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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…