We're excited to share details for our second Conversation on Disappearance, taking place on January 27! This session will be focused on cultural responses to disappearance. Further information and registration available here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

📢 SPIRe Newsletter Autumn 2025 issue has just been published! This issue includes "Lucía Tiscornia receives ERC starting grant", "NUI Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning", "Elizabeth Meehan Prize for Dawn Walsh" and more! www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

This issue includes articles by our colleague, Dr Dawn Walsh @dawnwalsh.bsky.social , and our former PhD student, Dr Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social , including: "Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipsa/46/5

excited to launch this conversation series! join us on November 24 for our first session

Tickets are going fast! Authors Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride will discuss #Irish #Unification at the National Concert Hall of #Dublin on 11/30. Notre Dame Press is thrilled to publish their new book, FOR AND AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND. Event information: https://bit.ly/4hGoUBn

delighted to have had the opportunity to engage with Johanna, Malin, and Anna's excellent work on relational peace - roundtable review below

🚨 Heather Humphreys has told RTÉ she concedes the Presidential Election and has congratulated Catherine Connolly on her victory. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

my partner is a doctor!

My friend Sarah Clancy is currently in IOF captivity, kidnapped last night when her boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was illegally intercepted in international waters. Some boats are still sailing. Do what you can - wherever you are - to amplify & protest. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

The Disappearance Studies Conference opened yesterday and continues today at Notre Dame. The event marks the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies — an interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance worldwide. @eliseferon.bsky.social @profcheryllawther.bsky.social

New deal to address Troubles legacy issues agreed between Dublin and London www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

New publication in @millennjournal.bsky.social Theorising Feminist Peace with Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art. Co-authored with my colleague Heidi Riley as part of our project Talk4Peace #IRSky #FeminsitSky #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

happening at the end of the month - the inaugural Disappearance Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame. check out the program here: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

NEW ARTICLE📢 We show how redactions in war crimes judgements obstruct transparency, prevent reckoning with past violence & highlight limits of digital data for quant analysis in TJ w/ @lanabi.bsky.social T.W.Waters @erc.europa.eu @lse-ei.bsky.social @journalgenocide.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2h2b6x79

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... A thread 🧵:

Today is August 1. Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

There needs to be a ceasefire *and* a Palestinian state. Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination. Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.

Add this to the already long list of moral failures by big consulting groups

How is this happening simultaneously, I feel like I’m going more insane every day

Had a great first day at the Future of Irish Studies in Leuven! @emmamurphy.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

got an article rejection this morning (fine) with some pretty mean reviews (not fine). sharing this + a bit of a convo with a good friend, to say - we all get rejected & if you're in the same boat, hi, sending hugs. and to also say, if you're an editor, please edit mean reviews, this stuff matters.

My first single authored publication is out! This article critiques the carceral logics of the ICC. I offer this critique alongside abolitionist tools to show how we can start to move away from harmful, carceral justice, beginning with the abolition of the ICC. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

sadly I can't make BISA this year but FYI for if you're there:

It is possible to have an opinion on things happening in the world that is not shaped by what is (il)legal but by like a set of political and ethical commitments that are not derived from liberal legalism

there has been so much good scholarship on victimhood and transitional justice lately - in my review essay for IJTJ, I explore engagement with and interrogation of this 'victims' turn' through recent books from Roxani Krystalli, Cheryl Lawther, and Roddy Brett: academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

“AI is going to be a game changer for research”

🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides. @stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail. 🧵1/9

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

I just got word that this federal transportation grant was terminated today, despite us removing the word "climate" from the title. The moral of the story? Obeying orders doesn't keep you safe with this administration.

This is today!

Academics will be like, “I’m a genocide scholar and my work is very important” then refuse to comment on any genocide from this century.

We’re a new Journal for the emerging field of Disappearance Studies. We publish research on the collective dimensions of human disappearance and its consequences, with a special focus on #EnforcedDisappearance bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... @eliseferon.bsky.social #HumanDisappearance

Harvard is getting a lot of credit for fighting back, but many smaller organizations, with much less financial stability, are also standing by their values.

Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard. And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, gave birth to their first child today, a baby boy. In a statement, she said, “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family…”

Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)

Our article on #DDR & parenthood with Sanne Weber is out in @intpeacekeeping.bsky.social ✨ It presents our decade-long reflections on reintegration/reincorporation processes in #Colombia through the silences on motherhood as a cornerstone of successful programs✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

So many liberal arguments right now take the form: ‘it will be *citizens* next’. Like, maybe they’ll come for people who really matter. If it works it works, I guess, but this says a lot about how Western countries have dehumanised migrants & regularised extrajudicial killings on international soil.

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

“The researchers found two local authorities in Northern Ireland - Derry and Strabane, and Belfast - have more deprived areas than any of the other 374 local authorities in England, Scotland or Wales and the rest of Northern Ireland.” www.rte.ie/news/uk/2025...

Join us in Dublin tomorrow!

Delighted to say my new book (with Anne-Marie McAlinden and Marie Keenan) Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional abuses is now available free as a gold open access title with OUP academic.oup.com/book/59821