14:30
London School of Economics
November 20
In-person public event (Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)
Thursday 20 November 2025 6.30pm - 8pmThis public event explores how the afterlives of empire continue to shape migration regimes, bordering practices, and ideas of national belonging.It brings together educators, activists, and organisers to examine how colonial logics underpin contemporary systems of mobility control, and how these are resisted in lived experience and political advocacy. Like other events in the Reckoning with Empire series, it builds toward the 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, opening space to consider how reparations and historical justice must address displacement and mobility.Meet our speakersZrinka Bralo is Chief Executive of Migrants Organise – a community organising platform for migrants and refugees acting for justice. Zrinka is a refugee from Sarajevo (Bosnia), where she was a journalist and where she worked with leading war correspondents during the siege in the 90’s.Boucka Koffi is the Chair of the Voice of the Voiceless Immigration Detainees in Yorkshire (VVIDY). Originally from Côte d’Ivoire, he is a deeply committed Pan-Afrikanist dedicated to the decolonisation of education and the advancement of indigenous scholar-activism. Boucka works closely with community educators - particularly within his own Akan communities in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, as well as across the diaspora - to build grassroots educational alternatives. He is a founding organiser of the Akwansranimdie Communiversity, an indigenous Akan community-led institution grounded in self-determination, cultural renewal, and decolonial learning.Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, as well as Co-Director of the Migration Research Group. She is a political sociologist whose research focuses on borders, human rights, policy-making, and the legacies of colonialism. A central theme in her work has been how the legacies of 500 years of European colonialism continue to shape the contemporary moment, particularly in Britain.ChairAsha Herten-Crabb is IRD Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE. 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