We are sorry to learn of the death of Elspeth Probyn, Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at @sydney.edu.au and author of "Eating the Ocean" (2016). Our thoughts are with her family, friends, colleagues and students.

Our 2025 Women's History Month sale ends on March 31! Browse our collection & use code PENN-WHM2025 for 40% off paperbacks and hardcovers and code PENN-WHM2025-E for 50% off ebooks!

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

Author Omer Aijazi will discuss his book ATMOSPHERIC VIOLENCE—an ethnography exploring the lives of people in the militarized, ecologically fragile borderlands of Kashmir—in a virtual event hosted by the Center for South Asian Studies at UC Santa Cruz tomorrow at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET: bit.ly/4bqresW

Announcing our 2025 Women's History Month sale, featuring special discounts on women’s history and studies books published in the past five years! Browse the collection & learn how you can save 40% on paperbacks & hardcovers and 50% on ebooks through 3/31: www.pennpress.org/womens-histo...

Disabled people around the world are disproportionately likely to be murdered by family, partners and/or caretakers. On Disability Day of Mourning, please take a moment to mourn with us disability-memorial.org

And on Tuesday I am so pleased that these incredible scholars will be joining me for a discussion on Fixing Gender. Shepherded, as ever, by the inimitable @mghacademic.bsky.social

I’m kicking off the conference tomorrow by celebrating @mghacademic.bsky.social new book 🤩 with @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @rogermacginty.bsky.social and other fabulous discussants

#Postdoc in Women, Gender and Queer studies, Uni Texas, careers.uh.edu/jobs/visitin...

Excited for my upcoming book launch at LSE in conversation with the brilliant @karinwahlj.bsky.social Rosalind Gill, Goldsmiths, and Radha Hegde, NYU!

Announcing our 2025 Black History Month sale! Browse our collection of African American history and studies books from the past five years, and save 40% on paperbacks and hardcovers and 50% on ebooks! www.pennpress.org/black-histor...

Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“We usually think that victims are powerless and passive: vulnerable individuals or marginalised groups who suffer injustices or trauma. But what does it mean when we hear powerful individuals claiming that they are victims and they do so to gain even more power?” www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

My review of @mghacademic.bsky.social’s wonderful new book, The End of Peacekeeping, is out with Peace & Change: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ebooks are now available on pennpress.org! Read more about this exciting news on our blog (ow.ly/6mkW50ULaRF) and use code PENN-EBOOKS for 45% off all available ebooks from now through January 31!

The British Academy has published a detailed report on the provision of Politics and International Relations in UK universities - well worth a read for those interested in the field @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

It can be difficult to visualize from afar the scale and scope of the violence and damage done in Gaza over the last 15 months. This visual guide helps www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

On the 17th of January 1961, Patrice Lumumba of Congo was brutally killed. Here I write about him and how and why he was killed, his corpse dismembered, dissolved in sulfuric acid, yet his freedom dreams live on for us all. folukeafrica.com/patrice-lumu...

#Postdoc in Palestine Studies at Yale MES for scholars of the history, society, politics, language, culture of Palestinians and the broader study of the Middle East. Prefer candidates whose research focuses on the early modern or modern period. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/161627

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Mark your calendars! 🇵🇸 📽️ Palestine through Film chronicles key moments in Palestinian history—from the Nakba of 1948 to the present occupation. These weekly screenings of documentaries, historical dramas, and shorts open a window onto the mosaic of life in Palestine. whc.yale.edu/news/films-w...

Hello! We're migrating from other social media, hoping that this place is healthier! We'd really appreciate help rebuilding our 1000s of followers - many thanks! To kick off, here's a link to our latest podcast - Prof. Marsha Henry on 'the end of peacekeeping': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

In this essay on the movie "Detroit" [2017], I ask if it is possible to tell stories of racism that do more than retraumatise the already brutalised. Can this wretched earth, suffused as it is in an atmosphere of violence [Fanon], learn freedom again through film? folukeafrica.com/detroit-the-...

LISTEN: Author Kerry Smith discusses his book PREDICTING DISASTERS, which chronicles Japan's efforts to study earthquakes in the 20th and early 21st centuries, with Sarah Bramao-Ramos on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's New Books in East Asian Studies podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/predicting-d...

I'm grateful to Security Dialogue for publishing my new (open access) article exploring how discourses on promoting 'diversity of thought' circulate in the UK national security policy community, and the political work they do in relation to hegemonic security thinking 🧵: doi.org/10.1177/0967...