Deadline extended to Nov 9!

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉 Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif

Putting together a panel for #BISA2026 on grassroots resistance. If you have a paper, get in touch! I'm keen to bring together diverse perspectives and approaches. 📧 DM if you're interested ⏰ Deadline: October 30th @mybisa.bsky.social

Our @mybisa.bsky.social CPD annual workshop will be happening on 1 December, on Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis. You can find the full CfP below and attached – the deadline for expressions of interest is 5 November 2025! @niharikaan.bsky.social

Our @mybisa.bsky.social CPD annual workshop will be happening on 1 December, on Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis. You can find the full CfP below and attached – the deadline for expressions of interest is 5 November 2025! @niharikaan.bsky.social

Just a reminder that we are still looking for abstracts for this panel!

If you're submitting an abstract for this, please do so by Friday. That gives us time before the BISA deadline to read through the papers and then let everyone know so that you can submit your abstract as a single paper if you'd like to.

Call for Papers for #BISA2026! Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation. This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups. Deadline Friday 24 October.

"Race Reports: How universities 'reckon' with their imperial past, and how their investment portfolios say otherwise." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... Excellent - by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE. Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Honoured to be giving the keynote speech tomorrow (25 Apr) at the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference at St Andrews. I'll be speaking about our intellectual and ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide @standrewsir.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social

Are you listening to Popular Cradle? New episode about the logistics giant Maersk, which has shipped millions of pounds of military cargo to israel over the course of the genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/3rIR...

my new article that analyses the colonial logics and underpinnings of militarisation, and builds a critique of liberal feminist IR analyses and research agendas is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.

International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague: docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...

What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

CALL FOR PAPERS (In)Justice and The Global 22nd-23rd May 2025 The 13th Graduate Conference in International Political Theory at St. Andrews. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Keynote Speakers: David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social Jason Ralph @jasonralph.bsky.social

I passed my viva earlier this week! Thank you to Prof Gurch Sanghera and to Prof Richard Jackson for the generous engagement & a stimulating viva experience! I’m so grateful to @jasminekgani.bsky.social & @rkrystalli.bsky.social for being the best supervisory team - and to everyone at St Andrews IR!

This evening we have the CPDWG roundtable on anti-imperial feminist architectures of resistance with Dilar Dirik and Afaf Jabiri #bisacpd24 @niharikaan.bsky.social @sarahgharib.bsky.social

The afternoon session at #bisacpd24 is on ‘how would you teach Palestine?’ led by charity Makan. Currently we are discussing gaps in education on Palestine. @sarahgharib.bsky.social @niharikaan.bsky.social

Session 2 has begun at #bisacpd24 and is chaired by the wonderfully passionate @jasminekgani.bsky.social We’re discussing the imaginaries of the anti colonial and the anti imperial. @uniwestminster.bsky.social @stoffelalex.bsky.social

After small group discussions some common themes were: -body as an archive of pain -silencing by institutions -definitions of feminism and its relationship to facism #bisacpd24 @niharikaan.bsky.social

Session 1 is on the tools that anti-imperial feminist, queer/trans and anti-racist thinking offer us to make sense of the present global moment. There are several 5-min provocations before a group discussion #bisacpd24

What a room of fantastic scholars. Introductions done so we’ll soon be moving on to the first session chaired by @niharikaan.bsky.social #bisacpd24

Is live Bluesky a thing? It is now! We’ll be bringing you updates from today’s Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial WG events in London all day today! Starting now with intros from conveners Sarah, @niharikaan.bsky.social and Catherine #bisacpd24 @uniwestminster.bsky.social

Why enter @mybisa.bsky.social CPD ECR paper prize? 1. A great group of supportive scholars 2: Winners receive pre-submission mentorship @risjnl.bsky.social Here's what 2023 winner Christopher Choong Weng Wai had to say about it, with former EIC Martin Coward www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4zw...

