Past events

13 February 2025: IAS Book Launch: Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp. Join us for the launch of Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp. A Nine-to-Five Emergency by Melissa Gatter

10 February 2025: University of Sanctuary - UCL support for those with forced migration and refugee backgrounds. We will hear from members of the UCL Sanctuary Working Group and the Provost about UCL’s current and forthcoming work and commitment towards applying for accreditation as a University of Sanctuary; and will launch a recently-completed report

3 February 2025: Launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs. This de-centered hybrid roundtable conversation on Southern Responses to Displacement serves as both the launch event for our Special Issue and an opportunity for us to collectively reflect on the broader topic of Southern responses to displacement in a global context.

1 October 2024: 'Am I Less British?' Join us for the launch of Doğuş Şimşek's book ‘"Am I Less British?" Racism, belonging, and the children of refugees and immigrants in North London’ that focuses on children whose parents migrated from Turkey.

10 July 2024: Writing Displacements. Gathering poets and scholars, the space seeks to open and to build displacement-to-displacement conversations and solidarities, thinking across histories and geographies, movements, times and places.

6 December 2023: IAS Book launch: Jewish Refugees in the Balkans,1933-1945. With author Dr Bojan Aleksov.

8 June 2023: Book Launch: Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system. This book traces Palestinian refugee history since the dispossession of 1948, focusing on how refugee camp communities have engaged with international politics via the UN and its Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

24 May 2021: VIRTUAL IAS Emancipatory Spaces from Camps to Cities: Refugees and the Built Environment. This roundtable addresses how refugees around the world have made a significant impact upon the built environment. Among camps, emergency shelters, and cities, forced migrations across the globe have affected how refugees have actively shaped urban

6 May 2021: VIRTUAL IAS Festival: Writing the Camp. Poet-scholar Yousif M. Qasmiyeh enters into conversation with Dr Seth Ansizka and Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

30 April 2021: VIRTUAL IAS Talking Points seminar: World’s Watchmen: Corporate Ethics & the Architecture of Asylum. The IAS welcomes VRF Dr Jennifer Ferng for a talk entitled 'World’s Watchmen: Corporate Ethics & the Architecture of Asylum'. Respondents: Dr Irit Katz (University of Cambridge) and Dr Tejendra Pherali (UCL). Chair: Professor Elena

28 October 2019: Listening with Displacement: Researching Forced Migration through Sound and Music

19 March 2019: IAS Journal Launch: Hospitality and hostility towards migrants - global perspectives. Launch event of the inaugural issue of Migration and Society, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal advancing debate about emergent trends in all types of migration.

29 January 2019: Refugee Spaces: Hosting and Encounter, Ancient and Modern. With Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Migration and Refugee Studies, Geography, UCL, London), Murray Fraser (Architecture and Global Culture, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London), Benjamin Gray (Ancient History, Birkbeck University of London), Elena

31 May 2018: South-South Humanitarianism: New Aims, Old Challenges
10–15 March 2017: Space of Refuge - A Spatial Installation & Symposium
22 February 2017: John Akomfrah in Conversation
20 February 2017: Abdulrazak Gurnah in Conversation
28 November 2016: Special RiMW Seminar: How to Cope with the Highest Rate of Refugees per Capita in the World? Lessons from Lebanon
10 June 2016: RiMW: Being There - At the front line of the 'European refugee crisis'
2 June 2016: RiMW Workshop: Julia Kristeva's 'Foreign Body'
12 May 2016: Hospitality and Hostility in a Moving World Conference
26 April 2016: RiMW: Borders and Geographies of Development
18 March 2016: RiMW Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Conversations
11 March 2016: RiMW Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Conversations
10 March 2016: RiMW Workshop: Hannah Arendt's 'We Refugees'
4 March 2016: RiMW Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Conversations
12 February 2016: RiMWSeminar Series: Interdisciplinary Conversations
22 January 2016: RiMW Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Conversations
15 January 2016: RiMW Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Conversations
2 December 2015: RiMW Public Conversation: Eva Hoffman and Jonny Steinberg
16 November 2015: RiMW Roundtable