Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series
All welcome.
For further details please contact Ruba Salih
Our seminar series is on hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We look forward to resuming as soon as it is practicable to do so.
Previous Events in this series
Mediterranea. Border Struggles, Migration and Freedom of Movement
Professor Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna
9 December 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhite Privilege and Shortcuts to Anti-Racism
Dr Miriyam Aouragh
2 December 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMFace Veils, Face Masks and Selective Liberal Anxieties
Professor Annelies Moors emerita at the University of Amsterdam
25 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, University of Cambridge
18 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTouring the ‘ghetto’: Social mixing, distance, and white discomfort in Paris
Dr Carrie Benjamin (SOAS)
21 February 2018, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM‘Including outsiders?’ Trade union integration of immigrant workers in France and the UK
Dr Heather Connolly (Leicester) and Dr Sylvie Contrepois (CRESPPA)
7 February 2018, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMEn Route: Europe’s Flickering Border Migrant Camps
Dr Irit Katz
31 January 2018, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Monish Bhatia (Birkbeck)
24 January 2018, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMoving Memories: Geographies of Diasporic Remembrance
Dr Siri Schwabe (Roskilde University)
17 January 2018, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMOperation Deportation: Asylum and the Denial of Human Autonomy in Britain, Denmark and Sweden
Dr Victoria Canning
10 January 2018, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Umut Erel (Open University)
13 December 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMVeronica Ferreri (SOAS)
6 December 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGender, forced labour, and migration in the cocoa industry
Dr Ellie Gore (Sheffield)
29 November 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhy aren’t we talking about political assassinations? Race, borders, and the murder of Jo Cox
Dr Hannah Jones (Warwick)
22 November 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCANCELLED: Israel and the Internationalization of Citizenship Restrictions
Dr Shourideh C. Molavi (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
15 November 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAsylum seekers' reception in Italy: reflections at the end of field research
Dr Paolo Novak (SOAS)
1 November 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFiorenza Picozza
25 October 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMemorialising Britain's 9/11 wars: the politics of military deaths
Prof Vron Ware (Kingston)
18 October 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBeyond Neoliberalism: what is the left's project for migration?
Dr. Hannah Cross (Westminster)
11 October 2017, Brunei Gallery, B102, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIslamism through a London Lens
Dr Sarah Glynn
22 March 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIs Lampedusa a space where different types of mobility meet?
Dr. Anna Arnone (SOAS)
15 March 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProf Nicola Mai (Kingston University)
8 March 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), SALT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCarceral Geographies of Migration Control
Dr Lauren Martin (Durham, Department of Geography)
1 March 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCharlotte Loris-Rodionoff, Maria Kaistrinou, and Razan Ghazzawi
22 February 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMContained: exploring out-of-the box tools to build resilience in refugee-receiving communities
Dr Marieke van Houte (Oxford, International Migration Institute)
8 February 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPolicing Belonging: Race and Nation in the UK
Dr Alpa Parmar (Oxford, Centre for Criminology and Border Criminologies)
1 February 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM‘Stop the boats’: Exposing Australia’s torture regime
Dr Nadine El-Enany and Dr Sarah Keenan
25 January 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFood and Multiculture: An East End Case Study
Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor (Goldsmiths)
18 January 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, S211, 3:15 PM - 5:00 PMNavigating the Central Mediterranean: experiences, discourses and responses
Dr Nando Sigona (Birmingham)
11 January 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBritain’s Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation
Dr Rochelle Almeida (NYU)
14 December 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBorderlands. From migrant question to a new cosmopolitism
Prof Michel Agier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
7 December 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), S211, 3:15 PM - 5:00 PMMigration and the mapping of global danger
Dr Ruben Andersson (Oxford)
30 November 2016, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), S211, 3:15 PM - 5:00 PMDr Martina Tazzioli
23 November 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRefugees, Immigration Control and Indifference: Reflections on the Role of Distance
Prof Nick Gill (Exeter, Dept of Geography)
16 November 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMGrunwick: Race, class and solidarity. 40 years of migrant workers’ struggle
Amrit Wilson (Writer, activist and member of South Asian Solidarity Group), Consuelo Moreno (SOAS Justice for Cleaners Campaign), and Sujata Aurora (Grunwick 40). Chaired by Dr Parvathi Raman (SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies)
2 November 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 7:00 PM - 9:30 PMForensic Oceanography: Contesting the violent Architecture of the EU’s Maritime Frontier
Dr Lorenzo Pezzani (Goldsmiths)
26 October 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Robtel Pailey (Oxford, IMI)
19 October 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMViolent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Dr Reece Jones (Hawaii, Dept of Geography)
