MMB PGR Discussion Group
Meeting Room 2, First Floor 1 Priory Road, BristolThe third MMB PGR discussion group will focus on ‘Political imagination and (academic) activism’. Building on previous discussions, we will explore the opportunities and frontiers of our imagination, political and institutional contexts and academic paradigms. We will link these debates to questions around (academic) activism and ethical responsibility within migration research. We are honoured […]
MMB Reading Group – John Hultgren (2015)
Meeting Room 1 1 Priory Road, BristolOur first reading group meeting of 2024 will be discussing John Hultgren's book Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Led by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]