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Our feeling Unease, confusion, and a precarious equilibrium between hope and despair. We acknowledge the need to start bringing more care into academia - something we tend to put aside as if care belongs to our personal lives only. Our concerns We acknowledge our worldviews and biases while we observe the extraordinary barrage of opinions … Continue reading UTH statement at the times of COVID19

UTH member Simone Tulumello organises, with Guya Accornero (CIES-IUL) and in collaboration with ISA Research Committee 47 (Social Classes and Social Movements) a webinar on the impact of lockdown measures over movements for housing and the right to the city. ‘Stay Home Without a Home’. The Right to Housing in COVID-19 Lockdown Times Date: Thursday, … Continue reading Webinar: Right to Housing in COVID-19 Lockdown Times. 16 April 2020, 4pm CEST

Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice: Co-production for Sustainability, edited by David Simon, Henrietta Palmer and Jan Riise (Policy Press, Bristol, 25 March 2020). Order online at https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/comparative-urban-research-from-theory-to-practice. Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Reporting on the innovative, transdisciplinary research on sustainable urbanisation undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, a highly influential research centre based in … Continue reading From our colleagues at Mistra Urban Futures, a new open access book on co-production of knowledge

Due to disruptions caused by the global pandemics of Covid-19, we are constantly assessing the opportunity to mantain the Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. At this stage (26 March 2020), we have decided to wait for developments: the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15 April 2020 and a final decision will … Continue reading Update and new deadline. The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies

Neste novo encontro do ciclo Café com Luta, organizado pela Fundação Friedrich Ebert em colaboração com a Associação Transparência e Integridade e o Urban Transitions Hub (ICS-ULisboa), vamos juntar experiências diversas de resistência cultural na área metropolitana de Lisboa.A festa da Kola San Jon, a Tabacaria e a marca Bazofo na Cova da Moura, juntamente … Continue reading Promover iniciativas culturais como forma de resistência

EDIT: due to disruptions caused by the global pandemics of Covid-19, the organising committee is constantly assessing the opportunity to cancel the event. At this stage (26 March 2020), we have decided to wait for developments: the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15 April 2020 and a final decision will be taken … Continue reading The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. 1st ed. 18-20/11/2020 ICS-ULisboa

Call for abstract aberta até 3 marco 2020, para a conferência “Urban Theory and Urban Praxis: Past, Present and Possible Futures”. A conferência que vai ter lugar na University of Bologna de 2-4 Setembro, 2020 e é organizada pela European Sociological Association Research Network 37: Urban Sociology (Rede de Investigação em Sociologia Urbana ESA RN37), … Continue reading Call for abstracts ESA RN37, Bologna, 2-4 September 2020, UTH co-organised sessions

O primeiro evento Café com Luta de 2020 regressa ao tema do lobbying, mas desta vez sobre a perspectiva das ONGs que actuam juntas das instituições europeias. Bruxelas é uma das capitais mundiais do lobbying, mas não concentra apenas consultoras e grandes empresas. Milhares de ONGs estão aí sediadas e competem ou colaboram de forma … Continue reading Lobbying: o que podemos aprender com as ONGs de Bruxelas? – 23 Janeiro 2020

Opportunity for 30 scholarships funded by the programme INPhINIT-Retaining, Fundação "la Caixa", for PhDs in Spain or Portugal in all scientific areas - more details below and at this link (in Portuguese). UTH is open to supporting applications to the PhD in Development Studies of ULisboa - please contact Olivia Bina, Roberto Falanga or Simone … Continue reading PhD scholarships INPhINIT-Retaining / Fundação “la Caixa” / 26.02.2020

Hub members Jieling Liu (ed.), Luisa Schmidt (ed.) and Olivia Bina have contributed to a new report on Addressing the Nexus Challenge of Climate Change, Human Health and Urban Sustainability. The study, published on ICS-ULisboa's series Estudos e Relatórios and available here, summarises the core discussion points and essential outcomes of an Expert Meeting, which … Continue reading Climate Change, Human Health and Urban Sustainability. New report with Jieling Liu, Luisa Schmidt and Olivia Bina