Public Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2026
Series convened by Associate Professor Catherine Briddick and Dr Uttara Shahani.
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Time and location
Seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm unless otherwise specified. Please check the date and location of each seminar.
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Events listing
Wednesday 6 May 2026, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Cross-border assistance to IDPs: law and localisation in the delivery of ‘quiet aid’
Professor Kirsten McConnachie (University of East Anglia)
Wednesday 13 May 2026, 3pm, Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
When the water horse seeks a new home – film screening and discussion
Professor Antje Missbach (Bielefeld University) and Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter (University of Queensland)
Wednesday 13 May 2026, 5pm, Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2026
Severing relation: Haitian ‘criminal deportees,’ torture, and the spatialized ethics of removal
Associate Professor Jeffrey S. Kahn (University of California, Davis)
Wednesday 20 May 2026, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception
Associate Professor Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University) and Dr Lourdes Peroni (University of Warsaw)
Wednesday 27 May 2026, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
The European Convention of Human Rights and migration – where are we now?
Sir Tim Eicke KC
Wednesday 3 June 2026, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
From making the 'Refugee City' to being ethnically cleansed from it?
Associate Professor Sanaa Alimia (Aga Khan University)
Wednesday 10 June 2026, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Refugee voices in modern global history: reckoning with refugeedom
Emeritus Professor Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)