Past events
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Cecilia Vergnano (KU Leuven). Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders
15:00 - 17:00 17 February 2025
Since 2015, the reintroduction of (racialised) border controls within the supposedly border-free Schengen area and, in particular, at northern Italian borders – envisaged to contain asylum seekers’ so-called “secondary movements” within the EU – gave rise to uncountable migrants’ deaths at intra-EU borders (as well as unquantifiable...
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Deana Jovanovic (Utrecht University). Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town
15:00 - 17:00 24 February 2025
This seminar explores the temporal, political and economic effects of theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures, staged in a Serbian industrial town. Based on a decade-long ethnographic fieldwork among the residents who navigated the remnants of Yugoslav prosperity and the struggles of post-socialist decline, the talk will delve into...
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Emma Crewe (SOAS). Strategic Ignorance, Forgetting and Misrecognition in Parliaments
15:00 - 17:00 3 March 2025
Are parliaments past their heyday or have they never had one? Elected representatives claim to represent our interests, for which they need to know what we need or want, and knowledge brokerage is key to their political work. But obviously this is never a politically neutral activity. Hierarchies of knowledge in Parliament emerge out of socio-political...
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Perveez Mody (Cambridge). Corrosive Kinship and Forms of Healing and Care: “Forced Marriage in the UK”
15:00 - 17:00 10 March 2025
This paper begins with a difficult and troubling question. It concerns the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007, designed as it is, to prevent a “forced marriage” in its run-up, rather than to offer redress where one has already taken place, often many years ago. In effect,...
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Mateusz Laszczkowski (Manchester). 'Territorio is Where You Meet Others': Politics of Place in an Alpine Rebellion
15:00 - 17:00 17 March 2025
This paper, drawing on a chapter from my upcoming book about the No TAV movement, fighting against the construction of high-speed railway through the Italian Alps, explores the concepts of 'territory' that emerge from that struggle. I describe various dimensions of 'territorialization from below': the daily functioning of presidi - sites that were...
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