Migrations projects & events

Lecture, Research

Global responsibility: The architect's autobiography in the shadow of Hiroshima

6:00pm, 26 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Shiben Banerji tracks the figure of the migrant in the American architect Marion Mahony’s unpublished memoir, The Magic of America. Mahony composed the text between 1938 and 1949, in the twilight of her five-decade-long career across the United State...

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Lecture, Research

Filmmaking on the Border

5:30pm, 17 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join artist Eleonore de Montesquiou for an evening of film screenings and conversation on the complexities of filmmaking on the border. Drawing from her own experiences of displacement, Eleonore’s work explores the ambiguities of life on the margins....

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Lecture, Research

Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukranian-Russian case

1:00pm, 16 Oct 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us to celebrate the publication of 'Ambicoloniality and War. The Ukrainian-Russian Case', by Svitlana Biedarieva. The book proposes the new notion of “ambicoloniality” to speak about the current situation when Ukraine has become Russia's territo...

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Research, Talks

(Dis)integration and Resistance: Contemporary Art of the Yugoslav Diaspora

5:00pm, 7 May 2025

Join Dr Jasmina Tumbas for this lecture examining Yugoslav diasporic contemporary art from the 1990s to today through the lens of queer and feminist

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Research

From 3rd Floor Group to Bunker: The Complex History of Abstraction in Late Soviet Armenia, through the Sergei Djavadian Collection

5:00pm, 11 Mar 2025

Join Dr Choghakate Kazarian for this talk examining the early years of the art collection of Sergei Djavadian, focused on abstract and conceptual works by key members of the famous 3rd Floor group, considered the first movement of contemporary art in...

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Research

Film premiere: Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer

5:30pm, 7 Mar 2025

Join director Dr Sigrid Faltin for the London premiere of her documentary "Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer", which delves into the artistic practice and enduring legacy of a remarkable pioneer. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the dire...

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Research

Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women

5:00pm, 18 Nov 2024

Dr Rebecka Jinks joins us to share her experience of researching and curating the ground-breaking exhibition 'Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women' at the Wiener Holocaust Library

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Research

Modernism in Ukraine: Local Contexts, Intercultural Encounters, Transnational Exchanges

10:30am, 4 Oct 2024

Join us for this two-day international conference bringing together established and emerging scholars for a first-ever discussion dedicated exclusively to Ukraine’s visual culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be held outside Ukra...

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