In this episode of Conversations with Iris, Lyndsey Stonebridge, professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, talks to Daniel Trilling, former editor of the New Humanist, journalist and author of Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) and Bloody Nasty People. The Rise of Britain's... Continue Reading →
IRiS International Conference 2018 – Racial Displacements: Peripheries, Camps, Resistance
Led by Dr Giovanni Picker , the next IRiS International Conference takes place on 18 and 19 June 2018. The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, and engage conversations about mechanisms, meanings and experiences of various forms of displacement. In 2015 the number of forcibly displaced people across the world was the... Continue Reading →