Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2024
Series convened by Professor Tom Scott-Smith and Professor Catherine Briddick
Time and location
All seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm. Please check the date and location of each seminar.
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Michaelmas term seminars
Wednesday 16 October, 5-6pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
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 23 October, 5-6pm, online
Professor Matthew Lockwood (University of Alabama)
Wednesday 30 October, 5-6pm, online
Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Professor Başak Çalı (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Yasmine Ahmed (UK Director of Human Rights Watch), Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre)
Wednesday 6 November, 5-6pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings and Hunger
Dr Ashwiny O Kistnareddy (Refugee Studies Centre)
Wednesday 13 November, 5-6pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Conflict Refugees: European Union law and Practice
Dr Christel Querton (Wallscourt Fellow in Law, University of the West of England)
Wednesday 20 November, 5-6pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
NGO Refugee Advocacy: Strengths, Weaknesses and Challenges
Nick Henderson (CEO, Irish Refugee Council)
Wednesday 27 November, 5-6pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
Professor Dawn Chatty (Refugee Studies Centre) and Professor Annika Rabo (Stockholm University)
Wednesday 4 December, 5-6pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experiences
Professor Kate Ogg (College of Law, Australian National University), Dr Saba Vasefi (scholar-journalist, poet, and documentary filmmaker, University of Sydney) and Professor Veronica Fynn Bruey (Africa-Oxford Fellow, 2023-24; Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Athabasca University)