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

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East | Book Launch
  Dr Nader Hashemi (University of Denver), Danny Postel (Northwestern University), Dr Leïla Vignal (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The displacement paradox: good refugees, bad migrants. Where can the unwanted go? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2017
  Dr Jemilah Mahmood (IFRC)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Let language not betray us”: immigration, enforcement and modern slavery | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2018
  Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 20 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Barbara Harrell-Bond: A life not ordinary | Refugee Week film screening
  TBA

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018
  Pierre Krähenbühl (UNRWA)

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Academia to the Public Square: Media Engagement on Immigration and Asylum Issues
  Ben Doherty (The Guardian), Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A Mobile Milieu: Humanitarian Equipment and the Politics of Need | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2019
  Professor Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Map is Not the Territory: Story-making, Place and Performance | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2019
  Professor Dame Marina Warner

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Turkish state's military operation in Northern Syria: a discussion with members of the Kurdish community in Oxford
  Dr Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A film discussion evening on Shelter without Shelter
  Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford), Dr Mark E Breeze (University of Cambridge)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law | Middle East Centre and Refugee Studies Centre event
  Lex Takkenberg ((Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)), Francesca Albanese ((The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University))

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Exiled: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees | Screening and Discussion with the Director
  Shahida Tulaganova (Director)

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Democracy after Right-Wing Populism | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture
  Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton University)

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Current Debates in the Study and Protection of Displaced LGBT+ People
  Eirene Chen (UNHCR), Dr Mengia Tschalaer (City University of New York), Dr Kate Pincock (Overseas Development Institute)

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture
  Professor Heath Cabot (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh)

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'Empire, Asylum, and Refugee Responsibility Sharing' l The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2021
  E. Tendayi Achiume

Monday 6 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Why are Kurdish people risking their lives to seek asylum?
  Kamal Chomani

Monday 10 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Undoing Discriminatory Borders
  Professor Shreya Atrey (University of Oxford), Professor E. Tendayi Achiume ((UCLA and UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance)), Professor Cathryn Costello (Hertie School and University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Professor Anuscheh Farahat (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg), Professor Liav Orgad (WZB, EUI, IDC, STL), Professor Colm O’Cinneide (UCL)

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

• 15:00 - Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)

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

• 15:00 - Journeys towards Reconciliation: the JRS Experience
  Danielle Velle (JRS International), Diana Rueda (JRS International)

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

• 15:00 - “They treat us as if we are of no importance”: Experiences of displacement, (in)justice and reconciliation across disaster, epidemic and war in Sierra Leone
  Dr Mohamed Sesay (York University, Canada), Professor Megan Bradley (McGill University)

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

• 15:00 - Learning in Segregation as Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
  Dr Hiba Salem (University of Oxford)

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

• 15:00 - Exposure to Violence and the Prospects for Reconciliation: Evidence from Syria and Iraq
  Professor Kristin Fabbe (Harvard Business School)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Devon Matthews of LGBT+ refugee rights charity Rainbow Railroad, in conversation
  Devon Matthews (Rainbow Railroad)

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

• 15:00 - Reconciliation as Both Healing and Prevention: Mending Ruptures within the Self and between Generations
  Dr Katrien Hertog (IAHV), Professor Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University)

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

• 15:00 - Land Tenure Registration in Situations of Protracted Displacement: Reconciling or Dividing?
  Prof Mathijs van Leeuwen (Radboud University)

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book presentation - The Ethics of Exile: A Political Theory of Diaspora
  Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s Law School), Professor Matthew J Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (Hertie School and University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Asylum after the Act | A panel discussion
  Zoe Bantleman (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association), Behrouz Boochani (UNSW), Lawrence Bottinick (UNHCR London), Baroness Shami Chakrabarti (House of Lords)
• 17:00 - Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2022
  Professor Kirsten McConnachie (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What Justice for Famine Crimes? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2022
  Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation)

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sharing Insights: The Lived Experience of Syrian Refugees in Canada
  Keith Neuman (Environics Institute for Survey Research), Jobran Khanji (Environics Institute for Survey Research)

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2023 | Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
  Dr Lamis E Abdelaaty (Syracuse University)

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2023 | Who Gets Believed? A conversation with Dina Nayeri
  Dina Nayeri (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Forced Migration on Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
  Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (University College London)