New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... @campolis.bsky.social

In Conversation with Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) The delegation from ERRs will be in conversation with Professor Sharath Srinivasan from @cghrcambridge.bsky.social 📍King's College Chapel 🗓️Wednesday 26th November 2025 ⏲️3pm-4pm Register here: sudan-errs-cambridge.eventbrite.co.uk

Public Lecture: 'The French Revolution and the Magic of Transformation' with Camil Francisc Roman, author of 'The French Revolution and Its Legacy: Leaping Democracy Into the Unlimited'. 📆 Mon 1 December 🕔 5pm - 6pm 📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.

@camgeopolitics.bsky.social is very pleased to announce their upcoming event: “The Cambridge day of geopolitics: The state of geopolitics 2025” 🗓️ Nov 21st 🕚 11am until 7pm (several sessions and panels) 📍 William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, CB2 3HU Register: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/the-c...

Join us for Vincent Guermond's @vincentguermond.bsky.social talk on the “green finance” agenda and the ways in which it exacerbates climate precarity and harm. Tuesday, 19th at 5pm at the Centre of Development studies in the @campolis.bsky.social

🏆POLIS would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Dr. Alami and his co-author, Professor Adam Dixon, on this achievement.

In their new paper published in @theelrr.bsky.social Ashwin Varghese (@cghrcambridge.bsky.social) and Aishwarya Rajeev argue that the gendering of emergent technology is underpinned by the sexual division of labour. Read the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📙 Book Talk: 'The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West' with author Professor Amitav Acharya. 📆 Thurs 13 Nov 🕔 5pm-6.30pm 📍 SG2 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP More information: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/inter...

Join Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge, for our final seminar of the series on #AlgorithmicGovernance. 🗓️ Wednesday 12th November 2025 🕔 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM 📍 SG2, Alison Richard Building Get tickets here: cghr-12nov25.eventbrite.co.uk

New event! Britain and the Balkans – 30 years after the Dayton Agreement Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans. 🗓️20th Nov, 17:00 🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C ✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Please join us for a talk with Professor Amitav Acharya on his new book 'The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West'. 🗓️Thurs, 13 Nov 2025 🕔5pm-6.30pm 📍SG2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge All welcome.

Join us this afternoon for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Day session for the: MPhil in Politics and International Studies: 15:00 - 15:45 Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies (PhD + MPhil): 17:00 - 17:45 Register and find out more on the postgraduate website: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday

📰Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written an article titled 'Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances'. Read the article now: doi.org/10.17863/CAM...

Check out this new research paper "Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash" in @nature.com by @mer29-cam.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, @highamian.bsky.social & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don't miss! Controlled Freedom: The Allied Forces in Vienna from 1945 Prof Oliver Rathkolb joins CfG & the Modern European History Seminar to discuss Vienna post-1945. 🗓️Next Wed 5th Nov, 17:30-19:00 🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C 🖋️More info: bit.ly/471fjkT

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨 Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉 Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0 VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social

Year 12 UK students considering applying to Cambridge: if you're from an underrepresented group, this free programme from @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social aims to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented at Cambridge. Check out their page on insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DQWzHn8...

Join us this Monday for a visit from the Spanish Ambassador, José Pascual Marco Martínez, to discuss Spain-UK Relations: Strategic Partners in a Challenging Global Landscape 🕑Mon, 27 Oct 14:00 - 15:00 GMT 📍Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP Register: spain-uk-relations.eventbrite.co.uk

I'm on @macrodosepod.bsky.social alongside great peeps, for an episode on war, climate crisis, and the economy. My own remarks focus on the rise of state capitalism with a military-imperial twist, at the very heart of US empire open.spotify.com/episode/4un1... @campolis.bsky.social

A great start to our Michaelmas programme for the Monday seminar in Political Thought and Intellectual History. Duncan Kelly provided a synopsis of his current work in progress, followed by commentary from Fernanda Gallo For details of our term card, see: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/mich...

I’m giving a talk soon at the Instituto de Filosofia a Ciências Sociais do Rio de Janeiro @ufrjoficial.bsky.social (see below). In Portuguese. Wish me luck! Come along! Or just spread the word please. @campolis.bsky.social @camilavergara.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social @duncanbell.bsky.social

New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books, with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social Link below👇:

To those of you who have contacted us with difficulties registering for the Spanish Ambassador's talk, the cloud provider that Eventbrite uses experienced a global outage yesterday. Please try again to reserve your space. spain-uk-relations.eventbrite.co.uk We apologise for the inconvenience.

