Events

Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State

Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Public Seminar Series

Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Online

Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier

Dr Bronte Alexander (Research Fellow in Political Geography, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Localization in the Rohingya refugee response

Dr Miriam Bradley (Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies, University of Manchester)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 07 May 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

'Wicked' Challenges in Migration Management: Weaponization, Politicization, and Hostile Influence Operations

Professor Kelly Greenhill (Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Tufts University, and Visiting Professor And Resident Senior Fellow, MIT)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home

Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)

• Public Seminar Series
• Special seminars and lectures

Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Anthony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6JF

Book Launch and Panel Event | Social Science: A Very Short Introduction

Alexander Betts (Professor of Forced Migration & International Affairs); Nandini Gooptu (Professor of South Asian Studies); Marnie Howlett (Lecturer in Russian and East European Politics); Lucie Cluver (Professor of Child and Family Social Work); Ben Ansell (Professor of Comparative Demographic Institutions)

• External events

Thursday, 06 March 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Pembroke Square St Aldates Oxford OX1 1DW

The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025

Kenan Malik (Writer, lecturer and broadcaster)

• Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture
• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 05 March 2025, 5.15pm to 6.15pm @ Grove Theatre, Magdalen College, Oxford. Please use Octagon Gate entrance, located on Longwall Street side entrance to Magdalen College

Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee. A conversation with Aamna Mohdin

Aamna Mohdin (Community affairs correspondent, The Guardian)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control

Professor Mary Bosworth (Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Film Screening and Q&A: Chileans of the North

Professor Ben Bollig (Professor of Latin American Literature and Film. Fellow and Tutor in Spanish. University of Oxford), Dr Helia López Zarzosa (Sociologist and Independent Researcher) and Chris Paul (Director, Chileans of the North)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 12 February 2025, 5pm to 7pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry

Professor Audrey Macklin (Professor & Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law)

• Public Seminar Series

Thursday, 06 February 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Refuge-Making: Stories from Iraq

Dr Sana Murrani (Associate Professor in Spatial Practice, University of Plymouth)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Producing the Camp-able Territory: Displacement, Domicide, and the Common Camp in Palestine-Israel’s Century of Settler Colonialism

Dr Irit Katz (Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge)

• Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

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)

• Public Seminar Series

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)

• Public Seminar Series

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)

• Public Seminar Series

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)

• Public Seminar Series

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)

• Public Seminar Series

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)

• Public Seminar Series

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