• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Various
• Web Address: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Syria and its refugees: a historical perspective
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Divided by a shared agenda: the humanitarian response to the crisis in Syria
  James Darcy (Lead consultant for the UN-commissioned Whole of Syria Review)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The ethics of protection in Syria
  Professor Jennifer Welsh (European University Institute)

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The struggle for Syria
  Professor Ziad Majed (American University of Paris)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Syrian trajectories: from local revolutionary actors to exiled humanitarian workers. Meanings of humanitarian action in the Syrian post-2011 context
  Dr Laura Ruiz de Elvira Carrascal (CNRS/IREMAM, France)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Writing in times of war and revolution
  Samar Yazbek (Syrian writer, Paris)

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Syrian internal displacement
  Dr Leïla Vignal (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: ‘EU Asylum Policies: The Power of Strong Regulating States’
  Dr Natascha Zaun (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Dr Matthias Czaika (IMI, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees and the politics of indignity
  Professor David Owen (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Nostalgia and Legitimacy: Understanding the Externalization of European Migration Policy | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2017
  Professor Thomas Spijkerboer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Should humanitarian organisations help with coerced repatriation?
  Dr Mollie Gerver (Leeds University)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - British and French deprivation policies as an instance of renationalisation of citizenship
  Émilien Fargues (Sciences Po, Paris)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Data for migration and asylum policies: the realities hidden within and behind the numbers
  Ann Singleton (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The constitutional right to asylum: the wave of the future in international refugee law?
  Professor Stephen Meili (University of Minnesota)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Livelihoods in displacement: from refugee perspectives to aid agency response
  Dr Veronique Barbelet (Overseas Development Institute)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Borders, boxes and disciplinary boundaries: the delineation of forced migration in research and practice
  Dr Gayle Munro (The Salvation Army)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Asylum and Nehru’s changing non-alignment: Tibetan refugees in India
  Ria Kapoor

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Aquí es frontera. Transit migration and border control in southern Mexico
  Dr Simon McMahon (University of Coventry)

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Belgian refugees between ‘war’ and ‘peace’: trauma, transition and repatriation
  Dr Hannah Ewence (University of Chester)

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The political predicament and agency of refugees
  Dr Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (University of Reading)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Open borders in the nineteenth century: constructing the national, the citizen and the foreigner in South America
  Dr Diego Acosta (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Addressing statelessness in Europe and the nexus with forced migration
  Chris Nash (European Network on Statelessness)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Accessing asylum in Europe: extraterritorial border controls meet refugee rights
  Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University of London)

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law
  Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The child in international refugee law
  Dr Jason Pobjoy (Blackstone Chambers)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The IDP in international law: debates, developments and prospects
  Dr David James Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - No country of asylum: 'legitimizing' Lebanon's rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention
  Professor Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch for ‘Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State’
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm
  Dr Sophia Hoffmann (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Syrian labour in the Turkish economy
  Emre Eren Korkmaz (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Comparative perspectives on the search and rescue of asylum seekers at sea
  Dr Daniel Ghezelbash (Macquarie Law School)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria
  Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Outsourcing Border Control: The Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
  Dr Federica Infantino (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - To be or not to be: questioning the value of refugee status
  Dr Georgia Cole (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Asylum after empire: postcolonial legacies in the politics of asylum seeking
  Dr Lucy Mayblin (University of Warwick)

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The business of modern slavery: forced migration and forced labour in a failed state
  Brad Blitz (Middlesex University London)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - International society and the risk of statelessness
  Dr Kelly Staples (University of Leicester)

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Solidarity, vulnerability, and the labour of refugee activism
  Dr Jonathan Darling (Durham University)

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Kindertransport: Contesting memory
  Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Border rescue
  Dr Kieran Oberman (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Transnationalism, return visits, home and belonging: second generation from refugee backgrounds
  Professor Alice Bloch (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees and the UK labour market
  Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Dr Isabel Ruiz (Harris Manchester College / Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Building inclusive cities: emerging learning from a knowledge exchange with UK cities
  Jacqueline Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From pledges to implementation: exploring local government responses for urban refugees in Ethiopia
  Annabel Mwangi (UNHCR Ethiopia)

