Seminar series: Rupture and Reconciliation in Contexts of Displacement

Convened by Cory Rodgers (Oxford University) and Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University).

Campion Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre present a seven-part seminar series on reconciliation in the contexts of displacement

China’s transition to net zero will have enormous implications for the planet and the global economy. Professor Fu Jun, at Peking University, will join the Blavatnik School's Thomas Hale to discuss his new book – Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in China: Policy, Technology and Market – and to examine if China can succeed and how this might look.

Peter Neumann is Professor of Security Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He also founded the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and until recently, he also served as the OSCE's Special Representative on Countering Violent Radicalisation.

In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, advancing from Ukraine’s eastern border towards cities across the country, including the capital Kyiv.

As fighting continues and peace talks are scheduled, more than 300,000 Ukrainians have fled their country, Russia’s nuclear forces have been placed on high alert, and the death and casualty tolls on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides continue to rise.

On the occasion of the publication of Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation
Coordinated by Paul Betts and James Mark

In Rome’s aftermath, monks and warlords hungry for land and resources fought for dominion in the regions to the north and east of the old imperial heartlands. They wrote of their ambition to tame the populations and ecologies of these ‘pagan’ wildernesses in a virtuous language of agricultural productivity. They presented themselves as workers in the field, rooting out indigenous plants, ploughing up the exposed earth, seeding it with the monocrop of Christian doctrine, and labouring for a great harvest of souls to enrich the granary of the Lord.

In honour of LGBT+ History Month, the Refugee Studies Centre is excited to host Devon Matthews, the Director of Programs at Rainbow Railroad, for an online conversation with Samuel Ritholtz (DPhil student, ODID/RSC). Rainbow Railroad is an international charitable organisation that helps lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals escape violence and persecution in their home countries.