📢Film screening with Priscila Tapajowara, Indigenous Filmmaker and Activist, and Decolonise Sociology on 28 Feb, 5pm. The short film "The River" is about how Soya exports from the Amazon change the relationships of Indigenous communities with the Tapajos river. tickettailor.com/events/globalr…

Meet Fred Abrahams, former Associate Program Director at Human Rights Watch at our next Practitioner Series Talk on 26 Feb at 5pm (online)! He has worked in areas affected by armed conflict, such as the Balkans and Middle East, for nearly twenty years. eventbrite.com/e/cghr-practit…

📢One more exciting talk in February at CGHR 🎓 On Monday, 24 Feb at 12:30pm, we will be hosting Dr. Rebekah Larsen for a talk titled "Beyond infotainment: Conservative talk radio in rural USA" Join us in SG1 - lunch snacks will be provided! To register eventbrite.com/e/beyond-infot…

📻✨Dive deep into the world of conservative talk radio in rural USA! Join us for a discussion on the key sociopolitical roles these stations play in shaping local & national news. 🎤 Dr Rebekah Larsen 🗓️ 24 Feb, 12:30 📍 SG1, Alison Richard Building eventbrite.com/e/beyond-infot…

Don't miss our Co-Director Ella McPherson's talk at the CFI Work in progress seminars​! "Digital fictions and epistemology backlashes: AI in making civil rights truths claims" 🗓️25 Feb 2025 🕔14:00 📍ITH Boardroom, 16 Mill Lane Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Sociology Future Intelligence

Join us for a book presentation 📢📕 with Dr Aditi Malik next week! In her book "Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India", she develops a novel explanation about ethnic party violence. 🗓️Tues, 18 Mar 🕔5pm 📍S1, ARB eventbrite.com/e/playing-with…

📢Don't miss Dr Aditi Malik's book presentation at 5pm tomorrow! "Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India" draws on a cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India, developing a novel explanation about ethnic party violence. eventbrite.com/e/playing-with…

New article 'Knowing Digital Governance from Below' now available open access: doi.org/10.5617/jea.11…

👉 Next week, as part of our Cambridge Centre of Development Studies seminar series. Ha-Joon Chang and José Miguel Ahumada will be delivering a talk on how we can build a New International Economic Order. 📆15 May ⏰15:30 – 17:00, 📍Little Hall on Sidgwick Site devstudies.cam.ac.uk/events/cds-sem…

Thank you to all the partner institutions (LSE, University of Oslo, University of Antwerp, University of Essex, University of Cambridge) for a vibrant and insightful Human Rights PhD Circle 2025. Excellent presentations and insightful discussions - a veritable intellectual treat.

Come to this evening's book launch for Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon's "The Spectre of State Capitalism". 🕔5-7pm 📍SG1/2 Alison Richard Building 📅 Tuesday 27 May devstudies.cam.ac.uk/events/book-la…

Humanities, Social Sciences and AI - Transversal Theme: a Lego Serious Play workshop on 13th June 2025 A workshop using disciplinary expertise combined with interdisciplinary play (Lego!) to develop fresh ideas on artificial intelligence: Register here: ahssresearch.group.cam.ac.uk/transversal-th…

This evening, join Dr Toon Dirkx, Dr Devon Curtis and Prof Sharath Srinivasan for "A Word From Our Sponsor: The CIA and AnyaNya Propaganda in Southern Sudan’s 'Hidden War', 1969-1971" 🕠5.30-7.00PM 📍Harrods Room, Emmanuel College @CGHR_cambridge African Studies

CGHR, housed within POLIS, is seeking to appoint a part-time fixed-term Centre Coordinator for 18.25 hours per week. This is a great opportunity for an individual with comprehensive administrative experience. Apply now: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51740/

🎉Congratulations to Dr Farhana Afrin Rahman who has been awarded the prestigious L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize at the 2025 BISA Awards for her groundbreaking work, After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps.📚 polis.cam.ac.uk/news/farhana-a…

From students to scholars and practitioners in our global research network, there are many who volunteer their time and energy to support CGHR. Once a year we take the opportunity to say thank you by hosting a summer picnic for our friends and supporters. What a lovely day!

On 3 June, Ella and Sharath convened the first Connections event of the ‘Humanities, Social Sciences and AI’ Transversal Theme: a workshop using disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary play (Lego) to develop fresh views on AI. Congratulations on hugely a successful event!

📢We're hiring a full-time postdoctoral research associate based in the Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR) for 2 years starting in Oct 25 to collaborate with Prof Sharath Srinivasan on 'Communication Technology and Contentious Politics'. Learn more: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51939/

We are hiring! 💼 Join us to work in a friendly, exciting and fast paced environment to support interdisciplinary research. 🌎 Project Co-ordinator Centre for Geopolitics 💻 Research Grants Administrator Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy 🏢 Deputy Director of CRASSH crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacancies

Our special issue with TWQ now out as an expanded special issue! The Social Life of Skills in the Global South (ThirdWorlds) amzn.eu/d/6L06deq #Amazon ⁦Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦University of Sussex⁩