12 October 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCANCELLED: On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure
Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UCL)
16 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGetting Legality Right in the EU Refugee Crisis
Dr Petra Gümplova (Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt)
9 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Ala Sirriyeh (Keele University)
2 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMLegal Status Diversity - Linking National Level Control to Local Level Diversities
Dr Fran Meissner (SOAS)
24 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDiaspora, Education and the Cosmopolitan Project
Dr Reza Gholami (Middlesex University)
17 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Amy Donovan Blondell (University of Oxford)
3 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMigrant integration in the UK: politics, policy and practice
Dr Jill Rutter (Family and Childcare Trust)
27 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGerasimos Tsourapas (SOAS)
20 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Melanie Griffiths (University of Bristol)
13 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Ideological Multiplicity of New Nationalism
Dr Sivamohan Valluvan
6 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Migrant and the Refugee: Debunking the Distinction
Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck School of Law)
9 December 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Chiara Brambilla
2 December 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Alyosxa Tudor
18 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Annihilation of Time Through Space: Colonial Policing in Britain Today
Adam Elliot-Cooper
11 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDesigning Histories of Slavery in the Database Age
Prof Vincent Brown
28 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTaking Pictures: Pity, Fear, Security and Solidarity at the Border
Dr Heather Johnson
21 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMOn migration, proportion, and texture
Dr Alice Elliot (UCL Department of Anthropology)
14 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTim Smith
7 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Barbara Harrell-Bond
30 September 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDeparture Point: political blackness and solidarity between people of colour in the UK
Suhail Ilyas, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Shanice McBean, and Kevin Bismark Cobham
18 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCulture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Dr Rehana Ahmed (Queen Mary), Professor Stephen Morton (Southampton) and Professor Peter Morey (East London)
11 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe dangers of presumption, prejudice and copy-pasting in asylum decision-making
Dr Liza Schuster (City University London)
4 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProfessor Alice Bloch
25 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGoverning by Numbers: The Role of Quantification and Targets in UK Debates on Immigration
Prof Christina Boswell (University of Edinburgh)
18 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSUNDARANA. Marriage, migration and social change among the Patidars of central Gujarat
Dr Alice Tilche
4 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Rise of the Worker Citizen
Prof Bridget Anderson (COMPAS)
28 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Politics of Pragmatism: the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets
Dr Ashraf Hoque
21 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJohn Martin (Artistic Director, PAN Arts)
7 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMInterdisciplinary Responses to Cultural Citizenship and Migration
Dr Mattia Fumante (University of St Andrews)
10 December 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBorder Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis
Professor Nicholas De Genova (King's College London)
3 December 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM“Freedom From Seizure”: Law and Asylum in Conflict
Dr Simon Behrman (University of East Anglia)
26 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIndian Diaspora in the Indian Ocean Region Reflections on Migration, Settlement and Change
Professor Gijsbert Oonk (Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Netherlands)
20 November 2014, Brunei Gallery, B102, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMThe UNHCR, Afghan Refugees and the Enforcement of the National Order
Dr Giulia Scalettaris (University of Lille)
12 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G52, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
Dr Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)
29 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNormal - real stories from the sex industry
Professor Nicola Mai (London Metropolitan University)
15 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Kathryn Cassidy (University of East London)
8 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDiscretion and the Data Border
Dr Alexandra Hall (University of York)
1 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch: Borders and Margins: Cambodian Migration to Thailand
Maryann Bylander and Emmanuel Maillard
28 May 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, B104, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNomadism as a cultural and legal category: Roma, trans-territoriality and peripheral space
Emma Patchett, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
30 April 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PMA community heritage project involving SOAS MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies students has collected a series of oral histories of Ugandan Asians and will exhibit its findings in the Wolfson Gallery at SOAS, University of London later this month.
31 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Wolfson Gallery, 9:00 AM - 9:00 PMConceiving statelessness from diaspora: The case of Kurds in Europe
Barzoo Eliassi, International Migration Institute, Oxford
Barzoo Eliassi has a PhD in social work and social policy. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University before joining International Migration Institute at Oxford University.
