SPAIS Annual/Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture 2024 – Victoria Hattam – ‘Border Economies / Capitalist Imaginaries’
Lecture Theatre 2D3 Priory Road Complex, Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomHow do the contradictory demands of border walls and supply chains co-exist? Each of these political forces pushes in contradictory directions: sovereignty and walls seek to establish territorial limits while globalization, by definition, is a boundary crossing enterprise. Yet, both are flourishing simultaneously: how are the contradictory demands reconciled? Drawing on research along the U.S.- […]
Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Discourses and Policies on Immigration
Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, BristolThe UK has recently seen an increase in ethnic minority representation in right-wing politics, alongside a surge in harmful, anti-immigration policies and discourses enacted by incumbent politicians who are often the children or grandchildren of racialised migrants. How can we understand the relationship between these two seemingly incongruous processes? This seminar brings together two papers […]
MMB Film Group: ‘La Permanence’/ ‘On Call’ (Alice Diop, 2016)
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, BristolScreening and discussion of Alice Diop's documentary film 'La Permanence'/ 'On Call' (2016). In French with English subtitles, 97 mins. Migrants file in and out of a refugee medical centre […]
CLW talk: Decent Work for Displaced People: Organizing in Response to Labour Abuses of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Colombia and Brazil
Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square, BristolA talk by Jennifer Gordon (Fordham University School of Law), hosted by the Centre for Law at Work. How much difference does a work permit make for migrants and refugees? […]
Privatisation of the Digital Hostile Environment: A Seminar with Kaelynn Narita
Room 2D2, Priory Road Complex Block D, Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomThis talk explores the pattern of using private actors to build, design and maintain border technology in the UK. By exploring the privatisation of the so-called Digital Hostile Environment I reveal the […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group: Decolonising migration research: (Not) just a metaphor?
Meeting Room 2, First Floor 1 Priory Road, BristolWe are pleased to invite you to the final MMB PGR discussion group for this academic year, which will focus on the issue of decolonisation. Building on previous sessions, we will explore […]
MMB Drinks: ‘What Went Wrong With My Bid?!’
Faculty of Arts Research Space, Room 1.H020, 7 Woodland Road, BristolJoin us to celebrate all the hard work that has gone into your failed grant applications! We know how much energy and labour are put into developing a bid and […]
Workshop: ‘Seeing Globalization – Alternative Perspectives on Production Today’
Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, Bristol, United KingdomThis workshop takes as its starting point that our notions of production are changing. Old assumptions about what makes globalization work are being challenged on many fronts. Some of those […]
Bordering Bristol: Visuality Workshop
Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, Bristol, United KingdomAn afternoon workshop run by Victoria Hattam (MMB Leverhulme Visiting Professor) and Nariman Massoumi to explore the dynamics of visual fields through the collaborative making of visual essays. Lunch provided! […]
Seminar with Gimena del Rio Riande: ‘Is There Such a Thing as Global Digital Humanities?’
Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, Bristol, United KingdomDr Gimena del Rio Riande is a researcher at CONICET (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and director of the Argentine Association of Digital Humanities. Over the past ten years we have witnessed […]