There is still time to submit for the @mybisa.bsky.social CPD Paper Prize for ECRs! Check out this interview with/ the '23 winner & be sure to read now published his article. Interview ➡️ buff.ly/3YYNAvP Paper ➡️ buff.ly/4hoSTNk Apply ➡️ buff.ly/4fqsfSs

London friends! I'm giving two talks about my book, Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question, next week. Both are free and it would be lovely to see you! Wed, Nov 27, 5 PM, Queen Mary: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-victi... Thur, Nov 28, 5:30 PM, UCL: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-victi...

Join us for the public roundtable on 'Anti-imperial Feminist Architectures of Resistance' with Dr Afaf Jabiri and Dr Dilar Dirik, as part of @mybisa.bsky.social CPD's 11th annual workshop. 5 December 2024 5.30PM-7PM University of Westminster, London, UK Register here: t.co/44msBmKr27

Join us for the public roundtable on 'Anti-imperial Feminist Architectures of Resistance' with Dr Afaf Jabiri and Dr Dilar Dirik, as part of @mybisa.bsky.social CPD's 11th annual workshop. 5 December 2024 5.30PM-7PM University of Westminster, London, UK Register here: t.co/44msBmKr27

🚨 Deadline Extended!!🚨 There is still time to apply for the RIS and Bisa CPD Paper Prize for early career researchers!! Please consider applying to this fantastic opportunity. ⏱️ NEW Deadline 7 December 📄 Apply here 👉 buff.ly/4fqsfSs @mybisa.bsky.social

Graduate students & ECRs writing on (anti)colonialism, race, indingenaiety, racial capitalism: do consider submitting your work for the CPD (colonial-postcolonial-decolonial) paper prize 👇

It's critical to read about this & oppose it. The "terrorism" label is a political weapon for oppressing Palestinians, Muslims, and/or people of color. That's what it was designed for within US legal regimes. There is no way to reform or expand the label that undoes its fundamental colonial nature.

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.com

If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

"The past year has demonstrated a consensus across the US political spectrum around the notion that Palestinians are dispensable. Their disagreement is whether it should be a slow, innocuous demise or a rapid one." jasminekgani.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/u....

⭐New article⭐   Two parts Charles Mills adaptation, one part abolition, one part rage: “Whiteness as Expertise in Studies of the Far Right.” (It's open access!)   I ask: what explains backlash to taking white supremacist violence seriously? 1/

Very pleased that the first article from my & @rmkhan.bsky.social special issue for CSoT on Abolition, Decoloniality, & Criticality is out! In it, @annameier.bsky.social asks what backlash against taking white supremacist violence seriously tells us about whiteness in the field of ‘terrorism’.

I'm looking for research participants! Please pass on if you can 🙂 @jasminekgani.bsky.social @fmccallumguiney.bsky.social

A pediatrician’s two weeks inside a hospital in Gaza www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Join us for the next Webinar organised by Centre for Syria Studies webinar & St Andrews School of IR: - GAZA & SYRIA: Connected Histories 30 Nov. Registration details below 👇

The Harvard Law Review was supposed to run a piece by Palestinian lawyer Rabea Eghbariah about the war on Gaza. But HLR leadership took the unprecedented step of blocking its publication. Today, @thenation.com is sharing the piece the HLR didn't want you to read. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

The Frick museum is postponing an Islamic art exhibition “over fears it would appear ‘insensitive’ or ‘traumatic’ amid Gaza war” I really hope those looking to ban “hate speech” are paying attention. Seriously, whose speech do you think would be first up on the chopping block?? t.co/i00Apcl4V6

@NBCNews: “Almost every child in the Gaza Strip has been exposed to deeply distressing events,” UNICEF says. 2,704 children have been killed since Israel began its bombardment on Gaza, Palestinian health officials say. Hundreds more may be trapped in rubble. https://t.co/kEkXLCuPJW

The attack is not only on Gaza: "More Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in the past few weeks than in any similar period in at least the past 15 years" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

'Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out.' Israel still blocking humanitarian supplies. Starvation of a civilian population (incl. withholding essential commodities for survival, like fuel) breaches the Geneva Conventions.

October 28, an amazing group of Palestinians. Diana Buttu, Noura Erekat, Ahmed Eldin, Tareq Baconi, Isabella Hamad.