Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality" Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks

New essay out co-authored with @mostowlansky.bsky.social on #AcademicFreedom, fear and the culture of silence in European universities. Published on @allegralab.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-si...

Read the implementation guidelines for cutting ties with Israeli academic institutions on the @easainfo.bsky.social website and join our community check-in at 12 CET today. We want to hear from you ! @allegralab.bsky.social

Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social

The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions. Find out more and access the full Guidelines here: easaonline.org/implementati...

@easainfo.bsky.social just released its implementation guidelines for the Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions voted by the membership last year. Learn the concrete actions you can take to severe ties with Israeli academic institutions @allegralab.bsky.social

Exceptionnelle enquête de @mediapart.fr sur l’islamophobie en France : depuis janvier, notre rédaction a dénombré au moins un fait islamophobe tous les deux à trois jours. www.mediapart.fr/studio/panor...

Fabulous new thematic thread on 'Recallibrating Syria' published on @allegralab.bsky.social. Check it out! https:// allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/recalibrating-syria/

Recolonize anthropology! www.academia.edu/129910803/Re...

@allegralab.bsky.social wrote a contribution to this spécial issue of Public Anthropologist on "Speaking out against Palestinians' Genocide". It was supposed to be a satirical piece. Not sure it is still the case now, 10 months after its initial writing...

Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.

🎙️ New podcast episode from @GVAGrad In this interview, @juliebillaud.bsky.social‬ talks about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...

I spoke about the US-Israeli 'humanitarian' scheme in Gaza for the German TV yesterday (5'34). The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation does not meet any humanitarian standard of humanity and impartiality and only serves to distract our attention from the ongoing genocide. youtu.be/lc3L1Z8sKBE?...

I watched fellow anthropologist Prof. Dr. @juliebillaud.bsky.social speak live on @news.dw.com this morning on #Gaza and why the current 'aid‘ scheme does by no means meet any standards of #humanitarianism. You can watch her again at 1pm CET today here: www.dw.com/en/live-tv/c...

www.deutschlandfunk.de/gaza-humanit... mit Kommentar von Prof. Dr. @juliebillaud.bsky.social

📸 The winners of our #PhotoCompetition are: 🏆 Luisa.Lupo, Public Prize – TRACES OF VIOLENCE 🎖️ Nora.Doukkali, Jury Prize – STOLEN TIME 👉 shorturl.at/M8umu Thanks to all 26 participants, the 580 voters, and the jury: @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Tobias.Marshall, Antoine.Tardy, @elenabutti.bsky.social

"Citing creative work well—citing it with care—requires a relational approach. To name a creative piece is not enough. We must let it speak inside our work, shift our tone, fracture our arguments, delay our conclusions." #CreativeAnthropology allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...

Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. When? Jun 5th 2025 12:30 CEST Where? us06web.zoom.us/.../register... More info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-o...

En 2022, le ministre de l’intérieur et candidat à la présidence de LR a bénéficié, grâce à un sénateur millionnaire, de luxueux bureaux sur les Champs-Élysées, sans trace de paiement ni déclaration dans ses comptes de campagne, ce qui est interdit. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world... allegralaboratory.net/collective-t...

📸 The Geneva Graduate Institute is holding a research photo competition! 🤓 And I have the honor of being part of the jury - with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Antoine Tardy, and Tobias Marschall. 💡 You can view the portfolios here shorturl.at/75aqX 📥 and vote your top 3 here shorturl.at/rVNj0

Hugues Jallon - Le Temps des salauds Comment le fascisme devient réel À paraître en septembre chez Divergences

Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social

#AcademicFreedom is the right to say everything but not anything. It is based on the rejection of bullshit. It only exists when it is actively practiced in the everyday. Refusing bullshit and telling the truth is practicing academic freedom.

The Working Group on Human Rights and #AcademicFreedom of @easainfo.bsky.social is organising a community check-in event on May 23 from 12 to 1pm CET. If you want to report an issue or get some information or advice, join us on line! www.easaonline.org/news/community

In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...

I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!

A great initiative by our MINT Students!

Students in the Human Rights and Humanitarianism track have produced fantastic podcasts. They cover notions such as 'nakba', 'state of emergency', 'self-determination', 'apartheid' or 'environmental justice' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Le 5/04 à 10h30, je ferai la modération d'une discussion sur le livre de Kaoutar Harchi "Ainsi l'animal et nous" aux Bains des Pâquis dans le cadre du Festival Histoire et Cité. Venez nombreux! histoire-cite.ch/programme/ce...

Together with Antonio De Lauri, I wrote about how South Africa's solidarity with #Gaza and its intervention at the ICJ could be seen as a manifestation of postcolonial humanism. @gvagrad.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Sarah Phillips' poem "In times like these" now out on Allegra allegralaboratory.net/in-times-lik...

„[J]ust remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.“ Toni Morrison

J'ai répondu aux questions de Camille Degott notamment sur l'attaque sans précédent contre les minorités de genre, au moment où une partie de la droite romande cède aux sirènes du trumpisme sur le fond comme sur la forme. www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇 www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Out today: 'Being #fungible: they only want us from the neck down', a thought-provoking piece by @jamescuffe.bsky.social and @fionamur.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib... (and good to reconnect in this space, too!)

Want to review a book on #settlercolonialism? Check out this list here and get in touch! allegralaboratory.net/call-for-rev...

On @allegralab.bsky.social, an interesting article by Nabil Salih who offers reflections on Iraqi art and imperial nostalgia with a selection of paintings by my dear friend Mohammed Abdul-Wasi. allegralaboratory.net/of-home-and-...

The commercial unfolding of AI has sparked wild computational narratives that seem to be out of control in their blatant appropriation and reduction of concepts such as “intelligence” or “civilization”. Read @anibalarregui.bsky.social on 'wild computing'. allegralaboratory.net/wild-computi...

Part 1 of our symposium @allegralab.bsky.social on Alice Wilson's book "Afterlives of Revolution" @stanfordpress.bsky.social "Wilson familiarises us with the untold, yet significant stories of a “forgotten” revolution and its revolutionaries". Fatemeh Sadeghi allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-o...

Our #FramingGaza series @allegralab.bsky.social is back with a fab essay by Faisal Al-Asaad discussing the temporalities of revolts in the MENA region. "A liberated Palestine is a precondition of a liberated Mashriq" 🇵🇸 allegralaboratory.net/temporalitie...

Charlotte Al-Khalili on the repression and criminalisation of expressions of solidarity with Palestine in France. New contribution to our #FramingGaza series @allegralab.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/a-world-upsi...

Join us on May 14th at the Geneva Graduate Institute to discuss #Palestine, academic freedom and the paradoxes of Western liberalism with Ruba Salih, Ilana Feldman, Ghassan Hage and Emanuel Schaublin. Everyone welcome. Registration compulsory. 🇵🇸

NEW EDITORIAL OUT @allegralab.bsky.social in which we explain why we keep talking about Palestine and why we think it is our responsibility as academics to do so #FramingGaza allegralaboratory.net/why-framing-...

Anyone anthro out there fancy writing a short note or a longer essay on the farmers’ protest in Europe? A good critical anthropological take seems to be missing from the discussion…! [email protected]