Attending #APSA2026? Curious about interpretive methods, or doing interpretive research and looking for support/camaraderie? Look no further than the Methods Café! Where folks at all career levels learn more about interp. methods in an informal setting @apsa.bsky.social @interpretivemm.bsky.social

@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social and I recently spoke with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast about our book, The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge. We are grateful to Dr Hannah Pool for such a thoughtful conversation! newbooksnetwork.com/the-way-out-3 @ucpress.bsky.social

Applications are still open for the Advancing Research on Conflict Field Research Mini-Course, taking place at All Souls College, University of Oxford, 13–16 September 2026. Application deadline: 30 April 2026 Details and application instructions: advancingconflictresearch.com/summer-program

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Please join us!

Jamie J. Hagen@jamiejhagen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Do you research or work in civil society on issues related to queer justice, peace or security? Join me & @sritholtz.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk, 12th & 13th October, 2026 for the Security Peace & Justice for Queer Lives in Conflict conference. Express your interest to attend: bit.ly/3NG09dR

So, for the next few weeks, I'll be hopping around North America with @sritholtz.bsky.social to talk about our book, The Way Out. First up, we're speaking at Swarthmore's Department of Peace and Conflict Studies with some wonderful students.

Congratulations to Sam Ritholtz and Rebecca Buxton on the publication of their book 'The Way Out - Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge'. 🥳

Sam Ritholtz@sritholtz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote and thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote and thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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PhD supervisors, theses examiners and Heads of Departments & Schools get nominating today for the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize! 🎉 Awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis in International Studies 🌟 Nominate today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/AWo250XW69X Sam Ritholtz

To wrap up the year, I am happy to share a new article, written with Anna Corrigan, in Security Dialogue. Using political theory and cultural studies, we present a theory of transformative aesthetics to show how art reshapes political life after violence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Transformative aesthetics after war: Grief, repair, and feminist resistance to political violence in the works of Lucila Quieto and Doris Salcedo - Anna Corrigan, Samuel Ritholtz, 2025

Art can transform narratives of trauma by centring the experiences of victims and survivors in public consciousness. It is with this reparative potential that a...

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Some months ago at the La Terturalia Museum in Cali, I felt the responsibility to get a paper published that contributes to our understanding of what happens when women activists get killed.

It was a real privilege for me to be in Geneva for the launch of the @iesogi.bsky.social report on LGBTIQ people in situations of displacement at the UN HRC. I was thrilled to contribute to the report and support the work of the mandate. See the presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnl...

LGBT people who have been forcibly displaced face discrimination twice over | HRC59

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My new book, The Way Out, is available for pre-order! Written with my co-author @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social, we ask what justice requires for LGBTIQ refugees by centering the lives of queer & trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge. ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

My new book, The Way Out, is now available for pre-order! Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...