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Urban refugee economies in Ethiopia
  Professor Alison Brown (Cardiff University), Dr Peter Mackie (Cardiff University)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The accidental city of Kakuma, Kenya: humanitarian urbanism and the development of the refugee camp environment
  Dr Bram J Jansen (Wageningen University)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Sudanese constellations of home: refugee NGOs, social networks and urban homemaking in Cairo
  Dr Anita Fábos (Clark University)

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Exploring gendered ‘vulnerability’: Syrian refugee men and humanitarianism in urban Jordan
  Dr Lewis Turner (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Civil solidarity and the hunt for undocumented migrants. Two Belgian case studies
  Dr Robin Vandevoordt (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Mobility economies: immobility, accumulation and migration in Libya
  Dr Marthe Achtnich (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Endurance and involuntary return to Senegal
  Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez (Queen Mary University of London)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sonopolis: Sound, Citizenship, and Migrant Activisms in Athens
  Dr Tom Western (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The political economy of refugee self-reliance
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Postcolonial boundaries, self-determination and the Rohingya refugee crisis
  Dr Mohammad Shahabuddin (University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A human right to international freedom of movement
  Dr Sarah Fine (King's College London)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies: problems of gifts and labour
  Professor Kristin Sandvik (University of Oslo)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Continuums of exploitation – the legal framework on trafficking in persons
  Professor Siobhan Mullally (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Third World Approaches to International Law: A retrospective with some implications for refugee and migration law
  Professor Antony Anghie (University of Utah)

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Kurdish women’s knowledge of the state: from the guerrilla to the refugee camp
  Dr Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain
  Dr Victoria Canning (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Colonial mobilities and global inequality: why European settlers ought not to be regarded as migrants
  Professor Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Forced migration in the United Kingdom: women’s journeys to escape domestic violence
  Dr Janet Bowstead (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED: An intersectional approach to policy and decision making on SOGI asylum claims in Europe
  Professor Nuno Ferreira (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Bordering
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Georgie Wemyss (University of East London), Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Access to SGBV protection services for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Menaal Munshey (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Global agenda setting, from the bottom up: the Global Refugee-Led Network (GRN)
  This seminar will be held online via Zoom
  Mustafa Alio, Shaza Al Rihawi, Anila Noor, Najeeba Wazefadost

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Without recognition, without assistance: Refugee-led responses in urban contexts
  This seminar will be held online via Zoom
  Bahati Ghislain, Robert Hakiza, Janemary Ruhundwa

Wednesday 20 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - New partnerships: How international organisations can support refugee-led organisations
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Dana Al Anzy, Edmund Page

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Rapid response to funding gaps: Philanthropic support for refugee-led initiatives
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Anna Crowley, Annemieke de Jong, Mingo Heiduk

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Limited room to manoeuvre: Refugee-led responses in camp settings
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Nhial Deng, Innocent Magambi, Samuel Ouma Mijwang’a

Wednesday 17 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Affecting change from within: Refugees in international humanitarian organisations
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Joelle Hangi, Bahati Ernestine Hategekimana, Foni Joyce

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Deporting Extremists: A Qualified Defence
  Rutger Birnie (European University Institute)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Carceral Junctions - Stuckness and Connectedness in Camps
  Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen)

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Unlivable Life: Ordinary Disasters and the Atmosphere of Crisis in Haiti
  Greg Beckett (University of Western Ontario)

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Reflecting on Refugia
  Nicholas Van Hear (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Belongers’ and ‘non-belongers’: dividing citizens in 1968
  Deirdre Troy (Queen Mary University of London)

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees and Racial Capitalism: What ‘Integration’ In the Labour Market Means
  Elizabeth Dunn (Indiana University Bloomington)

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee denial: Settler colonialism & the making of the Global North imaginary
  Laura Madokoro (Associate Professor of History, Carleton University)

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees, escapees & migrants: International migration and the politics of naming displacement in the Biafran War
  Bonny Ibhawoh (Professor of History & Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights, McMaster University)

