I'm organising an #exhibition of visual materials at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, 29th July-9th August 🖼️ The exhibition explores photos and data vis from my research on Belfast's 'peace walls'. Please share, and feel free to join! Details here: bit.ly/4l1cDbr

Russian Without Russians: The Politics of Language in Uzbekistan In the latest issue of The Diplomat , I talk to UZB's Gen Z about the russian language in the country UZB’s Gen Z are not calling for Russian to be erased, but for Uzbek to be elevated. magazine.thediplomat.com/2025-07/russia…

“Russia’s colonial past in Central Asia cannot be whitewashed” — Experts reject RF’s ‘shared history’ narrative kun.uz/en/02562511

🌏 Research Climate Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities workshop 💭 Our Doctoral Researchers Network hosted a one-day workshop for PGRs and ECRs working on the political economy of the climate crisis and activism Info here: shorturl.at/LXXsC

@EuropeanISA's conference programme is out... Dr Frank Maracchione @frankmaracchione.bsky.social and I are co-convening a section on 'Continuities Underlying Crises'. See below for our section programme, featuring contributions from loads of great scholars! Please share and join us in August!💡 bit.ly/4kp6tkq

Was 1970s stagflation a crisis of capitalism or a crisis in politics? Prof Colin Hay joins SPERI @SPERIshefuni.bsky.social's Crisis Point podcast to explore what really happened and why it still shapes how we think today. 🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3Tth6ri #Stagflation #Politics

📢 New paper out with ASIAC Studies on Central Asia & Caucasus in Italy: "Uzbekistan in the Global Majority: A protagonist of reglobalisation?". 🌏A reflection on Uzbekistan's integration into the global economy, with emphasis on South-South ties. For the ITACA project funded by Farnesina 🇮🇹. riviste.fupress.net/index.php/asia…

📢We are happy to announce that the 2025 Special Issue of ASIAC's journal "Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus" is out. 🇮🇹 Funded by Farnesina 🇮🇹, the issue showcases findings from our ITACA project in Eurasia connectivity and infrastructures. riviste.fupress.net/index.php/asia…

Uzbekistan: President Mirziyoyev retains the same core advisors under updated titles—Abdulaziz Kamilov for foreign policy, Sardor Umurzakov for strategic development, and Ruslanbek Davletov for civil society, religious, and youth affairs—along with other longtime aides. More

Check your inboxes! 📩 We've completed the selection for #ASIAC2025, our 19th Annual Conference. Due to the number of great applications, the conference will last four days: 15-16-17-18 Dec 2025, Unive Ca' Foscari. We accepted around 65 papers and 18 organised panels. Congratulations!

Publication alert! Happy to share my recently published article in Regulation & Governance: Which and Whose Rules Rule? Chinese Agribusinesses and the Challenge of Compliance in Rural Tajikistan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

If I do say so myself, this is a truly exceptional and thought provoking discussion of the intersections between elite violence and economy It took a lot of coordination by many colleagues to make this happen - listen on Spotify, Apple, or other podcast platforms

Have a listen to my comments on #CentralAsia|n perceptions of #Russia's War in #Ukraine. I challenge Eurocentric narratives about organised violence that characterise geopolitical imaginaries in IPE This live SPERI @SPERIshefuni.bsky.social podcast was recorded at BISA2025. open.spotify.com/episode/0giRR5…

What caused the 2008 crash - and what happened next? Dr Scott Lavery joins SPERI to look at the crash's roots, how it shaped our world, and why neoliberalism still holds on. 🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3UiPw0a

Launching a monthly newsletter “Nodes from Pluriverse”, on news, reading recommendations (books freshly out of press), key concept highlight (this month it’s Wolfe’s “the logic of elimination”), talks, podcasts, and opportunities and open calls - all on decolonial option 👇🏾🔗

🎙️SPERI @SPERIshefuni.bsky.social Presents: Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Dr Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong Dr Frank Maracchione @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & Dr Remi Edwards @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉 Recorded IPEG roundtable at #BISA2025 🌟 listen now 👉 ow.ly/Upxl50WtTkB

Examining how military technologies are produced and how post-industrial regions are drawn into war supply chains, our podcast of the week interrogates the political economy of organized violence. With Joanna Tidy, Beryl Pong, Dr Frank Maracchione @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & Vicki Reif-Breitwieser buff.ly/YErfbQS

While at BISA - British International Studies Association last month, I had the great pleasure of being on a roundtable on the political economy of organised violence, where I talked about drones. SPERI @SPERIshefuni.bsky.social has produced that conversation as a podcast, which is now podcast of the week at The Syllabus! Listen here 👇

Why does austerity keep coming back, even when it’s unpopular? In Crisis Point, Clara Mattei joins us to explore austerity’s history, power and resilience. Listen on The Player: bit.ly/4oBX2l1 #Austerity #CrisisPoint #PoliticalEconomy

Thank you The Syllabus for reposting our podcast episode recorded during BISA - British International Studies Association 2025 in Belfast. I recommend listening to it as it features a stellar cast including Beryl Pong, Vicki Reif-Breitwieser, Jo Tidy, Elena Simon (& myself). Hosted by SPERI's own Dr Remi Edwards @remiedwards.bsky.social.