A new Urban Terrorism in Europe-project publication has just been released. Written by Katharina Karcher and Evelien Geerts, “Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany” analyzes the racist terrorist murders committed by the right-wing extremist Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund in Germany, and that against the backdrop of the hyperexceptionalization of 9/11 as a terrorist event ..read more

Team member Mireya Toribio Medina recently published an article, 10 imágenes para entender la construcción de la memoria colectiva del 11M, in The Conversation. The full text of the article, shared with us by Mireya, is also available below.   10 imágenes para entender la construcción de la memoria colectiva del 11M En el interior del ..read more

  We are looking for a curator who will help us plan and deliver an exciting exhibition at the RBSA Gallery in Birmingham from 11 until 22 February 2025.    The Project: ‘Creative responses to terror’  Since 2004, public spaces in European cities have been hit by more than ten major terrorist attacks, killing hundreds ..read more

The first Urban Terrorism in Europe team project piece has recently been published in Contemporary Reflections on Critical Terrorism Studies (a Routledge volume edited by Alice Martini & Raquel da Silva). The piece  in question combines posthumanist political philosophy, Baradian agential realism, critical terrorism/security studies, and critical theory to retheorize (counter)terrorism in situationscaping time, while ..read more

The UrbTerr team is excited to announce the latest in our series of Expert Seminars, “Towards an everyday understanding of urban security”, with Professor Jon Coaffee of the University of Birmingham. This seminar will be held in-person, on campus, and we have room for external participants to join us. If you are interested in attending ..read more

As a follow up to the UrbTerr “(Im)materialities of Violence” conference that took place in November 2021, a special issue call for papers has recently been announced. You can read the call for papers below or download a PDF copy here. Call for papers: “The Somatechnics of Violence: Affective, (Im)material and Digital Transformations.” Special issue ..read more

We are excited to share below the programme for our upcoming second conference, Remembering/Imagining Terror in Europe, which will take place at the University of Birmingham from the 14th to the 16th of September 2022. Join this conference online (for free) by registering here! Remembering/Imagining Terror in Europe 14-16 September 2022University of Birmingham Programme 14 September ..read more

We are very pleased to share the full, captioned video of Prof. Dr. Bjørgo’s public expert seminar, held at the University of Birmingham on May 24th, 2022. We would also like to take this opportunity to once again thank Dr. Bjørgo and Dr. Steve Hewitt, as well as everyone who attended! Dr. Tore Bjørgo is ..read more

The UrbTerr team is pleased to announce our next expert seminar, in conversation with Professor Dr. Tore Bjørgo (University of Oslo, Norway) which will take place in-person on May 24th at 4 pm GMT in Muirhead Tower, Room 109, University of Birmingham.   Europe has experienced a revival of militant right-wing extremist groups, networks, and ..read more

Researching Atmospheres of Urban Counter-Terrorism: Methods and Approaches to Capture the In-Between The UrbTerr team is pleased to announce our next expert seminar, in conversation with research fellow Katharina Ciax (University of Jena, Germany), which will take place on April 5th at 2pm GMT.  While the technological and infrastructural securitisation of urban spaces has been ..read more