SPAIS Annual/Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture 2024 6 March 2024, 4.00 PM - 6 March 2024, 5.30 PM Border Economies / Capitalist Imaginaries, Victoria Hattam (Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research, New York/Leverhulme Visiting Professor) Drawing on research along the U.S.- Mexico border, Hattam traces global production networks in the Rio Grande Valley to discuss how the contradictory demands of border walls and supply chains co-exist.

Food Justice and the Sea: An artistic exploration and critical discussion of livelihoods and the sea 12 March 2024, 1.11 PM - 23 March 2024, 5.00 PM SPARKS Bristol, a community hub now in the old Marks and Spencer Building, 78 Broadmead BS1 3DS

I Know What I Know: The Story of Graceland told by Professor Jason Arday 21 November 2024, 5.00 PM - 21 November 2024, 7.15 PM Join Jason Arday, Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, for an insightful exploration of Paul Simon’s most controversial album and relationship to South Africa’s Apartheid.  Humanities Lecture Theatre Arts Complex 7 Woodland Road Clifton Bristol BS8 1TB

Crime Day: Exploring Root Causes and Solutions to Organised Crime 8 November 2024, 10.00 AM - 8 November 2024, 2.30 PM School of Education 35 Berkeley Square Bristol BS8 1JA