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PHD Defense – Congratulations to Luisa Gehriger
We congratulate Luisa Gehriger on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis entitled “Housing dispossession as a political problem: Exploring political alienation in displacement processes in Basel and Athens”.
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Unlocking Climate Action: Breaking Financial Barriers in Mexican Cities
Stakeholders Unite to Address Climate Funding Gaps in Mexican Municipalities
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Urban Climate Finance Workshop in Mexico City
Gathering at UNAM in Mexico City to take stock of Climate Finance Challenges in Mexico
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New book: 37 Stories from the Athenian Apartment Block
Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, along with Thomas Maloutas, Nikolina Myofa, and Dimitris Balampanidis, has co-edited the book 37 Stories of Athenian Apartment Buildings, published by the Onassis Foundation.
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«Die Klimakrise wird auf ein Finanzierungsproblem reduziert»
Hanna Hilbrandt spricht im Interview mit der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung über das Forschungsprojekt "The Urbanization of Global Climate Finance"
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The Home-Debt Nexus: A new SNSF research project
Erandi Barroso and Hanna Hilbrandt in collaboration with Luis Salinas (UNAM), Veronica Gago (UBA), and Adriana Hurtado (UANDES) has been granted a new SNSF-SPIRIT entitled «The Home-Debt Nexus: Feminist perspectives on housing, gender, and everyday life in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Bogotá”
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Teaching Turned Upside Down
In the “City without Papers” project, geography students collaboratively investigate undocumented migrants’ precarious living conditions. This new type of teaching format is devoted to addressing current questions in urban studies research and in the process challenges traditional roles in science and teaching.
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Adela Petrovic's Transient Doctoral Research Journey at SURB
Delving into the complexities of gentrification dynamics and urban transformation processes, Adela Petrovic embarks on a six-month doctoral research stay at SURB in February 2024.
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ZAZH-PODIUM: STADT IN DER KRISE? EIN DIALOG ZWISCHEN ANTIKE UND GEGENWART
Hanna Hilbrandt (UZH) und Martin Zimmermann (Universität München) im Gespräch mit Andreas Victor Walser (ZAZH), Dienstag, 20. Februar 2024, 18.15 Uhr
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New publication: Research-based collaboration: A toolkit for teaching and learning
ZÜRI URBAN, the teaching-research initiative of the Social Geography and Urban Studies group, published a toolkit that provides practical tools, resources, and examples to educators for implementing collaborative and innovative teaching.
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Upcoming Symposium: The urban politics of infra-density
Join us for an upcoming symposium on the urban politics of infra-density on the 14th of December 2023.
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Wohnungsnot – was kann Zürich von anderen Städten lernen?
Hanna Hilbrandt diskutiert am Mi., 08.11.2023 im Karl der Grosse zur Zürcher Wohnungsnot
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New SNSF Project: The Responsible City
Hanna Hilbrandt and Ifigeneia Dimitrakou have been awarded the project “The Responsible City: Swiss Responses to Housing in Socio-ecological Crises”
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Event “Are We Contemporary” at Kunsthaus Zürich
Julie Ren will give a lecture on "Unhinged Temporalities: Urban Futurity and Contemporary Art Biennials” at the Kunsthaus Zürich as part of an evening event “Are We Contemporary” for their exhibition “Zeit” on 29.9.23 at 18:30.
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Julie Ren joins Urban Geography as Book Reviews Editor
New guidelines and an editorial establish her vision for the journal section.
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Dr Yimin Zhao joins SoKu as an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellow
Seeking to develop alternative understandings of the urban political in China, Dr Yimin Zhao from Renmin University of China joined SoKu in February 2023, funded by a one-year Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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SoKu wins UZH Teaching Fund Award
Awarded for the project "KoLab: Collaborative Lehrforschung in der Stadt”
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UZH Ringvorlesung HS2022
Lecture on "Engaging Comparative Urbanism: Art Biennials in Dakar and Taipei”
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Decolonizing Geography and Environmental Studies?
Conference roundtables on the implications of the decolonial turn at University of Lausanne
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Interview at Tsüri magazine about the politics of interim use
Ifigeneia Dimitrakou discussed with Coraline Celiker about the politics of interim use in the context of the evacuation of the Koch Areal and the mobilization of the squatting scene in Zurich.
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Between Activism and Academia
Between Activism and Academia Research: Justice in Unequal Cities:
An event organized by urban publics Zürich (upZ) on Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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Inhabiting Radical Housing
The global fight for housing and the production of knowledge around it: an event organized by urban publics Zürich (upZ) on Wednesday, 11 May 2022.
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Upcoming Symposium on Biennials 19-20 May
The symposium “In Light of Crisis: The Fraught Significations of Contemporary Biennials” proposes an intensive exchange about how to understand art and architecture biennials through the lens of crisis.
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Neue Website: www.zueri-urban.com
SoKu lanciert eine neue Website für kollaborative Lehrforschungsprojekte
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Book Launch: Housing in the Margins
Informality and housing precarity: Urban perspectives across North-South. A Book Launch of Hanna Hilbrandt's Housing in the Margins (Wiley).
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New book: Housing in the Margins
Hanna Hilbrandt’s new book "Housing in the Margins" is now out in the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series. It offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin.
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New Seminar Series: Decentering Urban Climate Finance
The SoKu research group on Urban Climate Finance has been granted an Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award as the Lead Institution for the organization of a new seminar series on the variety of ‘ordinary’ climate finance practices in cities around the world.
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Theorising urban studies on/from China/Asia
Urban Salon online seminar on February 25 from 3:00-4:30 CET
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Urban Climate Finance on the edge of viability?
New episode of the Urban Political Podcast out now.
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SoKu Team wins GRC Grant
Julie Ren and Ifigeneia Dimitrakou receive a Graduate Campus grant to host symposium in 2021.
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New Book: Engaging Comparative Urbanism: Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin
A new book by Julie Ren is published with Bristol University Press.
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New Annotated Bibliography on "Postcolonial Urbanism"
The Oxford Bibliographies’ new section on Urban Studies features contribution from Julie Ren.
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Conference Presentation at the RAI-RGS conference
Julie Ren presented paper on “Emotional Biennials” at the RAI-RGS 2020.
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New research project: The Urbanization of Global Climate Finance
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) has awarded Hanna Hilbrandt project funding to investigate how cities are impacted by so-called Global Climate Finance (GCF): financing in accordance with the United Nations 48 Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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One-day cross-disciplinary symposium
Policy Ontologies; Working Across Theory and Practice.
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Call for paper: At home: the domestic city in times of crisis
We are looking for abstracts for a panel entitled “At home: the domestic city in times of crisis” for the 18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting (November 6th & 7th 2020 in Zurich).
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New paper out in EPA
Standards and SSOs in the contested widening and deepening of financial markets: The arrival of Green Municipal Bonds in Mexico City.
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Urban Sustainability as New Financial Fix?
What are the consequences of climate investments in cities of the Global South? In a new podcast episode of "Urban Political" Hanna Hilbrandt talks about the Green Municipal Bonds issued by Mexico City in 2016.
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Open positions
We are looking for scholars interested in doing critical urban research. The successful applicants will be part of the newly established Social and Cultural Geography research group which focusses on the transformation of cities and urban societies.