The programme of IRiS seminar series is out. We are hosting three exciting conversations with internationally renown scholars in the field.
The seminars are free and open. Please email a.bolstridge@bham.ac.uk to reserve a place.
We look forward to seeing many of you at the seminars!
24 October, 3.30-5pm, Gisbert Kapp, room 224
Thinking decoloniality through an intersectional lens
Professor Avtar Brah (Birkbeck College, University of London) in conversation with Dr Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths University) and Dr Angelo Martins Jr (University of Birmingham)
The talk will address the concepts and practices of coloniality, post-coloniality and decoloniality, exploring the similarity and differences between them. It will examine the ways in which the figure of the ‘migrant’ has become demonised in both popular and political discourse. Questions of ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, and belonging are central to thinking about borders and will be discussed in some detail as will be the problematic of how diasporas are created, mobilised, and politicised.
16 November, 3.30-5 pm, Alan Walters Building, Room G11
Migration governance in ‘crisis’
Professor Andrew Geddes (EUI) in conversation with Professor Michaela Benson (Lancaster University) and Professor Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)
6 December, 3-4.30 pm, Alan Walters Building, Room 112
Reconceptualising citizenship tests as linguistic border regimes in becoming a citizen
Dr Kamran Khan (University of Birmingham) in conversation with Dr Katie Tonkiss (Aston University) and Dr Tendayi Bloom (University of Birmingham)
The Age of Superdiversity 
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