Molly Gilmour has been invited to speak about issues of race, immigration, humanitarian aid, and public health at conferences, colleges and universities, secondary schools, NGOs and cultural organizations.
Istanbul, Türkiye
15- 17 October 2025
Panel: Ethical Exits and Future Trajectories: Reimagining Closure, Localisation and Humanitarian Practice
Humanitarian action is defined by urgency, mobility, and impermanence. Projects are designed to be temporary responses to crisis—rapidly deployed and, when the moment passes, just as rapidly withdrawn. Yet the process of exit remains one of the most ethically and politically fraught aspects of humanitarian engagement. This panel seeks to interrogate what it means to leave responsibly in humanitarian practice, and explore how to envisage a meaningful future of care. We invite papers that critically examine exit as a site of tension between localisation agendas, global policy, donor and organisational priorities, and lived realities on the ground. In doing so, the panel aims to open up new conversations about responsibility, accountability, and reimagining futures of care at the end of humanitarian presence—not just its beginning.
Venue: International Humanitarian Studies Association; 15-17 October in Istanbul
Glasgow, Scotland
24th June 2025
Delivering Health in a Region on the Move: Health Systems and Forced Migration in the Middle East
We invite researchers and practitioners to explore the complex intersections of fragile health systems and forced displacement in the Middle East.
We will explore the complex intersection of fragile health systems and forced displacement in the Middle East - drawing on experiences from the region. Featuring presentations by Dr Ibrahim Bou-Orm – Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Social Sciences & Professor Fouad M.Fouad – Professor in Social Sciences and Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The session includes an open roundtable discussion, examining the challenges and strategies of delivering healthcare in fragile contexts of forced migration. An in-person opportunity for engaged dialogue and interdisciplinary exchange.
Organised by: The Peaceful, Secure & Empowered Societies Interdisciplinary Research Theme, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. Asli Ozcelik Olcay & Molly Gilmour, PhD
Venue: Room 207, University of Glasgow, 10 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ | 15:30–17:00 BST
Glasgow, Scotland & Online
27th March 2025
2024/25 GRAMNet Seminar Series
GRAMnet brings together researchers and practitioners, NGOs and policy makers working with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. In this seminar, I will be presenting my article ‘Navigating Ethical Tensions in Humanitarian Medicine’. I will be joined by Dan Fisher for his book launch: ‘Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe’
Venue: 7 Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow
Taipei, Taiwan, & Online
26th February 2025
RightsCon ‘25
Each year, RightsCon convenes business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology.
I will be co-facilitating a session ‘Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural Heritage as an Act of Resistance: Connecting Palestine to EGOV’ taking place Wednesday, February 26 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (Taipei time) both in person and online. RightsCon maintains an inclusive ticket discount policy: taking the stance that the cost of a ticket should never present a barrier to participation. You are welcome to select whichever discount level best meets your needs