Yes, but only because it’s a convenient way to wield liberal power. I’m under no illusion that the west cares one jot for professors. We’re all woke drains on public resources, indoctrinating the youth with critical thinking amidst a culture of anti-intellectualism.

Please, everyone, remember this: the presence of police on Columbia's campus comes because of the request of the administration, in defiance of faculty governance. This is the authoritarian university in action.

Doesn’t seem like a total accident that the NYPD raids on students at Columbia and CCNY are happening at the same time that Rafah is under brutal siege

staggering levels of symbolism in this building: built by a donor, named after a US president, occupied by students protesting war in Vietnam, South African apartheid, and now, proudly, it bears the name of a girl who had been abandoned by the entire world

As part of this we’re running an Early Career Essay prize for PGRs and ECRs. Essays should be on topics linked to the conference - environmental history, humanitarianism, science in crisis, politics and sustainability. See cfp on euroreviewhistory.com for more details

Hi nerds! Jessica Whyte and I are putting together what we think will be a cool event on dollar hegemony, state sovereignty and international order. We want to hear from lawyers, political economists, historians, political theorists, IR scholars etc etc. Some very cool people1/2

Shadows without bodies: war, revolutionary nostalgia, and the challenges of internationalism

A public lecture by Dr Christina Heatherton Christina Heatherton LSE Human Rights LSE Sociology

Wednesday 22 May 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm, IN PERSON and Online LSE

lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

🚨CfP🚨
We’re hosting our 30th anniversary conference in Bremen on 13-15th November!

The theme is ‘(Un)Sustainabilities in History’ + we’re looking for papers on histories of environment, humanitarianism, science + politics

For more info, visit euroreviewhistory.com

The 2018 Royal Historical Society report on racism in UK History departments highlighted stark inequalities in universities.

Jonathan Saha reflects on the progress (or lack of it) since then - & the current 'backlash' to antiracism in the academy.
historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-histo…

CFP: Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop. Come join us in Sydney for this workshop that ⁦⁦Ntina Tzouvala⁩ and I are organising in December. Abstracts due July 1! lpeproject.org/events/cfp-dol…

The Refaat Alareer memorial libraries at all the encampments is just 😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

“Our duty of solidarity demands that we ensure the fate of higher education in Gaza will remain in the hands of the faculty, staff, and students of the Palestinian universities in Gaza; that the institutions created by Palestinians are not destroyed, but instead are rebuilt.”

The physical format arrived in the mail today - a thing of beauty!
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Forum on cultural & civilizational narratives in diplomacy! 🤩

w. Peter Postma, I had a hand in organizing the reviews - thoughtful readings by Dr Margot Tudor Emil Eiby Seidenfaden , B. Keys, M. Auwers.

Our forum on U.S. Military Humanitarianism in MAH is out! It grew out of a panel at last year’s SHAFR Conference. Many thanks to fellow forum contributors Julia Irwin Adam Seipp Dr. Mary Elizabeth Walters 🇺🇦 and Elisabeth Piller! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Great to see this piece out; part of a forum on U.S. Military Humanitarianism in MAH; thanks to last year's SHAFR Conference and fellow forum contributors Julia Irwin Adam Seipp Dr. Mary Elizabeth Walters 🇺🇦 and (especially) Brian Drohan - open access 🥳: bit.ly/3JAzRE9

happy new Reznor/Ross soundtrack release for all who celebrate (read: listen to their music as a way to induce hyper-fixation and catch up on all their writing)

new series of Serial on Guantanamo highlights 🤯 paradoxes: ‘For some of the prisoners, the worst thing about Guantanamo wasn’t so much that the US wasn’t playing by the rules [geneva conventions]… the worst thing was that the US seemed to think it *was* playing by the rules.’