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I’m delighted to share that my article “‘I Have Learned Things Late in Life’: The Aftereffects of Revolutionary Participation in Egypt” is now out in Middle East Critique ! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟓𝐩𝐦! 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞: 𝐒𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐂𝐞𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟕-𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟏 by 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐃𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 at the Social Scientists' Association 380/86, Sarana Rd, Colombo 7

The very last day of cross-hub workshops in the project in Budapest CEU Democracy Institute 🥹 The fellows discussed how they could use AI for their own research projects. SSA Lanka The Nelson Mandela School Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad de los Andes Eduardo Ryô Tamaki Levente Littvay

Great conference this week in Bogotá at Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad de los Andes to end our Global Forum Fellowship. Illuminating discussions on peace processes, BDS, violence against natures past/present and social movements in Colombia

*** Weekend read *** A co-authored piece by our Budapest fellow Gustavo Venturelli , Paolo Ricci and Gabriel Pinho explores how 🇧🇷 democracy endured under #bolsonaro . ⬇️

The School welcomed research fellows and faculty members for an eight-month residential fellowship programme. To conclude this programme, the School hosted a conference titled "Building Democratic Resilience and Economic Transformation in Africa." 🔖bit.ly/4mAQwcV

ECO-DEM conference workshop at the The Nelson Mandela School. An interdisciplinary initiative to expand debates on land, nature and extractivisims Global Forum Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad de los Andes

✍️ The “liberal world order” that promised freedom and equality has paradoxically become a source of suffering and marginalization for Muslims across the globe, our Global Forum Fellow Shafi Md Mostofa writes in E-International Relations. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/2t72wb2d

Mischief of the Franchise Suffrage Expansion in the British Empire, Ceylon 1927-1931, Professor Dan Slater: In this talk, Dan Slater discusses his paper with Iza Ding on the nature of the franchise expansion brought about in Sri Lanka under British colonial rule.

This new piece co-authored by our Global Forum Fellow @vihangjumble analyzes hashtags from India’s general elections of 2019 to argue how ‘discursive political projections’ on Twitter created symbolic imageries of political leaders. ⬇️

Pluriversal Sovereignty and Colonial Contamination: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka and Turtle Island by Ajay Parasram Date: 12th June 2025 Time: 5.00PM-6.30PM Location: Social Scientists' Association 380/86, Sarana Road Colombo 07

#PostgradStudies | Applications for the Master of Development Policy & Practice are currently open and will remain open until November 2025. Gain the knowledge and skills needed to make a lasting impact! 📚 Apply today: bit.ly/Public_Governa…

On the 29th of May 2025, the SSA hosted a farewell lunch for the fellows of the GFDD project. The project concluded after 8 months of rigorous academic activity which included exposure visits, research discussions, invited talks, and a regional conference.

Our Cape Town hub, The Nelson Mandela School, held its final conference in the program. The topic: Building democratic resilience and economic transformation in Africa.

📢🎙️New Review of Democracy podcast episode out now! Honored to host Francis Fukuyama & Beatriz Magaloni to talk about their powerful piece on performance legitimacy, delivery, and trust in democracy, published in Journal of Democracy. 🎧Tune in here → tinyurl.com/w4y8x92b

Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile. Guess which school was the OG? Central European University nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/…

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟓𝐩𝐦! Pluriversal Sovereignty and Colonial Contamination: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka and Turtle Island by Ajay Parasram. Date: 12th June 2025 Time: 5.00PM-6.30PM Location: Social Scientists' Association 380/86, Sarana Road Colombo 07

✍️🗞️ Our Global Forum Fellow Shafi Md Mostofa tackles Bangladesh' attitudes towards the India-Pakistan crisis, the rise of "the Islamist left" in Bangladesh, and the relationship between Bangladesh and China in his latest op-eds. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/26yyz23y

✍️🇹🇷 Ece Özbey explores how legal repression, symbolic erasure, and authoritarian overreach may backfire in Turkey, without yet sealing its fate as another Venezuela. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3yuzkm36

conference in South Africa in October 🇿🇦 👇 Engaging Stuart Hall in and from the Global South (CASA Annual Symposium) up.ac.za/sociology/cale…