Annual Lecture

Professor Gautam Bhan presented the 2025 Annual Lecture, “New Directions for Southern Urban Praxis”, at the City Debates conference in Beirut.

Professor Matthew Gandy presented the 2024 Annual Lecture, “Urban metabolism redux”, at the RGS-IBG conference in London.

Read the paper here.

Professor Jennifer Robinson presents the 2023 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, “Dimensions of Urban Development Politics: Transcalarity, Circuits, Territories”. This lecture was chaired by Doctor Karen Coelho at Urban ARC.

Professor Karen Seto presents the 2022 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, “21st Century Urbanisation and Grand Challenges for Global Sustainability”. This lecture was chaired by Professor Yingling Fan at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.

Professor Edward Glaeser presents the 2021 Urban Studies Annual Lecture “Cities in an Age of Pandemic”.

Professor Sharon Zukin was selected to present the 2020 Urban Studies Annual Lecture “Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex” but unfortunately due to COVID-19 the AAG conference was cancelled.

Read the paper here and view the related video here.

Dr AbdouMaliq Simone presented the 2019 Urban Studies Annual Lecture “To extend: Temporariness in a world of itineraries” at the RGS-IBG conference.

Read the open access paper here.

Professor Robert J Sampson presented the 2018 Urban Studies Annual Lecture “Neighbourhood effects and beyond: Explaining the paradoxes of inequality in the changing American metropolis” at the AAG conference.

Read the paper here.

Professor Lily Kong presents the 2017 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, “The Ideological Alignment of Smart Urbanism In Singapore: Critical Reflections on a Political Paradox”.

Read the lecture here.

In 2016 the Urban Studies AAG lecture “Transatlantic City” was delivered by Prof. Jamie Peck and was chaired by Andrew Cumbers.

Read the lecture here:

Transatlantic city, part 1: Conjunctural urbanism

Transatlantic city, part 2: Late entrepreneurialism