Is the U.S. action in Venezuela lawful, unlawful or legally grey? Professor Marc Weller shares his analysis. Watch the full interview on YouTube 👉 https://bit.ly/4szTRMA Marc Weller is Professor of International Law @campolis.bsky.social

Reporting on Chile’s recent election of far-right President, José Antonio Kast, The Guardian interviewed Dr Katia Chornik (CLAS). Her book, 'Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile', exposes the realities of political imprisonment under Pinochet. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/musi...

Professor Helen Thompson (POLIS) talks to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme about the situation in Venezuela, arguing that it is becoming clear that the western hemisphere is now central to resource conflict in the world (starts 50:02). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire," History of Political Thought (2024) go.shr.lc/4mTZyBp

America’s innovation ecosystem will survive Trump’s cuts to R&D writes @thinkwoodist.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk c.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

My book on American innovation policy is out! 'States of Innovation' shows how state and federal governments are active catalysts driving innovation-led growth, challenging the idea that US capitalism is uniquely market-driven. www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...

Industrial policy returns as a weapon of national security by @haugejostein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/haugejos...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade. How did Mandela defend himself? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

🚀 Launching the Local Government AI Accelerator 🚀 We're offering grants of up to £25,000 for proof-of-concept #AI projects developed in partnership with local authorities. Application deadline: 13 Feb 2026 www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/local-...

We're looking for a Professor of Public Policy to join our senior leadership team. They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership. Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our episode on the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, David explores the book at the heart of the case. Does the focus on sex miss the central themes of the book? And what is it with the red trousers? Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

If you have a Cambridge interview coming up, our students have some tips for you. See this Instagram video by @cambridgeuniversity www.instagram.com/reel/DRxOhvg...

Join us for this important conversation, where we will be thinking across academic freedoms in Turkey, Gaza, the US, the UK and beyond.

Last chance to register for 'Academic freedom, context and positionality' 📅3 December 2025 ⏲️5pm - 6.30pm 📍SG2 Alison Richard Building We'll bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue. Register: luma.com/2tpatkwf @cghrcambridge.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social

A pleasure to be on @amprestigepod.bsky.social! @campolis.bsky.social

How could political theory become more accessible to fellow citizens? @campolis.bsky.social 'The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens' | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles 🗓️Monday 01 December 🕒3:00 pm to 5:00 pm 📍SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DT Registration required: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/ The event is free and open to all! @crasshlive.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s ep in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social looks at the life & legacy of Margaret Thatcher 100 years on from her birth. What made Thatcher such a distinctive politician? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Rebuilding Ukraine: A Conversation with Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Alyona Shkrum 📅Wednesday, 26 November 🕧6pm 📍Church Hall, Downing Place United Reformed Church, 4 Downing Pl, CB2 3EL Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...

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/