Join us online Friday for 'The Body in Space: Choreographic Explorations and Reflections' us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…… #UTADo2023 GoDown Arts Centre Mbũgua MK UTA-Do African Cities Workshop African Centre for Cities Closing event for #UTADo2023

NEW PUBLICATION: Silicon Savannahs and motorcycle taxis: A Southern perspective on the frontiers of platform urbanism With a brilliant and incredibly fun team Rike Sitas andrea pollio Alexis Prince Guma For open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03… UTA-Do African Cities Workshop UTA-Do African Cities Workshop

HAPPENING TODAY | Join Jane Battersby as she reflects on "Lived experience as a pathway to community agency? Toward new framings of nutrition in urban South Africa" as part of the EGS Seminar Series, today, 1-2pm in Studio 3 EGS, UCT.

There's still one month remaining until the deadline to the Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships scheme⁠—fully funded visiting sabbaticals for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/intern…

INFRAHUB | The GoDown Arts Centre Centre was the first multidisciplinary arts space in Kenya. Located in a converted warehouse, it provides spaces for artistic expression and partnerships across different sectors. More on this #AfricanInfrastructure case study: infrahub.africa/case-studies/g…

APPLY | The MA in Sustainable Urban Practice is tailored to working mid-career professionals seeking greater integration in their urban practice. The programme has a block release schedule & offers the change to bring your work into the learning process. bit.ly/3uxkNjH

Our course : "Digital Governance for Inclusive and Sustainable African Cities", developed by UN-Habitat and the University of Nairobi is officially open ! 🔗 Register for free here, if you haven't already done so : bit.ly/3PydSBX.

EVENT | If you are interested in applying for the MPhil #SouthernUrbanism but have some questions? This info session provides a brief overview of the pedagogical approach, programme structure and entry requirements. 🗓️ 3 Aug ⏰ 13:00-14:00 SAST Register: bit.ly/3JQRvEe

VACANCIES | ACC is recruiting for a strategic Communications Manager and a Communications Officer. If you are a communications specialist with a passion for cities & interested in working at the nexus of research, policy & public discourse, apply by 4 Aug.

#UTADO_2024 | Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the 3rd UTA-Do African Cities Workshop Cities Workshop in 2024, hosted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 29 Jan- Feb 2024. bit.ly/3Y6CTX3

This was a really lovely paper to collaborate on with Prof Beth Perry Vanesa Castán Broto and Zarina Patel. African Centre for Cities

PHD opportunity: Join a cool team African Centre for Cities

Feminists out there, consider submitting an abstract for this event: Feminising urban struggle: bodies, territories and politics in women’s production and reproduction of peripheral spaces urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/grante…

Out now: Pleased to have contributed chapters to Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University #EpistemicJusticeandthePostcolonialUniversity Wits University Press African Centre for Cities

Wrote a chapter for this edited collection - ‘Policies Aren’t Pieces of Paper’: Tussles and Tactics in Action-Oriented and Agile Cultural Policy Research. Thanks Prof Abi Gilmore Victoria Durrer @LeilaJancovich and many more for getting this book out African Centre for Cities

New publication: Maurietta Stewart and I wrote something: From Heritage Conservation to Heritage Justice sciencedirect.com/science/articl… African Centre for Cities City of Cape Town

Please join us IAS Carleton U on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, from 1pm for #KnowingAfricaSeries: "Epistemic Justice and the PostColonial University". @ShireenHassim,Blair Rutherford ,Nduka Otiono GABRIEL HABIYAREMYE; Rike Sitas, Kalisa egide Register: carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Welcome

CFP: Media and ‘Middling’ Cities — dossier of short articles to be published in Mediapolis, September 2024. Abstracts due 1 Feb 2024; articles due 1 June 2024. Read more here: mediapolisjournal.com/about-us/edito…

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