All Souls Seminar Series - 2024-25

The All Souls Seminars occur every two weeks during term. They are a vital part of the Centre’s intellectual culture and an opportunity for staff and students to engage first hand with new work from the best criminologists from around the world. Since the pandemic we have been recording most of the presentations and making them available on YouTube; where possible we also invite alumni and members of the public to attend either in person or online.  Please see below this year's series. You will also find links to recent recordings.

All seminars (except week 6 Trinity term) will take place in Wharton Room, All Souls College, 15:30pm – 17:00pm.  Refreshments will be available from 15:00pm.

Registration is required for all hybrid events & can be accessed via our events webpage.

Michaelmas Term:

Week 1, 17th October Tilman Schwarze, University of Glasgow - Space, Crime, and the City: Henri Lefebvre and Criminological Research 

Week 3, 31st October Valeria Vegh Weis, University of Buenos Aires & University of Konstanz, Germany - Southering Lawfare: Indicators of the judicialisation and criminalisation of progressive politics in Latin America

Week 5, 14th November Marion Vannier, University of Manchester  - Punishing Old Age. Please note this will be in person only (not hybrid) & will take place in the Antechapel at All Souls College

Week 7, 28th November Roxana Willis, London School of Economics - Racist Offences and Questions of Moral Motivation

Hilary Term

Week 1, 23rd January Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford -Book Launch- Supply Chain Justice: the logistics of British Border Control. Discussants – Vanesa Barker, University of Stockholm and Hindpal Bhui, University of Oxford

Week 3, 6th February Magda Boutros, Sciences-Po, Paris - "Challenging the epistemic power of the police: How activists produce knowledge about policing and race in France"

Week 5, 20th February Bethan Loftus, University of Bangor, Martina Feilzer, University of Bangor and Benjamin Goold, University of British Columbia -  Being Watched: The Aftermath of Covert Policing

Week 7, 6th March William Schabas, University of Middlesex - 'Genocide, the crime of crimes'

Trinity Term

Week 1, 1st May Shazia Choudry, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford - 'Paying attention to Patriarchy – ‘Patriarchal Forestalling’ and Systemic Injustice for Victims of Domestic Abuse in India.'

Week 2, 8th May Annual Roger Hood Lecture 17:00-18:30pm (English Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building) Didier Fassin, Collège de France and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton - Punishing the Innocent The Politics of Violence in Border Policing

Week 5, 29th May - Julie Berg, University of Glasgow - Assemblages of care: Criminological pathways to addressing everyday climate harmscapes 

Week 6, 5th June - Shaun L. Gabbidon, School of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg - Shopping Under Suspicion: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Profiling in American and Canadian Retailers

Please note there is no event in week 3 & week 6 of Trinity term will be at the slightly earlier time of 15:00-16:30pm, Wharton room (with refreshments available from 14:30pm)