‘Memories in Motion’ – V&A Installation by The SIM Project – Interactive Tour for MMB
V&A Museum Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom‘People migrate from one place to another, and as they move, their bonds of love with the place they come from continue like spider webs.’ Mahide Uz, poet and SIM Project member The SIM Project gives material meaning to personal digital archives and creates new ways to share and value stories of migration. This […]
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons
Humanities Research Space (1.H020) 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, United KingdomPlease join us to celebrate the publication of Dr Benjamin Barson's Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (2024), which takes readers on a journey through New Orleans, Haiti, Mexico, and the US South at large to show how African American musicians shaped social movements to free both the land and the people. Dr Barson […]
Poverty, Migration and Social Justice UoB Roundtable
Hepple Lecture Theatre School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol, United KingdomMMB and the Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) are delighted to co-host a roundtable event that invites researchers from across the University of Bristol to explore how issues relating to poverty, migration and social justice intersect, and what we as academics can do to support people on the margins. The event will kick-off with a series […]
MMB/ACH Webinar: Ethics of Migration – Academic and Community Sector Perspectives
Online webinarThe MMB/ACH webinar series continues with this online event bringing together the academic and community sectors to explore the complex moral dimensions of migration. By examining migration from both academic […]
MMB Drinks: Making Connections
Humanities Research Space (1.H020) 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, United KingdomIt’s time for some more MMB drinks! Please join us on 11th November – and bring along a colleague who’s new to MMB. We take a broad approach to mobilities […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group
10 Woodland Road Room G4/5, Policy Studies Building, 10 Woodland Road, BristolWelcome to a new year of MMB PGR discussion group meetings! This session will focus on critical approaches to migration studies, looking to question and challenge established discourse and practice […]
Book launch: ‘Shelter on the Journey’ by Priscilla Solano
Online webinarJoin us for the online launch of Priscilla Solano’s new book Shelter on the Journey: Humanitarianism, Human Rights and Migration (Temple University Press, 2024). This powerful and vividly written book describes life […]
‘THIS JUNGO LIFE’: MMB Film Screening and Q&A
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol‘THIS JUNGO LIFE’ (2024, 78mins) takes us deep inside the hidden lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, living and sleeping rough on the streets […]
‘Does Skill Make Us Human?’ Work Futures Annual Lecture with Professor Natasha Iskander
4.10 4.10, Helen Wodehouse Building, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol'Does Skill Make Us Human? Skill and Political Personhood Around the World' Professor Natasha Iskander (New York University) Organised by the Work Futures Research Group and co-sponsored by Migration Mobilities Bristol, Centre of […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group Workshop and Film Screening: Perspectives on Queer(ing) Migration
LT3 Arts Complex 17 Woodland Road, Bristol, United KingdomContinuing our thread of critical approaches to migration studies, we will be paying attention to perspectives on Queer(ing) Migration, particularly to challenge understandings of queer liberation through migration. Which bodies […]