I’ll be presenting my ongoing research on human rights experts and the making of a vocation tonight at the Oxford Refugee Studies Centres, 5-6pm, followed by a reception. Hope to see some of you there! www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/human...

Extremely excited for this, and what a beautiful poster design! I’ll be speaking on the United Nations panel with amazing speakers, including @drmargottudor.bsky.social ❤️

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Kerry Goettlich’s book launch at LSE, 29 October, 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. With Edward Keene, Joanne Yao and Ayșe Zarakol www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

The IPS Section is now welcoming nominations for positions at the 2026/2027 IPS Committee! Self nominations are encouraged. Our deadline is October 22nd, 2025 #isa2026

Join us at 11am for the pre-launch of Kerry Goettlich’s “From Frontiers to Borders” - with brilliant interventions from Jef Huysmans, Or Rosenboim, Jens Steffek & Ole Jacob Sending. Belmeloro - Aula Q www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Come and join us at 11am in Belmeloro Aula E. I’ve been so excited for this panel since we conceived of it in February. “Global Perspectives on International Human Rights: Who Writes the Script(s)?”

Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.

Reviewed the excellent “Erased” by @whitproject.bsky.social together with Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #HistIR lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...

So happy and excited for Kerry! 🤩

We’re so excited to welcome Kerry to our department and to celebrate the publication of his fantastic book with @universitypress.cambridge.org!!!

On 9 July, the US imposed sanctions on special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Below I provide a brief context of this unprecedented attack against this body of experts.

@risjnl.bsky.social #openaccess article by @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social out NOW 🎉 'The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence' @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org 🌎 Read the key arguments by Alvina 👉 buff.ly/hZ7PzXa DOI 👉 buff.ly/7e8KsT6

✨ Our forum “Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy” is out #openaccess in International Studies Review ✨ 👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/... @ninahall.bsky.social

⏰ We’re two weeks from the deadline to submit nominations for the 2026 IPS Graduate Student Paper Award! Nominate now!

“Silence is not an option”: UN Special Procedures’ Coordination Committee condemns US sanctions on Francesca Albanese” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

DEADLINE EXTENDED to June 11th, 2025! We understand that many people may not wish to travel to Columbus next March, for a range of valid reasons. Thus, the IPS Section is accepting alternative formats for the 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award Panel.

👉Deadline reminder! Submit your abstracts for the annual @dvpw.bsky.social critical security studies section conference by 7 June at the latest. Link to the official CfP: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us... We are looking forward to your proposals and please share widely - thanks!

The IPS Section is now welcoming nominations for the 2026 IPS Book Award! To nominate or self-nominate a book, please email the award panel chair Philippe M. Frowd ([email protected]). Books must be received by September 1st, 2025. For further information, access: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

A week from now! Looking forward to share some initial findings on Felix Ermacora and UN human rights fact finding at @eui-eu.bsky.social on 29 May at 10am.

It was a pleasure to write this blog post on UN special rapporteurs for the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/uns-...

‘Adults are going hungrier to keep children better fed. The most vulnerable – infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and others needing special diets – are already starving.’ Alex de Waal on famine in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

"[ICC prosecutor Karim Khan] has lost access to his email [as a result of Microsoft cancelling], and his bank accounts [in UK] have been frozen (...) the US sanctions are hampering work on a broad array of investigations, not just the Israeli one." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Really excited to present my ongoing book project on human rights elites at the UN at the International Relations Working Group at @eui-eu.bsky.social on 29 May (10:00 - 12:00 CEST). Even more excited to have the brilliant @jemtseva.bsky.social as disussant. www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

The IPS Section is now welcoming nominations for the 2026 IPS Distinguished Scholar Award! Nominations must be emailed to the Section Chair, Philippe Frowd at [email protected] by June 2nd, 2025 #ISA2026

🎉Congratulations to Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics and International Relations, on being shortlisted for the Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2025! www.bisa.ac.uk/news/susan-s... 📚Read Depletion: the Human Costs of Caring (OUP, 2024) Available in print & ebook soas.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1420138...

An exciting collection soon out in the world! Delighted to have a chapter on symbolic power featured

My latest article on my current research project on UN special rapporteurs is finally out with @risjnl.bsky.social! I develop the notion of the plural professional, or actors who practice several professions at the same time & not necessarily harmoniously. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Humanitarian aid is under attack. But where are the attacks coming from? In this short piece, I argue that one should distinguish between two different critiques of humanitarian aid. Progressive (Marxist, decolonial, feminist..) critiques on the one hand, and far-right critiques on the other.

