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‘Pouring Water on Troubled Oil’ – MMB Film Screening and Discussion
‘Pouring Water on Troubled Oil’ – MMB Film Screening and Discussion
In 1951, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas travelled through Iran on an assignment to write a Technicolour prestige film for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It was the company’s ‘most important […]
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‘Rethinking Migration’ – MMB Online Book Launch
‘Rethinking Migration’ – MMB Online Book Launch
Please join us for an online discussion of our new edited collection, Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race (Bristol University Press, 2025), which presents a radically interdisciplinary approach to migration and mobilities. Rethinking Migration explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also […]
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SPIN/MMB Working Lunch: Race, Secrecy, Mobilities
SPIN/MMB Working Lunch: Race, Secrecy, Mobilities
Despite the longstanding recognition of passing, for example, as a feature of the reproduction of race and racial injustice, the interconnections of race, secrecy and mobilities remains underexplored and undervalued in both migration studies and secrecy studies. For this reason, we are inviting interested colleagues to join us for lunch to explore the usefulness of […]
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MMB/Anthropology and Archaeology Public Lecture 2025 – Miriam Ticktin
MMB/Anthropology and Archaeology Public Lecture 2025 – Miriam Ticktin
‘From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise’ Professor Miriam Ticktin If you would like to attend please register on the Eventbrite page. Migration is a lightning rod in political debates globally; from Tunisia and South Africa to the US, Australia and many countries in Europe. And in most of these places, […]
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Interactive Workshop: Discomfort and Social Justice
Interactive Workshop: Discomfort and Social Justice
A workshop with Professor Miriam Ticktin to explore experiences of discomfort while conducting research and the ethical questions these raise. This workshop will bring together colleagues from different disciplines to explore experiences of discomfort while conducting research. We will share individual examples of such moments and draw on work about innocence by Miriam Ticktin, MMB's Bristol […]
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Magical Migrations: The Moths of Royal Fort Gardens
Magical Migrations: The Moths of Royal Fort Gardens
Please join us to learn about the moths of Royal Fort Gardens in the company of lepidopterist David Brown. The author of numerous books on lepidoptera, as well county recorder for Warwickshire, David will be hosting a night of moth-trapping in the gardens. This will involve trapping (and releasing) moths at different locations, as well as a […]