Territory and Citizens: Reimagining Cohabitation in the City
(de)Bordering Plot Royal Fort Gardens, Bristol, United KingdomAn open air, interactive talk by Julia Morris. Parks, wastelands, building sites and overgrown ruins all offer urban ecologies for a multitude of non-human city dwellers. But who do these spaces belong to? Who gets to decide what happens here? This interactive event in the (de)Bordering plot asks participants to consider non-humans as citizen species. Julia Morris, […]
Making Place for Plants
(de)Bordering Plot Royal Fort Gardens, Bristol, United KingdomA discussion and celebration of plants at the (de)Bordering plots in Royal Fort Gardens, University of Bristol, co-hosted by Brigstow Institute and MMB. "Plants are the most important, least understood, most taken for granted of all living things” (Wilkins, 1988). We need plants for life. Plants sustain us and give us joy. But are all […]
MMB Reading Group – Rosi Braidotti
Online meetingThis month the MMB Reading Group are meeting to discuss Rosi Braidotti’s work on the nomadic subject, Braidotti, R., 2014. Writing as a nomadic subject. Comparative Critical Studies, 11(2-3), pp.163-18 and Braidotti, R., 2013. Metamorphoses: Towards a materialist theory of becoming. John Wiley & Sons. The discussion will be led by Tom Allport, Honorary Senior […]
Object Politics: Remembering Vietnam at the US-Mexico Border Wall
Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, Bristol, United KingdomA multi-disciplinary seminar with Professor Victoria Hattam exploring politics, migration, mobility, visual culture, design and materiality. Drawing on photographic and historical research, Victoria Hattam considers links between the US war in Vietnam and construction of a border wall in the United States. Portable helicopter landing mats used in Vietnam were sent back to the […]
Looking Sideways: Policy Silos and De-Siloing
Hepple Lecture Theatre School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol, United KingdomAn interactive workshop with Victoria Hattam and Bridget Anderson examining the origins and politics of policy silos and how to think beyond them. For some time now, scholars have examined the formation of policy silos across a number of domains documenting the ways that lines of demarcation are themselves deeply political. Commonly held distinctions […]
The ‘Bristol Approach’: A Facilitated Workshop for MMB
Room 1.5 Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomMMB is at an exciting stage in its development. We have built an interdisciplinary and engaged community of scholars across the University. Our research interests and engagement are incredibly broad – encompassing both migration studies (asylum, family migration, ‘low skilled’ migration, irregular migration) and mobilities (of people, plants, animals, ideas, data). We bring together researchers […]
Launch of the MMB PGR Discussion Group
Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square, BristolThis lunchtime event will launch MMB's PGR Discussion Group. It will tackle the question ‘What is migration’ and consider definitions and framings of migration, migrants and people on the move. MMB Director Bridget Anderson will kick off the session with a short keynote speech, followed by a 45-minute group discussion and lunch. Participants are encouraged […]
MMB/ACH webinar: Migration and Education
Online meetingThe MMB/ACH webinar series is back! Please join us next month for an online panel discussing migration, education and training, with a particular focus on access to employment and language. Speakers include Sheena Dermanis, Curriculum and Quality Manager at ACH, Rob Sharples, Senior Lecturer in Language and Education at UoB, and Clare Boden-Hatton, Director of […]
Symposium: ‘Migration, Exile and Music in Latin America’
Victoria Rooms 88 Queens Rd, Clifton, Bristol, United KingdomThe symposium discusses the diverse forms human mobility manifested through musical practice in Latin America and by Latin Americans abroad, thus recognising the growing presence of Latin American and Caribbean communities in the United Kingdom. Our main speakers will be Dr María Emilia TIjoux (University of Chile) and Dr Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway), who will […]
‘Documenting Violence Against Migrants as Forms of Complex Memorialisation’: A Seminar with Sylvanna Falcón
G4 Room G4, 3 Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomWhat are the challenges and questions raised by research on violence against migrants? Sylvanna Falcón of UC Santa Cruz and a UoB visiting scholar will lead a conversation on this subject, drawing on research that has documented hundreds of incidents violence against migrants in Mexico on their way to seek asylum in the United States. […]