Object Politics: Remembering Vietnam at the US-Mexico Border Wall
Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, Bristol, United KingdomA 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 […]
Looking Sideways: Policy Silos and De-Siloing
Hepple Lecture Theatre School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol, United KingdomAn 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 […]
The ‘Bristol Approach’: A Facilitated Workshop for MMB
Room 1.5 Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomMMB 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 […]
Launch of the MMB PGR Discussion Group
Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square, BristolThis 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. MMB Director Bridget Anderson will kick off the session with a short keynote speech, followed by a 45-minute group discussion and lunch. Participants are encouraged […]
MMB/ACH webinar: Migration and Education
Online meetingThe 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. […]
Symposium: ‘Migration, Exile and Music in Latin America’
Victoria Rooms 88 Queens Rd, Clifton, Bristol, United KingdomThe 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 […]
‘Documenting Violence Against Migrants as Forms of Complex Memorialisation’: A Seminar with Sylvanna Falcón
G4 Room G4, 3 Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomWhat 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 […]
‘Rural-Urban Migration, Racialization and Race-Based Mobilization in Cartagena during the Twentieth Century’
Arts Complex, G.H03 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, United KingdomA research talk by Orlando Deavila Pertuz, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. Since the mid-twentieth century, thousands of rural migrants moved to the city […]
Caribbean Stories Across Borders: A Workshop
Humanities Research Space 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, United KingdomHow 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 […]
MMB Reading Group: Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou
Online meetingThis 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, […]