The 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 […]

What 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. […]

A research talk by Orlando Deavila Pertuz, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. Since the mid-twentieth century, thousands of rural migrants moved to the city of Cartagena in Caribbean Colombia, seeking a better life. Among these were men and women from Palenque, a former maroon community. Since their arrival in […]

How can we have broader stories about the Caribbean across borders, whether those be boundaries of empire, language or discipline, and within academia, educational institutions and beyond? We will be […]

This month the MMB reading group, led by MMB Research Coordinator Juan Zhang, will be discussing Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou's recent book The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (NYU Press, […]

A seminar with Sylvanna Falcón, UC Santa Cruz. Representation can be quite challenging to navigate when societies are divided about how to memorialize a tragedy. In the case of Perú, […]

Join us for a tour of Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), a unique part of the university where interdisciplinary teams work together with the aim of shaping digital futures that […]

Featuring: Sam Okyere (University of Bristol); Raphael Godlove Ahenu Jr (Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation - GLOMEF); Alf Nilsen (University of Pretoria); Nandita Sharma (University of […]

Educators are being encouraged to provide students with trigger or content warnings in which difficult topics are going to be covered, giving students agency on whether or not they want […]

We are delighted to announce the second MMB PGR discussion group meeting! This session will focus on borders and bordering techniques. In particular, we will discuss the benefits and risks of examining borders […]