Welcome back to a new term at Lancaster University.  There are many interesting events coming up in the next few weeks.  Please note that, due to Covid, most of our events will continue to be online for now

• MRC member Michaela Benson, Professor of Public Sociology, is launching her new podcast on 21 October from 4-5.30; you can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-about-citizenship-in-global-britain-tickets-186172345497.
• On, Monday 25 October from 5-6.30pm, CASEI are hosting the book launch for Unfree: migrant domestic workers in Arab states by Professor Rhacel Parrenas.  You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-unfree-by-professor-rhacel-salazar-parrenas-tickets-186128594637.
• The first MRC Reading Group will take place online 8 November 1-2pm.  We will be reading Martina Tazzioli &Maurice Stierl, “We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.” Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19, International Political Sociology, 2021;,  https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab023.   
  Please email mrg@lancaster.ac.uk for the MS Teams link.
• Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment’s November webinar on Covid, Access to Public Health, and the Hostile Environment will take place at 5pm on 8 November.  Speakers include MRC member Gwyneth Lonergan, Arianne Shahvisi from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and Jess Potter and Isabel Meier from Docs Not Cops.  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covid-19-access-to-public-health-and-the-hostile-environment-tickets-189763938047