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Diego Coletto, Guest researcher
Diego Coletto is a Visiting Professor at the EHESS / Géographie-cités.
Karine Duplan, Guest researcher
Karine DUPLAN is a Visiting Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), within the research unit UMR Géographie-cités.
Adaptive Redesign of Urban Industrial Landscapes
The Case of the Technical Chamber Square in Komotini, Greece: an article co-authored by Varvara Toura.
Worlding geographies: A question of languages
Reflections by geographers working in different contexts around the world, including Renaud Le Goix.
Silently ageing, quietly shrinking
Examining age-friendly policy in French and Canadian shrinking cities, an analyse by A. Paumelle, R. Barber, B. Fernandez and M. Hartt.
Understanding Mosquito Burdens through an Urban Political Ecology of Singapore’s Residential Landscapes
An article by Natacha Aveline-Dubach and Raksha Mahtani.
Rock Against Communism in France (1984-2024)
An article by Laurent Beauguitte published in the thematic issue "Music and the Right" of the journal Transpositions.
Shifting land value capture instruments for the Grand Paris Express metro
Metropolitan governance, local trade-offs and urban outcomes: an open-access article by Juliette Maulat and Natacha Aveline.
Thesis Defense – Clara JULLIEN
The urban parenthesis. Migration trajectories from rural delta and coastal areas of Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh City in a context of uncertainty, on December 15, at Campus Condorcet.
Thesis defense – Martial VIALLEIX
"Urban Planning Put to the Test of Territorial Metabolism", on 18 December 2025 at Campus Condorcet.
Historic Urban Landscapes in Comparison: Budapest and Rio de Janeiro
The Conceptual Evolution of the Urban Landscape in World Heritage Cities. An essay by Gábor Oláh, Gábor Sonkoly and Luciano Torres Tricárico.
Modern and contemporary Europe
A volume that invites readers to reconsider the central paradigms of European urban history. Edited by Dorothee Brantz and Gábor Sonkoly.
Plural Values of Culture in Europe
The main results of the European project UNCHARTED. A volume co-edited by Gábor Sonkoly.
Thesis Defense – Congcong Li
"Institutional Mechanisms of Financing Transport Infrastructure in China — Comparative Lessons from the “Rail Plus Property” Model in Shenzhen and Nanjing", on December 15, 2025, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Squat All Over the World
This international conference will take place on 8–9 January 2026 at Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers, France).
Thesis defense – Ceyda SUNGUR
Pendulum of Survival: Socio-spatial Practices of Women Cleaning Workers in Istanbul, 24 November 2025, at Campus Condorcet.
Queer Exile
Screening and discussion on 2 December at Sciences Po, with the participation of Florent Chossière.
Thesis defense – Camile DABESTANI
Remaking the Caribbean. Student representations and appropriations of macro-regional imaginaries in a postcolonial context (Guadeloupe, Martinique). 27 November at campus Condorcet.
The Aftermath of the Ankara station massacre: the Agency of Urban Design in the Right to Memory
Deniz Kimyon Tuna analyses the politics of confronting atrocity and try to situate this politics within the right to memory.
Sandrine Robert in Residence at the Maison Française d’Oxford
As part of her residency at the Maison Française d’Oxford, Sandrine Robert will give two lectures on 21 November and 4 December.
Confinement and Exclusion
Re-Analysing the Geographical Metaphor of the Closet through Trans Experiences of Public Space. An article by Milan Bonté.
More volatile, less equal: housing and welfare in 21st century France
An Analysis of Housing, Welfare, and Inequality, by Renaud Le Goix, William Kutz, and Ronan Ysebaert.
Thesis defense – Thibaud BAGES
French regions and economic sector policies: a new planning model? Strategies and tools for developing hydrogen activity by the Hauts-de-France, Occitanie and Pays de la Loire regions. On November 21, 2025 at Maison de la recherche (Paris).
Thesis defense – Jean MAKHLOUTA
Carving Out a Place in the City. Mobilities and Spatial Strategies of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Beirut. Monday, 17 November at Campus Condorcet.
Thesis defense – Alexandra Mallah
Geography of the invisibles : the territories of Women's Memory. November 14, Campus Condorcet.
