Events

Current events

Entangled Urban Inequalities, PGR/ECR Conference

Wednesday 1 July 2026, 9:00am

TBC

Where Has Bish Vegas Gone?

Wednesday 24 June 2026, 12:30pm

Teaching room 1, Geography and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

The Geopolitics of Urban Intelligence

Thursday 18 June 2026, 9:00am

Seminar room 11, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Sheffield Urbanism Showcase 2026: Urban Research as Social Action

Monday 15 June 2026, 9:00am

Workrooms 2 and 3, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD

Kinships – Thinking with Doina Petrescu

Thursday 11 June 2026, 10:00am

TBC

Recognising Experience-Based Skills and Community Knowledge: Debates, Issues and Examples

Wednesday 10 June 2026, 10:00am

Ron Johnson Research Room, Geography and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

Studying China in the Age of Polycrisis

Thursday 28 May 2026, 9:00am

Seminar room 5, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Urban Dreams / Future Cities Creative Workshop

Friday 22 May 2026, 9:30am

Ron Johnston Research Room, Geography and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

Urban Dreams / Future Cities Hybrid Public Talk

Thursday 21 May 2026, 1:30pm

Seminar room 4, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Expatriate Nairobi: Migration categories and the making of urban privilege

Thursday 21 May 2026, 1:00pm

Online

Urban Dreams/Future Cities Exhibition

Monday 18 May 2026, 12:00pm

The Foyer (opposite the reception), The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Urban Dreams/Future Cities Exhibition Opening

Thursday 21 May 2026, 12:00pm

The Foyer (opposite the reception), The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Online keynote lecture: Reproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia

Friday 15 May 2026, 3:30pm

Online

Events archive

Book Talk - Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Monday 23 March 2026, 3:00pm

GPL, Teaching Room 2, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

Tanya Zack and The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a port city

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 1:00pm

GPL, Teaching Room 1, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization

Thursday 12 March 2026, 2:00pm

Site Gallery (Studio 1), 1Brown Street, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BS

Barriers to Inclusivity in the Solar Value Chain – Online Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 1:00pm

Online

A Place in The City, Film Screening

Tuesday 3 February 2026, 2:30pm

Hicks Building, Lecture Theatre 5 , The University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH

Online lecture: The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation

Friday 16 January 2026, 11:30am

Online

Feminist Ways of Knowing: From Institutional Ethnography to Ethnography in Practice

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 1:00pm

Online

UI 10th JustGESI Project Launch

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 4:30pm

Seminar room 5, Wave Building, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 10:30am

This lecture will be live-streamed as part of an in-person (invite only) event

Keynote Lecture 1: That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities

Monday 20 October 2025, 4:30pm

Online

Knowledge Co-production Across Borders: A Series of Online Dialogues

Monday 20 October 2025, 9:30am

Online

Social Founders in Sheffield and South Yorkshire

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 2:30pm

Room TBC, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

Tuesday 7 October 2025, 9:00am

Online

Book Launch - The Gated City

Wednesday 24 September 2025, 5:00pm

Online

Lecture: The contribution of academics to urban reform coalitions

Thursday 18 September 2025, 4:00pm

Seminar Room 5, The Wave Building, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

‘Water Blew Up Everything’: from Critical Urbanisms to Situated Planetary Care

Tuesday 2 September 2025, 10:00am

Arts Tower, Floor 13, rooms 13.18 + 19, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN

Film Screening of ‘Contained: A New Silk Road Story’

Thursday 3 July 2025, 6:00pm

Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS

Public Talk: “Exploring Social and Environmental (In)Justice Along the EACOP"

Wednesday 2 July 2025, 6:30pm

Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS

The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025

Tuesday 1 July 2025, 9:00am

Workroom 2, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD

Urban Research Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth (IN-PERSON PUBLIC EVENT)

Tuesday 1 July 2025, 4:45pm

Lecture Theatre 5, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD

Emerging Urban Inequalities: The Experiences of Voluntary Action Sheffield

Friday 27 June 2025, 2:15pm

Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD

Emerging Urban Inequalities Conference 2025

Thursday 26 June 2025, 9:00am

Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD

New Frontiers of Urban Inequality, Keynote by Dr Saffron Woodcraft

Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00am

Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD

Climate Pluriversations Grant Writing Workshop (Hybrid event)

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 12:30pm

ICOSS Conference Room, The University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP

Anarchitectures of the Future, Dr Martin Savransky, University of Bath (HYBRID KEYNOTE LECTURE)

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 5:30pm

Lecture room 5, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD

Young Men, Mental Health & Community Resources: New Evidence New Directions

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 12:00pm

Israac Centre, Vestry Hall, Cemetery Road, Sheffield, S11 8FP

Neurotechnically-Enabled Urbanism: What are the issues and challenges for urban life?

