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Events

Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experiences

Professor Kate Ogg (College of Law, Australian National University); Dr Saba Vasefi (scholar-journalist, poet, documentary filmmaker, University of Sydney); Professor Veronica Fynn Bruey (Africa-Oxford Fellow, 2023-24; Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Athabasca University); Dr Khulud Alhamazani (Australian National University); Dr Irene Antonopoulos (Royal Holloway University of London); Dr Mehrnoosh Farzamfar (Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland); Professor Colin Grey (Faculty of Law, Queen’s University Canada); Ayesha Riaz (Queen Mary University of London); Sitarah Mohammadi (Lawyer, Russell Kennedy)

Wednesday, 04 December 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis

Professor Dawn Chatty (Refugee Studies Centre) and Professor Annika Rabo (Stockholm University)

Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

NGO Refugee Advocacy: Strengths, Weaknesses and Challenges

Nick Henderson (CEO, Irish Refugee Council)

Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice

Dr Christel Querton (Wallscourt Fellow in Law, University of the West of England)

Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger

Dr Ashwiny Kistnareddy (RSC)

Wednesday, 06 November 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Professor Başak Çalı (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Professor Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Yasmine Ahmed (UK Director of Human Rights Watch), Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre)

Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Online

CANCELLED | This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain

Professor Matthew Lockwood (University of Alabama)

Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Online

Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter (Book Launch)

Professor Tom Scott-Smith (Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Director, RSC)

Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

A celebration of the life of David Turton

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 2pm to 3pm @ The Crypt Cafe, St Peters Church, Northchurch Terrace, London N1 4DA

Oxford Sanctuary Fair 2024

Thursday, 13 June 2024, 1.30pm to 6.30pm @ Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford, OX1 1BX

Skilled worker visas for refugees – a qualitative evaluation of the UK’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot

Associate Professor Olivier Sterck (RSC) with Marina Brizar (UK & EU director of Talent Beyond Boundaries), and Sarah Walder (Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, Talent Beyond Boundaries)

Wednesday, 05 June 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Book launch: The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon

Dr Estella Carpi (University College London)

Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Displacement and Documentary Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2024

Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (Documentary filmmaker / University College London)

Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 5pm to 6.30pm @ Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS

Film screening and discussion: Missing in Brooks County

Jeff Bemiss (Co-Director Missing in Brooks County)

Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 5pm to 7pm @ Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Humanitarian extractivism: the digital transformation past, present, future

Professor Kristin Sandvik (Peace Research Institute Oslo)

Wednesday, 08 May 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

University of Sanctuary Fair, Part 1: University of Oxford as a University of Sanctuary

Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 2pm to 6pm @ Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, Walton St, Oxford OX1 2HB

Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory

Francesca P Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967)

Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 12pm to 1pm @ Online via Zoom

Protection of the right to nationality: Resolution No. 02/23 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Commissioner Andrea Pochak, Dr Laura van Waas and José Sieber

Wednesday, 06 March 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Online via Zoom

Implications of the International Court of Justice’s Provisional Measures in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), 26 January 2024

Janina Dill, Victor Kattan, and Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler

Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 12.30pm to 2pm

Book launch: Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions

Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

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Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture

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

Past Annual Elizabeth Colson Lectures

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.

Past Annual Harrell-Bond Lectures

Public Seminar Series

Each term the RSC holds a series of public seminars, held on Wednesday evenings at Queen Elizabeth House. Click here for details of forthcoming seminars.

Forthcoming seminars

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