Professor Ipek Demir will give a keynote at the online Launch Event for the Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX) at the University of Central Lancashire on 15 January 2021. The event runs from 10:40 until 17:00.
Professor Salman Sayyid will be giving a lecture to mark Islamophobia Awareness Month on Thursday 19th November, 4 - 5pm.
Professor Adrian Favell gave an online lecture for the new Talking Heads series at the Sussex Centre of Migration Research, University of Sussex, on his most recent work on ‘integration’, drawing on his recent article Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel.
CERS Postgraduate Researcher Tesfalem H. Yemane will co-lead an event marking 75 years of UNESCO with an online sensory experience of the Asmara UNESCO World Heritage Site in Eritrea on Monday 16 November 2020. The online event will be hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, and...
A PGR-led seminar series, “Decolonising Forced Migration: Political (Un)-Intelligibility, Reflexivity, & ‘Epistemological Agency’", begins 24 November 2020 and runs until July 2021. Organisers include CERS members Tesfalem Yemane and Kheira Arrouche.
Dr Maria Rovisco hosted an online conversation with Alex Chisholm of Freedom Studios, Bradford, on 28 October 2020, about the ways in which theatre can positively transform the lives of people seeking sanctuary. The conversation was part of InterCultured Festival’s InterCommunity Talks. Watch a recording of the conversation on the Intercultured Festival...
S. Sayyid will present a talk, ‘ The Global Governance of Islamophobia’ at the Northwestern University Buffett Institute for Global Affairs on 17 November 2020 18:00 GMT.
CERS member Dr Richard Tavernier will give an online talk, ‘Black Lives Matter, so does this mean "All" Lives Don’t Matter? 21st Century Activism', on 13 November 2020, 12-1pm, as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences.
This Black History Month, CERS joins with the Leeds Human Rights Journal for ‘Decolonising Human Rights’, an online event taking place on 22 October 2020, 17:00 - 18:30. CERS members S. Sayyid, Ipek Demir and Walaa Al Husban will all be speaking as part of a panel.
CERS member Dr Abel Ugba will be speaking as part of a panel at the Leeds Sadler Seminar Series ‘African Knowledges for Global Challenges’ which he is co-convening. The first session of the series takes place on Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00 – 17:30.