Keynote on the "Narrated City", Urban Studies Days, May 2025

I was honored (and also a bit intimated) to act as keynote speaker at the Urban Studies Days in Helsinki (15-16 May 2025). The Urban Studies have long been one of my favorite yearly conferences – an inspiring event where urban sociologists, geographers, planners, urban historians, architects, literary scholars (and more) congregate to share new and ongoing work in urban studies. In my talk, I outlined some of my earlier work that applied concepts from literary and narrative studies to urban ...