NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For the 1st in a new set of episodes about bad ideas with interesting histories David talks to the writer and broadcaster @helenlewis.bsky.social about hysteria, an ancient idea that became a very modern diagnosis. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

The Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social and Peterhouse @peterhousecam.bsky.social are recruiting for an INT Academic Career Development Fellow in Gender Studies & HSPS (Fixed Term) The closing date is 16 July. For more information and to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/int-aca...

📰Dr Tobias Müller @tobiasmueller.bsky.social has published a new paper in Contemporary Political Theory, with Karolin Tuncel, titled “Is Religion a Problem for Intersectional Theory? Muslim Women, Feminism, and Varieties of Patriarchy”. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Is religion a problem for intersectional theory? Muslim women, feminism, and varieties of patriarchy - Contemporary Political Theory

Intersectional theory has been criticised for neglecting religion and for being unable to account for religion’s social complexities. This contribution interrogates this critique by disaggregating dif...

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Dr Shruti Balaji @shrutibalaji.bsky.social has published a new article in in the Journal of the History of Ideas titled, "'The African Problem Is a World Problem': (Dis)locating Race in Late Colonial Indian Intellectual Thought". You can read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Join us for this year’s Reynolds Lecture: “Nature, people and place: the mess we’re in and a possible pathway out” with Dame Fiona Reynolds. 📅 8 July 2026 🕠 17:30–18:30 & reception 📍 Emmanuel College, Cambridge 🎟️ Register: shorturl.at/x865O Hosted with @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk and Emmanuel College

Are you a prospective international student, thinking of joining one of our postgraduate programmes? Tomorrow (Friday 26 June) is the next Postgraduate International Q&A Webinar from 9am - 10am. Bring your questions and sign up now: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/internationa...

That was a really fun conversation! duforumonamultipolarworld.substack.com/p/dr-ilias-a...

Dr Ilias Alami - State Capitalism’s Role in a Multipolar World

Ilias Alami is Assistant Professor in the political Economy of Development at Cambridge University’s Centre of Development Studies.

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode in our occasional series looking at significant political anniversaries explores the Brexit Referendum, 10 years ago this week. David talks to historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social. Is it too soon to know what it all meant? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s PPF+ bonus is part 2 of David’s conversation with @robertsaunders.bsky.social about the Brexit referendum, exploring the twists & turns of the past decade. Is Britain a more sovereign nation than it was 10 years ago? Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

We are delighted to be supporting a timely workshop on "What’s Next for Feminist Foreign Policy?" at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 3 Sept. Please share the Call for Papers newn.cam.ac.uk/event/worksh... @crasshlive.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @cambridgegender.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social

Dr Farhana Afrin Rahman has published a new peer-reviewed journal article, out now (open access) in Women's Studies International Forum titled "'Trapped In Safety': Carceral Domesticity and the Gendered Geographies of Rohingya Refugee Women in Urban Malaysia". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now available open-access with @ifjpglobal.bsky.social: 'Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: Hindutva governance and digital governmentalities' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: Hindutva governance and digital governmentalities

This article details the internet shutdowns, platform shadowbanning, and countermovement doxxing as endured by feminist activists in India. Taken together, these practices and tools represent a dig...

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Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism

Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...

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🎉📢Please join me in congratulating Christian Sorace and Jostein Hauge (@haugejostein.bsky.social) on their promotion to Associate Professor, and Giovanni Mantilla (@giofabman.bsky.social ) and Tomas Larsson on their promotion to Professor. 👏

What a fabulous summer school

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Fantastic talk at #financedemocracy by @iliasalami.bsky.social on the 'new' state capitalism, which - does not challenge private property - operates according to profitability objectives - is accompanied by fiscal austerity - can go hand in hand with the privatisation of public assets

“The Trump administration is currently involved in an expansive project to reposition the US national economy and the US state within global critical minerals networks.” @iliasalami.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social on Trump’s state capitalist turn. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

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J'ai donné un entretien pour Le Courrier sur les limites et contradictions du G7, qui se réunit prochainement en France lecourrier.ch/2026/06/04/u... @campolis.bsky.social

This evening we will be hosting the Jo Cox Memorial Lecture at 6pm. On the 10th anniversary of Jo’s death, Kim Leadbeater, Jo’s sister and MP for Spen Valley, will deliver the lecture ‘More in Common: The Life and Legacy of Jo Cox’, followed by a Q&A. Register here: buytickets.at/pembrokecoll...

