📢 Upcoming Seminar: Urbicide in Palestine Join the #USFSeminarSeries event on Jan 29, 17:00 (GMT+2)! 📢 It explores colonial planning and spatial violence with Abaher El-Sakka, Abdullah Al Bayyari & Maha Samman. Co-organised with Mada al-Carmel. 📍 Online 🌐 Arabic/English 🔗 ow.ly/Wpm450Y44vb

🚨 New #USFSeminarSeries event! "Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance" (SS25.AI4UG) 📅 “What AI for Urban Governance?” 📍 Suffolk University, Boston 🗓️ 8–10 Dec 2025 🔗 ow.ly/eO2a50XExYO

🏙️ Phoenix-Nomenon of Kharkiv Join us to discuss deurbanisation, survival & prospects of renewal. Roundtable One of the #USFSeminarSeries 📅 22 Oct 2025, 10:00 (GMT+1) 📍 Hybrid | Newcastle Univ + Online 🔗 Read more and register: https://ow.ly/1yfG50X6NeP

🏙️ How can we use AI responsibly in urban governance? In this guest blog, Dr Nuno Pinto introduces a new #USFSeminarSeries on AI and urban governance. 📅 Launch webinar: 24 Oct, 14:00 BST 👉 Read more and register: ow.ly/mmpO50X2S8t #UrbanAI #UrbanStudies #AI

🚀 Inauguration Workshop of the #USFSeminarSeries on "Mapping Opportunities in Post-Industrial Cities." Read more about the events: 👉 ow.ly/RJmm50WUQ1z Register for the first event: "How can post-industrial cities be reimagined?" 👉 ow.ly/gwbo50WUQ1y 📅 30 Sept 2025 | 🕙 10:00–11:30 (UK time)

📝 New on the USF blog + 📢 Call for participants “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces” Dr Sabina Andron, Dr Konstantinos Avramidis & Tom Ward introduce the #USFSeminarSeries and the Urban Surfaces Research Network (USRN). 👉 ow.ly/j8Pf50WPzwI

🚨 In this guest post, Dr. Himmat Zoubi & Dr. Areen Hawari (Mada al-Carmel) reflect on the destruction of Gaza through the lens of urbicide. Their #USFSeminarSeries will host hybrid events from Jan–June. 🗓️ Stay tuned for ways to engage. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/I7Ka50WAX5G #UrbanStudies #Gaza #Urbicide

New blog entry! In this guest post, Dr. Komali Yenneti, Professor Debolina Kundu, Professor Poornima Shekhar Singh and Dr Rosa Teimouri discuss their research on the nexus between cities, inequalities and COVID-19 supported by #USFSeminarSeries. Available here: https://ow.ly/R6mj50QY8Fe

Watch the presentations of the "Urban Creativity in Africa" event, organized last year by the African Hub for Sustainable Creative Economies, as part of the #USFSeminarSeries, "European creative cities and Covid-19" https://ow.ly/VIfF50QW00y

Next week! "Gender and care: New agendas in the formation and circulation of urban policies in Latin America" 20-21 March (GMT-5), #USFSeminarSeries "Alternative circulations? Situating policymaking, decoloniality, and urban models". Registration: https://ow.ly/EvJQ50QS9GI