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 1:00pm

Seminar Room 14, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Future Religions / Religious Futures

Monday 23 June 2025, 9:00am

St Mary's Church, Bramall Lane, Sheffield, S2 4QZ

Building bridges: Queer and feminist approaches to interdisciplinarity

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 4:00pm

Room A09a/Ron Johnston/Online, Geography and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

Global CEO peer groups and the capitalist class in Johannesburg, London and Mumbai

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 4:00pm

Lecture Theatre 6, The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD

ECR China Studies Workshop: Studying China in Uncertain Times

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:45am

Seminar room 5, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Head North: Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram

Monday 19 May 2025, 7:30pm

Octagon Centre, The University of Sheffield, Clarkson Street, Sheffield, S10 2TQ

Book launch (hybrid): City of Desire by Tanzil Shafique

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 4:00pm

Workroom 3 , The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Book launch: Squatting London - the Politics of Property

Thursday 6 March 2025, 12:30pm

Teaching Room 1, Geog and Planning Building, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

Book Talk: Isaac Rose's 'Rentier City'

Thursday 30 January 2025, 6:30pm

To be announced

Shaping the International Urban Agenda: The 2024 World Cities Report (IN PERSON)

Thursday 30 January 2025, 1:00pm

Seminar room 5, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Shaping the International Urban Agenda: The 2024 World Cities Report (ONLINE)

Thursday 30 January 2025, 1:00pm

Online

(Urban) Infrastructures, (Urban) Informalities and (Urban) Climate Policies (ONLINE)

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 3:30pm

Online

(Urban) Infrastructures, (Urban) Informalities and (Urban) Climate Policies (IN PERSON)

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 3:30pm

Seminar room 5, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Co-Pro Futures Inquiry – Call for Evidence and Ideas (Online Event)

Thursday 5 December 2024, 9:30am

Online

The Power of Space: Consecration and Premier Elite Community

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 1:00pm

Ron Johnson Room, School of Geography and Planning

Corridor Urbanisation: A New Global Geography?

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 3:15pm

The Wave

The Multiple Urban Histories of the Corridor

Wednesday 6 November 2024, 3:15pm

Arts Tower LT08

Resilient community energy systems webinar

Wednesday 6 November 2024, 11:00am

Online Event

Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday 18 June 2024

Dainton Building, The University of Sheffield, 13 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7HF

Interdisciplinary Talks: Researching Emerging Urban Inequalities

Friday 7 June 2024

Workroom 3, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Panel Discussion: Emerging Urban Inequalities

Thursday 6 June 2024

Workroom 3, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Interdisciplinary Talks: Understanding Emerging Urban Inequalities

Thursday 6 June 2024

Workroom 3, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Sheffield Urbanism PhD Conference: Emerging Urban Inequalities

06-07 June 2024

The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation - ONLINE PARTICIPATION

23-24.05.2024

Online, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Workshop: "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation" (Applications now OPEN)

23rd-24th May, 2024

University of Sheffield

Living & working in a changing climate: women waste pickers' experience

Wednesday 17 April 2024

The Wave, University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Cultural Heritage and the Just City: A Dialogue between Cape Town and Sheffield (IN-PERSON)

Tuesday 9 April 2024

The University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND

Book launch: For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street Sheffield City Centre S1 2LG

Book launch - Epistemic Ambivalence: Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

Wednesday 7 February 2024

The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

The Tangles Amongst Us: An Interweaving of Urbanities, Ontologies and Times

Wednesday 31 January 2024

Online

Book talk by Dr Jon Silver - The Infrastructural South

Tuesday 30 January 2024

The Wave, University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Hybrid Seminar: Rethinking Urban Resistance and Democracy

Thursday 7 December 2023

Alfred Denny Building (Conference Room), The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN

Book Talk - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa

Tuesday 5 December 2023

Online Event

Book launch of Simone Toji’s new book “The Immensity of Being Singular"

Wednesday 8 November 2023

Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street, Sheffield City Centre, S1 2LG

Urbanism Lecture Series, Session 2 - Robotic Restructuring: Ecology and Climate

Wednesday 18 October 2023

The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Celebration of the Urban Institute's 3rd year of its Sheffield School

Wednesday 11 October 2023

Online

Urbanism Lecture Series, Session 1 - Robotic Restructuring: Cities

Wednesday 4 October 2023

The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Thursday 14 September 2023

Online

Guest seminar: anti-planning narratives in Australia, Professor Nicole Gurran

Tuesday 11 July 2023

The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Workshop on Schools, Communities and Sustainability

Tuesday 11 July 2023

The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Dialogue on Citizens of Worlds

Tuesday 16 May 2023

Online

Book launch - Producing Mayaland

Wednesday 10 May 2023

ICOSS Boardroom, The University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP

Free Live Music Gig in Sheffield: Dearthworms, Lightning Threads, DJ Nightowls

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Shakespeares Pub, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, S3 8UB

The Silence of the Lawns: Guest lecture by philosopher and ecologist Tim Morton

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Sir Henry Stephenson Building or Virtual Event, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 4DT

Dialogues On Urban Inhabitation and the Urban Technical

Thursday 30 March 2023

Virtual Event

Why are we still talking about Silk Roads?

Monday 30 January 2023

Online

Global Corridors Seminar Series: The Contested Politics of Ports in Greece - Event Information

Monday 23 January 2023

Online

Expressways to the Future? - Event Information

Thursday 19 January 2023

British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), Nairobi - Kenya

Third Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series on Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics

02/11/2022, 23/11/2022, 14/12/2022

ICOSS, The University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP

Global Urbanisms

Wednesday 18 May 2022

Online

The future of Climate Urbanism: The second Sheffield Urbanism lecture series

Wed 6 October, Wed 20 October, Wed 3 November

Virtual event

Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions in East Africa: Project launch + keynote address

Thursday 21 January 2021

Virtual event

Rethinking energy poverty and best practices for the governance of renewable energy access

Thursday 11 February 2021

Virtual event

Access to electricity in Ethiopia – 3rd RELA webinar

Thursday 11 March 2021

Virtual event

Book launch - Realising Just Cities

Thursday 18 March 2021

Virtual event

Implementing community-centred off-grid energy projects in informal settlements

Thursday 13 May 2021

Virtual event

Urban Institute September School

9-30 September 2020

Virtual event

The Urban Surrounds: from extinction to abolition

7 October - 4 November

Virtual event

The City in a Time of Social Distancing

Thursday 14 May 2020

Virtual event

From Displacement to Displaceability: Reshaping Urban Citizenship

Wednesday 20 November 2019

Arts Tower, 16th Floor, The Well

Reflections Seminar Programme 2019-2020: Urban Explorations

October 2019 - March 2020

Arts Tower

Dwelling in Liminalities: Uncanny conversations

February - June 2020

Virtual event

Black Urbanism Consultative Forum

Past event

Virtual event

The New Climate Urbanism

4-5 September 2020

Virtual event

Co-Producing Climate Urbanism: Learning From Experience

Thursday 5 September 2019

Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, Conference Room

Heterogeneous Infrastructures

12-15 November 2018

Virtual event

Seminar – “Housing informality in Italy: marginality, criminality, activism or speculation?”

Wednesday 12 December 2018

Teaching Room 1, Geography and Planning Building

Making Music, Making Communities

Friday 29 June 2018

Seminar room G14, 9 Mappin Street

Workshop: Sustainable Energy Access in Mozambique

Monday 25 June 2018

Pam Liversidge Building, Room PLB-D06

Jam and Justice Discuss Devolution at Manchester Histories Festival

Monday 11 June 2018

Manchester Central Library

Department of Geography Seminar: Urban energy landscapes- comparative analyses

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Department of Geography, Ron Johnston Research Room (C Floor)