Select tickets – Jo Cox Memorial Lecture 2026 – Pembroke Auditorium

Jo Cox Memorial Lecture 2026 – Pembroke Auditorium, Mon 8 Jun 2026 - Kim Leadbeater, MP for Spen Valley and the sister of Jo Cox will deliver the lecture "More In Common: The Life and Legacy of Jo Cox...

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👩‍🎓➡️AIM: Pursue Your Postgrad Day on 17 July 2026 Are you from the UK or Rep of Ireland and thinking about applying for postgraduate study at Cambridge? Would you like to visit Cambridge and hear from students about what it’s really like? Register now: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/aim-p...

Dr Glen Rangwala has been awarded the 2026 Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize. The prize is a student nominated award given annually to a member of the POLIS academic community in recognition of exceptional teaching. Congratulations Glen. www.polis.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-glen...

The new book by Professor Brendan Simms, The Return of the Great Powers, is reviewed in the @financialtimes.com by former MI6 chief John Sawers who calls it “thought-provoking about the dangers ahead”. Read the review: ft.com/content/b847... Check out the book: basicbooks.uk/titles/brend...

The Return of the Great Powers — the perils of a ‘might is right’ world order

Risk of war is the bleakest warning of Brendan Simms’ book on the competition between the US, Russia and an increasingly dominant China

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Brendan Simms argues in "The Return of the Great Powers that" geopolitical rivalry never actually ceased; dissatisfied imperial powers merely awaited opportunity to press for advantage. Who at this stage can doubt the accuracy of that argument?

The Holiday from History Is Over

And the great powers are back.

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There's still time to register for: The Return of the Great Powers Join Prof Brendan Simms for the launch of his new book exploring the rise, fall & return of the Great Powers 🗓️ 8 June, 5.15 - 7 pm 🗺️ The Chadwick Room, Selwyn College 🔗 bit.ly/4nZPs3x

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David explores Doris Lessing’s bold and brilliant The Golden Notebook (1962), about female emancipation, political disillusionment and much more. Why did Lessing insist that the novel’s original critics misunderstood what the book's about? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Michael Walker from @novaramedia speaks to Jostein Hauge @haugejostein about the rise of China as an economic superpower in an episode titled, "China’s Leaders Are Smarter Than The West’s" . Watch the interview on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK3K...

EXPERT: China’s Leaders Are Smarter Than The West’s

YouTube video by Novara Media

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This term’s Cambridge Reproduction Forum will convene a community of researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and advocates to examine the challenges and opportunities in advancing global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-sex...

🤩📢Huge congratulations to Dr Farhana Afrin Rahman who has won another award for her book "After the Exodus". This time she was honoured with the Outstanding Book Award by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) - Global Division. Read more here: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-farh...

Research workshop on digital platform capitalism and its regulations: Comparative approaches and future research directions 22 June, 13:00-17:00 & 23 June, 9:00 - 17:30 (Alison Richard Building, Cambridge CB3 9DP) Open to all interested researchers: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50853...

Digital Platform Capitalism and Its Regulations: Comparative approaches and future research directions - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! 1st in a new set of eps on some of the great political fictions of the past 100 years, David explores Aldous Huxley’s much misunderstood dystopian masterpiece Brave New World (1932). What makes it eerily prophetic of 21st-century consumer culture? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

🚨🚨My book "Fragmented Policy Change" is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org! 🚨 🚨 Find a preview of the cover below. You can also check out the book description here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... Stay tuned! 🥳