Call for Papers: Dutch IPS Series Are you a PhD or early postdoc in (or associated with) the Netherlands engaging with themes in IPS? Then please send us your abstracts by 15 December 2025 to present your work, receive in-depth feedback, and become part of our supportive community!

🆕 Wir starten heute mit unserem Blogsymposium „Politik-wissenschaftliche Selbstreflexionen in Zeiten des Krieges“. Den Auftakt geben Beiträge v. @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, Alexander Libman, Claudia Brunner & Sabine Jaberg. #PoWiundKrieg #Blogsymposium25 #polisky Hier geht's zur Übersichtseite 👇.

Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & Hanze Hogeschool) staff and students against the cuts and in solidarity with rail way workers. @fnvuniversiteiten.bsky.social @fnv.bsky.social @aob.nl @lsvb.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social @rug.nl

I was interviewed by Miranda Melcher about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the podcast in the link, and the book is available Open Access from @uofmpress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-inter...

If you’re worried about the impact of individual eating habits, just wait until you hear about the ecological impact of militaries insideclimatenews.org/news/1801202...

We're still looking for a PhD student! The basics: four years, fully funded, IR/History/Latin America. Applications are due 30 April! #IRSky

One week left to apply!

We are looking for a PhD student who wants to rethink Historical International Relations/the History of the Social Sciences from Latin America! Fully funded position with an interdisciplinary supervisory team (Ian Merkel, Konstantin Mierau and myself): www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...

We are delighted to announce @mark-gilks.bsky.social as the recipient of the Journal of War and Culture Studies 2024 prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar. 'The Aesthetic Influences of War: A Phenomenology of Tim Hetherington’s “Feedback Loop”’, stood out in a strong field.

We are looking for a PhD student who wants to rethink Historical International Relations/the History of the Social Sciences from Latin America! Fully funded position with an interdisciplinary supervisory team (Ian Merkel, Konstantin Mierau and myself): www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

On strike today! #Doehetniet

Groningen strikes

Solidarity with the University 🟥 #WOinActie #doehetniet Liveblog RUG De universiteit slaapt nog half, maar de eerste staker op het Harmonieplein heeft zich gemeld: Aletta Jacobs. Anderen zijn in de Harmonie bezig met het maken van protestborden en delen flyers uit.

I am going on strike today to protest against the government's budget cuts on higher education. #DOEHETNIET

Vandaag staak ik - het is de beurt aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social en de @hanzehogeschool.bsky.social in de estafettestaking van het hoger onderwijs. De hele dag doet @ukrant.bsky.social verslag. #DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social ukrant.nl/marathonstak...

En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet

Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼

So many things are so awful these days. As but a small counterpoint, I want to share a few pieces of writing by students (including former students of mine) that have delighted me in the past two weeks or so.

Heute Vormittag im Wahllokal in Delmenhorst hatten wir kaum eine ruhige Minute. Viele Erstwählende waren auch dabei! Jetzt habe ich Pause bis kurz vor sechs und gerade gelesen, dass die Wahlbeteiligung in Niedersachsen bisher deutlich höher ist als 2021 - es war nicht nur in unserem Wahllokal voll.

Ich habe für das @nnwiss.bsky.social ein paar Argumente für eine Trennung von Betreuung und Begutachtung gesammelt. Und nach welchen dagegen gesucht, aber leider keine überzeugenden gefunden. netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de?p=199

The gravity of USAID's shuttering in #Colombia go well beyond gaps in the budget line. Programs have been shut down in a way that could endanger communities and devastate U.S. access and credibility for many years. It also stands to destabilize #Colombia's delicate security🧵

Für den @verfassungsblog.de habe ich aufgeschrieben was diese Woche im Bundestag bedeutet. Der Höhepunkt der programmatischen Anpassung an die AfD. Ein Dammbruch der zu ihrer Normalisierung und Legitimation führt. Eine dunkle Stunde für die deutsche Demokratie. verfassungsblog.de/aus-dem-abse...

Prof. Miriam Rürup, Direktorin des Potsdamer Moses Mendelssohn Zentrums für europäisch-jüdische Studien: „Wie soll denn Antisemitismus mit einer Resolution bekämpft werden, der die AfD zustimmen kann?“ Sehr hörenswerte Bundespressekonferenz: 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIq...

Mit breiter wissenschaftlicher Unterstützung: rat-fuer-migration.de/2025/01/31/f...

