A social model of asylum: disablement and resistance in the British asylum system

Webinar

The final webinar in our series ‘The Health of Migrants and the Right to Health', co-hosted by MMB and GRAMNet. With Rebecca Yeo. The UK asylum system includes multiple restrictions which limit access to the services and support needed for physical and emotional health and wellbeing. At different stages in an asylum claim, people are […]

Wild About Weeds Walking Tour

RWA entrance Queen's Road, Bristol

Are you, or could you be, wild about weeds? Join MMB and Bristol Ideas for a walking conversation about weeds, indigeneity and mobility. We’re excited to be joined by Jane Memmott, Professor of Ecology at the School for Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, who will introduce us to what grows in the cracks of Clifton’s […]

Territory and Citizens: Reimagining Cohabitation in the City

(de)Bordering Plot Royal Fort Gardens, Bristol, United Kingdom

An 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 […]

Making Place for Plants

(de)Bordering Plot Royal Fort Gardens, Bristol, United Kingdom

A 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, […]

MMB Reading Group – Rosi Braidotti

Online meeting

This 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 […]

Object Politics: Remembering Vietnam at the US-Mexico Border Wall

Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, Bristol, United Kingdom

A 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 Kingdom

An 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 […]