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Join us in Maynooth on Wed 19th March with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/fr…

Can you imagine the outcry from The Academy & others if, say, Martin Scorsese or Kathryn Bigelow or James Cameron were lynched after their Oscar wins? But like many Palestinians who have suffered before him, he'll get no justice as the state responsible isn't held to account

🎦Recording of a public lecture by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese which we hosted in Trinity College Dublin, 20 March 2025 youtube.com/watch?v=iG0BTN…

Please donate to legal fees and other expenses for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts grad student abducted by ICE because of an op-ed in a student newspaper. I've heard confirmation her legal team is aware of and supports this effort: chuffed.org/project/justic…

THIS is the story British media should be running with rather than dodgy stories of Ivy League professors supposedly 'fleeing' to a dodgy think tank at the UofT which rescinded a job offer from a Palestine-heritage academic. Taal is a British citizen. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/31/us/…

This morning a student in DCU was arrested for protesting in support of Palestine with no clear charge. As Niamh Ní Bhriain outlines so well here, we are witnessing a systematic erosion of the democratic process and the rule of law that needs to be resisted. irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

'Step right up, behold the grand spectacle of academia, a dazzling performance juggling neutrality, ethics & moral responsibility... Will universities finally sever ties with Israel, or will they deliver yet another breathtaking act of moral acrobatics?' tni.org/en/article/the…

Our final online Minerals roundtable will explore extractivism and material histories on Monday 28 April, 9am (Dublin). Our fantastic line-up of speakers: Dr Madhavi Jha Dr Oliver Tappe Dr Nicholas Y. H. Wong Register here 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-onl…

This book is brilliant! Can't wait to see it is print

Government offering to pay higher salaries to attract leading academics fleeing Donald Trump’s education threats BUT refusing to deal with the 50% of staff here right now on precarious contracts - often working below minimum wage & for free during exams independent.ie/irish-news/pol…

Like I've been saying all along since 2020. If we cleaned indoor air, Covid, and many other dangerous pathogens would almost vanish from circulation. Ask yourself why we don't. 🔥👇

Both IFUT and SIPTU members have condemned as hypocrisy the Government proposing to pay additional monies to overseas academics and university lecturers in an attempt to attract them to Ireland while workers in the sector struggle with precarious work practices and

Poaching big-name American scholars might feel important and exciting to certain people- and it might affect certain ‘metrics’ - but would it improve the quality of higher education for the masses? Colour me sceptical. It’s like being asked to believe in a ‘trickle down’ effect.

Rupture is excited to announce the Radical Book Fair 2025, which promises to be even more packed with stalls, talks, workshops and of course books then before! Saturday 31 May 2025 12 noon to 5 pm Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin More info here: rupture.ie/bookfair

In the May issue of ArtReview_ I offer a little provocation: lets do away with 'global south' & 'global majority'. There is no shared hemispheric condition between exploiter & exploited, & the geographies of neocolonialism aren't natural or demographic. artreview.com/the-trap-of-ca…

We can say now clearly that the most flouted & least respected maxim we inherited from the 20th century is Never Again.

Looking forward to speaking on social reproduction and resistance in Itamar Vieira Junior's Crooked Plow at this symposium on "Gendered Precarity and Literary Form" tomorrow, org. by Josh Jewell & Dr Iris Gioti, 6 Jun 9:30-5:30 in UCD HI. All welcome, no reg. required!

Oh look… Emmanuel and Samir Amin plagiarized Thomas Piketty’s idea 50 years before the latter came up with it.