New PhD 👉 Digital technologies, mobility, and border violence in European borderlands | by 🎓 Nina Khamsy @gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social 📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence? 👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ

Commentary with @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social on how Chinese mining companies in Kyrgyzstan have worked to adapt to a state court system in which compliance as such is an impossibility. @gvagrad.bsky.social carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

Should Switzerland pump development funds for digitalisation into an autocracy? Some of my thoughts here: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...

In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...

I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!

Job alarm with the fabulous @juliebillaud.bsky.social in a project on “Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Technological Innovation”, hosted by @gvagrad.bsky.social erecruit.graduateinstitute.ch/recrutement/...

Great funding opportunity for scholarly - creative - transdisciplinary projects that relate to Asia in the broadest sense possible (and no, there is no fascist language code that you have to adhere to in order to get funded): deltamove.org/small-grants...

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus

No space in history books for all these twists and lies. kyivindependent.com/trump-says-h...

This is a good summary.

This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇 www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Professor Billaud (@juliebillaud.bsky.social) and Professor Mostowlansky (@mostowlansky.bsky.social) discuss their Spring 2025 Course on Comparative Humanitarianisms. Read more about it here 👇

I have held a professorship in urban studies at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) sind the beginning of this year. If you would like to get some insights into what my students and I have been up to have a look at this short article based on our collaboration. allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-i...

Plenty of heated debates around types of missiles and escalation outside Ukraine. Viewed from Kyiv it all seems fairly superficial and catering to rather abstract fears of people far away. What people disconnected from Ukraine often seem to miss are degrees of much more mundane, but grinding terror.

Tajik music in the 90s was absolutely incredible. Still my favorite recording from those days youtu.be/sUSzgiGQDcM?...