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mjbayly.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, @LSEIRDept. Views my own. Interested in history, theory, and South Asia. Author of 'Taming The Imperial Imagination' http://tinyurl.com/2fw6w8n8
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We are looking to appoint 2 Lecturers in Political Theory. The positions are open to all subfields of political theory (please note: you need only apply for one of the advertised posts to be considered for both): www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

Really appreciate how much more has been uploaded onto the Abhilekh Patal portal for the National Archives of India. It makes a lot of Indian primary sources far more accessible (link w/example below)

The 2025 Ashoka Diplomatic Studies Workshop for early-career researchers will be held at Ashoka University on 10-11 Oct. We welcome research on India's diplomatic studies using IR & historical approaches. Please submit a 250-word abstract and one-page CV by 10th March.

The LSE Library is hosting a launch event for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" on Wednesday, March 12 · 6pm - 7:30pm. Tickets still avail: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

@emleake.bsky.social will be delivering a lecture 6th March titled Decolonization's Discontents, hosted jointly by @rshc.bsky.social , @qmul.ac.uk 's History and IHSS . It will be great, event (and wine reception) free, but do register here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Cambridge is looking for an Assistant Prof in the History of International Political Thought 👇 #HistIR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU018/a...

We're delighted to share our Call for Papers for the 16th London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought, on the theme of ‘States and Spaces' (19th-20th June, LSE). Deadline for submissions is 14 March! For more details: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

The closing date for applications to the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at LSE is at the end of this week. Past holders include Iver Neumann, Fred Halliday, Barry Buzan, and Susan Strange. See below for more…

Delighted that my first book was awarded the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations! Many thanks to the prize committee and to my friends and colleagues in the Historical IR section at ISA!

We'll be holding our 2nd 'histories of internationalism' reading group at 4.30pm on 27th February on the @cityhistory.bsky.social campus. DM or email me (margot.tudor[@]city.ac.uk] for full details. All welcome!

@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are open! If you’re a #esrlycareerresearcher in #humanities #socialsciences based anywhere in 🌍 apply to do your research in 🇬🇧 for 2 years. Deadline for applications is 17.00 on 18 March www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Some afternoons are more productive than others! Just spent one recording a podcast with Whisky and IR, courtesy of @dhnexon.bsky.social and @profptj.bsky.social. Discussing Historical IR in the excellent company of @jcostalopez.bsky.social and @bdecarvalho.bsky.social Follow this space for more...

APSA Middle East & North Africa Politics awards are open for nominations: deadline 1 Feb. I'm on the thesis committee- if you recently supervised or examined a top PhD in this field, do consider nominating (or ECRs, let your supervisor know!). 👇 @apsamena.bsky.social apsanet.org/membership/o...

#OpenAccess - Law, time, and (in)justice after empire: Germany's objection to colonial reparations and the chronopolitics of deflection - cup.org/4fTQhFy - Sinja Graf #FirstView

1. @britishacademy.bsky.social call for UK-based early and mid career researchers to work for a year remotely with international partners on the environment, technology, health, cities or geopolitics Deadline is 17.00 UK time on Wednesday 19 February www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/oda-...

🚨 #JobAlert: LSE Department of International Relations is looking to hire a Montague Burton Chair in International Relations. Closing date: 9 February 2025. Apply below and please share widely with your networks! #AcademicSky ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

'Ethnos of the Earth: International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity' by Jaakko Heiskanen. A global conceptual history of ethnicity revealing the pivotal role of this concept in the making of the international order. 📚 cup.org/3ByjwPW 📚

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD candidate @acullellcano.bsky.social, along with @elsor.bsky.social & Shreya Bhattacharya, for publishing @millennjournal.bsky.social's Special Issue “Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies.” journals.sagepub.com/toc/mila/52/3

LSE is seeking the next Montague Burton Chair in International Relations. The MB Chair was previously held by Iver Neumann, Barry Buzan, Fred Halliday, Chris Hill, R.J. Vincent and Susan Strange. Closing date is 9 Feb 2025 - please spread widely. Further details: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Great opportunity to do a PhD at the great Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg! www.gu.se/en/political...

Sharing details of the new annual OUP ECR First Book Prize, which opens for submissions in January 2025, awarding up to ten applicants with the opportunity to publish their original and innovative work fully open access. More details and information on how to apply: academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Since there is more interaction here, I'd like to take this opportunity to share my article 'A Brotherhood of Nations: Imagining the Nation-Based Order during the Springtime of Nations (1848), published a few days ago in @risjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/8)

[Reposting from the other place] 🚨 New publication! 🚨 Excited to share my new article "Brain worlds" now out (Open Access) with @ejir.bsky.social on the interwar history of information ... 1/5 🧵 ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n8t8s92

Deadline approaching! 👇 #HistIR

Applications open for an Assistant Professor in International Relations with a specialism on China, at the LSE IR department. Deadline 9 September. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

CFP now out for the LSE-Tufts seminar in Contemporary International History including historical IR. This is the 2nd year in this format. Convened online & at Tufts/LSE it's a great interdisciplinary space. If you're post-PhD please consider submitting an abstract! Deadline 23 Aug. #histIR #polisky

Article Brent Steele and I wrote on icons in international relations now has a volume, issue and page numbers! It also has Mohammed Ali, flight attendants falling from the sky and other stories for your enjoyment! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here's a short open access commentary piece I've just published in JNU's famous International Studies journal on the value of attention to Indian disciplinary histories of IR. Please note there is very little Star Wars content in this article. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The 6th Annual Cambridge Historical IR Conference Friday 10th of May 2024 Free and open to all Details here: polis.cam.ac.uk/histir.com

Today I have the honour of talking to Leonie Wolters about her wonderful book on M.N. Roy and other anti-colonial activists at the FU Berlin.

Polisky - Job! 3-year R&T lectureship with an emphasis on security, broadly construed, working with myself and a bevy of nice people @ Edinburgh Politics & International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences. Feel free to reach out with any questions, or apply using the link.

After a very scenic route, my article with @chrsjcksn.bsky.social on the crazypants that is North Macedonia's architecture in the context of ontological security and European integration is finally out in Millennium! We have many pictures! journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KFDQV...

"Race & Imperialism in IR" - New symposium marking 2 yrs since our centenary special issue in International Affairs. Thanks to hosts Duck of Minerva & to the contributors for their thoughtful interventions (posted in thread below 🧵). Here is our intro 1/ www.duckofminerva.com/2024/04/intr... polisky

Wonderful panel this morning on research methods for Historical International Relations #ISA2024

Hoping for a spot of academic technology advice. I’m doing archives for the first time in a while next week. What scanner apps are you folks using these days? Polisky 🗃

Research workshop call: 'International Order Strategies, Past and Present': www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets...

History and IR meet again in Florence to discuss order and disorder in the 19th century (badisordertoorder.com)

The dream team of @aysezarakol.bsky.social @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and Brent Steele at the closing roundtable for yesterday’s workshop on historical IR at LSE. This was such a privilege to host. Thanks to everyone who took part.

At Chicago University today to give a paper on relational sociology, empire, anti-imperialism, and Mahendra Pratap Singh. .. and to soak up the glorious weather. With thanks to @juliango.bsky.social for the invitation.

Scholars/practitioners of activist + insurgent movements: Have you generated a collection that you want to be accessible to others longterm? The Non-State Archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @ohiostate.bsky.social provides $ to support organizing collections + accepts deposits. 28 Feb grant deadline.

Read Choi and Kwon's article on why ontology, not just culture, matters to the Qing and other orders: t1p.de/42bng

This Vol - and the workshop that built it - was an absolute pleasure to participate in. It also signals the exciting directions CUP's Global and Int'l Hist series is taking, curating transnatl scholarship from a wide array of scholars (background, career stage, geographic location).

The article I wrote with Michael Barnett and Alex Vandermaas-Peeler is now up open access in the Review of International Studies. We trace how victimhood because a status position in world politics, using cases from, welp, Israel, DRC and Bosnia.

🚨New Article🚨 From our special forum Making is Thinking: 'Mapping as a Critical Making Practice in International Relations' by Francesco Ragazzi Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Often use Aeon essays in college admission interviews, so extra pleased with this one. #HistIR aeon.co/essays/the-f...

Excited to see our co-authored article on Rethinking transnational activism through regional perspectives out. A big thanks to Daniel Laqua and Thomas R. Davies for their invitation to this fantastic discussion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...