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17 April 2024: (B)OrderS Workshop: Enhancing the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs): Facilitating access to the EU and supporting HRDs from third countries (co-hosted with Human Rights Law Centre) with Professor Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary), Professor Niovi Vavoula (Luxembourg), Vasiliki Apatzidou (Queen Mary), Ed O’ Donovan (UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders), Dr Tamas Molnar (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)) and Dr Annalisa Meloni (East London). Register for the (B)OrderS HRDs Workshop on Enhancing the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs) via Eventbrite.
11 April 2024: (B)OrderS Seminar: The Medical Border and Australia’s Extraterritorial Asylum Regime, with Dr Sara Dehm (University of Technology Sydney, Visiting Fellow (B)OrderS Centre), Dr Monish Bhatia (University of York), and Dr Nicolette Busuttil (SOAS, University of London). Register for the (B)OrderS Seminar via Eventbrite.
3 April 2024: (B)OrderS Book Forum: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion (co-hosted with Childhood, Law, and Policy Network) with Professor Anita Casavantes Bradford (University of California Irvine), Dr Francesca Meloni (King’s College London) and Dr Hedi Viterbo (Queen Mary) on the book: Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States.
27 November 2023: (B)OrderS Workshop: Refugee Communities in the Middle East - Protection or Discrimination? A Critical Perspective, convened by Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary/Barcelona), with Professor Susan Akram (Boston), Professor Dallal Stevens (Warwick), Ms Malak Benslama-Dabdoub (Royal Holloway), and Dr Francesca Albanese (Georgetown & UN Special Rapporteur on oPt).
27 October 2023: (B)OrderS Workshop: Practitioners meet Academics - The Role of Academic Arguments in Practical Work with Refugees and Migrants. This roundtable discussion brings together academics working on asylum and immigration law in the UK context with practitioners from law, policy, and practice to discuss the role of academic arguments in their day-to-day work with refugees and migrants and how academics and practitioners can work more closely together to bring about change.
28 - 29 September 2023: (B)OrderS Conference - SHARED Project. This is the final conference of the SHARED Project on Shared Responsibility at the EU's External Borders, which will debate and disseminate the results of the study of ‘shared responsibility’ as applied to joint interventions by Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency), the EU Member States, as well as the third countries and private entities with which they collaborate, in the implementation of border management and migration control measures, in particular concerning fundamental rights violations. The conference, convened by the SHARED Project team, Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (PI), Dr Mirentxu Jordana (Girona) and Ms Laura Salzano (Barcelona), will feature keynote addresses by MEP, Professor Tineke Strik (Greens), and MEP, Professor Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D, Chair of the LIBE Committee), as well as contributions by key organisations, including Frontex, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Proactiva Open Arms, alongside young researchers and leading academics from all over Europe. Register for the Conference.
26 June 2023: (B)OrderS Workshop: Practitioners meet Academics - A Dialogue on Complex Protection Claims and Academic Impact in the Courtroom. This workshop brings together academics working on asylum and immigration in the UK context with practitioners – solicitors, barristers and judges – to discuss how practitioners use academic work, how academics and practitioners can work more closely together, and how academic work can have real impact in the courtroom. Register for the (B)OrderS Workshop: Practitioners meet Academics.
28 April 2023: (B)OrderS - Criminal Justice Centre Workshop: Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU: Theoretical, Interdisciplinary, and Practical Perspectives co-hosted with the Criminal Justice Centre. The workshop is co-convened with Dr Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi and Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas in collaboration with the GLaw-Net Research Network in collaboration with the Maastricht Centre for European Law of Maastricht University and University of Liverpool. Register for the (B)OrderS - Criminal Justice Centre Workshop on Eventbrite.
29 March 2023: (B)OrderS and Queen Mary Human Rights Law Centre Workshop: Towards Autonomous Borders? Assessing the Human Rights and Rule of Law Challenges of the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems for Migration Management with Dr Petra Molnar (York/Harvard), Ms Amanda Musco Eklund (Umea), Dr Dimitri van der Meerssche (Queen Mary), Ms Ludivine Stewart (EUI), Dr Francesca Palmiotto (Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights), Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger (EUI/Suleyman Demirel University), Ms Ismini Nikoleta Mathioudaki (Scuola Normale Superiore), Ms Alexandra Karaiskou (EUI) and Dr Niovi Vavoula (Queen Mary).
8 December 2022: (B)OrderS Book Forum: Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the European Union - The Case of Information Systems with Dr Niovi Vavoula (Queen Mary), Professor Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary), Professor Didier Bigo (SciencesPo Paris & King’s College London), Dr Ermioni Xanthopoulou (Brunel). Find out more about the (B)OrderS Book Forum.
1 December 2022: (B)OrderS Inaugural Lecture: Protecting Refugees without Borders with Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (Oxford/UNSW) and Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary/Barcelona). Watch the recording of the Inaugural Lecture on Protecting Refugees without Borders.
27 September 2022: The (B)OrderS Expert Discussion (co-hosted with the Centre for International Law of the University of Bristol): The Common European Asylum System and the UN Compacts on Refugees and for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration celebrating the launch of the related Handbook for Practitioners with Professor Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary), Dr Kathryn Allinson (Bristol), Dr Nicolette Busuttil (Westminster), Dr Maja Grundler (Royal Holloway), Catherine Woollard (European Council on Refugees and Exile (ECRE)), Dr Madeline Garlick (UNHCR), and Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary). Watch the recording of the launch of the Handbook.
28 June 2022: (B)OrderS Closing Lecture: The EU External Border as a Site of Preventive Injustice with Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas (Liverpool) and Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary). Watch the recording of The EU External Border as a Site of Preventive Injustice.
15 June 2022: (B)OrderS Expert Discussion (co-hosted by CONREP Network and the EUI Migration Policy Centre): Externalisation through Privatisation: The Role of Non-State Actors in Border Enforcement and Asylum Exclusion with Dr Tamara Tubakovic (Warwick), Dr Federica Infantino (EUI), Dr Amy Nethery (Deakin), Dr Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (Warwick), and Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary). Watch the recording of the Expert Discussion on Externalisation through Privatisation.
8 June 2022: (B)OrderS Book Forum: The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities with Dr Stephanie Motz (Lucerne), Professor Merris Amos (Queen Mary), Professor Delia Ferri (Maynooth), Professor Michelle Foster (Melbourne), and Dr Nicolette Busuttil (Queen Mary). Watch the recording of the Book Forum on The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities.
6 June 2022: (B)OrderS Masterclass: Refugees and Decent Work with Professor Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law School) and Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary). Watch the recording of the (B)OrderS Masterclass on Refugees and Decent Work.
16 May 2022: Thematic Launch of the Oxford Handbook on International Refugee Law / (B)OrderS Workshop on Access to International Protection (co-hosted by Hertie Centre for Fundamental Rights and iCourts) with Professor Cathryn Costello (Hertie/Oxford), Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Copenhagen), Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary), Dr Daniel Ghezelbash (Macquarie), Dr Alice Nah (York), and Dr Benjamin Ng’aru (East African Centre for Forced Migration). Watch the recording of the Thematic Launch and (B)OrderS Workshop.