How can we have broader stories about the Caribbean across borders, whether those be boundaries of empire, language or discipline, and within academia, educational institutions and beyond? We will be thinking through these questions with visiting scholar Orlando Deavila Pertuz, from the International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. What stories are told […]

This month the MMB reading group, led by MMB Research Coordinator Juan Zhang, will be discussing Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou's recent book The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (NYU Press, 2022). In particular, the group will discuss the introduction, 'The Digital Border: The Techno-Symbolic Assemblages of Power', and chapter 2, 'The Inner Border: Assemblages of […]

A seminar with Sylvanna Falcón, UC Santa Cruz. Representation can be quite challenging to navigate when societies are divided about how to memorialize a tragedy. In the case of Perú, this tension came to the fore with the creation of human rights memorials to commemorate the lives of those affected by the internal conflict of […]

Join us for a tour of Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), a unique part of the university where interdisciplinary teams work together with the aim of shaping digital futures that work for all. Many MMB members will be very conscious of the challenges of achieving this aim, and that all too often digital technologies work […]

Featuring: Sam Okyere (University of Bristol); Raphael Godlove Ahenu Jr (Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation - GLOMEF); Alf Nilsen (University of Pretoria); Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai’i at Manoa). Discussant: Victoria Hattam (The New School for Social Research and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, hosted by MMB).   US- and British-based antislavery campaigners […]

Educators are being encouraged to provide students with trigger or content warnings in which difficult topics are going to be covered, giving students agency on whether or not they want to learn about the subject. When did this turn towards forewarning take place in higher education? How have these content/trigger warnings created new challenges for […]

We are delighted to announce the second MMB PGR discussion group meeting! This session will focus on borders and bordering techniques. In particular, we will discuss the benefits and risks of examining borders and consider whether we have an ethical responsibility to research and undo borders. We are honoured to have Professor Nandita Sharma join us for the […]

This is a joint seminar with Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research. Casino Asia: How do casinos transform social imaginations? To register for a free in-person ticket, please sign up on Eventbrite. To register for a free online ticket, please sign up on Zoom. Abstract: The rapid proliferation of casino-resorts in Asia and their unique integration into the […]

Chair: Ann Singleton, Reader in Migration Policy, University of Bristol. Speakers: Dr Frank Laczko, former Director of IOM GMDAC and the former Head of Research at IOM, Elisa Mosler Vidal, DPhil candidate in Migration Studies, COMPAS, and Marzia Rango, Migration and Human Mobility Specialist at the UN Operations and Crisis Centre (UNOCC) in the UN Secretariat in New York. Discussant: Diego Iturralde, Chief Director […]

UK premier of a documentary short about the challenges faced by domestic workers in Colombia commuting on public transport. 'Invisible’ (30 mins). A documentary short by Valentina Montoya Robledo and Daniel Gómez Restrepo. (Spanish, with English subtitles). Register to attend the screening here. Two domestic workers, Reinalda in Medellín and Belén in Bogotá, explain the […]