Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, Urban School, CEE

Travelling through Vienna, Rome, Belgrade, and Toulouse, the film reveals how local stories mirror a broader continental struggle — one that intertwines political choices, market pressures, everyday life, and the long arc of social housing policies.

Amid a devastating housing crisis, The Great Together examines the trajectory of Europe’s Grand Ensembles. Once powerful modernist utopias designed to solve the postwar housing shortage, these monumental structures now face diverging futures: maintenance, transformation, privatisation, or demolition

Screening The Great Together, followed by a discussion with filmmakers — and Urban School alumni — Jasper Meurer & Rocío Calzado.
A journey through Europe’s Grand Ensembles, and today’s housing struggles.

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All welcome — students, alumni, professionals, colleagues.

Les formations de l'École urbaine de Sciences Po Sciences Po est une université de recherche internationale, sélective, ouverte sur le monde, qui se place parmi les meilleures en sciences humaines et sociales.

Should you be interested in pursuing a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Studies at the Urban School of Sciences Po, you are invited to express your interest in this programme. Enrolment is now open. www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbain...

Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol CRIS Lectures: book talk with Sanyu A. Mojola - Death by Design Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol

Open to everyone — students, professionals, alumni, journalists, practitioners, scholars from Sciences Po and beyond. Free but compulsory registration: www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbain...

Introduction & Chair:
Clément Boisseuil, Sociologist, Senior Researcher at Apur - Atelier parisien d'urbanisme - and Lecturer at Sciences Po Ecole urbaine, associate researcher at the CEE.
Main speaker:
Sanyu A Mojola, Princeton University
Discussant:
Sophia Noel, CRIS

Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol (University of California Press).
Monday, 17 November 2025 – 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Room K008, 1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin, Paris 7

We are honoured to host the world book launch here at Sciences Po, in a joint seminar by the CRIS and the Sciences Po Ecole urbaine/Urban School. A major event, as usual at Sciences Po: the worldwide launch of Sanyu A. Mojola’s new book,

The book brings intersectionality to its full analytical potential—linking incarceration, segregation, demographic dynamics, and the long political history of the U.S. capital.

Drawing on extensive archival research, rich hashtag#spatial_data, and more than a decade of fieldwork, hashtag#Sanyu_Amimo_Mojola demonstrates how racial, gendered, spatial, and political structures shape the production of health inequality.

Washington, DC is often discussed for its central political role, yet far less for what it reveals as a city: deep hashtag#racial_segregation, severe hashtag#health_inequalities, and one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the United States.

Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol CRIS Lectures: book talk with Sanyu A. Mojola - Death by Design Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol

Monday at 5pm at Sciences Po: global launch of Sanyu A. Mojola’s Death by Design.
A powerful investigation of racial health inequality in Washington, DC.
Discussion + reception. All welcome.
📍 K008, 1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin
🎟 Registration required:
www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbain...

Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol CRIS Lectures: book talk with Sanyu A. Mojola - Death by Design Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol

Lundi à 17h à Sciences Po : lancement mondial du livre de Sanyu A. Mojola, Death by Design.
Une analyse puissante des inégalités raciales de santé à Washington, DC.
Discussion + cocktail.
Ouvert à toutes
@cris-sciencespo.bsky.social + Ecole Urbaine de Sciences Po.

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Seeking Attractiveness. Large-scale urban renewal projects in the metropolitan areas of Lille and Hamburg

13 November 2025 from 17:00 until 19:00 (Paris time)
Organized by Cities are Back in Town, Urban School of Sciences Po.

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The business of protection: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil In Brazil’s major urban centres, auto and cargo theft constitute a vibrant illicit economy. Many of these assets are insured, and a vast array of private security providers operate to recover stole...

How does finance profit from urban fear?
In Economy & Society, Deborah Fromm shows how insurers, police & security firms in Brazil turn violence into business — financializing protection itself.
Brilliant urban ethnography. #insurableness
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Open-access book: " City Makers and the Politics of Urban Diversity Governance. Comparative Approaches from Europe and Asia" edited by Jeremie Molho, Marie Gibert-Flutre & Kong Chong Ho. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #urban #sociology

Amani Hassani – Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: Racial Governance and Urban Erasure in Denmark’s Ghetto Policies. 6.11.2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm CEST. www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit... #urban #sociology

L’art peut réensauvager la ville.
Aujourd’hui à Sciences Po : régénération urbaine, nature, justice et conflits fertiles.
17h–19h, Amphi Simone Veil.
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Art can rewild the city.
Wednesday at Sciences Po: thinking urban regeneration through nature, care, and conflict that creates possibility.
5–7pm, Amphithéâtre Simone Veil.
Registration: tinyurl.com/urbannature-...

Today at the Urban School of Sciences Po @scpoeurbaine : Navigating Colour-Blind Societies — a key webinar on racial governance and urban erasure in Denmark’s “ghetto” policies.
With Amani Hassani.
I will be discussant.
5:30–7:00 PM (CEST) — online. Registration: www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...

