The third event in the Bauman Memorial Conversations series, Thinking Displacement, brings together David Herd ( 'brings together David Herd, author of Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World (OUP), and Griselda Pollock for a dialogue on voice, rights, displacement, and the ‘concentrationary universe’. Reserve a place here. Drawing on work from his forthcoming book, David Herd will...
The Bauman Institute was delighted to host the second event in our online Bauman Memorial Conversations series, Thinking Displacement, with an intervention by Professor Becky Taylor, esteemed historian of the relationship between the British state and marginalised peoples and places. The Bauman Memorial Conversations are held in honour of Janina Bauman, whose own writings on displacement, marginality and...
Join us for a roundtable, jointly hosted with the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies and the Centre for Jewish Studies. The roundtable discussion will respond to the travelling exhibition Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: People, Places, Impressions (1939–1988). This richly researched exhibition explores the exile, intellectual networks and British encounters of Elias...
The Bauman Institute was delighted to launch the first event in our online Bauman Memorial Conversations series, Thinking Displacement, with a dialogue between two acclaimed writers and researchers whose recent books confront the entanglements of environmental harm and displacement. Displaced Ecologies brings together Alice Mah, author of Red Pockets (Penguin, 2025), and Darya Tsymbalyuk, author...
