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2024/2025 events

Semester 2 2024/2025 (February-July 2025)

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Semester 1 2024/2025 (September 2024 - January 2025)

Borders and Bordering Reading Group: Bordering, Ordering and Othering

Thursday 3 October 2024, 1:00pm

Seminar Room 8, The Wave

CDT Borders and Bordering Annual Symposium

Monday 7 October 2024, 9:00am

ICOSS Conference Room

Seminar: Migration, Class and Rural Colonial Legacies

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 1:00pm

Hybrid. Workroom 3, The Wave

PhD student network - Welcome event

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 2:30pm

Balcony area, Level C, The Wave building

Living in ��«Ӱҵ podcast - online launch event

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 6:00pm

Online

Webinar: City as the Southern Question - Ranabir Samaddar

Thursday 17 October 2024, 2:00pm

Online

Conversations on refugee situations: Palestinian refugees

Thursday 17 October 2024, 5:00pm

In person - location upon registration

Seminar: Welcoming Through Languages Group: Politics of welcoming...

Monday 21 October 2024, 11:30am

The Wave, Seminar Room 3

Film Screening: Have your Passport Ready

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 6:00pm

Discovery Rooms, The Students Union

2024 MRG Welcome Event

Thursday 24 October 2024, 2:00pm

The Wave, Floor C, The Balcony

Panel debate: Understanding the 2024 race riots

Thursday 31 October 2024, 2:00pm

Disclosed to registered attendees

Borders and Bordering Reading Group: Studying Borders from the Border

Thursday 7 November 2024, 1:00pm

Seminar Room 8, The Wave

MRG and VVIDY Community Study Day: Freedom Seekers Internationalist Festival (FIF)

Friday 15 November 2024, 9:00am

The Wave (registered participants will received the exact location)

Seminar: Selling Minds, Moving Bodies, Breaking Hearts

Thursday 21 November 2024, 1:00pm

Seminar Room BG03, ��«Ӱҵ, Winter Street, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7ND

MRG-PhD Writing Retreat

Monday 25 November 2024, 10:00am

Seminar Room 8, The Wave

PhD Workshop: Exploring Critical Alternatives in Migration Research

Thursday 28 November 2024, 9:00am

University of ��«Ӱҵ | Broad Lane Black, Lecture Theatre 8

Webinar: The everyday political economy of recent Vietnamese migrant labour to/in the UK

Thursday 28 November 2024, 1:00pm

Registration here: https://forms.gle/wn8E1ki3FLWsQsJ86

Borders and Bordering Reading Group: Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration & Border Studies

Thursday 5 December 2024, 2:15pm

Seminar Room 13, The Wave, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Seminar: Gendered violence, abuse & exploitation in the shadow of bordering regimes & border control

Thursday 5 December 2024, 1:00pm

Seminar Room 8, Hallamshire Hospital, ��«Ӱҵ, Beech Hill Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2RX

Webinar: Encountering infrastructural interruptions and maintaining transnational lives in China

Thursday 12 December 2024, 1:00pm

Hybrid

Environmentally Displaced Persons in Brazil: The Case of the drowning of Maceio, Brazil (2018-2024)

Thursday 9 January 2025, 11:30am

The Wave, Seminar room 15 , ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

2023/2024 events

Semester 2 2023/2024 (February-July 2024)

Transborderism and the Mexico-US Border

Wednesday 7 February 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 4)

Chinese internal migration: the state of the field

Thursday 8 February 2024

The Wave Building, Seminar Room 14

PhD Masterclass - Migration research through the lens of family

Thursday 8 February 2024

The Wave Building, Seminar Room 14

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Border Abolitionism as an Analytical Gaze

Thursday 15 February 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 9), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Complicit of data surveillance tools? Bordering and education data tracking tools

Wednesday 21 February 2024

Hybrid: Seminar room 15, The Wave, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Chinese migration: Internal and external

Thursday 22 February 2024

Arts Tower: LT07, ��«Ӱҵ, Western Bank, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2TN

Panel: The Safety of Rwanda Bill

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Moot Court room, School of Law & online, ��«Ӱҵ, Winter Street, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7ND

Journalists in Exile

Thursday 29 February 2024

Online Event

Actually-existing asylum: the material politics of ‘the Game’ through the Balkan Route

