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20 January, 2026 (Tuesday) 14:00 PM UK Time (time zone converter) Online Via Zoom (registration required) This session is grounded in a doctoral research examining the multiple and multi-dimensional transitions experienced by Pakistani students and their significant others across three temporal arcs: pre-departure, during study in the UK, and post-return. It foregrounds how families and closeContinue reading "The Ones Who Stay Behind: Transitions of Significant Others in International Student Mobility"

The online writing retreats are intended as a place for those conducting research with international students to find community and solidarity in writing. Anyone is welcome to join, including scholars at all career levels and based in any location. Attendees are welcome to come and go as they need. Online via Zoom: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93889348962?pwd=cFSsn9rTDIFaMgaVs0QDEt7eHi2jKP.1 Meeting ID: 938Continue reading "RIS Writing Retreat"

Register here  This panel examines how inequalities shape the material realities for different groups of international students. Through physical bodies, spaces, and material assemblages (technologies, personal items, everyday objects, furniture, etc.), global higher education is mediated and uneven outcomes are created. These material dimensions are often sidelined or overlooked in common explorations of international students’Continue reading "Panel: Materialities and material injustices in international students’ mobilities"

Register here  This panel focuses on the ways that the presence of international students is becoming increasingly politicized in many common host countries, particularly through visa restrictions, media or politicalContinue reading "Panel: Politics of immigration: International students and bordering"

Register here  This webinar focuses on the pressures and limitations faced by international students regarding their free speech, including the extent to which their visa status influences their abilities to speak freely. Led by Jenna Mittelmeier with presentations from: Samantha Nissen Melissa Whatley, Santiago Castiello Gutierrez, Shinji Katsumoto, and Chris Marsciano Alaa Abdelghaffar More detailsContinue reading "Panel: Pressures and limitations on international students’ free speech"

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: 938Continue 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 affordableContinue 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 ZhangContinue reading "Panel: International students’ perspectives on activism and free speech"

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 disruptionsContinue 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. LedContinue reading "Panel: Politicised framings and representations of international students"

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’Continue 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 Team:Continue reading "RIS Writing Retreat"