RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2020

Feminism, Categorisation and Forced Migration

This interdisciplinary series will explore a range of topics in refugee law, politics and history with particular attention being paid to feminist and/or gendered approaches to displacement and mobility and the categorisation(s) of people as ‘refugees’, ‘citizens’, ‘settlers’ or ‘migrants’.

Series convenor: Catherine Briddick, Martin James Departmental Lecturer in Gender and Forced Migration

Time and location

Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 5:00-6:30pm in Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, except for the seminar on 5 February which will take place at 3:00-4:30pm in Seminar Room 3.

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Hilary term seminars 

22 January

Kurdish women’s knowledge of the state: from the guerrilla to the refugee camp 

Dilar Dirik, Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

29 January

No seminar - seminar by Menaal Munshey now moved to 11 March

5 February

Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain

Victoria Canning, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Bristol

 ** Please note change of time and venue: this seminar will run from 3:00-4:30pm in Seminar Room 3 ** 

12 February

Colonial mobilities and global inequality: why European settlers ought not to be regarded as migrants

Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex

19 February

Forced migration in the United Kingdom: women’s journeys to escape domestic violence

Janet Bowstead, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London

26 February 

SEMINAR CANCELLED | An intersectional approach to policy and decision making on SOGI asylum claims in Europe

Nuno Ferreira, Professor of Law, University of Sussex

4 March 

SEMINAR CANCELLED | Bordering

Georgie Wemyss, Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader for the Foundation Year in Social Sciences and Co-Director at the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London, and Nira Yuval-Davis, Professor Emeritus, Honorary Director of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London

11 March 

SEMINAR CANCELLED | Access to SGBV protection services for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon 

Menaal Munshey, PhD Candidate in Criminology, University of Cambridge