PENSION BALLOT: SMASHED! We’ve delivered an unprecedented turnout and a huge YES vote UCU and proud #ucuRISING

It's time for coordinated strike action across the education sector. It's time to shut down the education factory. Wrote something for Red Pepper Media on the UCU ballot results d the possibility of coordinated action with UNISON in Higher Education National Education Union NASUWT redpepper.org.uk/time-to-shut-d…

The Merseyway Shopping Centre, Stockport, 1970.

Chester away is great ! Laura C Forster Duncan Lee

Call for Papers 📢 Actors, Lives, and Networks: Biographies in the Global Circulation of Knowledge Workshop at QMUL, 11-12 May 2023

We still have places available for the The History of Scientific Conferences show on the history of conferences on 18 Nov, 6-8pm Birkbeck, University of London's cinema. It's history, science, art & entertainment all in one, followed by drinks. Places are free, reserve here shorturl.at/DJX05 BIMI

And finally the report of our conference on the landscapes of intellectual history is out in English German Historical Institute London Bulletin ➡️ ghil.ac.uk/fileadmin/reda…

Come to this tonight! Sound art, good chat, free booze! 6pm Birkbeck Cinema

Happy May Day! Always a good opportunity to revisit Walter Crane’s work: historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-solid… Laura C Forster

Really excited to be one of the speakers at this event at exploring #Queer radicalism alongside Cheddar Gorgeous Sarah-Joy Ford Laura C Forster to mark the launch of Beyond Radical Network at the Whitworth on 28 September.

Launching TODAY! If you missed out on tickets, there are some available due to cancellations: buff.ly/3RohLu3 Join us here from 18:30 for snippets of the conversation. the Whitworth Ibtisam Ahmed (he/him) Sarah-Joy Ford Laura C Forster Cheddar Gorgeous Manchester English #beyondradical #queer

New article BJHS Editor cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Yay for Laura C Forster's article now out on BJHS Editor FirstView: 'Sex, science and curated community at the World League for Sexual Reform 1929 conference' - only 1 more article to go for our full special issue on conferences The History of Scientific Conferences cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A video shows the moment Israeli forces blew up a UNRWA school building in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, which they say was being used as a Hamas outpost. UN schools and buildings, which shelter thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, continue to be targeted by Israel ⤵️

At least 90 killed in latest Israeli attacks on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/1…

No more universities in Gaza. They have been destroyed and our academic colleagues and students killed. Epistemicide and genocide. Where are the statements and protests from universities, academic associations and education ministers in the UK and internationally? Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians

A must-read by Oxford’s Avi Shlaim, who pulls precisely zero punches. “The Palestinian people,” he writes, “are the only people living under military occupation who are expected to ensure the security of their occupier.” “What is happening in Gaza is… Israeli state terrorism.”

All Israeli allegations, no matter how absurd, are taken as true until proven false (generally weeks later). All Palestinian allegations, no matter how credible and diversely sourced, are ignored until they can be thoroughly investigated (generally never).

“The Palestinian people are the only people living under military occupation who are expected to ensure the security of their occupier.” Oxford's Avi Shlaim on Israeli terrorism. Have the courage to read this detailed indictment. prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel/6…