The 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 […]

Screening 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 […]

A 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? […]

This 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 […]

We 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 […]

Join 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 the feeling on reading the words ‘We regret to inform you…’. But we are also recycling fans, and there’s always the potential to take your […]

This 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 areas, such as infrastructures, have already become established fields of enquiry to examine both the material aspect that sustain and support modern life, as well […]

An 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! REGISTRATION HERE. The workshop will be divided into three parts. Hattam and Massoumi will begin with a brief framing of visuality and bordering in which […]

Dr 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 the emergence of a global community interested in the Digital Humanities. The term ‘global’ refers both to the processes and the results of globalization, and […]

Film screening and talks on the experience of people seeking asylum in Brazil, the UK, and Greece As part of a European Research Council-funded project (MMPPF) that uses the histories of Atlantic World slavery to illuminate contemporary forms of violence, exploitation, and rightlessness, this event will explore and compare the experience of people who seek […]