Warum heißt es Altocumulus stratiformis opacus und nicht Bremen?

CfP: Co-Laborating for Change? The future of peace and security in an age of crises 25-27 June 2025 @ifshhamburg.bsky.social We are looking for contributions that engage with participatory and collaborative research methods in the study of contemporary and future crises ifsh.de/file/Events/...

My book is really coming out in March 🌱 It's been a long road and I'm excited to let it out in the world. Follow the link for a ToC and summary + let me know if you might be interested in a book talk! It will be #OA thanks to @uofmpress.bsky.social & @ukri.org press.umich.edu/Books/B/Beyo...

Eight years ago, I was living in DC for a few months - from just before Trump's election until just after the Women's March and his inauguration. This is a really interesting piece on what feels and is different this time around:

Der geht raus an alle, die dieses Jahr an einem Buchprojekt arbeiten

Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!

Quite a while ago, two friends/colleagues across two continents and many years had a conversation on Zoom and ended up as co-authors of a chapter in this beautiful book. Mil gracias to the ever-inspiring Laura Coral Velasquez as well as to the wonderful editors Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton!

A few days left to submit your abstracts for the International Theory early-career workshop at #ISA2025.

Groningen, protest against cuts to higher education, 11 December 2024.

Dear IPSers in the Netherlands and nearby: The fab organizers Federico&Katharina have lots of brilliant ideas for next year's IPS NL seminar series and we all - also including Renata, Enrike and myself - are looking really forward to it. We'd love nothing better than for you to propose a paper!

Dear colleagues, friends, more or less desperate observers of German foreign policy in the ongoing war and mass violence in Gaza: Dörthe Engelcke and I have published a piece on the German politics of arms exports to Israel with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germ...

📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

This by Danny Steinmetz-Jenkins on the historical “anti-war political tradition” is great: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-w...

I am the co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ywa... Get in touch if you have an idea for a Special Issue. We are keen to support research by ECRs & amplify the work of scholars from underrepresented fields & backgrounds.

IPS friends: the IPS NL chapter is entering the fourth round of its seminar series. If you are an early career researcher or PhD based in or associated with the Netherlands please join us to present your work, receive in-depth feedback and engage with a supportive community!

If you are in NL, if you've been educated in its high education system, or you want your kids to be, or you just want to continue benefitting from this incredible societal good, come JOIN US, support the protests on the 25th in TheHague. Please share! #HogerOnderwijs #Nederland #DenHaag #TheHague

Something nice that happened today: our latest reflections on (Des)tejiendo miradas/(Un-)Stitching gazes, the project in which I did my postdoc and which is still very close to my heart, were published: "Peace Dialogues in Colombia: What Role Can Textile-making Play?" peacenews.com/peace-dialog...

I wrote an op-ed in one of the main Dutch newspapers today, highlighting that the 1 billion budget cuts to Higher eduction can only be explained as a way to make our universities more submissive. The piece has now been translated into English, and can be read here: crookedtimber.org/2024/11/09/t...

Dear colleagues around the world, As you may know, the Netherlands has, since this summer, been governed by a radical right-wing administration with an agenda reminiscent of Orbán's Hungary.

Last week, the government has agreed on reducing the period Postdocs can work on a temporary contract from 6 to 4 (+2) years. What does this law amendment mean for international Postdocs and marginalized persons in academia? A 🧵 #WissZeitVG #ichBinHanna #ichBinReyhan #ichBinTina

We aim to feature different forms of knowledge and expression. For example, this art piece by (Un)Stitching Gazes/(Des)tejiendo Miradas. They generously allow us to use their political embroidery to illustrate some of the concepts.

Our virtual Encyclopaedia is online! 📣📣📣 On our website rewritingpeaceandconflict.net you can discover our texts and podcasts. @postcolh.bsky.social @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @anikaoettler.bsky.social @teraqerat.bsky.social @sidtrip.bsky.social @manuelaboatca.bsky.social

📢 We are inviting panel, roundtable, and paper proposals for the #DoingIPS standing section ‘Doing International Political Sociology’ at the @europeanisa.bsky.social #EISAPEC24 (convenors: Jef Huysmans and Renata Summa). Send in your ideas until 13 March! www.doingips.org/news-events/...

What better way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon in Bremen than by looking for - and finding! - textiles and having delicious cake in @katkusic.bsky.social's favorite café whilst reading the beautifully titled zine "Historia hecho a mano": issuu.com/veronicam10/...