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« Back to NewsPublic Seminar Series – Trinity Term 2026
22 April 2026
The details of this term's public seminars and the Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture are now available. There are seven events this term, including a book launch for 'Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception', a film screening of 'When the water horse seeks a new home' and a lecture on 'Severing relation: Haitian ‘criminal deportees,’ torture, and the spatialized ethics of removal'. Join us on Wednesdays at 5pm from 6th May.
Welcoming our Trinity Term Visiting Fellows
15 April 2026
We are delighted to offer a warm welcome to our nine Visiting Fellows for Trinity Term 2026. Photo left to right from the top: Frowin Rausis, Fatmanur Delioglu, Talabi Rasheed Ayegbusi, Cécile Artigaud, Farnas Yeasmin Nizom, Lauren Beyhaut, Natasha Bernstein Bunzl, Michelle Pace and Nihan Duran.
Refugee Stories film to premiere at the Docville Festival
24 March 2026
The Refugee Economies Programme has produced a documentary film exploring experiences of long-term displacement in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. It will premiere at the Docville Festival in Leuven Belgium on 26 March.
Gil Loescher Memorial Fund makes three awards
24 February 2026
We are delighted to announce that the Gil Loescher Memorial Fund has made three new awards to support original research on refugees and forced displacement by Oxford graduate students.
New fully-funded scholarship for graduate students with lived experience of forced displacement
11 February 2026
A new scholarship will open up the opportunity for more scholars from displaced backgrounds to undertake research at the Refugee Studies Centre.
Dawn Chatty receives Lifetime Achievement Award
12 January 2026
Emeritus Professor Dawn Chatty has been recognised for her outstanding contribution to the study of nomadic pastoral societies with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Anthropological Union’s Commission on Nomadic Peoples.
The Gil Loescher Memorial Fund is open for applications
1 December 2025
The Gil Loescher Memorial Fund has been established to support the costs of original research on any topic related to refugees and forced displacement by a graduate student (Masters or DPhil) at the University of Oxford. This fund is now open for applications.