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Collection: Migration events at Oxford

Events hosted by the migration-related centres and networks at the University of Oxford: the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). and the TORCH Mobilities and Migration Network.

Wednesday 22 October 2025

17:00 - Reviving Arab governance through structural policy reform
Mr Raed Charafeddine (Former First Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 28 October 2025

17:00 - Britain, Détente, and the Helsinki CSCE: 'Fathers of the Final Act’
Anne Deighton (Wolfson College, Oxford) will be chairing this book discussion.
Kai Hebel (Leiden University), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)
European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 29 October 2025

17:00 - What makes Qumm special in the architecture of 14th-century Iran?
Professor Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 30 October 2025

15:45 - Welcoming Cities, Arrival Infrastructure: Introductory panel
This event is online only (Zoom)
Gökçe Yurdakul (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Jacqui Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Nihad El-Kayed (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Julie Kashirahamwe (Liverpool City Council), Linda Hyökki (European Coalition of Cities Against Racism)
Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure

Tuesday 4 November 2025

17:00 - The legislative politics of climate change mitigation: Evidence from the European Parliament
Mihail Chiru (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 5 November 2025

17:00 - Early-modern orientalism and the recreation of the Islamic canon: from collections to catalogues
Professor Claire Gallien (Tubingen)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 6 November 2025

15:45 - The ‘Stable Neighbourhood’ Planning Paradigm in Times of Migration and Diversity
This event is hybrid: in-person at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin or online (Zoom).
Heike Hanhörster (Technische Universität Berlin)
Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure

Tuesday 11 November 2025

17:00 - From two-party rule to polarization: Ten years of Spanish politics
Sandra Leon Alfonso (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 12 November 2025

17:00 - Revolts as rituals of political communication in ‘Abbāsid Baghdad (908-991)
Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 November 2025

15:45 - The Production of (knowledge on) Urban Spaces of Asylum and Differential Arrival
This event is hybrid: in-person at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin or online (Zoom).
Sophie Hinger (Universität Osnabrück), Francina Guggenberger (Universität Osnabrück)
Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure
17:00 - Belonging in exile: How to write an almost global history of the German-Jewish diaspora
Miriam Ruerup (Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
European Studies Seminar

Friday 14 November 2025

17:00 - Keith Griffin Lecture
Dr Gillian Tett (Cambridge, FT)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 18 November 2025

17:00 - Law Unbound? Asylum and migration law in the UK post-Brexit
IN COOPERATION WITH THE REFUGEE STUDIES CENTRE
Catherine Barnard (Trinity College, Cambridge), Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin)
European Studies Seminar

Thursday 20 November 2025

15:45 - Infrastructures of Kindness in the Context of Migrant Arrival
This event is hybrid: join us in-person at Kellogg College or online (Zoom)
Susanne Wessendorf (Coventry University)
Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure

Tuesday 25 November 2025

17:00 - Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia
IN COOPERATION WITH SEESOX
Eric Gordy (University College London), Jessie Barton Hronešová (University College London), Zoltán Ádám (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest & Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 26 November 2025

17:00 - Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 27 November 2025

15:45 - The Politicisation of Local Integration Policy-Making in Western European Small and Medium-sized Towns and Rural Areas
This event is hybrid: join us in-person at Kellogg College or online (Zoom)
Tiziana Caponio (Università di Torino / Collegio Carlo Alberto), Andrea Pettrachin (Università di Padova)
Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure

Tuesday 2 December 2025

17:00 - Backlash against green energy infrastructure: Experimental survey evidence from France, Germany, Norway, and the UK
Patrick Bayer (University of Glasgow)
European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 3 December 2025

17:00 - The role of media in a changing world
Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 4 December 2025

15:45 - Welcoming Cities: How newcomers shape urban policy making (book launch)
This event is hybrid: join us in-person at Kellogg College or online (Zoom)
Sunder Katwala (Director, British Future), Jacqui Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Nihad El-Kayed (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Fuad Mohammed (Ashley Community Housing)
Welcoming Cities: Arrival Infrastructure

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Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies