Programme 2023-2024

19 April 2022

Cities are Back in Town Seminar Series

FALL SEMESTER

14 September 2023 – 5.30-7.00 pm CET (online)

Maria Kaika, Professor in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam

Roger Keil, Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University

Tait Mandler, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation group, Wageningen University

Yannis Tzaninis, Independent Researcher

Presentation of the book “Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency”

Discussant: Joost de Moor, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), Sciences Po

21 September 2023 – 5.15-7.00 pm CET (in-person)

Mona Harb, Professor of Urban Studies and Politics, American University of Beirut; Visiting researcher at CERI Sciences Po

Urban Governance in Dysfunctional States: City-Making by the “Republic of NGOs” in Post-Blast Beirut

5 October 2022 – 5-7 pm (in-person)

George C. S. Lin, Director of the International Centre for China Development Studies & Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong

Muddling on Pathways of Urban Redevelopment: Same Rhyme, Different Tones, and Diverse Trajectories of Chinese Urbanism

19 October 2023 – 5-7 pm (in-person)

Juan del Nido, Research Associate, Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change, University of Cambridge

the registration link will be available soon

Taxis vs. Uber: knowledge, practices and technological disruption in an urban setting

9 November 2023 – 5.30-7.00 pm CET (online)

Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor of Sociology, Politics, and Urban Studies at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), Sciences Po

Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Human Geography, University College London

Presentation of the book “The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies”

Discussants:

Bruno Cousin, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE),Sciences Po

Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at Graduate School of Design, Harvard

30 November 2023 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)

Paavo Monkkonen, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Visiting researcher at CEE Sciences Po

When will local governments take meaningful action on fair housing? The impacts of a 2018 law in California

7 December 2023 – 5.30-7.00 pm CET (online)

Armelle Choplin, Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Geneva

Presentation of the book “Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa”

Discussant: Marco Cremaschi, Professor of Planning and Urban Studies at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), Sciences Po

SPRING SEMESTER

8 February 2024 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)

Marc Barthelemy, Research director, Institut de Physique Théorique (CEA, CNRS, & University of Paris-Saclay), and member of Centre d’Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales (EHESS & CNRS)

Towards a Science of Cities

29 February 2024 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)

Deborah Fromm, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Public Security, Private Interests: On Social Conflict in Contemporary Brazil

14 March 2024 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)

Brodwyn Fischer, Professor of History, University of Chicago

Slavery’s City and the Genesis of Urban Informality

21 March 2024 – TBC (hybrid)

Franco Bonomi Bezzo, Research Fellow at La Statale, University of Milan

(in partnership with CEE)

THEN AND NOW: WHY DO PAST AND PRESENT NEIGHBORHOODS SHAPE ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY?

4 April 2024 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)