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 […]

‘From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise’ Professor Miriam Ticktin If you would like to attend please register on the Eventbrite page. 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, […]

A workshop with Professor Miriam Ticktin to explore experiences of discomfort while conducting research and the ethical questions these raise. This workshop will bring together colleagues from different disciplines to explore experiences of discomfort while conducting research. We will share individual examples of such moments and draw on work about innocence by Miriam Ticktin, MMB's Bristol […]

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 […]

If you would like to attend, please register on the MS Forms page. Think of it as an academic ideas lab—quick, focused, and conversational. This workshop invites PGRs to ‘pitch’ their research, challenge, argument or even a crazy and creative research idea, briefly and boldly. In a supportive setting with two senior scholars, Professor Miriam […]

Join us for a dynamic webinar that dives into the complex world where advocacy meets administration. We'll unpack how migrant and asylum support NGOs navigate the fine line between grassroots activism and policy-driven professionalism. What happens when political agendas shape humanitarian work? How do organisations stay true to their mission while adapting to ever-shifting policy […]

Please join us for this event to be held in solidarity with colleagues across the world who are running a series of teach-outs that day in support of migrants. This will be our first event as a Faculty Research Centre and we really look forward to seeing as many of you as can make it.

Climate change and environmental loss affect us all, but disadvantaged groups often feel the impacts most sharply. A Just Transition means making sure the shift to a greener city also […]