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The international refugee regime and postcolonial sovereignty: Algeria, refugees and the UNHCR, 1954-63
  Malika Rahal (Research Fellow, Institut d’histoire du temps présent), Benjamin Thomas White (Senior Lecturer in History, Glasgow University)

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees, minority citizens and the law: Sindh’s deterritorialised partition
  Uttara Shahani (Postdoctoral researcher, RSC, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Long Journey Home: African American Forced Migration & Exile from the Civil War to the Vietnam War.
  Saje Mathieu (Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Crucibles of Exile: Palestinian education and the politics of regeneration, 1948 - 1967
  Mezna Qato (Margaret Anstee Centre Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Haitian refugees, the US state, and precedents for global border regimes
  A.Naomi Paik (Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois)

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Rethinking forced migration: Legacies of the Greek-Turkish population exchange
  Asli Igsiz (Associate Professor of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University)

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Rise of the Refugee Research Industry: Some Reflections
  Dr Mayssoun Sukarieh (Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London)

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - With, for, or by refugees? Practical and ethical challenges of participatory research
  Dr Kate Pincock (Overseas Development Institute)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Critical Localism: Reflections on the Localisation of Humanitarian Action in Theory and (Research) Practice
  Dr Kristina Roepstorff (IFHV, Bochum university)

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Digital methodologies in forced migration and refugee research: rethinking voices, representation and power
  Professor Giorgia Donà (Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London)

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Syrian Refugees and Local Assistance in Berlin
  Yahya Alaous (Founder, Zusammenwachsen NGO; Journalist, Die Suddeutsche Zeitung)

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Co-Producing research between academics, NGOs, and communities in humanitarian response
  Dr Caitlin Wake (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Dr Michelle Lokot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Gang Karume (Rebuild Hope for Africa)

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Encountering the refugee camp beyond recognition
  Numbers will be limited, and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Aya Musmar (University of Petra)

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Gender and humanitarian representations of Syrian refugees during displacement
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Michelle Lokot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Refugeedom’s Subjects and Subjectivities
  Numbers will be limited and registration will be required on arrival.
  Dr Arek Dakessian (Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Refugee Entrepreneurship and Gender Paradoxes
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Farah Al Taji (Al-Balqa University)

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - "A Refugee-Led Study on Refugee-Led Organisations" | RSC/BIEA Refugee Led Research Hub
  We are hoping to make this a hybrid event. If you would like to be here in person, please be aware that this option is only available to students and staff of the University of Oxford, numbers are limited, and you may be asked to register on arrival.
  Abis Getachew, Andhira Kara, Mary Gitahi, Uwezo Ramazani, Mark Okello

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - African Migration, Human Rights and Literature
  Professor Fareda Banda

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Subcontinental Defiance to the Global Refugee Regime: Global Leadership or Regional Exceptionalism
  Jay Ramasubramanyam (York University, Toronto)

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Changing Contestations of Deportation in the UK: From Race to Asylum and Humanity
  Diletta Lauro (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Immigration Controls, Captivity and Reproductive Injustice in Britain: Punishing illegalised migrant women from the Global South and separating children from their mothers
  Dr Monish Bhatia (Birkbeck University of London)

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Postcolonial Racisms: National sovereignty and the making of new global apartheids
  Professor Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Machine-Readable Refugees: Navigating biometric systems in Kenya
  Dr Keren Weitzberg (UCL)

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Security Imperialism
  Professor Catherine Besteman (Colby College)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Borders, Militarism and Inequality in Global Capitalism: Reflections on strategies for freedom
  Dr Hannah Cross (University of Westminster)

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Constitutive Exterior: EU border externalisation and the social dynamics of the Senegal River Valley
  Dr Hassan Ould Moctar (SOAS University of London)

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Governing the Displaced in Global Capitalism: Refugee survival from the camp to the city
  Dr Ali Bhagat (Saint Mary's University, Canada)

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone
  Dr Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The struggle for self-determination and grassroots liberation from neocolonial NGO-ism: perspectives from Kenya
  Grassroots Liberation group (Kenya), Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A materialist account of patriarchy under the post-colonial state
  Mohammed Elnaiem (University of Cambridge)

