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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on 鈥楽peculative Futures鈥 at the Technocratic Governance and the Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer Conference on 22-23 April 2025 hosted by the Singapore Management University Urban Institute.

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Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

This online workshop will take place on 7 October 2025 between 0900-1700 and is co-organised by the University of 91直播, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
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Professor Simon Marvin delivers keynote in Bangalore

Simon was invited to give a keynote on 鈥淯rban AI: The 鈥渢echnisation of everything?鈥 at the The AI and the City conference on 4th and 5th January 2025.

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Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

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Watch guest lecture Tim Morton on the UI YouTube channel

Philosopher and ecologist Tim Morton recently delivered a guest lecture as part of the Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene Conference funded by the Lo-Act project and is part of a series of events of the Urban Institute鈥檚 Signature Programme.

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New special issue on change in infrastructure landscapes

Vanesa Cast谩n Broto and Enora Robin have just published a new special issue in the Journal of Landscape Research, which includes an editorial article entitled 'Embracing change in infrastructure landscapes鈥
UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

UI welcomes Simone Toji - Research Fellow at the Maria Sybilla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America

Simone is a Newton International Fellow undertaking the project 鈥楻econsidering urban narratives in Brazil: Central areas in S茫o Paulo as problems and potentialities.鈥
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Book launch - Producing Mayaland聽

Join Claudia Fonseca Alfaro to discuss her new book, Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism from the Antipode Book Series, Wiley.

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Urban Life at the Extensions

UI鈥檚 Senior Professorial Fellow AbdouMaliq Simone is聽taking up the third iteration of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship.