‘New Slavery,’ modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary Italy – seminar with Irene Peano

PRIORY RD COMPLEX E BLK 2E4 Priory Road, Bristol

We are very excited to welcome Irene Peano (University of Lisbon) to give a seminar on modern marronage in contemporary Italy. Irene holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2011). She held post-doc positions at the University of Bologna (under a Marie Curie Intra-European scholarship) and at the University of Bucharest. […]

Autumn Composting

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

Building on our (de)Bordering collaboration, Brigstow and MMB have launched a new joint initiative, Seasons and Cycles. This will start conversations that explore connections between plant, animal and human movements/migrations and develop research […]

MMB Reading Group – Altenreid and Bojadzijev (2017)

The MMB Reading Group is back! This year we will be discussing articles as well as books that encourage new ways of thinking about migration and mobilities. The meetings are […]

MMB Film Group: ‘Offside’ (Jafar Panahi, 2006, 85 minutes)

The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol

Screening and discussion An Iranian comedy drama following the plight of a group of girls who disguise themselves as boys in order to sneak into the Iranian national football stadium […]

MMB New Year Social!

We warmly invite our members to join us for a drink to welcome in the new year and to catch up with MMB colleagues from across the University and Bristol. […]

MMB Reading Group – William Conroy (2023)

This month the MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss William Conroy's recent article, 'Fanon's Mobilities: Race, Space, Recognition,' Antipode 2023, which engages with Frantz Fanon's writing on both geographical and […]

Health: a key component of mobility justice

Webinar

The first webinar in our series, 'The Health of Migrants and the Right to Health', co-hosted with the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet).   With Nicola Burns, Karolina […]