19 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPolitical Participation of the Ghanaian Diaspora in Accra and London
Jamilla Hamidu, International Organization for Migration
12 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMUNHCR’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Roland Schilling, UNHCR
5 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMForced or Voluntary Migration? The case for a relational approach to a theoretical divide
Maritsa Poros, University of East London
26 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIslam, Youth and Modernity in Gambia
Marloes Janson (SOAS)
19 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDisplaced Populations and Regional Destabilization in the Sahel following the 2012 crisis in Malic
Bazoum Mohamed, Niger Minister of Foreign Affairs
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
5 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWeddings among Kenyan Pentecostals: The making of a moral community in London
Leslie Fesenmyer, COMPAS, Oxford
Leslie Fesenmyer finished her D.Phil. in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, in 2013. In January 2014 she began a three-year research project, funded by a ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship, which examines the religious identification and incorporation of Kenyan Pentecostal migrants in London.
29 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM‘We Search for Life’: mobilities within the African Great Lakes Region
Irene Binaisa IMI, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
22 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Central African Republic Crisis: a pre-genocide situation?
Reverend Nicolas Guérékoyamé, President of Evangelical Alliance in Central African Republic and Member of the Transitional Parliament
15 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCross-cultural migrations in Eurasia since 1500: towards a global comparative method
Professor Leo Lucassen, University of Leiden
In this lecture Professor Leo Lucassen will first argue that in order to understand social, cultural, economic and political changes in human societies the movement of people over cultural boundaries is crucial.
8 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTrading worlds: Afghan merchants across modern frontiers
Dr Magnus Marsden (SOAS, University of London)
11 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMigration, informality and visions for a just city: the making of urban citizenship in Buenos Aires
Tanja Bastia (University of Manchester)
4 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSupermobility and superdiversity: is there order to migration?
Professor Richard Black
27 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, KLT, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMTethering Diasporas: Nation-States and the Transnational Practices of South Asian Diasporas
Ishan Ashutosh (Northumbria University)
20 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Evolution of a Nascent Asylum System in Israel
Dr Yosef Joel Moss (Director, HIAS Israel)
15 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PMCaste and its diasporic avatar : findings from fieldwork among Sikhs in the UK
Christine Moliner (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
14 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PMOn the Jugaad Image: Embodying the Mobile Phone in India
Amitabh Rai (Queen Mary)
13 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch: Coolie Woman by Gaiutra Bahadur
Gaiutra Bahadur
1 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDiasporas in Development: race, neoliberalism and "the core of smart power"
Dr Kalpana Wilson (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
30 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAn Evening with Gil Anidjar: "Semitic Vicissitudes"
Dr Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
29 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMCitizen Suspect: Muslim youth in post 9-11 America
Dr Arshad Ali (Institute of Education, University of London)
16 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProf. Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam)
9 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCrisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives
Anna Lindley (SOAS)
2 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPanel Discussion on the Scope and Significance of the World Disasters Report, led by Prof. Zetter
Roger Zetter (Oxford)
13 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 5:00 PMDealing with Difference: representations of migration in European museums
Chris Whitehead (Newcastle University)
6 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 5:00 PMHeaven Crawley (Swansea University)
27 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMExclusive Religious Identities and Shared Spiritual Cosmologies in the British South Asian Diaspora
Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester)
20 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSimon Addison (University of Manchester)
6 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Documentary Moment (and Screening of Channel 4’s “New Model Army”)
Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts, London)
30 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBorrowing across Borders: Migration, Credit and Migra-loans in Rural Cambodia
Maryann Bylander (SOAS)
23 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Vanni. A Multimedia Graphic Novel on Asylum and Migration
Benjamin Dix
16 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PMTemporary Workers, Labour Exploitation & the Future of Global Migration
Immanuel Ness (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
9 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMChallenge of Mobile Value-Subjects: East Asian capitalism and struggles of migrant labour
Dae-oup Chang (SOAS)
12 December 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDisplacement in Post Independence Eritrea: causes and consequences
Gaim Kibreab (London South Bank University)
5 December 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMTransnational Connections and Development Disconnections: stories from Sylhet.
Katy Gardner (Sussex)
21 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDiasporas and Development: a marriage of convenience or true love?