I cannot emphasize enough what a crucial role Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has played in the post-Soviet space, often acting as the only serious alternative to state propaganda & self-censoring media. Their journalists broadcast in local languages, covering the most pressing issues in the region

A brilliant essay on the history of how US imperialism abolished conquest, by as of now bluesky-less Kerry Goettlich. How did we come to have an international order that is so radically protective of the territorial status quo?

[ #socioelites] Summer school: "The Business of the State: Elites, Expertise, and Policy Instruments Shaping the Public-Private Intersection" Organizers: @benjaminlemoine.bsky.social, Marte Mangset, Antoine Vauchez ⌛️ May 15th, 2025: Call for Applications 🔗 www.hf.uio.no/paris/franca...

Now in Boulevard C! Join us as ISA slowly concludes…

A huge honour to be part of such a brilliant team! Excited to meet members of the section on Tuesday.

Join us at the 2025 IPS Business Meeting! Happening on Tuesday, March 4th, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm at the Stevens Salon C-3, Chicago Hilton. We hope to see you there! #isa2025

🎉 Congratulations to João Pontes Nogueira on being selected the 2025 IPS Distinguished Scholar! Join the IPS Distinguished Scholar panel on Tuesday, March 4th, from 1:45pm to 3:30pm, at the Stevens Salon C-3, Chicago Hilton #ISA2025

Join us at the IPS and STAIR joint reception! Happening on Tuesday, March 4th, from 7pm to 8pm at the Stevens Salon A1, Chicago Hilton. We hope to see you there! 🍸🎊 #isa2025 @isanet.bsky.social

⏰ Bridge grants applications are due TOMORROW 28 February!

We were delighted to host the inimitable Prof. Ann Towns yesterday at @soasuni.bsky.social Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy. She gave a Master class on 'Gender and Diplomacy', presenting her incredible research on gender norms, gendered practices and hierarchies in diplomacy.

Excited to chair the next instalment of our “Trump 2.0” series at @soasuni.bsky.social

📣 SOAS Event - Trump 2.0: The Middle East in Focus Trump’s remarks on a “take-over” of Gaza, described as a “bold vision” by Netanyahu, have been met with alarm by global leaders and citizens. Join us for an expert discussion of the US's role in the Middle East: bit.ly/4b7fA6j

"Where is our outcry?" Two German universities have recently canceled events featuring UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. ISABEL FEICHTNER writes in a letter to international law scholars in Germany: time to speak up! verfassungsblog.de/where-is-our...

As this worked so well last time: Is there an up-to-date timeline on countries pursuing a feminist foreign policy, including announcing their intention & then (quietly or not) abandoning it? So far, I have 🇸🇪(dropped)🇨🇦🇫🇷🇲🇽🇪🇸🇱🇺🇩🇪🇳🇱🇨🇱🇨🇴🇱🇷 & 🇦🇷🇱🇾 (abandoned intention). Thanks!

💸 We are now accepting applications for EISA Dissertation Fieldwork Support Grants! ✅ Designed to cover travel and accommodation for PhD candidates, especially those who face different forms of precarity and structural inequality/discrimination 🔗 Learn more here: https://buff.ly/41mA5Zi

Cathy James, Stewart’s solicitor, said: “Today, the employment tribunal has vindicated my client’s actions and upheld her rights. This is an important win not just for Ms Stewart but for civil servants, the public interest, and democracy.”

Call for papers! Myself & @daliasaris.bsky.social are planning to run a panel on knowledge and expertise in humanitarian practice at #EISAPEC25 in Bologna 25-29 August, details below. We will be welcoming paper contributions until 7 March, DM for questions! @europeanisa.bsky.social #EISAPEC2025

I'm running for member-at-large of the wonderful @isaipssection.bsky.social! It would be a real honour to become part of this section and help shape it in the coming year.

"Wo wenn nicht an einer Universität?" Breites Bündnis verfasst Statement zum Verbot der Diskussion mit Francesca Albanese und Eyal Weizman and der FU: www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...

International campaign for the release of captives held as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. people1st.online