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The INRS Centre Urbanisation Culture Société is accepting applications for a a tenure-track professor position in teaching and research on the theme of cities and immigration (French language is required). Deadline: January 19, 2026. atlas.workland.com/work/70383/p... #urban #sociology

Tenured Professor in the interdisciplinary Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, on topics such as community development and organizing, affordable housing and homelessness... jobs.chronicle.com/job/37921091... #urban #sociology

New book out "Renewing Urban Critical Theories. Rediscovering Thinkers, Reimagining Texts, and Reframing Questions" edited by Francesco Biagi. www.routledge.com/Renewing-Urb... #urban #sociology

CfP: "La perspectiva espacial crítica en las ciencias sociales", revista Encrucijadas. Fecha Límite para recepción de trabajos: 30/05/2026. recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/en... #urban #sociology

Thomas Aguilera, Francesa Artioli & Claire Colomb – Housing Under Platform Capitalism. 04.12.2025, 5:00pm-7:00pm CET Compulsory registration Housing Under Platform Capitalism: The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities Fifteen years after the launch of Airbnb, most cities around the world ha...

Book presentation: Thomas Aguilera, Francesa Artioli & Claire Colomb – "Housing Under Platform Capitalism". 04.12.2025, 5:00pm-7:00pm CET. www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit... #urban #sociology

Special issue of Global Dialogue in memory of Michael Burawoy. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge... #urban #sociology

Interesting new book (with the Introduction and one chapter as open access): "Informal Housing in the Global North. Exploring Practices, Actors and Processes in a Transforming Housing System" edited by Jakub Galuszka. www.routledge.com/Informal-Hou... #urban #sociology

8TH RC21-IJURR FOUNDATION-IJURR DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN COMPARATIVE URBAN STUDIES. VIENNA (AUSTRIA), 9-22 JULY 2026.

Apply by 2 January 2026 at midnight GMT. See the instructions here:

www.rc21.org/en/8th-rc21-... #urban #sociology

Open access book: "Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility" by Robin Hickman. uclpress.co.uk/book/discour... #urban #sociology

Call for abstracts: Degrowth and the Politics of Space: Tools for Thought and Action, AMSTERDAM 21-23 October 2026. 1st December, 2025: deadline for abstract submission www.degrowthpsc.com #urban #sociology

Sociología del territorio Sociología del territorio invita a repensar el espacio más allá de mapas y fronteras, mostrando cómo los territorios son construcciones sociales en constante transformación. La obra reúne aportes de d...

Open access book (in Spanish language): "Sociología del territorio. Conceptos, enfoques y perspectivas iberoamericanas" edited by Luciano Martínez Valle, Arilson Favareto & Diego Martínez-Godoy. www.teseopress.com/sociologiade... #urban #sociology

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); online & onsite. www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbain... Organized by #Cities_are_Back_in_Town, Urban School of Sciences Po. #urban #sociology

📢 Open Calls for RC21 Vienna 2026!

The sessions for the RC21 Conference 2026 are set – now it’s your turn to contribute!

📅 Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
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Call for abstracts for the kick off meeting of the DIAMETROIT project: Abstracts should be sent by November 30 to diametroit@gmail.com. Abstracts should be sent by November 30 to diametroit@gmail.com. sites.google.com/view/diametr... #urban #sociology

Rent Strikes Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...

New Open-access book: "Rent Strikes. A history of collective tenant actions across the world" edited bu Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf. uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... #urban #sociology

II Simpósio Ibero-Americano de Segregação Socioespacial Urbana O II Simpósio Ibero-Americano de Segregação Socioespacial terá lugar no IGOT-ULisboa, entre os dias 21 e 23 de janeiro, e será dedicado ao tema "Transformações nas Expressões Espaciais da Desigualdade...

CfP: II Ibero-American Symposium on Urban Socio-Spatial Segregation. January 21 to 23, 2026 (hybrid format – in-person and online). IGOT-ULisboa (Lisbon). Deadline to submit abstracts: 11/11/2025. www.igot.ulisboa.pt/eventos/ii-s... #urban #sociology

REST – City and Regional Sustainability Transitions Webinar Series.

6th November 12pm GMT / 1pm CET: Commons, Place and Landscapes for Sustainable Transitions. www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-o...! #urban #sociology

CfP: Alternative Futures & Popular Protest conference, 15-17, June 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: December 19, 2025. docs.google.com/forms/d/1SEy... Webpage from last year: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/ #urban #sociology

The deadline to submit abstracts to Sociologidagarna (at Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö, Sweden, 18–20 march, 2026) is approaching: 10 November 2025. Please, consider contributing to our Urban Sociology group! lnu.se/mot-linneuni... #urban #sociology

New interesting book: "Global Urban Policy. A Framework for Analyzing State and Society" edited by David Kaufmann & Mara Sidney. press.umich.edu/Books/G/Glob... #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

Conference "Villes en transformation : Défis, (pré)visions, perspectives", Sofia, 18-19 June, 2026. Deadline to submit abstracts (French and English language): 30 November 2025. www.auf.org/europe-centr... #urban #sociology

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

"Inhabiting debt" book edited by Antonio di Campli, examines the relationship between access to housing and indebtedness in four emblematic neighborhoods in Ecuador. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #urban #sociology

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Fixed-term Post-Doctoral Research Associate for a project on the "Rentierization of Supported Housing" at UCL (London). Closing Date: 21-Nov-2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #urban #sociology

Tenure-track position at the College of Wooster. The position is half Urban Studies, half Sociology—we are looking for an Urban Sociologist, doing research on housing or transportation. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025. wooster.edu/job/assistan... #urban #sociology

Relevant Open-access book: "Framing Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises. Social Movements across European Cities" edited by Mojca Pajnik, Helge Schwiertz, Donatella della Porta, Franz Bernhardt & Marko Ribać. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #urban #sociology

Sociologists! Consider applying for the Kohli Fellowship for Sociology, which provides financial support for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the WZB in Berlin. Deadline is Nov. 16. bit.ly/4opl1ms

Today I presented a summary of key urban and housing sociology topics at an internal seminar of the IBF (Uppsala). A further discussion on these issues can be found in the book I recently edited: Research Handbook on Urban Sociology. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...)

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will host the twelfth edition of the Annual PhD Workshop from 12–14 January 2026, at the IIHS Sadashivnagar, Bengaluru, with limited options for online participation. Deadline: 10 November 2025. iihs.co.in/research/phd... #urban #sociology