The first Migrant Futures Forum will take place in person on Thursday, 16 January, 3 – 5pm in MMBD 220 (Margaret McMillan Building 220). The MFI Forum includes colleagues from within and beyond Goldsmiths to feed into and help shape the newly established Migrant Futures Institute moving ahead.
Directions/how to find the Margaret McMillan building can be found here.
‘Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023’
Monday 9 December, 5pm (Room 137, Richard Hoggart Building)
Speaker: Dr Sana Murrani
Associate Professor in Spatial Practice, University of Plymouth
In this lecture, Sana Murrani critically and visually explores the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023 and presents a fresh perspective on how ordinary Iraqis create refuge across the spaces of the home, the urban environment, and border geographies.
She advances a manifesto for spatial justice that calls for a deep, integrated understanding of place, memory, and trauma, and comprehensive strategies in the making of refuge spaces that also resonate in a wider, global context.
Professor Mirca Madianou, Academic Co-Director of the Migrant Futures Institute, has just published a new book on November 1st entitled ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’. The book charts how digital humanitarianism harms some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
From chatbots for refugees to face recognition for cash disbursements and algorithmic decision-making about who deserves aid, AI practices underpin aid operations and revitalise the colonial genealogies of humanitarianism and technology itself.
The work of Tassia Kobylinska and Sue Clayton was recognised by the Anti-Slavery Day Awards, hosted by the Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF) on October 18th 2024. Tassia and Sue’s report for Channel 4 news, developed in collaboration with the Voice of Domestic Workers (VODW) and Simon Israel, exposed trafficking in modern Britain.
Sue Clayton and Tassia Kobylinska were recognised in the Media Winners category for the Best broadcast piece dealing with Modern Slavery.
