CFP: Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland Comhfhios Boston Irish Studies at Boston College Feb 7, 2026, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA All proposals should be 200 - 300 words, for papers 15-20 minutes long. Please submit all proposals by January 5th, 2026. Contact [email protected]

A huge thank you to everyone who attended last night's CAJ Annual Lecture with PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher, exploring the NCND policy and its impact on legacy investigations. You can now read the full transcript here: caj.org.uk/publications...

What a privilege to be @cajni.bsky.social Annual Lecture delivered by Jon Boutcher, 24hrs after he delivered the landmark Operation Report

Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805

A proud career moment: on 4 Dec, I will give my inaugural professorial lecture: ‘Through the (Transitional Justice) Looking Glass: Memory, Myth and Contested Victimhood’. 5.30pm - 7.30pm, Canada Room and Council Chamber, QUB. Sign up 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

Really looking forward to discussing my latest book ‘Constructing Victimhood’ @QUBMitchell on 29 Oct, 1pm - 2.30pm. With Legacy back on the agenda, sign up and join this timely conversation: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...

As Lemkin knew, genocide hides in plain sight. “Genocide is so easy to commit because people don’t want to believe it until after it happens.” Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | ⁦‪@TheTyee‬⁩ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

The Disappearance Studies Conference opened yesterday and continues today at Notre Dame. The event marks the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies — an interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance worldwide. @eliseferon.bsky.social @profcheryllawther.bsky.social

🚨 What happens when #GenderbasedViolence occurs within armed groups and not only against civilians? Join us to examine how #TransitionalJustice processes recognise and respond to this often-overlooked violence. 🗓️ 22 Oct, 2–5 pm BST 📍QUB Moot Court & Online 🔗 Register & info: tinyurl.com/3re4nsj5

The Journal of Disappearance Studies, with the Keough-Naughton Institute and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will hold its inaugural conference Sept. 29-30 at Notre Dame. @eliseferon.bsky.social @simonrobins.bsky.social ▶️ See the full schedule: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.

happening at the end of the month - the inaugural Disappearance Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame. check out the program here: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

How I think we need to redefine civilian harm in Gaza.

there has been so much good scholarship on victimhood and transitional justice lately - in my review essay for IJTJ, I explore engagement with and interrogation of this 'victims' turn' through recent books from Roxani Krystalli, Cheryl Lawther, and Roddy Brett: academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

Do consider registering for the 15th edition of our @tmcasser.bsky.social and @icct.bsky.social advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law!

Today I’m presenting on my research at the Asser Institute in The Hague alongside @niaolainf.bsky.social and QUB Mitchell Institute colleagues. Lots to think about and some new exciting plans in the pipeline

An event with Professor David Cunningham and Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin (Washington University in St. Louis), 2 April at 1pm

Have you heard about our latest Journal? The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #IRsky #AcademicSky #disappearance @eliseferon.bsky.social

The very first academic journal focusing on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, co-edited by yours truly, now has a website! If you are working on these issues, please send us your manuscripts

We are organizing a conference for the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies, next Fall at the University of Notre Dame. If you work on enforced disappearances and missing people, please apply, and share the call! Looking forward to seeing you there

📢 Job alert! Justice Visions is hiring 3 fully funded PhD researchers as part of the new ERC project on "Innovation & Documentation". Check below for details 👇 🔗justicevisions.org/vacancy-three-funded-phd-positions-in-the-domain-of-transitional-justice/ 🗓️ Deadline for applications: 5 April 2025

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be on Mon. 3 March when visiting @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social Postgrad Tiffany Thompson will talk about 'Belfast barricades & burnt out homes: Women navigating street violence & displacement in August 1969' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory

Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge. www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...

Here it is! Delighted to round off 2024 with publication of my new book ‘Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice’. Available online now. Huge thanks to all the direct and indirect contributors who shaped the final book academic.oup.com/book/58974

Join us during Human Rights Week for this fascinating and timely talk: Mansoor Adayfi, 'Restoring Justice and Demanding Accountability: Reflections from Guantánamo and Beyond' 12 December 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm The Moot Court, School of Law, QUB go.qub.ac.uk/Mansoor-Adayfi