Program of the Cities are Back in Town Seminar Series 2021-2022
First Semester
(Thursdays, 5.30-7.15pm CEST/CET online, 5-7pm in-person)
Cities Webinar, 8 September 2021, online:
Eduardo Marques (Center for Metropolitan Studies, University of São Paulo)
Launch and presentation of the book The Politics of Incremental Progressivism: Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo, Wiley/IJURR, 2021
Discussant: Patrick Le Galès (CNRS, CEE, Urban School, Sciences Po)
Cities Webinar, 23 September 2021, online:
Julie-Anne Boudreau (INRS) and Joelle Rondeau (Trent University)
Launch and presentation of the book Youth Urban Worlds: Aesthetic Political Action in Montreal, Wiley/IJURR, 2021
Discussant: Anastasiya Halauniova (University of Amsterdam)
Cities WIP (Work in Process), 14 October 2021, in-person:
Jihad Farah (Lebanese University, visiting researcher at CERI, Sciences Po)
‘Crafting Local Public Policy Instruments in Lebanon: The Case of Solid Waste Management’
Cities Webinar, 28 October 2021, online:
Tom Goodfellow (University of Sheffield)
‘Displaceable mobility: movement and class formation on the peripheries of Addis Ababa’
Discussant: TBC
Cities Webinar, 18 November 2021, online:
Hélène Thiollet (CNRS, CERI, Sciences Po) and Camille Schmoll (Géographie-cité, EHESS)
Presentation of the book Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World, Springer, 2021
Discussant: Tommaso Vitale (CEE, Urban School, Sciences Po)
Cities WIP, 2 December 2021, in-person:
Marwan Mohammed (CNRS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, ENS)
‘Les dynamiques du management territorial du trafic de drogue’