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When the Water Horse Seeks a New Home – film screening

Professor Antje Missbach (Bielefeld University) and Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter (University of Queensland)

Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 3pm to 4pm @ Seminar Room 3 and Meeting Room A, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity: Internally Displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan - book launch

Dr Houman Oliaei

Monday, 18 May 2026, 5.30pm to 7pm @ St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building St Antony's College 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Unwelcome to Denmark: The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration

Professor Michelle Pace and Dr Frowin Rausis

Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 3.30pm to 4.30pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

The European Convention on Human Rights and migration – where are we now?

Sir Tim Eicke KC

Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

From making the 'Refugee City' to being ethnically cleansed from it?

Associate Professor Sanaa Alimia (Aga Khan University)

Wednesday, 03 June 2026, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Refugee voices in modern global history: reckoning with refugeedom

Emeritus Professor Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)

Wednesday, 10 June 2026, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Where is internal displacement within migration research? Launching the Oxford University Press Handbook of Internal Displacement

Thursday, 18 June 2026, 3.45pm to 5pm @ Hybrid event at 64 Banbury Road, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford, OX2 6PN and online

Recordings of past events

Where possible we make recordings of our public seminars and lectures available after the event. 

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture

The Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture is held in Trinity term. It is named after Professor Elizabeth Colson, a renowned anthropologist.

Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture

The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture is named in honour of Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond, the founding Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. It is held each year in Michaelmas term.

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