• 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

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

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 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

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

Wednesday 8 February 2017

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

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 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

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

Wednesday 1 March 2017

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017

• 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

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 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

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 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

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

Wednesday 15 November 2017

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

Wednesday 29 November 2017

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

Wednesday 17 January 2018

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

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 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

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

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 28 February 2018

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

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 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

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

Wednesday 9 May 2018

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018

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

Tuesday 22 May 2018

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 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

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 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

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 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

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

Wednesday 6 February 2019

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 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

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

Wednesday 6 March 2019

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

Wednesday 8 May 2019

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019

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

Wednesday 16 October 2019

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019

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

Wednesday 6 November 2019

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019

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

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 28 October 2020

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

Wednesday 4 November 2020

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

Wednesday 11 November 2020

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

Wednesday 25 November 2020

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

Wednesday 2 December 2020

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

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 24 November 2021

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

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 9 February 2022

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

Wednesday 16 February 2022

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

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 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

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

Friday 20 May 2022

• 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

• 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

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

Monday 13 June 2022

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

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 24 January 2023

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

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 3 March 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 7 February 2024

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

Wednesday 14 February 2024

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

Wednesday 21 February 2024

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

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 15 May 2024

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

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 13 November 2024

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

Wednesday 20 November 2024

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

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 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

• 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)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - Producing the Camp-able Territory: Displacement, Domicide, and the Common Camp in Palestine-Israel’s Century of Settler Colonialism
  Dr Irit Katz (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Refuge-Making: Stories from Iraq
  Dr Sana Murrani (University of Plymouth)

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 17:00 - No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry
  Note - this seminar takes place on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday
  Professor Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Film Screening and Q&A: Chileans of the North
  Professor Ben Bollig (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford), Dr Helia López Zarzosa (Sociologist and Independent Researcher), Chris Paul (Director, Chileans of the North)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 17:00 - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control
  Prof. Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:00 - Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee. A conversation with Aamna Mohdin
  Aamna Mohdi (The Guardian)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - 'Wicked' Challenges in Migration Management: Weaponization, Politicization, and Hostile Influence Operations
  Professor Kelly Greenhill (Tufts University and MIT)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Localization in the Rohingya refugee response
  Dr Miriam Bradley (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:00 - Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier
  Dr Bronte Alexander (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
  Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
  Professor Diana Allen (McGill University)