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FALL SEMESTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 26 September 2024 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Claire B\u00e9nit-Gbaffou<\/strong>, Ma\u00eetresse de conf\u00e9rences at Aix Marseille University, Researcher at MESOPOLHIS, Visiting Scholar at CUBES, Wits University, Johannesburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n Presentation of the book \u201cLocal Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities. A view from post-apartheid South Africa\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussant: Laurent Fourchard<\/strong>, Research Professor, CERI, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 10 October 2024 – 5-6:30 pm (online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Suzanne Hall<\/strong>, Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, LSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n Migration methodologies<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 24 October 2024 – 5:30-7 (online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nora Elizabeth Barakat<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/strong><\/a>Presentation of the book \u201cBedouin Bureaucrats. Mobility and property in the Ottoman Empire\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussant: Sukriti Issar<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology, CRIS, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 14 November 2024 – 5-7 pm (in-person)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucia Allais<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/a>Topographic Modernism: Architecture, Land and Ground in Mid-Century Lebanon<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 28 November 2024 – 5.30-7 pm (online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Des Fitzgerald<\/strong>, Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at University College Cork<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>Presentation <\/strong>of the book \u201cThe City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Discussant: Francesca Ferlicca<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban School, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 December 2024 – 5-7 pm<\/em><\/em> (in-person<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom Slater<\/strong>, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>Municipal Housing and Community in Cape Town: Lessons from the Bloemhof Flats<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n SPRING SEMESTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 13 February 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diogo Silva Corr\u00eaa<\/strong>, Professor at Universidade Vila Velha, Visiting at CEMS, EHESS<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faith and Crime: The Complex Interplay Between Evangelicalism and Drug Trafficking in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Favelas<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Maan Barua<\/strong>, University Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n An Amphibious Urbanism<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 20 March 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person) <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Angelo Martins Junior<\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Birmingham<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coloniality of Migration & Moving Difference: Brazilians in London & Africans in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 April 2025 – 12:30-2 pm <\/strong>(online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Holly Randell-Moon<\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n06 March 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online)<\/s><\/em><\/em> Postponed<\/strong> (Date TBA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n