In 1951, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas travelled through Iran on an assignment to write a Technicolour prestige film for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It was the company’s ‘most important publicity projects ever undertaken’, according to its film officer at the time. ‘My job,’ Thomas would later remark, ‘was to pour water on troubled oil.’ […]

Please join us for an online discussion of our new edited collection, Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race (Bristol University Press, 2025), which presents a radically interdisciplinary approach to migration and mobilities. Rethinking Migration explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also […]

Despite the longstanding recognition of passing, for example, as a feature of the reproduction of race and racial injustice, the interconnections of race, secrecy and mobilities remains underexplored and undervalued in both migration studies and secrecy studies. For this reason, we are inviting interested colleagues to join us for lunch to explore the usefulness of […]

Professor Miriam Ticktin - ‘From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise’ Migration is a lightning rod in political debates globally; from Tunisia and South Africa to the US, Australia and many countries in Europe. And in most of these places, managing migration is synonymous with closing the borders. This talk will […]

Good fieldwork often includes moments of discomfort. This workshop will bring together researchers from different disciplines across schools to share experiences of research related discomfort. It will reflect on how such moments arise, and what they reveal about the politics, ethics and integrity of our work. More information and a link to register coming soon.

Please join us to learn about the moths of Royal Fort Gardens in the company of lepidopterist David Brown. The author of numerous books on lepidoptera, as well county recorder for Warwickshire, David will be hosting a night of moth-trapping in the gardens. This will involve trapping (and releasing) moths at different locations, as well as a […]