Refugee Research Centre

Seminars

Semester B 2012

Imaging Migrants Seminar Series 2012

25th January 2012

Documentary: Calais: The Last Border and discussion

Marc Issacs (film-maker)

13th Februaury 2012 (Monday 5pm-7pm)

THE CLEANERS’ VOICE

Luis C.Sotelo (film-maker)

Anna Lopes  (University of East London)

29th February 2012

Gevald and the role of truth in documentary

Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth)

28th April 2012

Evidence of the transformative moment of decision to migrate, explored through image as archive and memory as testimony.

March Helene Kazan (Goldsmith’s College)

25th April 2012

A Visual Journey through the Balkans: from Socialism to the UK.

Nela Milic (journalist and film-maker)

2nd May 2012

Imagined diasporas: domestic violence migrants within the UK

Janet Bowstead  (London Metropolitan University)

For more details on these seminars, click here.

 

 

 

Past Seminars

Semester B 2011

'Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration'

CMRB is very pleased to announce the schedule for the 'Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration' series, jointly organised with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford.

Seminars will take place at 5.00pm on Wednesdays, in either the UEL or RSC location. The RSC location is: Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3LA. The UEL location is: Room EBG.08, East Building, Docklands Campus, London E16 2RD. Docklands Campus is adjacent to Cyprus Station, Docklands Light Railway.

To hear podcasts of the seminiars follow this link.

19 Jan: Refugees, Exiles and other Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire

• Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)
  Location: RSC

Audio available here.

26 Jan: Citizenship, autochthony and the question of forced migration

• Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)
  Location: RSC

Audio available here.

2 Feb: Reconciling integration and return: Rethinking Palestinian Refugeehood

• Ruba Salih (School of Oriental and African Studies)
  Location: UEL

9 Feb: ‘Collective amnesia’ - refugees and the problem of History

• Philip Marfleet (University of East London)
  Location: RSC

16 Feb: Refugees and the definition of Syria

• Benjamin White
  Location: RSC

23 Feb: Citizenship and residence: rights, mobility and refugees

• Catherine Long (University of Oxford)
  Location: UEL

2 Mar: Is deportation a form of forced migration?

• Matthew Gibney (University of Oxford)
  Location: RSC

9 Mar: Refugees, the state and the concept of home

• Helen Taylor (University of East London)
  Location: RSC

16 Mar: Refugees, states and the ‘security’ agenda

• Khalid Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)
  

Migration

• A joint Birkbeck College/University of East London Symposium
• Friday 4th February 2011, 1.00pm to 5.30 p.m.

Venue: Goss Room, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH

All welcome, no need to book.

Speakers:

‘Migration and Citizenship in Modern Asia’

• Dr Sunil Amrith, Lecturer, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College.

‘Sanctuary past and present’

• Professor Philip Marfleet, Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies at the University of East London.

‘Transnational health seeking strategies: a study of Latin American migrants in London’

• Dr Jasmine Gideon, Lecturer in Development Studies, Birkbeck College.

‘Exile, diaspora and the politics of belonging’

Audio available here.

• Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London.

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr Karen Wells.

Convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre.

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