An open air, interactive talk by Julia Morris. Parks, wastelands, building sites and overgrown ruins all offer urban ecologies for a multitude of non-human city dwellers. But who do these spaces belong to? Who gets to decide what happens here? This interactive event in the (de)Bordering plot asks participants to consider non-humans as citizen species. Julia Morris, […]

A discussion and celebration of plants at the (de)Bordering plots in Royal Fort Gardens, University of Bristol, co-hosted by Brigstow Institute and MMB. "Plants are the most important, least understood, most taken for granted of all living things” (Wilkins, 1988). We need plants for life. Plants sustain us and give us joy. But are all […]

This month the MMB Reading Group are meeting to discuss Rosi Braidotti’s work on the nomadic subject, Braidotti, R., 2014. Writing as a nomadic subject. Comparative Critical Studies, 11(2-3), pp.163-18 and Braidotti, R., 2013. Metamorphoses: Towards a materialist theory of becoming. John Wiley & Sons. The discussion will be led by Tom Allport, Honorary Senior […]

A multi-disciplinary seminar with Professor Victoria Hattam exploring politics, migration, mobility, visual culture, design and materiality.   Drawing on photographic and historical research, Victoria Hattam considers links between the US war in Vietnam and construction of a border wall in the United States. Portable helicopter landing mats used in Vietnam were sent back to the […]

An interactive workshop with Victoria Hattam and Bridget Anderson examining the origins and politics of policy silos and how to think beyond them.   For some time now, scholars have examined the formation of policy silos across a number of domains documenting the ways that lines of demarcation are themselves deeply political. Commonly held distinctions […]

MMB is at an exciting stage in its development. We have built an interdisciplinary and engaged community of scholars across the University. Our research interests and engagement are incredibly broad – encompassing both migration studies (asylum, family migration, ‘low skilled’ migration, irregular migration) and mobilities (of people, plants, animals, ideas, data). We bring together researchers […]

This lunchtime event will launch MMB's PGR Discussion Group. It will tackle the question ‘What is migration’ and consider definitions and framings of migration, migrants and people on the move. […]

The MMB/ACH webinar series is back! Please join us next month for an online panel discussing migration, education and training, with a particular focus on access to employment and language. […]

The symposium discusses the diverse forms human mobility manifested through musical practice in Latin America and by Latin Americans abroad, thus recognising the growing presence of Latin American and Caribbean […]

What are the challenges and questions raised by research on violence against migrants? Sylvanna Falcón of UC Santa Cruz and a UoB visiting scholar will lead a conversation on this […]