Wandering throughout lives: Addressing intersectional trajectories of torture and torturous violence in asylum regimes
5:30pm - 7:30pm /
Wednesday 30th April 2025
/ Venue: Ground floor events space School of Law & Social Justice
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
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Eleanor Rathbone Social Justice Public Lecture Series
Our Eleanor Rathbone Social Justice Public Lectures are a long-standing annual public lecture series hosted by the Department.
Speaker: Victoria Canning, Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
Discussant: Leona Vaughn, Derby Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
How far does the UN Convention Against Torture reflect intersectional and gendered experiences of severe violence? What is the relationship between bordering and torture? And what can be done to collaboratively address the impacts of punitive asylum regimes on refugee survivors in Northern Europe?This public lecture discusses the impact that increasingly punitive border practices have on people seeking asylum, and the ways in which these processes both compound trauma and facilitate social and emotional harm for survivors of torture and torturous violence. Drawing on the findings from five key projects undertaken over fifteen years, it highlights the impacts of everyday bordering and encourages collaborative discussion on intersectionally addressing the barriers to support in the aftermath of violence.
Speaker Bio:
Victoria Canning is Professor of Criminology and director of the Harm, Crime and Criminalisation Research Centre; Associate Director of Oxford Border Criminologies; co-chair of Statewatch EU; and co-editor of the Emerald Activist Criminology series. She has authored and edited seven books, including Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System (2017), From Social Harm to Zemiology (2021, with Steve Tombs) and Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture (2023). She has spent almost two decades working on the rights of women seeking asylum, specifically on support for survivors of sexual violence and torture with NGOs and migrant rights organisations.
Our Eleanor Rathbone Social Justice Public Lectures are a long-standing annual public lecture series hosted by the Department.
Speaker: Victoria Canning, Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
Discussant: Leona Vaughn, Derby Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
How far does the UN Convention Against Torture reflect intersectional and gendered experiences of severe violence? What is the relationship between bordering and torture? And what can be done to collaboratively address the impacts of punitive asylum regimes on refugee survivors in Northern Europe?This public lecture discusses the impact that increasingly punitive border practices have on people seeking asylum, and the ways in which these processes both compound trauma and facilitate social and emotional harm for survivors of torture and torturous violence. Drawing on the findings from five key projects undertaken over fifteen years, it highlights the impacts of everyday bordering and encourages collaborative discussion on intersectionally addressing the barriers to support in the aftermath of violence.
Speaker Bio:
Victoria Canning is Professor of Criminology and director of the Harm, Crime and Criminalisation Research Centre; Associate Director of Oxford Border Criminologies; co-chair of Statewatch EU; and co-editor of the Emerald Activist Criminology series. She has authored and edited seven books, including Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System (2017), From Social Harm to Zemiology (2021, with Steve Tombs) and Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture (2023). She has spent almost two decades working on the rights of women seeking asylum, specifically on support for survivors of sexual violence and torture with NGOs and migrant rights organisations.