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Fascism is not dead: violence of Hindu nationalism in India and the possibilities of resistance
  Professor Dibyesh Anand (University of Westminster)

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The struggle for peace by LGBTI+ and women’s organisations in Turkey
  Nisan Alıcı (Ulster University), Güneş Daşlı (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Writing and researching Palestine: reflections on positionality and decoloniality
  Dr Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka)

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Liberal violence
  Dr Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Social cohesion policies in displacement-affected contexts: promoting solidarity or preserving the protection space?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Watfa Najdi (Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, Beirut)

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The secret life of energy in refugee camps: uncovering spaces of power and principles of governance within humanitarian energy
  Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education
  Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson (Harvard University)

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Voluntary statelessness
  Dr Rebecca Buxton (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Improving refugee resettlement
  Alex Teytelboym (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Digital labour platforms and migration: making of commoditised workers
  Dr Jonas Valente (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Funda Ustek-Spilda (Oxford Internet Institute)

Tuesday 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | The digital border and its techno-symbolic assemblages of power
  Prof Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE), Prof Myria Georgiou (LSE)

Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Asylum, digital surveillance and platform power
  Prof Claudia Aradau (King's College London)

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Virtual borders: human rights and the fluid subject of algorithmic governance
  Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary University of London)

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Recognising Refugees: Book discussion on IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The use of new technologies in immigration and asylum governance: implications for human rights
  Dr Derya Ozkul (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford), Professor Lorna McGregor (University of Essex), Dr Petra Molnar (York University, Canada)

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp
  Dr Melissa Gatter (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - SEMINAR POSTPONED - DATE TBC | Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
  Professor Anne-Meike Fechter (University of Sussex), Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex), Dr Ali Ali (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries
  Prof Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Dr Madeline Garlick (UNHCR)

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda
  Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Frank Habineza MP (Member of Rwandan Parliament 2018-2023 and Founding President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda), Dr Felix Ndahinda (Researcher and Consultant), Dr Uttara Shahani (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
  Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex), Dr Ali Ali (University of Sussex), Dr Ayub Jan (University of Peshawar), Dr Ceri Oeppen (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 3: Enabling Refoulement? The UK-Rwanda Agreement and Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
  Professor Jonathan Portes (King's College London), Zoe Bantleman (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association), Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Sile Reynolds (Freedom from Torture), Dr Nicola Palmer (King's College London)

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Displacement from Conflict: Old Realities, New Protections?
  Dr Ruvi Ziegler (University of Reading )

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee History in the Gaza Strip
  Dr Anne Irfan (University College London)

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Evacuations as Displacement
  Scientia Professor Jane McAdam (University of New South Wales)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Protection of the right to nationality: Resolution No. 02/23 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Protección del derecho a la nacionalidad: Resolución No. 02/23 de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
  Seminar available in both English and Spanish
  Commissioner Andrea Pochak (IACHR), Dr Laura van Waas (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion)

Wednesday 13 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory
  Francesca P Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Humanitarian extractivism: the digital transformation past, present, future
  Professor Kristin Sandvik (University of Oslo)

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: Missing in Brooks County
  Jeff Bemiss (Co-Director, Missing in Brooks County)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon
  Dr Estella Carpi (University College London)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Skilled worker visas for refugees – a qualitative evaluation of the UK’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot
  Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford), Marina Brizar (Talent Beyond Boundaries), Sarah Walder (Talent Beyond Boundaries)

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter (Book Launch)
  Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
  Professor Başak Çalı (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Yasmine Ahmed (Human Rights Watch), Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger
  Dr Ashwiny O Kistnareddy (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice
  Dr Christel Querton (University of the West of England)

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - NGO Refugee Advocacy: Strengths, Weaknesses and Challenges
  Nick Henderson (CEO, Irish Refugee Council)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford), Professor Annika Rabo (Stockholm University)

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experiences
  Professor Kate Ogg (Australian National University), Dr Saba Vasefi (scholar-journalist, poet, and documentary filmmaker), Professor Veronica Fynn Bruey (Athabasca University)