2024-2025 Programme

Cities are Back in Town Seminar Series

FALL SEMESTER

 

26 September 2024 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Maîtresse de conférences at Aix Marseille University, Researcher at MESOPOLHIS, Visiting Scholar at CUBES, Wits University, Johannesburg

Presentation of the book “Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities. A view from post-apartheid South Africa”

Discussant: Laurent Fourchard, Research Professor, CERI, Sciences Po

 

10 October 2024 – 5-6:30 pm (online)

Suzanne Hall, Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, LSE

Migration methodologies

 

24 October 2024 – 5:30-7 (online)

Nora Elizabeth Barakat, Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University

Presentation of the book “Bedouin Bureaucrats. Mobility and property in the Ottoman Empire”

Discussant: Sukriti Issar, Associate Professor of Sociology, CRIS, Sciences Po

 

14 November 2024 – 5-7 pm (in-person)

Lucia Allais, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University

Topographic Modernism: Architecture, Land and Ground in Mid-Century Lebanon

 

28 November 2024 – 5.30-7 pm (online)

Des Fitzgerald, Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at University College Cork

Presentation of the book “The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow”

Discussant: Francesca Ferlicca, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban School, Sciences Po

 

12 December 2024 – 5-7 pm (in-person)

Tom Slater, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University

Municipal Housing and Community in Cape Town: Lessons from the Bloemhof Flats

 

 

---

SPRING SEMESTER

 

13 February 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person)

Diogo Silva Corrêa, Professor at Universidade Vila Velha, Visiting at CEMS, EHESS

 

06 March 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online)

Maan Barua, University Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Cambridge

An Amphibious Urbanism

 

20 March 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person)

Madalina Olteanu, Professor of Applied Mathematics, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine PSL

Julien Randon-Furling, Professor in Mathematical Sciences, Centre Borelli, ENS Paris-Saclay

 

3 April 2025 – 12:30-2 pm (online)

Holly Randell-Moon, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University

First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation

 

24 April 2025 – 5-7 pm (in-person)

Kimberley Johnson, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis; Professor of Wilf Family Department of Politics at NYU

Book Launch

Discussant: TBC

 

15 May 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online)

Alisha Holland, Professor of Government, Harvard University

Book Launch

Discussant: Marcela Alonso Ferreira, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, CEE, Sciences Po