📢 This week on the USF Blog! Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Magdalena Moreno & Dr Gabriella Palermo introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant on feminist & queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism. 🔗 ow.ly/S7FV50XolP7 #UrbanStudies #FeministGeographies #QueerUrbanism

🔔 Hybrid Roundtable! “Tensions in Policy Learning: Grounding Learning Practices in Urban Southeast Asia”, supported by #USF The discussion will feature leading urban scholars: Tim Bunnell, Sulfikar Amir, and Daniel Goh. 📅 20 Nov | 4–5:30 PM (GMT+8) 📍 ARI–NUS + Online 🔗 ow.ly/b5ln50XnJMn

🌏 New on the USF Blog! Dr Napong Tao Rugkhapan, Dr Tan Wenn Er & Dr Priza Marendraputra explore the politics of urban policy learning in Southeast Asia — part of their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/2z0X50XkY2z #UrbanStudies #PolicyMobilities #AsianUrbanism

📢 Exciting news! The Urban Studies Foundation welcomes a new cohort of International Fellows — scholars from Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia & South Africa advancing urban research. 🔗 ow.ly/ae8Z50XjrOu #UrbanStudies #USFInternationalFellowships #GlobalUrbanism

🏙️ USF Blog! This week, Dr Georgiana Varna, Dr Michael Crilly & Dr Karina Landman share insights from their project “Co-producing alternative urban futures through experimental urbanism”, funded by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/3XRZ50Xi74C #UrbanStudies #ExperimentalUrbanism

🌍 Between the Lines of Everyday Public Spaces Join an immersive event exploring memory, displacement & belonging in urban life — from Chennai to Istanbul. 👉 Led by Dr Nian Paul, a 2025 #USFInternationalFellow. 📅 6–7 Nov 2025 📍 UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London 🔗 ow.ly/i6lc50XgAnF

🚨 New blog post! Dr Basil Farraj, Ms Mai Al-Battat and Dr Hashem Abushama introduce the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Urban Geographies of Carcerality: From Latin America to the Middle East", exploring how carceral logics shape cities, institutions, and everyday life. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/gseL50Xeakx

💻 Webinar – Responsible and Transparent AI 📅 24 Oct 2025 | 🕑 14:00 (GMT+1) | 🌐 Online REGISTER ➡️ ow.ly/A40c50XcQOU Join the launch of SS25.AI4UG, a seminar funded by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards exploring how to coproduce responsible, transparent AI for urban governance.

🏙️ Workshop "Commodification in Contemporary Urbanization: Global Dynamics and Local Resistances" 📍 Lima, Peru | 15–17 Oct 2025 | 🇬🇧🇪🇸 English–Spanish hybrid workshop 👉 ow.ly/gFS950XaPW0 Supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. #UrbanStudies #HousingCrisis #LandCommodification

🕊️ New on the Blog: Cities at War — a 16-week online lecture series funded by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant, begins 15 Oct 2025. The series explores how wars destroy cities, knowledge & communities—and how scholars rebuild them. 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/39tc50Xaj4Y#USFSeminarSeriesAwards#CitiesAtWar #UrbanStudies

🏡 “Families do not fall into this trap — they are pulled into it.” On #WorldHomelessDay, we are delighted to announce the publication of "Debt Trap Nation" by Prof Katherine Brickell and Dr Mel Nowicki, supported by a #USFPandemics&Cities grant. 🔗 https://ow.ly/Wf8m50X9xlP#WorldHomelessDay#USFPandemics

🏙️ 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#USFSeminarSeries

🏙️ 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

🌍 Exciting opportunity! Register for "Cities at War" – Online Lecture Series 🔸 By scholars from war-torn cities 📅 Fully online | Free & open to all 👉 ow.ly/6eiM50X2pZz Organised by #USF, BeirutUrbanLab, DKVD, Rojava Univ, Off Univ, Humboldt Uni Berlin #CitiesAtWar #UrbanStudies #ConflictCities

🔔 Upcoming online talk (Cities Agenda – Sciences Po) 📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2) 🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins 💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès 👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9

Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social

🚌 New on the USF Blog In “Bustling (Im)Mobility: Socio-spatial Negotiations in Delhi's Bus Terminals”, #USFInternationalFellow Dr Arundhathi examines how Delhi’s bus users navigate unreliable infrastructures. 📍 Read the full post: ow.ly/P8ZV50WZ7xq

📢 New publication by former USF International Fellow Harsh Mittal “Topological spatialities of policy mobility: the varied power plays governing Indian smart urbanism in a quieter register” Published in Space and Polity 🔗 ow.ly/kyLr50WXfBi #UrbanStudies #PolicyMobility #SmartUrbanism #India

🔔New in the #USFBlog! “Urban politics and negotiated stateness: comparative perspectives across Africa and Eastern Europe” 👉 ow.ly/2P6o50WVrW2 🌍Check the 1st event of the Series! "Decentring Urban Politics: Thinking with & beyond Eastern Europe and Africa" 📅 15–16 Sept 2025 🔗 ow.ly/5Q8b50WVrW0

🚨 Join us in Newcastle for the first symposium of the USF Seminar Series: Co-Producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism 📅 15–16 Sept 2025 📍 High Bridge Works Gallery & The Farrell Centre 🔗 Register: ow.ly/FmmS50WVpng

🚀 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: Dr Dammert-Guardia, Prof Wong, Dr Sarmiento & Dr Pineda-Zumarán discuss the upcoming events of their #SeminarSeriesAward on speculative real estate dynamics, land commodification & resistance strategies across Peru, the UK & the US. 👉 ow.ly/2BLr50WTbec

📝 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

📢 Call for submissions! 📢 Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently. Programme includes additional support for ECR/URS participation. Read more and apply here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/08/14/e...

🚨 New Publication “The Rentier Economy of Growth Infrastructures: Value Appropriation without Adequate Accumulation in India” By Preeti Sampat, former #USFInternationalFellow ✨ 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/anti... 📄 Published in Antipode #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #RentierEconomy #India #USF

📢Join us for a special event, where we explore the intersections of aesthetics, ecology, and sensory urban politics in contemporary China—through the work of the late C. P. Pow. 📅 September 12th, 16:00-17:30 (GMT+7). Online. Information and registration: 👉 ow.ly/m7qV50WB0kc #UrbanStudies #China

🚨 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

So happy this is out!! 👩🏽‍🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜 Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵 Read and share widely! #CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking

🌱 Can nature-based solutions help tackle climate change and support informal livelihoods? In Kumasi, Ghana, #USFInternationalFellow Michael Osei Asibey & Patrick Cobbinah explore how nature-based solutions can improve e-waste management in informal settings. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/NPbM50WyU6A

🔔 How are grassroots infrastructures reshaping cities from below? In this guest post, #USFPostdoctoralFellows @matinakapsali.bsky.social and Nina Ebner reflect on their workshop “Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction” 📖 Read more: ow.ly/Wbzs50Wve57 #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure

🏙️ In The Aesthetics of Belonging, former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Claudia Gastrow explores how top-down urban “reconstruction” displaced communities in Luanda, and how aesthetic dissent reframed informal settlements as sites of belonging. 📘 ow.ly/JEoh50WsZfZ #UrbanStudies #Luanda #ColonialLegacies

🧪 What happens after the crisis? In our latest guest blog, Carolyn Prouse & Mohammed Rafi Arefin reflect on the “From Crisis to Extended Upheavals” workshop, where #USFPandemicsAndCities grantees explored the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on urban life. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/GjOA50WqOkj

🌍 The Urban Studies Foundation is inviting applications for new Board Trustees. Join us in supporting critical scholarship & funding opportunities in cities around the world. 🗓️ Apply by 8 August 🔗 ow.ly/ugNU50Wa574 #UrbanStudies #TrusteeCall #GlobalUrbanism

We are honored to be among the recipients of the @urbanstudiesfoundation.org 2025 Seminar Series Award with out lecture series "Cities at War", together with the Beirut Urban Lab, the Institute of Social Sciences @humboldtuni.bsky.social, the University of Rojava and Diyarbakır Association (DKVD).

We are happy to reveal the fourteen projects supported in our 2025 Seminar Series Awards! 👉 Read more about the grants here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/07/09/a...

