The Global Urban Dialogues series explores the functioning, interests and institutional settings of the urban studies institutes participating in the Urban Agency III network through interviews with their directors/coordinators. The Dialogues are open to all members of Urban Agency III and members of their respective urban studies institutes and will include time for questions from the audience.

Upcoming editions

On Wednesday 21 June 5-6 pm CEST, Maria Kaika (University of Amsterdam) will interview Guy Baeten and Carina Listerborn (Malmo University).

E-mail usi@uantwerpen.be for the Zoom link.

Previous editions

  • 9 May 2023 - Guy Baeten (Malmo University) interviewed Maria Kaika (University of Amsterdam).
  • 20 March 2023 - Luce Beeckmans (KU Leuven) interviewed Bert De Munck and Stijn Oosterlynck (University of Antwerp).
  • 27 January 2023 - Bas Van Heur (Free University of Brussels) interviewed Nik Theodore (University of Illinois Chicago).
  • 10 January 2023 - Bert De Munck (University of Antwerp) interviewed Ivan Tosics (Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest).
  • 9 June 2022 - Clare Melhuish interviewed Bas Van Heur, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies at the Free University of Brussels (VUB).
  • 25 April 2022 - Carina Listerborn interviewed Marc Pradel Miquel, University of Barcelona.
  • 24 March 2022 - Igor Tempels Moreno Pessoa interviewed Kevin Ward, University of Manchester.
  • 28 January 2022 - Bert De Munck interviewed Linda Peake and her colleagues Patricia Wood and Roger Keil from York University, Toronto.
  • 16 December 2021 - Guy Baeten interviewed Lavinia Bifulco, University of Milano-Bicocca.
  • 28 October 2021 - interview with Prof. Yuri Kazepov, PI and speaker of the Challenge of Urban Futures Research Platform at the University of Vienna.
  • 23 September 2021 - interview with Dr Clare Melhuish, Principal Research Fellow and Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory.