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Recap Last Night’s Public Lecture Series Event

At the last Public Lecture Series event of this semester Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Hauck shared his insights about "Animal-Aided Design: A Stakeholder Approach to Incorporating Wildlife into Urban Planning"

On 13 February 2024, the Center for Metropolitan Studies closed its 2023-24 Public Lecture Series with a presentation from Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Hauck (Technische Universität Wien).

Prof. Hauck delivered the lecture "Animal-Aided Design: A Stakeholder Approach to Incorporating Wildlife into Urban Planning". You can learn more about animal-aided…

Recap Last Night’s Public Lecture Series Event

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Allahwala presented with his Lecture "On Sociality, Survival and Intimacy: Reflections on 'Social Infrastructure' in Urban Studies" insights into urban planning and activism in Toronto

On 30 January 2024, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Allahwala delivered an extremely interesting lecture on the topic "On Sociality, Survival and Intimacy: Reflections on 'Social Infrastructure' in Urban Studies" during the CMS Public Lecture Series.

He was introduced by our very own Prof. Dr. Margit Mayer, who supervised Prof. Allahwala during his studies in the…

15.02.24: Reopening of the Historical Archive of Tourism at TU Berlin

On February 15th at 4pm in Room HBS 010, Hardenbergstr. 16-18 (ground floor)

On February 15, the Historical Archive of Tourism at TU Berlin will start a new round. As part of the new Mittelstand Digital Center for the Tourism Industry, there will not only be regular opening hours for visitors again from February 2024, but also workshops, exhibitions and courses for students at the CMS.


The new staff of the HAT (Prof. Dr.…

Recap Last Night’s Public Lecture Series Event

In our first episode of the Public Lecture Series in 2024, Prof. Mitsuda delivered the talk "'When You Empty Your Mind, Even Fire Feels Cool' Shifting Thermal Identities in Twentieth-Century Tokyo"

The CMS Public Lecture Series is back! Yesterday, we welcomed our guest researcher, Prof. Tatsuya Mitsuda of the Keio University (Japan).


Prof. Mitsuda's broad research and teaching interests span the intertwined social and cultural histories of food, animals and climate, with particular reference to the German and Japanese experience in the…

New Article by Dr. Claudia Seldin: “Understanding Bottom-Up Territories of Culture in Unequal Cities"

The Article was published in the journal “Debats - Journal on Culture, Power and Society”.

Our team member Dr. Claudia Seldin has published a new article in the Scimago-rated journal “Debats - Journal on Culture, Power and Society”.
   
In “Understanding Bottom-Up Territories of Culture in Unequal Cities”, Dr. Seldin and her co-authors argue that the concept of ‘contested territories of culture’ plays a key role in the informal…

Welcoming our newest CMS team member Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek!

Dr. Zeybek is currently a guest lecturer at the CMS Master Historische Urbanistik and participates in the Berlin University Alliance project "Re-Scaling Global Health - Human Health an Urban Planet".

Every semester we welcome members of our team to present their on-going projects and publications at the CMS Research Colloquium.
We closed 2023 with a wonderful presentation by our newest team member, Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek, who spoke about his book project “Animals in (Urban) War”.

Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek is a Human Geographer currently hosted by…

Recap Last Night’s Public Lecture Series Event

On December 12th 2023 Dr. Tanja Straka (Institute of Ecology, TU Berlin) drew our attention to bats in "Night Time in Berlin and Melbourne: Human Biodiversity Interactions and Practical Implications"

The CMS welcomed Dr. Tanja Straka (Institute of Ecology, TU Berlin) to our Public Lecture Series today. For her presentation "Night Time in Berlin and Melbourne: Human Biodiversity Interactions and Practical Implications", Dr. Straka gave a brief introduction on the meaning of urban ecology and the school of Berlin. She then went on to tell the…

07.12.23: "SPACES AND SPECIES: Architektur, Stadtentwicklung und Biologische Vielfalt.“

Prof. Dr. Dorothee Brantz is taking part in the BUND Berlin and Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory project on

species protection building planning (funded by the Berlin SenMVKU)

The kick-off workshop on December 7th 2023 starts at 3 pm at the Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory. Prof. Dr. Dorothee Brantz will take part as part of a group of invited experts from science, politics, environmental associations and architecture firms to discuss future perspectives on cooperation and event planning as part of the project "SPACES AND…

Recap Last Night’s Public Lecture Series Event

On December 5th 2023 Prof. Dr. Gregg Mitman (Madison, Wisconsin and LMU Munich) presented the intriguing topic “Ebola in a Stew of Fear: From Urban Wet Markets to the Guinea Forests of West Africa".

The Center for Metropolitan Studies resumed its Public Lecture Series on 5 December 2023 with Prof. Dr. Gregg Mitman (Madison, Wisconsin and LMU Munich) and an extremely interesting presentation on the topic “Ebola in a Stew of Fear: From Urban Wet Markets to the Guinean Forests of West Africa”.

Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William…

04.12.23: "From urban grievance to urban struggle: On the history of urban social movements" - Lecture on the early beginnings of urban mobilization

The Lecture is held by Dr. Philipp Reick (CMS) at the Malmö University starting from 15:15.