Join Kwaku Adomaku @cambridgegender.bsky.social and Dr Shannon Philip @camsociology.bsky.social this Thursday evening to discuss "Queer Post-colonies in crisis?"

To those of you who have contacted us with difficulties registering for the POLIS Lecture, the cloud provider that Eventbrite uses experienced a global outage. They are back up and running, so please try again to reserve your space. polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk We apologise for the inconvenience.

Join our new research network 'Academic Freedoms' for its inaugural event on 21 October at 4.30pm The Lego Serious Play methodology uses Lego building to access both established and unexpected ways of thinking through an emphasis on making rather than talking. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47807/

The University and Cambridge SU's social media teams worked together to help promote the Freshers' Fair this week, to help students settle into Cambridge life and make new friends. Watch the interviews with students at the Freshers' Fair on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DPlpHqS...

Could AI become conscious? Dr Shamil Chandaria OBE will speak on this question followed by conversation and Q&A with Srinivasan Keshav, Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science. 📍@fitzwilliamcollege.bsky.social – Upper Hall 🕕6-7pm 🗓️This Wednesday 22nd October buytickets.at/fitzwilliamc...

For details: www.devstudies.cam.ac.uk/events/cds-s...

Join us tomorrow for Evelina Gambino's talk exploring the rise of authoritarianism and popular mobilisation in Georgia through an infrastructural lens! Her seminar will stage a dialogue between the ostensibly separate realms of transnational infrastructure projects and domestic spaces.

JOB Childers Professorship of Irish History University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/the-chi...

If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture. www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...

New event! The Freedom Speaker Series presents ‘Surrogates of freedom: Authoritarian rituals of power and citizens’ notions of liberty’ with Ekaterina Schulmann. 🗓️Thu 30th Oct, 17:30-19:00 🗺️Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex 🖋️Reg & info: bit.ly/3WH5hPF

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer @samfr.bsky.social about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

😱 What risks does Farage pose to our democracy and our society? 🤔 Really interesting and useful live podcast with David Runciman and Rob Ford 🦻 Listen and share! share.google/KASukS6Sa6Yb...

This term's Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminars start Mon 20 Oct with Carlos J. Zelada, Universidad del Pacífico in Peru, "Imperfect victims: Sexual violence against men in the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights" 12:30 ARB S1 and online, all invited!

📘 Delighted that my first peer-reviewed article has been published @bjpir.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 It explores the accountability of intergovernmental policymaking between Scotland, Wales and UK. 🔓 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🙏 Thanks @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for all the support!

Join us for the inaugural POLIS Lecture. Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation. 🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm 📍Alison Richard Building Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk

Join us on to discuss the strategic partnership between Spain and the UK in a challenging global landscape with the Ambassador of Spain to the UK and N Ireland, José Pascual Marco Martínez. 🗓️Mon, 27 Oct 2025 🕑14:00 - 15:00 📍SG1/2 ARB Register now: spain-uk-relations.eventbrite.co.uk

University of Cambridge has been ranked sixth in the world and second in the UK for Politics and International Studies by the Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2025 🎉 www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer... #THEunirankings #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge

New paper @bjpir.bsky.social How should political theorists think about the climate crisis and time? Emergency time and decolonial time compete in Extinction Rebellion Climate temporalities are intersecting, spatialised and resonant journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @crasshlive.bsky.social

Prof Sharath Srinivasan's new co-edited book is coming out in print on 25 October 2025! The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly is global in scope and richly grounded in history. The Handbook serves as an authoritative resource on the right of peaceful assembly. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Excited to share our term card for the Centre of Development Studies seminar series in @campolis.bsky.social! Please feel free to join us if you are around.

New podcast episode on the global expansion of state capitalism, the weakness of capital, the end of neoliberalism, techno-fascism,and progressive politics, with @bungacast.bsky.social, the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5... @campolis.bsky.social

Welcome to Michaelmas Term! Details of this term's #MondaySeminar are now available. We kick off on 13th October with Duncan Kelly presenting his paper on "Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c. 1848-1914", with a comment from Fernanda Gallo.

Friends in Cambridge.. Next Tuesday I'm returning to Trinity to lecture for the first time since 1986! All welcome!