2021 Earth System Governance Conference – Innovative Session (virtual): Urban governance in an age of compound crises This innovative session aims to facilitate a transdisciplinary discussion on the urban governance challenges that arise from ‘compound crises’. Cities play a central…
We are delighted to announce two new flagship books, part of the Realising Just Cities programme funded by Mistra Urban Futures, will be introduced at a digital book launch, hosted by African Centre for Cities in Cape Town. The event will feature a panel…
11th March 2020 2pm-3pm GMT The 3rd Regional Energy Learning Alliance will take place next month! Our CESET partner and guest speaker Getachew Bekele, Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology/Addis Ababa University will present…
Last week Professor Benjamin K. Sovacool of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School and the Director of the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand and of the Sussex Energy Group gave a presentation at the Regional Learning…
The Regional Energy Learning Alliance (RELA) is a broad network of practitioners, policy makers, researchers and people interested in the future of community energy in East Africa. We are delighted to announce that we have finalised our exciting programme of…
During September 2020 the Urban Institute is hosting a September School with our partners across the globe to deliver a series of workshops on interrelated sequential themes that address intellectual and political challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Free…
The first ‘Sheffield Urbanism’ Lecture Series The Urban Surrounds: From Extinction to Abolition” is a series which attempts to examine spaces and temporalities of urbanization from the viewpoints of abolitionist histories and sensibilities, and in ways that attempt to circumvent the…
An online seminar and roundtable discussion featuring Anna-Louise Milne (ULIP), AbdouMaliq T Simone (The University of Sheffield) and Alan Latham (UCL). The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Historical Sciences (IHSS) and The City Centre. It will be chaired by Simon Reid-Henry (QMUL). Thursday 14th May, 4pm. …
Speaker: Prof. Oren Yiftachel Professor of Urban Studies and Political Geography at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, Department of Geography, UCL When? 16.00 to 17.30pm, Wednesday 20 November 2019 Where? Arts Tower, 16th Floor, The Well…