• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Gunvor Jonsson (University of Oxford) , Marie Godin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 13:00 - Mobile phones and the changing mobility practices of stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa
  Gina Porter (Durham University)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 13:00 - Materialities in the lives of Malian urban refugees in Burkina Faso: uses and understandings of refugee biometric ID cards
  Nora Bardelli (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 13:00 - Of Hotspots and Agents of Connectivity. Exploring Urban-Rural Interactions in and around Kinshasa’s Phonie Cabins
  Katrien Pype (University of Leuven & University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:00 - The significance and politics of technology in registering refugees in Kenya
  Claire Walkey (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 13:00 - Migration research and control in the age of big data
  Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University)

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 16:30 - Crossing Digital Divides? Social Media, Children and Young People in Malawi
  Elsbeth Robson ( University of Hull)

Tuesday 6 March 2018

• 16:30 - Social Media Warfare and Kenya's Conflict with Al Shabaab in Somalia
  Thomas Molony (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 13 March 2018

• 16:30 - Social Media in Post-democratic Burundi: Influence of the Diaspora and the Production of (Fake) News by the State, Citizens and Refugees
  Jean-Benoît Falisse (University of Edinburgh)