Earlier this month, a Museum of Liverpool project raised awareness on the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of Syrian refugees residing in the UK. Showing how ICH can be a driver for post-conflict reconciliation in exile shorturl.at/hsxzI #heritage #Refugees #museum

By its connections with arms companies, our University is complicit in political violence around the world, a direct reason for the forced migration of millions. Let's demand to Demilitarise Cambridge on 1/11, 12pm. fb.me/e/ShjkN7Ug. Our statement: cammigsoc.wixsite.com/cammigsoc/publ…

12pm Tomorrow we are welcoming Rachael Kei Kawasaki talking on: "Network Analysis of Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants across Regions" Hope to see lots of you there in S2 ARB for an interesting talk and discussion! More info: fb.me/e/2GpCOeXGF

Thanks for Rachael Kei Kawasaki for her talk this week! A great, interesting event!

Count down to the soft launch on Aug.15 of The Cambridge Review of Movement and Risk. ROMR, an interdisciplinary graduate-led journal, highlights the interconnected flows of objects, bodies and data. How can we recognize, prepare and mitigate for risks associated with such flows?

Our first issue of the Cambridge Review of Movement and Risk (ROMR) is online: cambridgemigsoc.co.uk/romr. Come meet some of the authors and artists at the soft launch on Aug 15! And thank you to our amazing partners and supporting galleries @CentreGHuM Kettle's Yard Hales Gallery

Author spotlight! Dorien Braam, PhD student, Veterinary Medicine “If worldwide COVID-19 policy and health responses continue to rely on uncontextualized 'science-based' risk assessments, they...risk exacerbating local socio-economic and health inequalities.”#ROMR Launching 15Aug

#ROAM Contributing author David Durand-Delacre @DDelacre, PhD candidate Cambridge Geography, challenges ‘common sense’ statements about #climatemobilities and claims for inclusion of communities implicated by climate change in research practice. Read here: shorturl.at/BJK27

How are laws complicit in endangering the people they aim to protect? asks Anna Forringer-Beal @AForringerBeal PhD candidate CambridgeGender @ bsky.social addressing how modern slavery prevention policies created vulnerability and alienated migrants into exploitative situations. More in #ROMR

Countdown for the soft-launching of the Cambridge Review of Movement and Risk on 15.Aug! #ROMR, pronounced ‘Roamer’, originally included the hashtag #ROAM (you will see it around!) and was conceived in 2021 by Ashley Mehra Ashley Mehra and Mariana Pereira Mariana P.L.Pereira two CMS alumna

Melissa Gatter Melissa Gatter: "Displacement is... often a study of space. But power permeates through temporal politics just as much as it flows through spatial frontiers..." Analyse time and space together for a more complete picture. Launching #ROMR Aug15. cambridgemigsoc.co.uk/romr

Petra Molnar Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) discusses the implications of migrant ‘technosolutionism’. "It is incumbent upon us to pay close attention to how the rhetoric around migration and disease is weaponized by those in power and what types of linkages we take as necessities" #ROMR Aug.15!

#ROMR Contributing author Julius Rogenhofer Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer challenges static conceptions of citizenship and calls for open-ended participatory processes that continuously redefine the boundaries of human rights. “...I suggest theorising laws as social struggles over meaning...”

#ROMR Beja Protner, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, reviews Behrouz Boochani’s ‘No Friend but the Mountains’ set in the Manus Island detention centre."Instances of waiting & the reality of indefinite detention engender experiences of purposelessness and existential waiting"

#ROMR ‘Lost’ 2017, by Isaam Kourbaj issamkourbaj, Artist & Lector in Art, Christ's College University of Cambridge.“Lost deals with the fate of so many Syrians, who attempted to seek refuge in Lesbos, Greece.” Pieces made from children’s clothing, each holding the ghost of its past.

#ROMR Contributing artist Ruth Padel Ruth Padel, Professor of Poetry at King’s College, is an award-winning poet, whose twelve poetry collections have been shortlisted for all the major UK prizes. Soft launch of the Cambridge Review of Movement and Risk on 15. Aug!

@MajaRuznic textile artist and painter. Artwork “Mother and Child (Yellow)”. “The sensation of fleeing Bosnia with my mother and grandparents has never fully left my body, and perhaps my repetitive ode to this archetypal image is my desire to set us free”. #ROMR launches 15.Aug!

Today we spotlight the editorial team behind #ROMR 1st issue! りぱ is founding managing editor, former CMS president & PhD candidate at the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre and Clare Hall researching how diaspora communities use, practice and perform cultural heritage to negotiate identity.

Join us today at 2pm BST for the soft launch of the Cambridge Review of Movement and Risk #ROMR! We will be talking about how the magazine came about and invite the various contributors to share their thoughts! Google Meet: meet.google.com/gpc-vbzr-xxb

Exciting to work with 艾未未 Ai Weiwei for the in-print version of #ROMR bringing together arts and research on mobility and risk!