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Thesis defense: Kevin POISSON
The redistributed crisis: visibility, attribution, and the governance of loss in office real estate in the Paris region, on September 28 at Université Paris Cité.
Redec
Dates: année de début - année de fin The Redec project (REDistricting and legislative Elections in France: a Computational approach) aims to build an expertise about the electoral map in France by assembling a consortium of researchers with expertise in political science, economics, geography and computer science.
Divsky
Dates: 2024 – 2027 The project aims to capture and analyze the life experiences, social practices, and worldviews of residents along the former inner-German border.
Thesis Defense: Thomas Rosenthal
Helping One’s World. A Political Geography of Aid as Delivered by French Development NGOs. Tuesday, October 13, at the Sorbonne (Paris, France).
Industrial Heritage: Places, Memories, Renewals
The call for papers is now open and will remain open until 1 March 2027.
Territorial Transitions in the Context of Contemporary Global Crises
The call for papers for the 7th forthcoming CIST conference is open until 11 December 2026.
Nadine Roudil, Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago
Nadine Roudil is currently hosted by the UChicago-CNRS HumanitiesPlus International Research Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
Thesis defense: Antoine Gosnet
Producing social housing around the Grand Paris Express: Institutional change, local strategies, and socio-spatial recompositions. Thursday, 10 September at Campus Condorcet.
Land-Based Commons for Housing and Inclusive Cities
A paper by Claire Simonneau and Eric Denis published in the International Journal of the Commons.
Kai Shang, a visiting PhD student
Kai Shang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), is a visiting PhD student at Université Paris Cité and the UMR 8504 Géographie-cités laboratory for a six-month research stay.
Social Cohesion Reduced to Social Ties?
Sport, Leisure, and the Limits of Migrant Inclusion in Spain, an article co-authored by Julien Puech.
A multilingual dictionary for the recognition of macro-regions and countries mentioned in daily press news
A data paper by Claude Grasland and Etienne Toureille published in the Cybergeo online review.
Towards a New Urban Regime? Reconfiguring Urban China through Internal Migration”
A presentation by Cinzia Losavio, at the Department of Geography and Resource Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong on June 25.
The hidden number of Chinese Cities
How can we explain the deliberate omission of the vast majority of small and medium-sized cities in most studies on urban China?An article by Denise Pumain for the Cybergeo Conversation Blog.
Dynamics of discovery and the Heaps-Zipf relationship
A paper by Célestin Zimmerlin, Thomas Louail, Manuel Moussallam and Marc Barthelemy.
Gábor Sonkoly on an official academic mission at the University of São Paulo
Gábor Sonkoly will deliver lectures on June 1, 3, 11, and 15.
Thesis Defense: Léo Taillandier
The heterogeneity of cycling within and between functional urban ereas: A modeling approach. Monday, June 1 at Campus Condorcet.
The Legal Spatiality of Land, Water, and Infrastructure
This seminar will take place on June 8, 2026, at Campus Condorcet.
Sustainable Pathways for Waterborne Transport in Ukraine
Ivan Savchuk contributed to the recommendations submitted to the Government of Ukraine in preparation for post-war reconstruction.
DISEE – Spatial Dimension of Engagement with Exiles
The DISEE project examines the spatial dimension of discouragement, the making of "long-term volunteers," and the circulation of knowledge between engagement territories.
Mobility and Daytime Population in Geographical Space
Chapter 3 of the volume The Mobile Individual: Everyday Life, Long-Term Temporalities, and Mobile Subjectivities", authored by Hadrien Commenges and Julie Vallée.
Children’s global imaginaries
The sociogenesis of political and moral views of world space in childhood: a paper by Anne-Cécile Ott published in Children's Geographies.
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison
A comparative analysis of six metropolitan areas: Shanghai, Nairobi, Paris, Casablanca, Salford, and Rome, with the contribution of Antoine Gosnet.
Special screening of the award-winning documentary Skid Row Marathon
With Judge Craig Mitchell and the filmmakers, Friday, April 10, 2026 at MK2 Bibliothèque.
Declining red brick factories in Greater Cairo (Egypt)
Unveiling military-led urbanization through its productive peripheries: an article by Corten Pérez-Houis.