Next week! #USFatISAForumRabat 1️⃣Violence, Governance and Politics... 🗓️ 9 July 👉 ow.ly/A1NC50WiMJp 2️⃣ Lived Religion and the Multiple Governance of Ordinary Life... 🗓️ 10 July 👉 ow.ly/i2Qb50WiMJo 3️⃣ Housing Inequality and Justice 🗓️ 11 July 2025 👉 ow.ly/tYft50WiMJr #ISAForum2025 #ISA #Rabat

📣 Last reminder! Just a few weeks left to apply for the 2025 #USFInternationalFellowships — fully-funded 3–9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. 🗓 Deadline: 16 July 2025 📍 Apply now: ow.ly/AYfn50R8oou #UrbanStudies #GlobalSouth #ResearchFunding

Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team! Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification" 💻 In person & online 📆 8 July @uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

New blog post! 🏙️ Explore the results of this Seminar Series on urban vacancy, occupation, & commoning by Dr. Suraya Scheba, Dr. Cian O’Callaghan, & Dr. Andreas Scheba – a project supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAward. 🔗 www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/06/17/u... #Vacancy #Commoning #Occupation

🌀 Join us for the launch of "Across the Nala — a queer Dalit Bahujan zine of stories from Delhi"! 📍JGU International Academy, Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi 📅 21 June 2025 🕠 5:30–7:00 PM IST (GMT+5.5) 🔗 More information and registration: ow.ly/NWZy50WbMZg #AcrossTheNala #UrbanStudies #NewDelhi

📢 Call for Trustees! The Urban Studies Foundation is recruiting new Trustees to join our Board. Deadline for applications: August 8th, 23:59 UTC+0. Find out more: 🔗 ow.ly/ugNU50Wa574 #UrbanStudies #TrusteeRecruitment

🗓️ Join the #USF at the 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development in London for a special session in memory of C.P. Pow. 📘 Featuring the launch of C.P. Pow: Selected Essays (2025) 🕧 July 8, 12:20 PM – UCL (Room Leolin Price LT) More info ow.ly/fSMb50W8nsR #UrbanStudies #UrbanChina

📢 To celebrate the release of C.P. Pow: Selected Essays (2025), USF will dedicate one 2025 International Fellowship in his memory — for an urban scholar from or working in East & Southeast Asia. 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/u7KN50VOxlH

📢 New Special Issue in Urbanisation! "Overlooked people, places, and practices: shifting the gaze in Asian and South African cities" Curated by the Overlooked Cities Collective, funded by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards ow.ly/8awM50W5wjW #UrbanStudies #GlobalSouth #OverlookedCities

📣 Only a few weeks left to apply! The 2025 #USFInternationalFellowships offer 3–9 month fully-funded sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. 🗓 Deadline: 16 July 2025 📍 Apply now: ow.ly/AYfn50R8oou #UrbanStudies #GlobalSouth #ResearchFunding

📢 New publication by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Lina Martínez & María Isabel Zafra in Wellbeing, Space and Society: "The hidden penalties of informal work" explores how informal employment impacts life-job satisfaction and emotional wellbeing. ow.ly/cEwC50VZC0x

Gentle reminder! The deadline to apply for the 2025 #USFInternationalFellowships grant is approaching soon. 📅 16th July 2024. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Apply now: ow.ly/gAbM50VYLJj

🔎 In this guest post, Dr Bertie Russell, Dr Iolanda Bianchi & Lavinia Steinfort reflect on their research into New Municipalism, supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. Their project explores democratic ownership, the commons & radical municipalist politics. 👇 ow.ly/iVWI50VTQCR

🎉 Congratulations to former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Prosper Issahaku Korah and co-author Patrick Brandful Cobbinah! Their article “Privatised Urbanism...” has been selected as an Editor’s Featured Article in @urbanstudiesonline.com Urban Studies Journal 👏🏽📘 ow.ly/1jmr50VSFOL

We continue our posts featuring the research work of our Core Team members at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. Today we feature Dr Syeda Jenifa Zahan, a recent @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Fellow at the Lab. Find out about Jenifa's exciting work: beyondinhabitation.org/feature-on-s...