‘in motion’ film screening: Atlantics (Mati Diop, 2019)

The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol

in motion is a new MMB film group bringing together students and researchers interested in the subject of migration in film and cinema. It will comprise of monthly screenings (on the final Tuesday of the month) followed by informal conversations about the issues raised by the films. The film group is part of the MMB research challenge Imagination, Belonging, […]

‘Of Refuge and Refugees in the Levant: The Making and “Unmaking” of Syria’

Room 2.10, Senate House

A talk by Professor Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford. The mass influx of peoples into Syria over the last 150 years, including Circassians, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Armenian, Albanians, Kosovars, created a modern nation of great cultural hybridity. Until recently this was the source of its openness to contemporary waves of forced migrants including Palestinians, […]

MMB/Psychology Research Group

Meeting Room 2, First Floor 1 Priory Road, Bristol

This will be the second lunchtime meeting for members of MMB and the School of Psychological Science to come together to discuss issues of migration, movement, psychology and mental health. It will be an informal opportunity to meet other people working in these areas of research. Please email mmb-sri@bristol.ac.uk if you would like to attend. Bring along […]

‘Burma: Food, Family and Conflict’ – A Talk and Tastings

Stanfords Bookshop 29 Corn Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

MMB Director Bridget Anderson and her brother and co-author Stephen Anderson present their unique hybrid of family memoir and cookbook. Bridget’s family biography and historical research is paired with mouth-watering recipes by Stephen – a chef with two restaurants in Valencia serving Decolonial Asian Food. A discussion of their family’s history in colonial Burma will […]

Tour of ‘Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art’

The Royal West of England Academy is holding a private tour for MMB members of its major exhibition, ‘Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art’. The exhibition explores the impact of migrant artists on art in Britain, taking a perspective across the past 150 years. It looks back at the crucial influence of émigrés who […]