** Apologies for cross postings ** Dear all, This is to announce the forthcoming Seminar Series on Asylum in Europe hosted by the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London during the current academic year 2015/16. The first session on access to international protection will take place on Friday, 23 October 2015, from 6 pm at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London). All details are below, attached and also available at: http://www.sas.ac.uk/rli/whats-on Attendance is free, but registration recommended: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/refugee-law-initiative-university-of-london-3554876155 Thank you for spreading the word! Looking forward to seeing you there, Violeta Moreno-Lax PROGRAMME Access to Protection in Europe: Pre-emptive Humanitarianism and the "Rescue without Protection" Paradigm Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary University of London 23 October 2014, 6.00pm | L103/104, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Safety Zones in Countries of Origin: A Violation of International Law? Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne, University of Sheffield 06 November 2014, 6.00 pm | L103/104, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Running Sideways – Has Europe Overdone Distancing Itself from the Geneva Refugee Convention? Julian Lehmann, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) 2 December 2015, 6.00 pm | L103/104, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered Dr Vladislava Stoyanova, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden 19 January 2016, 6.00 pm | Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Terrorism and Exclusion from Refugee Status in the UK: Asylum Seekers Suspected of Serious Criminality Dr Sarah Singer, Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study 29 February 2016, 6.00pm | Conference Room, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies If the stars align: EU law, policy and practice on solidarity and responsibility-sharing for asylum and refugee protection Madeline Garlick, Radboud University, The Netherlands 4 February 2016, 6.00 pm | Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU asylum law and disabled refugees – is the UK reservation to the CRPD in the context of asylum law redundant? Stephanie Motz, University of Lucerne 16 March 2016, 6.00pm | Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies “Bottom-up” harmonization in the EU asylum policy: the case of EASO Lilian Tsourdi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Law and Institute for European Studies 4 May 2016, 6.00pm | L103/104, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre