📢 Upcoming Seminar: Urbicide in Palestinian Cities After the Nakba 🗓️ 26 March 2026 | 17:00 – 19:00 (GMT+2) 📍 Location: Zoom 🗣️ Language: Arabic-English Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project: "Urbicide in Gaza: spatial violence, reconstruction, and resistance." 🔗 More info: ow.ly/YQcQ50YvEAV

🔔 Register Now! "Urbicide from the Site of Palestinian Refugee Camps" Presentations by Khaldun Bshara, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, and Sandi Hilal. Moderated by Ayham Dalal. 🗓️ 12/2 17:00 (GMT+2) Online Arabic-English Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Urbicide in Gaza." 🔗 ow.ly/6JNT50YcMaI

🌍 Next week in Benin! Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa Seminar Two – CiAAF, Cotonou | 16–20 Feb 2026 Supported by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards 🔗 ow.ly/Bwjl50XVPBW #UrbanStudies #TheorisingFromAfrica #DecentringKnowledge #ComparativeUrbanism

📚 Out now in City, Culture and Society! Following the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "European Creative Cities and COVID-19" and the "Beyond the Creative City" project. Edited by Abigail Gilmore, Claire Burnill-Maier, Lauren England, and Thuy Tran. 🔗 ow.ly/k5sZ50Y97pC 👉 ow.ly/wE1050Y97pB

📢 Call for Participation! #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Walls speak—are you listening?" Join the Urban Surfaces Research Network for in-person workshops in Nicosia (May) and Uppsala (Aug). Explore urban surfaces through theory, method, and practice. 🗓️ Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 👉 ow.ly/g2kt50Y7nXH

📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT) Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation." 👉 ow.ly/YbGj50XVfiC

📍 Next week in Brussels! 🌆 Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism ( 2nd Seminar of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards) 🗓️ 15–16 January 2026 👉 More info and registration: ow.ly/qPoK50XTbYm

🌱 New post! This week, Anant Maringanti, Nausheen Anwar & Aalok Khandekar introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair", bringing youth across Karachi, Dhaka, Delhi, Chennai & Hyderabad together to rethink climate adaptation. 🔗 ow.ly/cUoq50XJo0h

📣 Call for Papers! Tensions in policy learning: Grounding learning practices in urban Southeast Asia 🗓️ 3–5 June 2026 📍 Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII), Depok 📝 Apply by 16 January 2026 👉 ow.ly/KcN450XH1o3 Funded by the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards

📢 Call for Papers now open! Seminar Two: Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Cotonou, Benin 📅 16–20 February 2026 Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Urban Politics and Negotiated Stateliness: Comparative perspectives across Africa and Eastern Europe" 🔎 CFP (EN/FR): ow.ly/AxLy50XBGig