Cities at War” is a 14-week online lecture series bringing together scholars from war-affected cities to explore how armed conflict shapes urban life and space. Unlike studies that conflate urban militarization with cities enduring active conflict, this series centers on the physical destruction, ruination, and everyday survival strategies within cities at war. It examines how planning, reconstruction, displacement, and commodification are formed by the continuum of times of war and times of peace. A key aspect is the erasure of knowledge, heritage, and memory - both through material destruction and the ideological rewriting of cities in post-conflict nation-building. This is a complementary/supplementary course programme based on a cooperation between HU Berlin and Off University.
The seminar is taught in English and funded by the Urban Studies Foundation. It takes place digitally. Please register here: https://offuniversity.org/current-courses/cities-at-war/
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis WiSe 2025/26 gefunden:
