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  Geographies of (In)justice: The challenges of researching and teaching spatial (in)justice: a Central and Eastern European perspective

  The seminar lecture deals with the following issues:the uneven development of knowledge production from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe (Anglo-American hegemony, injustices ofthe publication industry);the relevance of research topics such as socio-spatial marginalisation and peripheralisation;the usefulness of critical theories such as uneven development and the right to the city;teaching spatial (in)justice as a…

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  Geographies of (In)justice: Solidarity economics and local development: the case of ‘post-conflict’ Belfast

  This presentation explores the impact and potential of the social economy as a site of urban struggle, political mobilisation and community organisation. It offers a critical account of the social economy and its place in urban and state restructuring and the remaking of the local in urban politics and resistive practices. Taking Belfast, in the…

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  Geographies of (In)justice: The “yellow vest” movement in the light of the socio-spatial inequalities in France

  Jacquerie, revolt of the peripheries, or revenge of the poor working class? The analysis of the “yellow vest” (gilet jaune) movement has unleashed many geographical and sociological concepts. Yet this movement reflects not so much a France split in two as a multiplicity of territorial interdependencies. Though a stable analytical framework has yet to be…

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  Geographies of (In)justice: (De)coloniality of knowledge: questioning vantage points, delinking from rules, troubling institutions

  Decolonial thought – in contrast to the better-known postcolonial theory which still interprets the other in the language of the same – questions the very epistemic mechanisms of modernity with its indispensable darker side: coloniality as a larger ontological design of the world focusing not on historical questions of colonialism but on the shaping and…

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  Geographies of (In)justice: Does spatial proximity erase social inequalities? “Social mix” and gay-friendliness in gentrified areas (France and the USA)

  While “diversity” has become a crucial goal for city planners, many scholars have raised doubts about the local benefits of a “social mix”. Does spatial proximity necessarily erase social inequalities? Sylvie Tissot will use her fieldwork in gentrified neighbourhoods to bring to light persisting boundaries between wealthy and low-income residents, as well as between straight…

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  Research Seminar: Automated Software Testing – Industry Best Practices

  The state of automated software testing in industry – how it is organised and practiced by the best and the largest software companies in the world. Includes some of the key insights being developed by practitioners across the industry into how to organise for scalability, and success.

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  Lunchtime Seminar in Law : Collaborative Shareholders

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  Lunchseminar in Economics: Lifecycle Wages and Human Capital Investments: Selection and Missing Data

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  TTO Event: The University of Luxembourg Incubator – UNI-fying Innovation for Luxembourg

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  Unframing Infrastructure: The Story of Research Infrastructure in and through the Humanities

  Lecture by Patrik Svensson, Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Umeå University

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