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Archived news and events

09/23/2025

Our research group welcomes visiting scholar Philipa Birago Akuoko from Ghana

Philipa Birago Akuoko is a human geographer from Ghana who will be conducting her research in our department over the next two years.
There is a market in the global south. There are people walking around with goods on their heads, balancing them
08/28/2025

Call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently

Dr. Paroj Banerjee, Dr. Ishita Chatterjee, and Dr. Raffael Beier are hosting a seminar series focusing on “non-dominant inhabitation,” which is…
08/21/2025

Sophie Schramm gives a lecture for the SchnupperUni on the topic "Urban Water Landscapes of Africa: Diverse Infrastructures, Technologies and Practises Beyond Planning"

As part of the SchnupperUni, Sophie Schramm will give a lecture on the topic of "urban water landscapes of Africa" on 21.08.2025 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:0
The picture shows a woman leaking water from a faucet into a container outside.
07/29/2025

New publication by Raffael Beier

The article analyses how political actors mobilize a moral discourse to criticize practices of renting and selling state-subsidized housing by the…
The picture from South Africa shows RDP houses in Lehae, Johannesburg. In the background you can see a 1 floor building and in the foreground are two children
07/29/2025

New publication by Raffael Beier

The article deals with the lived experiences of non-occupation and secondary mobility in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
A field with many plots of land for sale
07/29/2025

Raffael Beier secures the Seminar Series Award of the Urban Studies Foundation (USF)

Raffael Beier received together with his colleagues a funding through the USF Seminar Series Award 2025-2026.
Laundry hanging between houses in public space on ropes
06/12/2025

Sophie Schramm and Deljana Iossifova give a lecture on urban infrastructure - as part of the seminar for urban research

Sophie Schramm and Deljana Iossifova share findings from their empirical research on urban infrastructure.
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06/10/2025

Past F-project "Planning and Dirt", published an article in the current issue of the trade journal RaumPlanung

The article deals critically with implicit assumptions of planning.
The picture shows a charette procedure, people sitting in front of a partition wall
06/03/2025

New article on coping strategies published

Girma Mulu Alemu, Sophie Schramm, and Wilbard Jackson Kombe have published an article on the topic of smallholder farmers' coping strategies.