Oliver Bakewell (QEH, Oxford)
14 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMLaura Hammond (SOAS) & Abdirashid Duale (Dahabshiil)
31 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Dynamics of Diaspora among Caribbean Migrants in Manchester, 1940-1981
Laurence Brown (Manchester)
24 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMA Game of Risk: boat migration and the business of bordering Europe
Ruben Andersen (LSE)
17 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Figure of the Trafficked Victim: gender, rights and representation
Rutvica Andrijasevic (Leicester)
10 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPractices of Algerian belonging: Return to Oran & Tlemcen
Sami Everett (SOAS)
14 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMKathryn Spellman (Aga Khan University)
14 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNaturalisation and the politics of desire
Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster)
7 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRefugees are migrants too: rethinking refugee protection
Katy Long (LSE)
22 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe ‘developmental state’ in action: river-basin development in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley
Lovise Aalen and David Turton (Oxford)
1 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMedia Discourses of Chinese Integration in Prato, Italy
Kevin Latham (SOAS)
25 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Iranian Diaspora and the dynamics of Muharram rituals in Mumbai
Reza Masoudi (SOAS)
18 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDevelopment Brokering and the Blurring of Aid and Security in Dakar
Anne-Line Rodriguez (Anthropology, SOAS)
14 December 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFamine Relief Diaspora-Style The Somali response to the 2011 crisis
Laura Hammond (Development Studies, SOAS)
7 December 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMReconciliation: western Muslim religiosity and political behaviour
Justin Gest (Migration Studies Unit, LSE)
30 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHome, City and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta
Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee (Geography, QMUL)
23 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPaolo Novak (Development Studies, SOAS)
16 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHistories and Ecologies of Diaspora in the Bay of Bengal
Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck)
26 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDisconnected or Reconnected? The Tamil Diaspora after the end of the war in Sri Lanka
Nicholas Van Hear (Compas, Oxford)
19 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProfessor Mario Rutten (University of Amsterdam)
12 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCitizenship, autochthony and the intersected politics of belonging.
Nira Yuval-Davis (Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belong, UEL)
14 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM‘No Longer Pet Kittens’: Diaspora, cricket, belonging
Paru Raman (Department of Anthropology SOAS)
9 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWomen At-Risk in Migration: Asylum-seeking and trafficked women, violence and health
Cathy Zimmerman (LSHTM)
2 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester)
23 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMigration to Transition Societies: Chinese in Serbia
Maja Korac (Humanities and Social Sciences, UEL)
9 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Spatial Structuring of Class: capitalism and labour migration in the Gulf Arab States
Adam Hanieh (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
2 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMV. J. Varghese (Centre for Development Studies, Sussex)
26 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIntegration and Return: Emerging Political Narratives amongst Palestinian Refugees
Ruba Salih (Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS)
19 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester)
15 December 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMA Critical Analysis of Policy Responses to Somali Remittance Dynamics
Anna Lindley (Development Studies, SOAS)
8 December 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNicola Frost (Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies and Centre for Food Studies, SOAS)
(Joint seminar with Department of Anthropology and Sociology)
1 December 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM"Is This Islamic Enough?" Non-Islamiosity and Religious Experience among Iranian Shia in London
Reza Gholami (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
24 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM'On the Intersection of Ethnicity, Class and Nation in Contemporary "Progressive" Politics'
Davide Pero (Identity, Migration and Citizenship Centre, University of Nottingham)
17 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMLegality and inclusion of foreign labour migrants in Kazakhstan’s urban space
Bhavna Dave (Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS)
3 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMYoung undocumented migrants in England: working lives and economic survival strategies
Professor Alice Bloch (Department of Sociology, City University)
27 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMuslim women and marriage in trans-jurisdictional contexts
Prakash Shah (School of Law, Queen Mary)
20 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM'Native informants and alien practices: British broadcasting and Muslim representation'.
Amina Yaqin (Department of Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS)
13 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMigration, Home and Belonging: citizenship debates
Professor Barbara Einhorn (Sussex Centre for Migration Research)
6 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDoes the European Common Asylum System Protect the Rights of Refugees and Migrants?
Ben Ward (Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch)
12 May 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAngela Impey (Department of Music, SOAS)
5 May 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHow Research Can Influence Migration Policy and Practice
Khalid Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)
28 April 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMapping Migrancy and Familiarity through Screen Media
Lindiwe Dovey (Africa Department, SOAS)
17 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHow Research Can Influence Migration Policy and Practice
Khalid Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)
10 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights
Martin Ruhs (Compas, Oxford)
3 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM‘A Very Transcendental Power’: the deprivation of citizenship in Britain in historical perspective
Mathew J. Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford)
24 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMChanging Patterns of Domestic and International Migrations from a Rajasthan Village
Howard Jones (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
10 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTo make Live or Let Die: rural dispossession and the protection of surplus populations
Tania Li (University of Toronto)
3 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFilm screening: “Messages from Paradise”
Dr Samuli Schielke (ZMO) and Daniela Swarowsky
27 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMReforestation and Migration in China: The Impact of the Sloping Lands Conversion Programme
Ben Groom (Department of Economics, SOAS)
20 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMigration, ‘Home’ and Belonging: Citizenship Debates
Barbara Einhorn (University of Sussex)
13 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMigrant Women Transforming Citizenship
Umut Erel (Open University)
9 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMElena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (SOAS)
2 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMOmar El-Khairy (LSE)
25 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRefugee Academics in the UK: past, present and future
Shula Marks (SOAS), Sawsan al-Assaf (SOAS), Jeremy Seabrook (CARA)
In this seminar, we will be looking at the history of refugee academics in the UK, whilst assessing the role of UK universities in welcoming refugee academics, and raising awareness of the issues involved, including questions of academic freedom.
18 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMichael Collyer (Sussex)
4 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRemembering the city across diaspora space: Translocality and urban memory?
Shompa Lahiri (Queen Mary, University of London)
28 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAfrican home associations in Britain: between political belonging and moral conviviality
Claire Mercer (LSE)
21 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhy Dublin III won’t work: a case study of Afghans in Paris
Liza Shuster (City University)
14 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMEvans Jadotte (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)
7 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRemaking Sacred Geographies: New Age Diasporic Pilgrims
Pushpa Arabindoo (Department of Geography, UCL)
SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series Autumn Term
29 April 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMPaolo Novak (Development Studies, SOAS)
18 March 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMMoving Beyond Victims and Villains: Repoliticising Migration Debates
Bridget Andersen (Compass, Oxford)
11 March 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMAfrican Migration to Asia: a Forgotten Process
Shihan De Silva (ICS)
4 March 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMThe Dream Trap: Nepali Nurses in the British Health Care System
Radha Adhikari (University of Edinburgh)
18 February 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMAfricans in the Diaspora: the third root of Mexico
Chege Githiora (Languages and Cultures of Africa, SOAS)
4 February 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMDiaspora Pakistani Artists: interrogating traditions
Virginia Whiles (University of Arts, London)
28 January 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMThe Making of Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: displacement and the cultural politics of survival
JoAnn McGregor (Department of Geography, UCL)
The Making of Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: displacement and the cultural politics of survival
3 December 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMAcross the Border: Kabul’s musicians in exile
John Baily (Department of Music, Goldsmiths)
Across the Border: Kabul’s musicians in exile
26 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMEdward Simpson (Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS)
Fathers, Sons, Aging and Changing Your Mind: Anthropology and the travel of Muslim men in the Indian Ocean
19 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMDiasporic Visions, Cultural Co-ordinates and the Politics of Indo-Guyanese Locality
Atticus Narain (Department of South Asia, SOAS)
Diasporic Visions, Cultural Co-ordinates and the Politics of Indo-Guyanese Locality
12 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMDispersal, Division and Diversification: durable solutions and Sudanese refugees in Uganda
Tania Kaiser (Development Studies, SOAS)
Dispersal, Division and Diversification: durable solutions and Sudanese refugees in Uganda
29 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMBetween ‘Home’, ‘The Gulf’, and ‘The West’: perspectives from Malayali families
Caroline Osella (Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS)
Between ‘Home’, ‘The Gulf’, and ‘The West’: perspectives from Malayali families
22 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMAfrican home associations in Britain: Between political belonging and moral conviviality
Claire Mercer (LSE)
(Joint seminar with Anthropology of Development)21 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTracing Absent Presence in the Wake of Atrocity
Malathi de Alwis (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo)
Tracing Absent Presence in the Wake of Atrocity
15 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMTransnational Life in Pakistan
Magnus Marsden (Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS)
Transnational Life in Pakistan
8 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM