Did agronomists dream of soilless geopolitics? In their new EJIR article, @antoniofdo.bsky.social and Maarten Meijer excavate the international history of hydroponic geopolitics in the mid-twentieth century. You can read it here: t1p.de/kpt02

Delighted to share this EJIR paper, co-authored with my brilliant friend Maarten Meijer. We track the story of how hydroponics triggered connected geopolitical fantasies before and after 1945, from the Pacific to Israel and Bengal. Hope it's a good read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Delighted to share this EJIR paper, co-authored with my brilliant friend Maarten Meijer. We track the story of how hydroponics triggered connected geopolitical fantasies before and after 1945, from the Pacific to Israel and Bengal. Hope it's a good read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happy to share our term card for the KCL Geopolitics series (@KCLGeography). Lots to look forward to as we think through the geopolitics of Venezuela, Greenland, 'Donroe' and more, with fantastic guest speakers!

Happy to share our term card for the KCL Geopolitics series (@KCLGeography). Lots to look forward to as we think through the geopolitics of Venezuela, Greenland, 'Donroe' and more, with fantastic guest speakers!

“Fawaz Gerges's latest book might be his lifetime masterpiece,” writes Dr Silvia Colombo. Read the full review of Professor Fawaz Gerges' new book, The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the #MiddleEast. 🔗 bit.ly/3NqkmEb @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PoliSky

Anytime, map fiends. Anytime.

Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social). Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!

Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.

The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...

Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left! www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...

Happy to share today I started my new position as a Lecturer in Geopolitics @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. I am thankful to colleagues for their very warm welcome and looking forward to learning the ropes and trying new challenges!

‘The resistance story about ourselves is really a fear story about ourselves; it suggests that self-protection is our paramount consideration, and that vulnerability is our primary preoccupation.’ Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy to see my early work on Kropotkin featured in the 10th anniversary of Global Intellectual History. GIH is a fantastic journal, with truly international reflections on so many traveling ideas across our shared history. I always read it with pleasure and recommend it to colleagues!

🚨New Article🚨 “‘Aggression in Felt Slippers:’ Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022” By Ian Klinke Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Vol. 88, Special Issue: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ ‘Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States’, by @jakehodder.bsky.social Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003 12/31

🌡️ Parts of Earth could soon be too hot to live. A recent study warned that if we hit 2°C warming, the uninhabitable zone could triple in size. 🎧 Listen to the latest WORLD: we got this podcast: pod.fo/e/2c0bc6 #ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #GlobalWarming #TooHotToLive #Sustainability #ClimateAction

Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History. Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.

Vol. 88 is out! It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/31

I'm happy to share that from September, I am joining @kings-sga.bsky.social as a permanent Lecturer in Geopolitics. I am also grateful to colleagues @facultyofartsug.bsky.social for three fantastic years in beautiful Groningen. Hoping to stay in touch and hopping over the Channel! Tot ziens!

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Looking forward to welcome @siculovevo.bsky.social tomorrow at the HTIR Colloquium in Groningen. Come and learn about the fascinating history of oceanic pollution and environmentalism! @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social

Looking forward to tomorrow's HTIR colloquium at Groningen, with Jamie Draper telling us about his book on Climate Displacement and political theory. If in Groningen or nearby, come join us for a fascinating talk! @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social

Heartily recommend holding your next academic workshop in Bologna. Wonderful two days discussing prediction and the environment for our @britishacademy.bsky.social ‘Place of Prediction’ workshop, with special thanks to host @orrosenboim.bsky.social

Albert Einstein was honorary president of the League Against Imperialism, founded 1927 in Brussels. 'In your congress, the solidly united endeavour of the oppressed to achieve independence takes bodily shape'. From his opening speech to 174 delegates from 34 countries.

And here is our final term of History and Theory of International History colloquia @facultyofartsug.bsky.social With the early summer arriving in Groningen, we have plenty of talks to think together and let the sunshine in... All welcome - See you there!

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

Of all the heartbreaking crap that is happening in the world, this is currently topping my list. We might optimistically think of disasters as windows of opportunity, but they can also be downward spirals of poverty, like in Myanmar. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Fully funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, working on anticolonial geopolitics and post-imperial worldmaking in the Arab World, c. 1908-77. Application portal now open: myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/mede... Submissions deadline is April 30th.

Book Launch talk today - come one and all, to hear fascinating histories from below on everyday socialism in Eastern Europe. @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

One-year IR postdoc vacancy on a project on sanctions at GIGA in beautiful Hamburg 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK608/p...

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

Excited to announce the first Graduate Symposium on Doing International Political Sociology at Uni Groningen this summer. Join us to collaborate, workshop, share your work and engage with the Doing IPS network. Deadline 1 April. Questions? Federico Petris and I are here to help. CfP below.

Looking forward to welcoming Jan for our History and Theory of IR colloquium this Thursday! As usual, if in Groningen or NL, all welcome. @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gloknos.bsky.social @agricolaschool.bsky.social

The Call for Abstracts for the first ever NUPI (@nupinytt.bsky.social) Theory Conference in Oslo 22-24 September: "Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times". With a keynote by the excellent Stefano Guzzini, and a roundtable tba. We hope to see you there!

Conference: challenges of conflict transformation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Thursday 12 June 2025 : www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Can't wait to share ongoing research on geopolitical imaginations of hydroponics, w. Maarten Meijer today @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gloknos.bsky.social Here is a snippet, with the great logo of the erstwhile IWOSC ready to take the world by storm... (move over Audrey II)

Calling all Low Countries colleagues to apply/circulate for our workshop on 'Emerging Research in International History and Political Thought', Groningen on June 12-13! proudly co-chaired w. @arnabduttahist.bsky.social t & @jcostalopez.bsky.social CFP: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-papers-2025/

Looking forward to welcome Sofia Nasstrom next week @facultyofartsug.bsky.social to hear about her forthcoming book on Democracy - all welcome!

Looking forward to present ongoing research this week at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social - on HJ Mackinder's imperial geopolitics and dreams of renewable energy. If you're curious and local - please come by!

And we're back! A new cycle of colloquia at IRIO Groningen - come explore democratic uncertainty, hydroponic geopolitics, technocracy and global health, American oceanic pollution and post-socialist lives with us... All welcome!

It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @dominiquereill.bsky.social , @samuelmoyn.bsky.social , @orrosenboim.bsky.social , and many others. issforum.org/essays/h-dip...

Great to see Laurie Parsons's book here - much deserved!

Why does James Baldwin matter so much now? A round-up of recently published books on Baldwin, including Douglas Field's 'Walking in the dark', in the latest issue of the @thespectator1828.bsky.social: www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-... #JamesBaldwin

This edited collection on the "rise of the international" looks great: #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Out today in paperback! ⬇️ The last publication in our flagship series 'Studies in Imperialism' of 2024 - British culture after Empire: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182548/ "An engaging and rich conversation" @jbritishstudies.bsky.social #StudiesinImperialism

I can share the final programme of "Reimagining the Pacific: Towards an Oceanic Intellectual History" at the University of Tokyo, 13-14 March. I look forward to participating & learning from colleagues - huge thanks to the principal organiser, Dr Tomohito Baji www.gsi.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/6110/

RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).