A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

First talk of my trip - at the Université de Montréal - out of the way. Thanks to Vincent Pouliot for the invitation and to everyone who came along. If there are colleagues in town who would like to meet up, pease get in touch. I am here for a couple more days.

“[How] can artistic practices enable us to visualize the legacies of conflict and visions for peace beyond established conventions?” Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you are in Brisbane, come join us for the inaugural professorial lecture by my wonderful colleague Andrew Phillips. Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next? Wed, 17 Sep, 5pm - 7pm. All welcome, but need to register here: events.humanitix.com/who-killed-t...

Honoured to discuss “The Seductive Power of Grand Narratives” as part of this forum on Oliver Richmond’s ambitious and important @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book on The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Open-access in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Available to watch: yesterday’s @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with Simon Philpott and William Clapton discussing their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics (including Will’s new @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies." Great project ✔️ Awesome supervisor ✔️ Excellent department ✔️ Lovely City ✔️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in: 🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies 📝 Political theory inc history of political thought 📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR Apply here 👉

Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.   Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10). In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social podcast: a must listen! 🎙️ @sebkaempf.bsky.social looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟 ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more Find it here 👉

Drawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wong’s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to “what aesthetics do or could do.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hello fellow educators and listeners, What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️ Al and Seb

Here a new blog about my old home Panmunjom and the intriguing links between militarisation and biodiversity: a review of Eleana Kim’s insightful book Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (Duke 2022). www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/inside-...

Here a video of yesterday’s fascinating @visualpolitics.bsky.social discussion between Gillian Whitlock & Zhila Gholami on archival research about refugees. Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson, topics include Gillian's Bloomsbury book and Zhila’s Fryer project. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Please join us in person or online for our first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester:   Prof Gillian Whitlock and Dr Zhila Gholami discuss their archival research on refugees.   Wed 6 Aug, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Zoom rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

Here a video of my keynote at the recent 50th Anniversary #BISA2025 conference in Belfast. I am more writer than speaker, so this was a challenge. But I am grateful for the invitation and glad I did it for - and with - Emma Hutchison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWg...

Entry level position: assistant professor in emotions and international conflict at the University of Geneva. For colleagues who speak French. jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta....

Portrait of the artist with old hat. Longest trip - away from hospitals - in many years. Excitingly disorienting. Glad to head home. Thanks to colleagues & friends I was lucky to encounter & apologies to those I failed to meet. It’s the best I could do at this stage. ⒸFH

Our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. Join us to hear from amazing scholars, inc Gillian Whitlock, Zhila Gholami, William Clapton, Simon Philpott, Eliza Garnsey, Caitlin Hamilton, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Barnett, Bina D’Costa, Fiona Terry. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

Please mark the date and join us later this year at UQ / @visualpolitics.bsky.social for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion. With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).

🎙️ @E_IR X #BISA2025 podcasts 🎙️ With Kieran O’ Meara and @faloulah.bsky.social speaking to : @bleiker.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @davidjwilcox.bsky.social @errichiello.bsky.social @jasonralph.bsky.social and many more! 🎉 🎧 listen now -

🎉 Best Article in the @risjnl.bsky.social winner this year was @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social for: 'Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes' with judges finding the 'theoretical approach original & highly relevant' 🌟 Summary - buff.ly/Rvd09Wk DOI -

🌟 Our best Article in the @risjnl.bsky.social Prize Runner up this year was Toni Erskine for her paper: 'AI and the future of IR: Disentangling flesh-and-blood, institutional, and synthetic moral agency in world politics' 🌎 Read now 👉

Emma Hutchison's contribution to #IR was groundbreaking in exploring the role of #Emotions in #GlobalPolitics. Watch ISA's Theory Section honor Dr. Hutchison by revisiting her work & reflecting upon the promises and challenges posed in her theories of #Community & #Trauma: buff.ly/GXysOHu

Here a video of the virtual event that the @isatheory.bsky.social so kindly organised in memory and honour of Emma Hutchison and her work. Big thanks to @isanet.bsky.social and the wonderful panelists @aslifc.bsky.social, Jessica Auchter, Annette Freyberg-Inan and Zaynab El Bernoussi.

