRIS, Sciences Po

19 February 2025 – 10:30-12 am (online)

Malini Sur, Associate Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University  

Mobilizing Air: Cycling, Environmental Crisis, and Post-Carbon Futures

Discussant: Roberto Rodríguez, Associate Professor, CEE, Sciences Po

12 March 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)

Margot Delon, Chargée de recherche CNRS, Centre nantais de sociologie

Thomas Pfirsch, Université des Hauts-de-France

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”

Discussant: Eric Verdeil, Professeur des Universités, CERI, Sciences Po

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

Discussant: Joel Ansah, PhD Candidate, CERI, Sciences Po

2 April 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)

Vicente Ugalde Saldaña, Professor, El Colegio de México

Courts mobilization and urban governance in Mexico City

Discussant: Carlo Colombo, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University

9 April 2026 – 1-7 pm (hybrid) Half Day Seminar | Seeing the local in the global and the global in the local

Maria Kaika, Professor in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning, University of Amsterdam

Book Presentation: “Class Meets Land. The Embodied History of Land Financialization“

Roundtable “Global Analysis of Microsociology” with María José Álvarez Rivadulla, Associate Professor, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia ; Francesca Ferlicca, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban School, Sciences Po ; Antoine Guironnet, Postdoctoral Researcher, CEE, Sciences Po ; and Ankit Sikarwar, Assistant Professor, CRIS, Sciences Po

Christian Schmid, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich

Book Presentation: “Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison“

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”