CfP: The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies, 5th ed. ICS-ULisboa. 26-28 Nov. 2025

Portuguese/Global Urban Studies - Estudos Urbanos Portugueses/Globais 22-24 April 2026, Lisbon ICS-ULisboa and ISCTE-IUL (building 4) New submission deadline: October 31, 2025 Novo prazo para submissão: 31 de outubro de 2025 Full call / chamada completa: https://urbantransitionshub.org/events/portuguese-global-urban-studies-estudos-urbanos-portugueses-globais-22-24-april-2026-lisbon/

plaNext- Next Generation Planning, the journal of the Young Academics of AESOP, has just published its volume 14, a Special Issue on "Social Mobilisations and Planning through Crises". The SI, edited by UTH member Luisa Rossini with Tjarks Gall and Elisa Privitera, stems from the 2022 edition of the Lisbon Early Career Workshop in Urban … Continue reading plaNext SI: Social Mobilisations and Planning through Crises

Portuguese/Global Urban Studies - Estudos Urbanos Portugueses/Globais 22-24 April 2026, Lisbon ICS-ULisboa and ISCTE-IUL (building 4) [Português abaixo] Organisation: Urban Transitions Hub (UTH), Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa); Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES), Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte-IUL). With the collaboration of: Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA.IPLeiria); … Continue reading CfP: Portuguese/Global Urban Studies – Estudos Urbanos Portugueses/Globais 22-24 April 2026, Lisbon

Urban Studies Summer School organised by the Beyond Inhabitation Lab and Urban Transitions Hub, 23-26 September 2024, Turin – 2-6 June 2025, Lisbon Confirmed keynote instructorsTurin: Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY), Alana Osbourne (RU) and Tatiana Thieme (UCL)Lisbon: AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield) and Filip De Boeck (KU Leuven) Rationale What does it mean to think … Continue reading Open call: “Inhabiting the Surrounds: Urbanity, Critique and Speculative Practice”

The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies Governing the city: polity, politics, policy  4th edition – November 18-20th, 2024 - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), Lisbon Organisation: Urban Transitions Hub of ICS-ULisboa AESOP Young Academics Network  Keynote speakers: Ugo Rossi (Gran Sasso Institute, Italy) Gabriel Feltran (Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics … Continue reading Last call: The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. 4th ed. ICS-ULisboa. 18-20 nov 2024

What makes urban life worth living? (Re)evaluating the value of urban life 25 MAY, ISCTE (Auditório Silva Leal, Ala Autónoma)10.00 Meet up and coffee10.30-13.00: 1st Session - Urban Theory Moderated by Andrea PavoniJ. S. Biehl, The Promise of the CityM. Counihan & L. Higgins, Close encounters of the urban kindN. Conceição, The city as a common world and intimacy … Continue reading International Workshop, 25 – 26 May 2023

Full call for papers Submission of abstracts by March 30, 2023 Keynote speakers: Michele Lancione (Politecnico di Torino); Stephanie Wakefield (Life University) The Urban Transitions Hub and the AESOP Young Academics Network, in collaboration with project “UrbanoScenes: Post-colonial imaginaries of urbanisation”, will host the third edition of the Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies, from … Continue reading CfP: Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. 3rd ed. 8-10 nov 2023

What makes urban life worth living? (Re)evaluating the value of urban life Whenever we speak of values, we speak under the inspiration—from the perspective—of life: life itself forces us to establish values; life itself evaluates through us when we posit values.i What is a quality of life, construed as a value? The answer is simple: … Continue reading CfP: International Workshop – Lisbon, 25-26 May 2023