Wednesday 6 March 2024

Bartolomé House BB15a, ��«Ӱҵ, Winter Street, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7ND

Surveillance Technologies in Migration Management

Thursday 7 March 2024

Seminar Room 1, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - The Struggle for Borders

Thursday 14 March 2024

Room I12, ��«Ӱҵ, Hounsfield Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7RH

Seminar: Experiences of the asylum system in the UK

Thursday 21 March 2024

Seminar Room BG03, ��«Ӱҵ, Winter Street, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7ND

Community Study Day: Working rights for people in the asylum system

Tuesday 26 March 2024

Workroom 3, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Carcerality and Immigration

Wednesday 17 April 2024

School of Law, University of ��«Ӱҵ, Bartolome house, Moot Court, S3 7ND

Expanding the Racialised Surveillance of Migrants in the UK - Dr Monish Bhatia

Thursday 18 April 2024

Online and Lecture Theatre 8, Arts Tower, ��«Ӱҵ, Western Bank, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2TN

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Racial Futurism, Migration and Humanism

Thursday 18 April 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 13), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

The Paradox of Cooperative Migration Diplomacy in South-South Migration

Thursday 25 April 2024

Online Event

Migration, race and whiteness: what can we learn from studying post-Soviet migration?

Thursday 2 May 2024

Seminar Room 13, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Child Refugee Event: SYMAAG, Students, People and Planet, SSG

Thursday 2 May 2024

Workroom 1, ��«Ӱҵ, 32 Leavygreave Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7RD

PhD Masterclass on Ethnography

Thursday 9 May 2024

The Wave, Seminar room 13, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Roundtable: Researching migration in Latin America: challenges, opportunities and next steps

Monday 13 May 2024

Seminar Room 1, ��«Ӱҵ, Conduit Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 1FL

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Biometric Borders

Thursday 16 May 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 14), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Care and Social Reproduction in the Families of Ukrainian Refugees in Slovakia

Thursday 23 May 2024

Meeting Room 1 (C002) in the Social Research Institute, Floor 2, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

MRG Annual Lecture - Prof. Vicki Squire: Coloniality, frictions and epistemic injustice...

Thursday 23 May 2024

Lecture Theatre 7 & Online, ��«Ӱҵ, 32 Leavygreave Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7RD

PhD Masterclass: Methodological and ethical challenges in migration research

Tuesday 4 June 2024

Seminar Room 14, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Babies and passports: How Mobile Women Tackle Global Citizenship Inequalities Through Childbirth

Tuesday 4 June 2024

Seminar Room 2, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Decolonising Borders, Decriminalising Migration and Rethinkin

Thursday 13 June 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 7), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Forced Migration Experiences: Global Perspectives

Thursday 20 June 2024

Seminar Room 3, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

The Protection of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the United States

Wednesday 26 June 2024

��«Ӱҵ Management School, Seminar Room 1, ��«Ӱҵ, Conduit Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 1FL

2024 PGR Migration Conference

Thursday 27 June 2024

The Wave, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Humour, Hostility, and Hospitality

Thursday 11 July 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 7), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Semester 1 2023/2024 (September 2023 - January 2024)

Blurring the Edges: A creative exploration of social frontiers

Thursday 7 September 2023

Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance, Rotherham

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - What is Border Imperialism?

Thursday 14 September 2023

The Wave (Seminar Room 9)

CDT Borders and Bordering Annual Symposium

Monday 9 October 2023

SRI Meeting room, The Wave, Floor 2

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Bordering Intimacy

Thursday 12 October 2023

The Wave - Mezzanine social space on Floor 2 (located next to Sociological Studies department)

Conversations on children and migration

Monday 16 October 2023

Seminar Room 3 in the Management School building (and online)

PhD Masterclass: The politics of access negotiations in researching state bureaucracies

Monday 16 October 2023

��«Ӱҵ University Management School, MS LT02

Seminar: Securing Borders, Securing Power - Dr Mike Slaven

Thursday 26 October 2023

Seminar Room F02a, Firth Court

Day of Action on the increase in the Visa application fees and Immigration Health surcharge

Tuesday 31 October 2023

Students Union, ��«Ӱҵ, Western Bank, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2TG

FunKino-Cinema for Inclusion: encounters between “old” and “new” citizens in Sicily, through Cinema

Monday 6 November 2023

Students Union Auditorium, ��«Ӱҵ, Western Bank, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2TG

Workshop on the FunKino participatory storytelling methodology

Tuesday 7 November 2023

The Wave Building, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Seminar: Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean with Megan Carney

Thursday 9 November 2023

Seminar Room 8, The Wave, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Race, migration and (post)coloniality in Eastern Europe - Dr Daria Krivonos

Friday 10 November 2023

Online

North Korean Refugee Mobility, Settlement and Activism

Monday 13 November 2023

ICOSS Conference Room, ��«Ӱҵ, 219 Portobello, ��«Ӱҵ, S1 4DP

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Stopping boats, saving lives, securing subjects

Thursday 16 November 2023

The Wave - Seminar Room 9

Migration in the Media

Wednesday 6 December 2023

The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2, LT 2

Citizenship, Colonialism and Minority Pasts

Tuesday 12 December 2023

The Diamond Computer Room 3, ��«Ӱҵ, 32 Leavygreave Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7RD

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Race, Capital and Privatised Immigration Enforcement

Thursday 14 December 2023

The Wave - Seminar Room 15

PGR Christmas Social

Thursday 14 December 2023

Nottingham House, 164 Whitham Rd, ��«Ӱҵ S10 2SR

Rwanda Plan Network: The Global Politics of Border Externalisation and Offshoring

16th and 17th January 2024

The Wave, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Rd, ��«Ӱҵ S10 2AH, UK, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Borders and Bordering Reading Group - Borders, frontiers and the ‘state’ of Afghanistan

Thursday 18 January 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 8), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Networking coffee morning for MRG members

Tuesday 23 January 2024

Balcony area, The Wave Building, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

MRG PhD Network New Year Writing Retreat

Tuesday 30 January 2024

The Wave (Seminar Room 14), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

2022/23 events

Semester 2 2022/2023 (February-June 2023)

Seminar: 'Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration'

Thursday 2 February 2023

ICOSS Building. Room: Boardroom

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES Borders and Bordering Reading Group

Thursday 9 February 2023

ICOSS Building - 3rd Floor Meeting Room, ��«Ӱҵ, 219 Portobello, ��«Ӱҵ, S1 4DP

PhD Masterclass: Working with marginalised communities (1)

Friday 3 March 2023

ICOSS Building. Room: Boardroom

Borders and Bordering Reading Group

Thursday 9 March 2023

ICOSS Building - 3rd Floor Meeting Room, ��«Ӱҵ, 219 Portobello, ��«Ӱҵ, S1 4DP

Borders and Bordering Reading Group

Thursday 30 March 2023

Jessop West Hub 3 (10), ��«Ӱҵ, 1 Upper Hanover Street, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7RA

Immigration Legal Advice Community Study Day

Thursday 20 April 2023

Discovery Rooms, Students' Union, University of ��«Ӱҵ

Seminar 'Racialising Forced Mobility Studies: A Case from Latin America'

Thursday 20 April 2023

Discovery Rooms, Students' Union, University of ��«Ӱҵ

Workshop: Ethics and migration research

Friday 21 April 2023

The Wave, Seminar room 11

Migration, Diversity and Care: a workshop of papers in progress

Wednesday 3 May 2023

Campus

Borders and Bordering Reading Group

Thursday 4 May 2023

Elmfield Building Room G07

Migration, Urbanization and Conflict in Africa - project workshop

Thursday 18 May 2023

Geography and Planning Building, Winter Street, Teaching Room 2

Seminar 'A Feminist Migration Policy in West Africa? Potential Responses to the Gendered...'

Thursday 18 May 2023

The Wave, Lecture Theatre 4

Learning together: arts-based methods for asset-based youth participatory action research

Friday 19 May 2023

The Wave, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

PhD Masterclass: Decolonising knowledge production: perspectives from the global South

Tuesday 23 May 2023

The Wave, Seminar room 11

Borders and Bordering Reading Group

Thursday 8 June 2023

The Wave building, mezzanine space (access next to Sociological Studies entrance), ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

NEW DATE - Seminar: 'Displacement and access to education'

Thursday 8 June 2023

Online

CCR Author Meets Readers: The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights

