Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2022
Race, Borders, and Global (Im)mobility
Series convenor: Dr Hanno Brankamp, Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration
This seminar series critically interrogates the ways in which militarised borders, migration enforcement, and their racial orderings continue to be normalised on a global scale. The political drive towards expanding walls, policing infrastructures, camps, detention centres, interceptions at sea, push backs, deportations, surveillance, and racist immigration policies that restrict asylum and migration is hereby not only a legacy of past empires but is also indicative of new emerging geographies of (im)mobility, racialisation, and liberal violence. Speakers in this series come from a range of disciplines and will examine global migration through questions of race and racism, coloniality, nationalism, citizenship, belonging, criminalisation, and bordering.
Series poster (pdf)
Time and location
Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 5:00-6:30pm UK time on Zoom, except for the seminar on 26 January which will start at 6:00pm UK due to the time difference with Hawai’i.
Registration links are provided for each seminar below.
Please direct enquiries to rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk
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Hilary term seminars
19 January, 5:00-6:30pm
Dr Monish Bhatia (Birkbeck University of London)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4Gvs57iVRbusOyvTQEzrSQ
26 January, 6:00-7:30pm
Postcolonial Racisms: National sovereignty and the making of new global apartheids
Professor Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y9S3CNxoSHuKThOPEKX8IA
2 February, 5:00-6:30pm
Machine-Readable Refugees: Navigating biometric systems in Kenya
Dr Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VKSunNYDRDS5_eQHOKvcRA
9 February, 5:00-6:30pm
Professor Catherine Besteman (Colby College, US)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rnWYFkMaSEmN1LsEJwFT8g
16 February, 5:00-6:30pm
Borders, Militarism and Inequality in Global Capitalism: Reflections on strategies for freedom
Dr Hannah Cross (University of Westminster)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lh8s-ooNRHyC2Gcu1_EY5g
23 February, 5:00-6:30pm
Dr Hassan Ould Moctar (SOAS University of London)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LhKeuLhTRouSBDDSSUUgfw
2 March, 5:00-6:30pm
Governing the Displaced in Global Capitalism: Refugee survival from the camp to the city
Dr Ali Bhagat (Saint Mary’s University, Canada, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5YgNu5A6QzmjdMlsfLb18Q
9 March, 5:00-6:30pm
Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone
Dr Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DhseS6sxTAaQI5Yn9JR79g