GCSJ Seminars

Promoting a variety of research topics within the disciplines covered under the centre. The Research Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) Seminar Series highlights the breadth of research across the centre’s disciplines, bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore pressing global challenges.  

Covering topics such as social justice, inequality, sustainability, and migration, the seminars provide a space for sharing new research, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, and encouraging critical discussion across diverse perspectives.

GCSJ seminar series: Online migration seminar with Professor Janine Dahinden

Professor Janine Dahinden will be critically reflecting on the notion of migration drawing on her work on de-migranticization technologies. The online seminar is organised by OU Migration, Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) and Open Psychology Research Centre. The seminar will be chaired by Professor Umut Erel, Director of the Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice.

GCSJ seminar series: Nightmarch: in conversation with Professor Alpa Shah

In this session we have the pleasure of speaking to Alpa Shah, Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics and Political Science, who will provide an insight into her critically acclaimed and award-winning book, Nightmarch.

GCSJ seminar series: Interrogating the 'soft skills' of street market traders

In this talk Professor Sophie Watson (Sociology) discuss, first, the notion of skill, and then then explore skills among a group that are not typically imagined as particularly skilled: market traders to illustrate that a job which seemingly anyone can do requires a complexity of know-how, if the trader is to be commercially successful.

GCSJ seminar series: The twice migrated Gujarati women of west London: financialization and pensions

In this presentation, Prof Pauline Gleadle and Dr Neeta Shah talk about their research focussing on a group of older Gujarati women aged 60-70+, whom we describe using as Twice Migrated.

GCSJ seminar series: Transnational activism and the making of moral publics

In this talk, Dr Paul-Francois Tremlett (Religious Studies) explores efforts to generate affective and contagious publics by two organisations which campaign on human rights in the Philippines: the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP-UK) and IBON International.