Join us tomorrow for the second session of Decolonising Europe lecture series with @RobbieShilliam and @ManchandaNivi The session will be available on YouTube next week Monday. Register: bit.ly/2VaQVYw Rewatch the first session @UvA_AISSR bit.ly/3hTsIjk

Race is a construct which has operational force. It is not unchangeable or biological. Is it really that hard to understand?

In an effort to deepen our understanding of race and racism in America, we asked writers to share with us the texts that have done the most to deepen theirs nytimes.com/article/books-…

The #PrincetonU Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and residential college. bit.ly/2YCctPR

✨👇🏾this conversation was such a joy. Thank you Lisa Tilley @ManchandaNivi and Kerem to breath this into life🙏🏾✨and for everyone for the massive turnout!

Really important thread connecting histories of war, violence and imperialism to contemporary racial violence in the context of #Grenfell Reminiscent of some of the connections made at yesterday's Campaign Against Arms Trade event on police, war and empire.

Brilliant. Wide-ranging, comprehensive and agenda-setting article just out from Dr Amal Abu-Bakare (archive) Does much more than the title suggests... International Politics Reviews link.springer.com/article/10.105…

This is a vital piece by the inimitable Dr Amal Abu-Bakare (archive) which works though key texts on race and counterterrorism in IR. Amal is a phenomenal scholar and I’m so excited to teach, write, think with this amazing text (and all the ones to come). link.springer.com/article/10.105…

My new article is out! Gramsci in the Postcolony: Hegemony and Anticolonialism in Nasserist Egypt - on anticolonialism and reading/thinking with Gramsci in Egypt and the postcolonial world journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The monument this morning. Later today, we will begin cleaning and counting the fildžans as a collective effort much like yesterday as an act of remembrance and hope for a brighter future. #stotenema #srebrenica25 Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) Srebrenica Memorial Center

Tomorrow is the last Decolonising Europe lecture before the summer break. You can register here: bit.ly/3j8Bdb1 The series will continue after the summer break If you want to stay up to date, you can register for our special newsletter: bit.ly/3ft94Jm

Europeans of colour are finding their voice – it's time ‘Brussels so white' listened | Shada Islam theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our Archives Supervisor Rhoda Boateng shares the history of Emancipation Day, and voices of some of the activists involved, on our website news section: blackculturalarchives.org/blog/2020/7/31… #reparations #emancipationday [image black and white photograph of late MP Bernie Grant, BCA/6/3/23/A]

Border Hospitality @mahmoudkvz & the ethical challenges of research with border transgressors - “A good research is not the one that shows how I cross the border but rather tells me how I can cross it” discoversociety.org/2020/08/05/bor…

BBC yesterday: filming people crossing the Channel like some Attenborough documentary and stoking xenophobia. BBC today: make sure you watch Steven McQueen Directed drama about Black Power activists who openly fought against UK's racist immigration controls.

The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy presents ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN 1972: Voices from the Heart of The Troubles By Damian Gorman Wednesday 16th September 2020 to Saturday 19th September 2020 8pm derryplayhouse.co.uk/events/details…

We are changing our convenorship! Please welcome Emma Kast and Joe Thurgate :) of @InterpolAber ! And say goodbye to @talbzh and Dr Amal Abu-Bakare (archive) as they continue on with their endeavours :)