19 March 2026 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM GMT/ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST (China)/11:00 – 2:00 PM CET Online via Zoom: Zoom Meeting Link: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93889348962?pwd=cFSsn9rTDIFaMgaVs0QDEt7eHi2jKP.1 Meeting ID: 938 8934 8962 Passcode: T15RV29* The online writing retreats are intended as a place for those conducting research with international students to find community and solidarityContinue reading "RIS Writing Retreat"
Register here This panel considers the impacts of economic crises (such as inflation and unequal currency exchanges) on international students, including their abilities to identify and secure safe and affordable housing, food, and other necessities for living. Led by Ryan Allen, with presentations by: Edward Zhang Abigail Ehidiamen M Zulqurnain Ul Haq Qazi More detailsContinue reading "Panel: Economic and infrastructural pressures encountered by international students"
Register here This panel centres international students as activists, alongside their contributions to civil society, protest, and political or social activism. Led by Shanshan Jiang-Brittan, with presentations by: Yvonne Zhang Tatiana Mednikova Zhuo Wang Full details and speaker abstracts here
Register here This symposium brings together four complementary studies to explore how international students navigate the multidimensional instabilities of the contemporary polycrisis—linguistic, political, epistemic, material, and affective—and how these disruptions shape identity, agency, and wellbeing. Led by Nashid Nigar, with additional presentations from: Xingxing Yu Sandeep Khattri and Lynette Pretorius Faiqah Real More details andContinue reading "Panel: Navigating polycrisis through linguistic, epistemic, political and relational instability in international student life"
Register here This panel focuses on how the framings and representations of international students are increasingly politicized, both by national governments and within individual institutions or by the media. Led by Jenna Mittelmeier, with presentations by: Isaac Thornton Shuang Gao Andreas Gkolfinopoulos Aisling Tiernan More details and panel abstracts here
Register here This panel considers the active positioning of international students in epistemic production, including their engagement within colonial knowledge hierarchies. This is set against a backdrop of challenging ‘post-truth’ environments where information is mediated through multiple social media spaces and often subject to multiple propaganda efforts or politicizations. It considers how international students canContinue reading "Panel: International students and epistemic or knowledge production crises"
28 May 2026 6:00 – 9:00 AM PDT / 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT / 3:00 – 6:00 PM CEST / 2:00 – 5:00 PM BST Online via Zoom: Zoom Meeting Link: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93889348962?pwd=cFSsn9rTDIFaMgaVs0QDEt7eHi2jKP.1 Meeting ID: 938 8934 8962 Passcode: T15RV29* The online writing retreats are intended as a place for those conducting research withContinue reading "RIS Writing Retreat"
Register here This panel brings together four interconnected interventions that reposition queer international students as central theorists and witnesses of our current global “polycrisis.” Collectively, the presentations argue that the overlapping crises of migration governance, geopolitical instability, neoliberal international education, and resurgent heteronormativity must be understood not as abstract global conditions but as lived, embodied,Continue reading "Panel: Queer international students in times of polycrisis"
Register here This panel considers the sustainability of large-scale student mobility and its impacts on the environment, such as via the emission productions of international travel, local impacts on land and transportation, or environmental implications of technologies (including AI). Led by Anne Campbell, with additional presentations by: Pii-Tuulia Nikula Giorgio Di Pietro More details andContinue reading "Panel: Sustainabilities and international student mobility"
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