Monday 12 June 2023

(Hybrid) Bartolome House - Moot Court, ��«Ӱҵ, Winter Street, ��«Ӱҵ, S3 7ND

PhD Masterclass: (Re)Conceptualizing gender in migration research

Tuesday 13 June 2023

The Wave, Seminar room 11

PGR Migration Conference

Monday 19 June 2023

The Wave, Lecture Theatre 4

Together for Change at Migration Matters Festival

Thursday 22 June 2023

Creative Lounge, Workstation

Seminar: Legal and policy frameworks to protect internally displaced persons in Latin America

Monday 26 June 2023

The Wave, Seminar room 5

Semester 1 2022/2023 (September 2022 - January 2023)

Postcoloniality and Forced Migration book launch

Tuesday 13 September 2022

Online

CDT Borders and Bordering welcome event

Thursday 6 October 2022

ICOSS Building. Room: Boardroom

Seminar: ‘Our citizenship is being prostituted’: The everyday geographies of economic citizenship

Thursday 20 October 2022

Online

Seminar: 'The Racial Politics of Refuge: Sanctuary Policies in the United States and Beyond'

Monday 24 October 2022

ICOSS Building. Room: Boardroom

Networking coffee morning for MRG members

Tuesday 23 January 2024

Balcony area, The Wave Building, ��«Ӱҵ, 2 Whitham Road, ��«Ӱҵ, S10 2AH

Seminar: '“Refugee Women”, Gender and the Racialised Politics of Protection'

Thursday 10 November 2022

Online

CDT Borders & Bordering reading group

Thursday 17 November 2022

ICOSS Building. 3rd Floor Meeting Room.

Seminar: 'Immigration Detention: The Global Diffusion of a Failed Project?'

Thursday 1 December 2022

ICOSS Building. Room: Boardroom

PhD Masterclass: Researching Migration: Reflections on Ethics and Practice

Friday 2 December 2022

ICOSS Building. Room: Boardroom

CDT Borders & Bordering reading group

Thursday 15 December 2022

ICOSS Building. 3rd Floor Meeting Room.

Seminar: 'The Urbanization of Forced Displacement'

Thursday 26 January 2023

Online

Events Archive

2021-2022

Semester 2

Welcome to the semester 2 virtual seminar series. We will add a new seminar to this programme each month.

MRG virtual seminar series: semester (2) 2021/22

Semester 1

Thursdays 12.00-13.15. Seminars will be held online via Blackboard Collaborate and are open to all. Information will be circulated prior to each event.

MRG virtual seminar series: semester (1) 2021/22

2020-2021

Semester 2

Thursdays 12.00-13.15. Seminars will be held online via Blackboard Collaborate and are open to all. Information will be circulated closer to each event.

MRG Semester 2: seminar series 2020/21

Semester 1

Thursdays 12.00-13.15. Seminars will be held online via Blackboard Collaborate and are open to all. Information will be circulated closer to each event. 

MRG Semester 1: seminar series 2020/21

‘Life at the Frontier’ – project launch

Thursday 10 September 2020

Online

2019-2020

‘European deportations: UK exclusion of EU citizens to take back control’

Thursday 25 June 2020

Online

Introducing Manus Prison Theory: Knowing Border Violence

Wednesday 19 February 2020

Council Room, Firth Court, University of ��«Ӱҵ

Cruising the Interface: Sex, Race and Migrants on Hook-Up Apps

Monday 9 December 2019

Sociological Studies, University of ��«Ӱҵ

Migration and Mobility: Views from Past and Present workshop

Wednesday 20 November 2019

University of ��«Ӱҵ

“All of Mexico is a Border”: screening of Border South with director Raúl O. Paz Pastrana

Monday 10 June 2019

University of ��«Ӱҵ

Ageing In and Out of Place – Kick-Off Symposium

Thursday 18 April 2019

University of ��«Ӱҵ

IMISCOE Spring Conference: Transforming Mobility and Immobility: Brexit and Beyond

28-29 March 2019

The Diamond, University of ��«Ӱҵ

2014-2018

Migration-induced social change in Poland

Wednesday 18 April 2018

The Diamond, University of ��«Ӱҵ

Migration Research @ ��«Ӱҵ 2016 Annual Lecture

Thursday 9 June 2016

University of ��«Ӱҵ

International Conference - Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings

12-13 October 2015

Cutler’s Hall, ��«Ӱҵ

Migration Research Group launch

Friday 31 January 2014

The Moot Court, School of Law, Bartolomé House, University of ��«Ӱҵ