@e-international.bsky.social podcast @ #BISA2025 🎉 All 4 episodes of the E-IR podcasts recorded with us in Belfast have now been uploaded including interviews with @bleiker.bsky.social and @nickcaddick.bsky.social 🌟 🎧 Listen here - buff.ly/JvVrHsD @faloulah.bsky.social

It has been a pleasure to talk to @faloulah.bsky.social from e-ir at the recent @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Thanks, Marianna.

Thanks to all who came to our #BISA2025 keynote, co-authored with Emma Hutchison. I am more writer than speaker, so this was rather challenging, but I am now glad I did it for ‘e’ and hope that together we made it worth your while.

In Belfast for the first time, looking forward to the start of @mybisa.bsky.social and meeting colleagues and friends and, especially, a panel tomorrow honoring Emma with several wonderful scholars she read and admired.

Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...

In their paper in the new issue, Young Chul Cho & Jungmin Seo aim to "un-suture common-sense assumptions based on Westphalian International Relations (IR) from South Korea’s non-essentialist and situated perspective, in the context of decolonising IR. " Read Here 👉 buff.ly/fBKDR20

Here the video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography. Big thanks Juliet for joining us. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Please join us tomorrow for this ISA Theory Section online event in honour and memory of Emma Hutchison and her research contributions.

Tomorrow I am "going to Australia" to talk about comics & visual methods in social science, at UTC+10, which means 9am Switzerland; 8am UK; see map making sure you consider possible daylight saving time. 🌏 So if you are in the US East Coast, you are probably better off listening to the recording!

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

‘Debates about strategy, no matter how arcane, are not just technical, but also go to the question of our national identity and its construction and expression through the choices that we make’ – Brendan Sargeant 'Strategic Imagination: Essays in Honour of Brendan Sargeant' doi.org/10.22459/SI.2025

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

🌟 #BISA2025 featured events 🌟 Including: 🚨Keynote talk with @bleiker.bsky.social 🚨Michael Cox War Studies keynote - sponsor @politybooks.bsky.social 🚨Publishing in War and Security Studies & more 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk/featured-eve... @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @bisawarstudies.bsky.social

Here a video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social takes us on an amazing tour of her latest book: the remarkable Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. Big thanks Lilie. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Please join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social (LSE) discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. Wed 7 May, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

🚨Last change to register for @globalsouthshub.bsky.social blog Academic blogging event🚨 @zaraqadir.bsky.social and Mira Mookerjee are sharing what they've learnt from a year of running the blog 📝 sign up 👉 buff.ly/gPgqqFf @epir-bisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social

Registration is open for a @isanet.bsky.social webinar on Theorizing Emotions in World Politics in memory of Emma Hutchison. 5 June 2025 14:00h GMT. Thanks to chair/participants: @aslifc.bsky.social @freyberg-inan.bsky.social Zaynab El Bernoussi Jessica Auchter isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Here a video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social from @nclpolitics.bsky.social discusses her Ph.D. research, focusing on collage as a method to understand nuclear weapons and war. Thanks Emily for your talk & for visiting us. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

For the past decade Emma Hutchison kept a blog - Dialysis Days - to chronicle her life with end-stage renal failure. She held back her last entry - which hints at her physical demise - but asked me to publish it after her passing. Here it is. www.rolandbleiker.com/finger-by-fi...

Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social (@nclpolitics.bsky.social) discusses collage as method for her Ph.D. research on nuclear weapons and war. Wed 9 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Emma & I had the pleasure of working with @cassandrachapman.bsky.social, our lead-author, & Matthew Hornsey, on this article on ethical tensions in nonprofit fundraising. Part of a joint ARC Linkage Project it involved cross-disciplinary learning & adjusting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Big thanks to @binadcosta & Michelle Godwin for organising a remarkable workshop on forced migration @anubellschool.bsky.social. Interesting debates between scholars & practitioners on difficult issues & great keynote by @gesanchez.bsky.social on everyday politics at the US-Mexican border.

📸 We are proud to present the #WPPh2025 Contest winners! Discover the best photojournalism and documentary photography from the past year: worldpressphoto.org/collection/photocontest/2025 The World Press Photo of the Year & two finalists will be announced on 17 April 2025 at 11.00 CEST

Come join us this Thursday, 27 Mar at 11am at the Bell School @anubellschool.bsky.social in Canberra for a conversation on #borderenforcement and everyday life on the US-MX border. Everyone is welcome. Grateful to @binadcosta.bsky.social for the invitation! bellschool.anu.edu.au/event/smuggl...