Very happy to be the discussant for this Cities are Back in Town webinar at Sciences Po!
🗓 Nov 6 | 5:30–7:00 PM (CEST)
Amani Hassani – Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: Racial Governance and Urban Erasure in Denmark.
👉 Register: www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
#UrbanSchool #SciencesPo

An inspiring evening at the @scpoeurbaine Urban School of Sciences Po
So proud of our students & alumni community!
Thanks to @insitu.sp & Sciences Po Urba for organizing this amazing dialogue on urban careers, governance & climate action.
🎓 Learn more: bit.ly/UrbanSchoolS...

Venerdì 7 novembre modero il webinar “Sostenere il crescere in famiglie fragili”, a partire dal libro A casa d’altri (Comin, 2025).
Un confronto sul senso, le funzioni e la qualità sociale dell’educativa domiciliare.
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#Acasadaltri #Comin @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

The Policy of Refugee Reception and the Policing of Public Space in Paris This paper examines the reception and integration of asylum seekers in Paris, focusing on the governance of public spaces. Since 2015, the visibility of refugees in these areas has sparked civil aware...

The Policy of #Refugee Reception and the Policing of #Public_Space in #Paris
by Marco Cremaschi & me
We show how moderate conflict & public space policing shape refugee reception—turning Paris into a field of regulation-in-progress
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#UrbanGovernance #UrbanStudies

The Policy of Refugee Reception and the Policing of Public Space in Paris This paper examines the reception and integration of asylum seekers in Paris, focusing on the governance of public spaces. Since 2015, the visibility of refugees in these areas has sparked civil aware...

The Policy of #Refugee Reception and the Policing of #Public_Space in #Paris
by Marco Cremaschi & me
We show how moderate conflict & public space policing shape refugee reception—turning Paris into a field of regulation-in-progress
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#UrbanGovernance #UrbanStudies

Vous êtes bien urbain… Tommaso Vitale Tommaso Vitale, professeur de sociologie et doyen de l’École urbaine de Sciences-Po Quelle profession rêviez-vous d’exercer quand vous étiez enfant ?  Au fond, je voulais être scientifique : j’aimais ...

#Danslesmédias 📰

Dans la revue "Urbanisme", @tommasovitale.bsky.social, professeur de sociologie au CEE et doyen de l'Ecole urbaine, revient sur l'origine de sa vocation pour les études urbaines et transmet sa vision de l'urbanisme.

cc @scpo-research.bsky.social

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Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. 02.10.2025, 5:00pm-6:30pm CEST Zoom Compulsory registration Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. In a favela in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, daily life unfolds in the stree...

📢 Cities Are Back in Town Webinar today 5 PM (CET) @SciencesPo.
Ana Beraldo de Carvalho on violence & solidarity in Latin American urban margins.
Discussant: Patrick Le Galès. As usual at Urban School.
👉 Register www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
@sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social

Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. 02.10.2025, 5:00pm-6:30pm CEST Zoom Compulsory registration Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. In a favela in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, daily life unfolds in the stree...

📢 Webinaire Cities Are Back in Town aujourd’hui 17h (CET) Ana Beraldo de Carvalho discute violence & solidarité dans les marges urbaines latino-américaines. Avec Patrick Le Galès. Comme d'habitude à l'Ecole Urbaine de Sciences Po.
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Future4Cities... The great festival!!!

Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies, Paris 2025 24-25-26 September 2025 Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers) Organisers: The Gypsy Lore Society, Inalco, Institut Convergences Migrations, FNASAT, Médiathèque Matéo Maximoff

VITALE Tommaso Living with Antigypsyism: Contentious Embeddedness and the Struggle for Recognition in France This keynote explores how antigypsyism structures social life in France, not only as prejudice but as a condition of living marked by stigma, contentious embeddedness, and dissonant recognition. Drawing on the CNCDH barometer, I show that hostility towards Roma and Traveller groups remains structurally higher than towards any other minority, sustaining a perception of radical otherness. Yet antigypsyism is more than a statistical pattern: it is reproduced and contested through public discourse, political agendas, media campaigns, and everyday encounters. Ethnographic and network studies reveal that Roma lives are deeply interwoven with neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and associations, where solidarity, hostility, and indifference coexist in fragile balance. Mobilizations—whether civic, religious, or school-based—demonstrate both the limits of inclusion and the generative role of conflict in reshaping boundaries and claims to dignity. At the same time, the emerging struggle over the memory of the Roma genocide illustrates how recognition unfolds in dissonant ways, simultaneously denied, affirmed, and politicized. Antigypsyism, I argue, is not a fixed legacy but a dynamic and contested process: it exposes the contradictions of plural democracy, while opening unexpected spaces for solidarity and new forms of recognition.

Tomorrow at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies (in Paris-Aubervilliers):

@tommasovitale.bsky.social will give a keynote lecture based on results of the @cncdh.fr annual barometer on racism. ⤵️

Programme of the conference: www.inalco.fr/en/events/co...