This seminar explores to what extent – and in what ways – spectrality is a relevant and productive concept within contemporary urban studies. How can spectrality – and related concepts such as vacancy, absence, ruination, trauma, and disembodiment – help us to understand the culture and transformation of cities under conditions of globalization?

This seminar explores the many ways in which garbage – in its diverse forms and articulations – is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.

This seminar combined sessions on the concept of 'intrinsic logic of cities', rhythm and hospitality in Marc Isaac's "Lift", postcolonial ruins of Hong Kong, music and sexuality in post-Soviet St. Petersburg, soundscape theory in urban studies, creative practices of slowness in global cities, Hip Hop's rise in the South Bronx,...

This seminar combined sessions on the "mediacity" as everyday culture, film festivals and cultural policies, peripheral visions of the city, cities and affect, cities and mobility, creative cities, urban film and China,...

This seminar combined sessions on the use of Actor Network Theory in urban studies, utopia and critical urban theory, smart cities, creativity and Asian cities,...