Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2025
Series convened by Professor Tom Scott-Smith and Professor Catherine Briddick
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Time and location
Seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm unless otherwise specified. Please check the date and location of each seminar.
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Michaelmas term seminars
Wednesday 15 October 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
A short history of the Gaza Strip
Dr Anne Irfan (Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London)
Wednesday 22 October 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Displacement, solidarity, counter-government
David Owen (Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton)
Wednesday 29 October 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Dr Alvina Hoffman (Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies at SOAS University of London)
Wednesday 05 November 2025, 5.15pm to 6.15pm, St Anne's College, Oxford
Migration and displacement: My grandmother, Lausanne, and some lessons for the present
Lea Ypi (Ralph Miliband Professor in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics)
Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture - please register for this event
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 5pm, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Cities of refuge in an age of displacements
Romola Sanyal (Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the London School of Economics)
Wednesday 19 November 2025, 5pm, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Attacking health: Understanding the dynamics and broader impacts of violence against healthcare
Larissa Fast (Professor of Humanitarian and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester)
Wednesday 26 November 2025, 5pm, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Non-signatory states in international refugee law
Maja Janmyr (Professor of International Migration Law at the University of Oslo)
Wednesday 03 December 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Decolonization’s forgotten children: Refugees and the stateless as ecological agents in South Asia
Jayita Sarkar (Professor of Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow)