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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on ‘Speculative Futures’ 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 Sheffield, 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 “Urban AI: The “technisation of everything?” 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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UI launches Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023

The Urban Institute is excited to announce the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".

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New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities

Beth Perry, Vanesa Castán Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities".
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Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present “Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines” (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy
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'Decolonial’ city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

Please join the Decolonial Cities Collective’s second Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Peju Layiwola, Red City Solidarity Disco and AFRI - 17th July 2023, 3pm-4.30pm

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New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI

Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself.