Tugba Basaran

Dr Tugba Basaran

MA MSc PhD

Dr Tugba Basaran serves as the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. Her expertise is international relations - in research and in practice.

Tugba Basaran

Dr Basaran held visiting positions at Harvard Law, Princeton, Sciences-Po and the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton). She also held tenure at the University of Kent. Her expertise of international studies was moulded not only through research, but equally through residency and work in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.

Her research is located at the intersection of politics, law and society, examining global practices of governance. Her research is, amongst others, on legal borders and geographies, claims to extra-territoriality and the production of indifference, law’s distinctions between liberal and illiberal and tensions between state and empire. She is author of the monograph ‘Security, Law and Borders: At the Limit of Liberties’. In her research, she seeks to extrapolate past and present formations of governance, prompting queries on law’s subjectivities, space and time, in an effort to reimagine politics, the way we govern and are governed, and to question established political, legal and social theories.

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Art Exhibition: 'Images and Other Conversations'

22/08/2026 at 10.00

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'Images and Other Conversations', featuring work by artists Suleman Aqeel Khilji and Charlotte Winifred Guérard, winners of the Wolfson Royal Academy Schools Graduate Prize.

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Wolfson College Sculpture Trail: Richard Bray

22/08/2026 at 10.00

Wolfson College is delighted to showcase the work of acclaimed Cambridgeshire-based artist and sculptor, Richard Bray MRSS. 

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Wolfson In Zurich 2026

03/09/2026 at 19.00

Join us for summer drinks with the Wolfson community in Zurich.

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Open Cambridge - Tree Trail

11/09/2026 at 10.00

A self-guided Tree Trail taking you through the beautiful and varied gardens of Wolfson College.

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Virtual Open Evening: Graduate Course in Medicine

17/09/2026 at 18.00

Join the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine team for an online open evening.

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