The Global Migration Center is pleased to invite you to its new event series, ‘Migration Talks’. This series of lectures has been designed to allow guest speakers from a variety of disciplines to present their works on the topic of migration and engage in discussion with the broader Graduate Institute community. This represents a unique opportunity for students, doctoral candidates, and researchers to network, discuss research, and foster interdisciplinary intellectual engagements over the crucial topic of migration in its multiple nuances.

About the speaker

Prof. Elizabeth Buettner has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam since 2014. Her publications include ‘Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India’ (Oxford University Press, 2004), ‘Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture’ (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and many book chapters and articles, most recently in Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2021) and in The Cambridge History of Global Migrations (2023). She also co-edited ‘Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors, and Practices in and beyond Europe’ (Routledge, 2021) as part of the Horizon 2020 ‘ECHOES’ consortium project that explored ‘European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities’, and is now pursuing further research on overlapping histories of European migration and empire during and after the decolonization era.