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Never thought that retirement would ever come.

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For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I reviewed antisemitism reports by Columbia, Penn, UCLA + the University of Washington--reports that could classify as antisemitic the research done by those university's own scholars of Israel-Palestine jewishcurrents.org/the-perils-o...

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glad to have finally gotten to read this Arthur Asseraf essay on the history of Algerian decolonization and how we can understand its relation to decolonizing Palestine

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Interesting that Braverman's intervention will cause more headaches for her frontbench than for the govt's. I assume that's the whole purpose.

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sooo much to unpack in this, but at the same time it says everything and nothing. the ultimate reading of it is: ‘I’m not English - but I’m more English than these people’. arguing for a multi-ethnic society rather than a multicultural society won’t save you from yr fashy friends archive.is/DeIG4

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International student recruitment giant IDP has announced a 16 per cent fall in revenue in the second half of 2024, driven by declining student placements in the wake of immigration policy changes in popular destinations #inled #highered

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'The findings have been made by the Communities of Liberation project at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, assisted by Prof Simon Newman of the University of Glasgow.' A great example of the power of dual community-based & university-based research collaborations. 1/2

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In case you missed it: What is the no recourse to public funds condition? | Colin Yeo

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In case you missed it: High Court considers new provisions for registration as a British citizen in special circumstances | Alexander Finch

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This 👇🏾

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OUT NOW: History and Theory's December 2024 theme issue, "History and Ethics," edited by Andre de Lemos Freixo and João Ohara! 🎉. @oharajrm.com @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social Read the issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

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This is such a great magazine - African journalism by African journalists, delivered weekly for free via whatsapp. Subscribe: wa.me/27738056068?...

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The response to this has been amazing... irl tix sold out so you can now book to watch online: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

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Join us for this webinar with Hannah Al-Taher and Anna Younes about the suppression of Palestine both in Germany and within German Studies It’s this Sunday March 2nd @ 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The theme of this year's Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference - Anachronism and History - couldn't be more timely... Please see below for more details.

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Ecology and Indigenous people are 'downsides' of terrestrial mining. Just in case you were wondering how the space miners think about the Moon. 🧪🔭

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Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

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👇👇👇 Statement by international lawyers, ESIL members and ESIL IG convenors on the forthcoming ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin in light of the very troubling decision by FU to curtail academic freedom. The letter remains open for signature.

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Government's failure to take control of Thames Water means almost £1billion of customers' money will be squandered - How is this good for anyone but financial parasites and predators? www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/...

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Was planning a grant app with two really excellent colleagues last year. One was made redundant, the other left precarity to take up a continuing position outside academia. #Oz

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A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it. www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

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CALL FOR PAPERS (In)Justice and The Global 22nd-23rd May 2025 The 13th Graduate Conference in International Political Theory at St. Andrews. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social ⬇️Submit your abstracts NOW!⬇️ forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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1/7 By me: US capitalists are wallowing in previously unimaginable quantities of unearned wealth. Silicon Valley billionaires are triumphant in their seemingly unassailable power over the world’s nation states - its central bankers, govts & markets. annpettifor.substack.com/p/dont-be-fo...

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"Billionaires have controlled everything for a very long time" says MurdochTV host, after denying Murdoch controlled her. On why Musk threatening to fire all US public workers would be unlawful in any western democracy. MurdochTV wants that system for everyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tujc...

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Look forward to my @ucllaws.bsky.social inaugural lecture this Thursday night www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

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On reposts: Given that there is no algorithm here, for posts to get seen across a longer period of time & by a wider audience they require reposts: these are much more important than retweets. Accordingly, if you like a post do consider reposting it as well especially those by smaller accounts!

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Something that has been strange to contemplate in the era of e-publishing is how much content of a modern university library can disappear through the end of a subscription or the revokation of e-book access rights.

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Historians, The Archive, Theory (hat tip to George Souvlis)

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#Auspol #DumpTruttom

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Khaled El Mahmoud argues that the silence surrounding the suppression of #AcademicFreedom in #Germany raises urgent and fundamental questions. He asks: What responsibilities do academics and institutions bear in times of grave #Humanitarian & #LegalCrises? voelkerrechtsblog.org/special-edit...

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A dark day for Streeck-ist anti-globalization lefties who think that migrants are stealing the jobs of the proletariat and should be left to drown by Frontex in the name of solidarity.

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“Up to 113 students and staff in the UK have faced disciplinary investigations linked to pro-Palestine protest activity across at least 28 universities since the 7 October attacks”

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Are there any classes you are struggling with? 😂

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The hubris of this. The unashamed, unapologetic, unbounded hubris. Even if we had no other evidence, this hubris of presuming they have a say where the people whose land they stole should live, that itself confirms the settler colonial mindset. But there’s more: there’s genocide.

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Feeling very lucky re my current working conditions in Australia. #StudyLeave #SouthernRhodesia #JCPC #BritishConsitution #UDI

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#CallforPapers GLQ is seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue to be titled: "Post/Anticolonial Queer and Transgender Studies: Radical Efflorescence from the Global South," edited by Svati P Shah and Paul Boyce. View the full CFP here: https://buff.ly/3CIKGnR

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qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms' 7 March 2025, 6:30pm-8:30pm qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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There's still time to register for our fabulous book talk (hybrid) w/ Nat Raha (@fullnommunism.bsky.social) & Mijke van der Drift! 💖 They will be in conversation w/ @riverbaars.bsky.social & Vanja Hamzić on Tue, 25/2, 3-5pm, at SOAS. 💜 Register (+info) here: tinyurl.com/3hha7fk9

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Jefferson offers a way out of the present moment for the American public should they want it:

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The University of Sheffield was so proud of its role in creating F-35s that it chose to cite the project as a case study in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). This is what 'impact' looks like in our morally bankrupt academy. source: sheffield-coalition.co.uk

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"Settler colonialism relentlessly politicizes movement and dwelling, but the basic act of staying or going is not, in itself, indicative of a person’s political position."

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A surprise to find that our book “Colonisations: notre histoire” which came out in 2023 is in this week’s @londonreview.bsky.social Especially great because of how seldom books in foreign languages get reviewed in English 👇🏼 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review. Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad. 1/

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Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence 2025: Human Rights for Nature or Dehumanizing the Demos? w/ Prof. Wendy Brown Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cotterrell...

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