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Events

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon

Professor Diana Allan (Associate Professor, ISID and Department of Anthropology, McGill University)

Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 5.15pm to 6.15pm @ Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Film showing: Partition

Professor Diana Allan (Associate Professor, ISID and Department of Anthropology, McGill University)

Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 4pm to 5pm @ Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Safe for Whom? Rethinking Return Through Marginalised Refugee Voices

Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab (Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University)

Thursday, 05 June 2025, 3.30pm to 5pm @ Seminar Room 1, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TB

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South

Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University)

Wednesday, 04 June 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

Race, Refuge and Repair: Rethinking Migration from the Global South

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Tendayi Achiume in discussion with SA Human Rights Commissioner Tshepo Madlingozi

Thursday, 29 May 2025 to Friday, 30 May 2025, 9am - 5pm @ Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Refugees at work: Ending exploitation, advancing justice

Emily Arnold-Fernández (Refugee Law Initiative, University of London, and Forced Migration Review); Yusra Herzi (PILnet)

Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 5pm to 6pm @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Wednesday, 04 December 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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