I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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Such a crucial piece by Bellingcat and Nick Waters to track the IDF’s 8219 Commando, a combat engineering battalion, as they demolished tunnels, houses and mosques in Gaza. bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

I'm not sure I've ever seen a more powerful 'remember to vote' video.
Resonates with my sense that the moment we are living through currently is so, so privileged and so, so fragile.

All the photographs in the book were made on an iPhone 6 ... “It just suited the subject matter,” she explains, “not least because we really became aware of these killings when they started to be documented on camera phones by people who witnessed them.”
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I visited the Gaza solidarity camp at Columbia yesterday and wanted to share a few
very brief observations.

First, it's one of the most highly organised student protests I've ever seen. They have media and de-escalation training, a nutzone to protest students with allergies.

Excited to see the Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry is available to order, in print by the US election. It's edited by me and @vianbakir1 with amazing contributors including Marc Owen Jones Nicholas J. Cull Alexandra Chalupa Jonathan Corpus Ong and more.

Reporter: Evidence at Gaza mass graves show torture and signs of being buried alive, Palestinians called for an independent investigation, what’s wrong with that?

Patel: We’re asking Israel

Reporter: You’re asking the accused to investigate itself?

Patel: We’re asking Israel

🚨Final call! 4th May: We are inviting veterans who served in Northern Ireland, & family members, to visit the ‘Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles’ exhibition at IWM North and a workshop in which we’ll discuss your responses. Free lunch + £25 for expenses. Details below:

Secunder Kermani Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-VDA…

The role of war reporters is key to bringing war to the public eye. May 14, European journalists will tackle the challenges they are facing: how to retain the public’s interest in prolonged conflicts? With Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Sander van Hoorn and Boyko Vassilev.
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🚨4th May: We are inviting veterans who served in Northern Ireland, and their family members, to visit the ‘Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles’ exhibition at IWM North and a workshop in which we’ll discuss your responses. 📷Free lunch + £25 for expenses. See details below

“History will selectively view us as it wishes and there’s nothing we can do about that. But I think he’d be appalled to be represented as a war photographer. That’s not how he defined himself.“ theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

CRCC scholar Burçe Celik is co-organising a 2-day international symposium Loughborough University London bringing together over 25 scholars to discuss how to employ historical and archival research for a radically inclusive study of media.
Join in person or online shorturl.at/ACEZ9

Worth reading for many reasons but especially for the use of 'the first moronocracy' 😂
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Are you interested in Comics and Interdisciplinarity?Click to book your place at the latest of Miriam Kent and team's Sadler Seminar events Crossing Over: Hocus Pocus and the Magic of Comics in Research ticketsource.co.uk/comicsatleeds/…

Call for Papers/Creative Presentations: What we talk about when we talk about the commons

University of Leeds
17th June

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Excellent piece in FT Weekend on Tim Hetherington, previewing the exhibition of his work opening later this month Imperial War Museums
A photographer’s journey to the eye of the storm ft.com/content/46f683… via @ft

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