It has been a great pleasure to work with the amazing Haneol Mun on this new updated version of the “Aesthetic Turn” entry for the Oxford Bibliography in International Relations. If of interest, here is the text: static1.squarespace.com/static/660f3...

#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - https://cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social #FirstView

#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - https://cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social #FirstView

This was Emma’s last project. She gave it her everything, working out of hospitals in very difficult circumstances. In the end she ran out of time and life. I then spent the next 18 months doing my best to complete the project as Emma had envisaged it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here are our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program, held online and in person in Stockholm next semester. We welcome great scholars, incl Lene Hansen for the 2nd Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture. Here more info and rego details: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

One of Emma’s absolute favorites (we have an entire shelf devoted to her); an interesting Guardian article; and an item to add to my Stockholm book-order list. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Richer than Musk: Joyce Carol Oates on her 88 years of watching, writing, feeling and loving

The writer made headlines when she accused the world’s wealthiest man of lacking joy, culture, a sense of beauty … Meanwhile, her own life has been an attempt to understand and explain the world. She ...

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If you are in Stockholm next week and up for this and, especially, for a chat over drinks, then please come along to my little ‘installation’ gig at the Swedish Defence University. Details here (all welcome but registration required): www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Here a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith) discussing their collaboration about images of childhood as technologies in the governance of political violence. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Emma would be pleased, I think, to see her voice - and three of my photographs of her - out in The Lancet this week. This was a big concern for her: trying to make people understand how it feels to live with kidney disease and its daily challenges. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Please join us in person or online to hear @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social and @hmberents.bsky.social discuss their research collaboration about images of childhood as technologies of governance. Wed 22 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Check it out: following her amazing book on Affective Imagery, which we recently discussed in our @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program, here is @mtrotem.bsky.social’s new article in IPS.

Dr Marcelle Trote Martins@mtrotem.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨Publication Alert! My new article, “Poetic Imageries: Remembering through Poetry in Timor-Leste”, is now out Open Access in International Political Sociology Would love to hear your thoughts and reflections. doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

Here a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Saffron O’Neill from the University of Exeter discussing her fascinating new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol University Press 2025) with Matt McDonald from UQ. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Saffron O’Neill (Exeter) discusses her new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol UP) with Matt McDonald (UQ). Wed 1 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Upcoming Event: Saffron O’Neill on The Visual Life of Climate Change — Roland Bleiker

Prof Saffron O’Neill from the University of Exeter discusses her fascinating new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol University Press 2025) with Prof Matt McDonald (UQ).

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Please find here a video of @mtrotem.bsky.social’s recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event during which we discussed her interesting new book Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste. Thanks so much for joining us, Marcelle. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Please join us in person or online for the first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester: @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester) discusses The Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies. Wed 11 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Upcoming Event: Marcelle Trote Martins on The Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies — Roland Bleiker

Dr Marcelle Trote Martins discusses her new book Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste (Bloomsbury 2024).

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Join us in person or online for our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social events to hear about new research from @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester), Saffron O'Neill (Exeter), @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

🎧 New Podcast Episode! 🎧 Spend your morning commute listening to the latest RIS podcast episode! Our editor Seb chats to Roland Bleiker about his 2025 BISA keynote address ⤵️

'Seeing and sensing world politics' with Professor Roland Bleiker - Review of International Studies – The podcast

In this episode, we talk about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of the keynote address which was delivered by Roland Bleiker at the 2025 BISA conference. Roland is a Professor in…

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Fascinating article by Francesco Ragazzi on “multimodal” research - and an invitation to submit corresponding articles on aesthetics experiences and collaborations to Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences brill.com/view/journal...

Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 7mo ago

In this @risjnl.bsky.social podcast, @bleiker.bsky.social talk to @sebkaempf.bsky.social about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of his keynote address delivered at #BISA2025. https://cup.org/4pPo9II

In this @risjnl.bsky.social podcast, @bleiker.bsky.social talk to @sebkaempf.bsky.social about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of his keynote address delivered at #BISA2025. https://cup.org/4pPo9II

We did not share this when announced because saying yes was only possible by having to assume - impossibly - that Emma will no longer be here: I am grateful to spend most of this year as Olof Palme Visiting Professor at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. www.vr.se/english/appl...

Olof Palme visiting professorship

The Swedish Research Council has decided that Roland Bleiker, professor in international relations at University of Queensland, Australia, will be the holder of the 2026 Olof Palme visiting professors...

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Thanks to all in-person and online participants in our Visualising Humanitarianism ARC Linkage workshop & esp to co-organisers Anita Schenk, @adarshbadri.bsky.social, Subodha Dilhari and Haneol Mun. Photo-credit and thus absent from the picture: Michael Aird. rolandbleiker.com/visualising-hu…

Here a video of Michael Barnett’s amazing Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture on Mobilising Compassion. Comments by Bina D’Costa and Fiona Terry. Chaired by Katrina Lee Koo. Introduced by Heather Zwicker and myself. Thanks so much to everyone who came along. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/michael...

Calibri has for long been our default font, but even more so after reading this NYT article today on the US State Department’s new “typeface policy.” 🙂. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Help us make a difference today! 👉 https://www.bisa.ac.uk/give/donate “Having seen the incredible talent of young BISA scholars, and knowing the difficult situation they face at the beginning of their career, the AspIRing Scholars Fund is a cause well worth supporting.” - Roland Bleiker 🎉

ABC Radio National offers a fascinating interview with Michael Barnett about mobilizing compassion and his first Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture, held last week at UQ. Lecture video still to come. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Can you mobilise compassion? - ABC listen

It feels like compassion is dwindling in the current political climate. Can compassion be mobilised again? Or is the age of humanitarianism over? Michael Barnett is in Australia for the Annual Emma Hu...

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Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion 4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...

The last evening with the love of my life was a year ago today. It’s been a blur since: time lived without its flow (Denise Riley). So here one of my favorite photos, the url to my Emma tribute and big thanks to those who so kindly supported us during & after. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...

Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton discuss their fascinating and unusual new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Available to Watch: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker

Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).

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NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social - Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1