Julie Billaud
@juliebillaud.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Member of @Allegra_Lab editorial collective. Interested in law, human rights, humanitarianism, global justice.
🎙️ 8 high-quality podcasts by students on human rights and humanitarianism Produced under the guidance of professors Julie Billaud and Maria Neus Torbisco Casals @juliebillaud.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social #HumanRights #Humanitarian #Podcast shorturl.at/7gzVR
Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality" Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
New essay out co-authored with @mostowlansky.bsky.social on #AcademicFreedom, fear and the culture of silence in European universities. Published on @allegralab.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-si...
Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within - Allegra Lab
The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues with his wife back
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Read the implementation guidelines for cutting ties with Israeli academic institutions on the @easainfo.bsky.social website and join our community check-in at 12 CET today. We want to hear from you ! @allegralab.bsky.social
EASA@easainfo.bsky.social · 12mo ago📢2 important announcements: 1. Our community check-in is TOMORROW 23rd October at 12.00 (CEST). 2. The implementation guidelines for collaborations with Israeli academic institutions are now online. Further information in the comments. @juliebillaud.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/kDNsB...
Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social
The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Allegra Lab
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that best captures
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The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions. Find out more and access the full Guidelines here: easaonline.org/implementati...
@easainfo.bsky.social just released its implementation guidelines for the Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions voted by the membership last year. Learn the concrete actions you can take to severe ties with Israeli academic institutions @allegralab.bsky.social
EASA@easainfo.bsky.social · last yr.The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions. Find out more and access the full Guidelines here: easaonline.org/implementati...
Exceptionnelle enquête de @mediapart.fr sur l’islamophobie en France : depuis janvier, notre rédaction a dénombré au moins un fait islamophobe tous les deux à trois jours. www.mediapart.fr/studio/panor...
La haine : six mois d’islamophobie en France
Avant les assassinats d’Aboubakar Cissé et d’Hichem Miraoui, combien ont été agressés, discriminés, mis au ban parce que musulmans ? Quand le ministre de l’intérieur nie l’existence même de l’islamop…
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Fabulous new thematic thread on 'Recallibrating Syria' published on @allegralab.bsky.social. Check it out! https:// allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/recalibrating-syria/
Recalibrating Syria Archives - Allegra Lab
‘Recalibrating Syria’ addresses the liminal moment that Syria has been going through the last two months. The contributors all engage this vibrant moment as one of recalibration, a recalibration of Sy...
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Recolonize anthropology! www.academia.edu/129910803/Re...
Recolonize Anthropology! An Epistolary Exchange on How to Save the Discipline from Obscurity
Allegra Lab has uncovered an archive of letters from 2050. In the exchange between the Anthropological Association for Liberal Imperialism Through Urban Regeneration (alitur) and the Anthropological A...
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@allegralab.bsky.social wrote a contribution to this spécial issue of Public Anthropologist on "Speaking out against Palestinians' Genocide". It was supposed to be a satirical piece. Not sure it is still the case now, 10 months after its initial writing...
Anthro Theory + Commons@anthrotheory.bsky.social · last yr.see Public Anthro's important Special Issue "On Speaking Out: Refusing Complicity with Genocide" brill.com/view/journal...
Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
🎙️ New podcast episode from @GVAGrad In this interview, @juliebillaud.bsky.social talks about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...
I spoke about the US-Israeli 'humanitarian' scheme in Gaza for the German TV yesterday (5'34). The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation does not meet any humanitarian standard of humanity and impartiality and only serves to distract our attention from the ongoing genocide. youtu.be/lc3L1Z8sKBE?...
Scenes of chaos: Israeli troops fire shots as crowd scrambles for food at new Gaza aid hub | DW News
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I watched fellow anthropologist Prof. Dr. @juliebillaud.bsky.social speak live on @news.dw.com this morning on #Gaza and why the current 'aid‘ scheme does by no means meet any standards of #humanitarianism. You can watch her again at 1pm CET today here: www.dw.com/en/live-tv/c...
📸 The winners of our #PhotoCompetition are: 🏆 Luisa.Lupo, Public Prize – TRACES OF VIOLENCE 🎖️ Nora.Doukkali, Jury Prize – STOLEN TIME 👉 shorturl.at/M8umu Thanks to all 26 participants, the 580 voters, and the jury: @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Tobias.Marshall, Antoine.Tardy, @elenabutti.bsky.social
RESEARCH PHOTO COMPETITION AT THE GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE | IHEID
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"Citing creative work well—citing it with care—requires a relational approach. To name a creative piece is not enough. We must let it speak inside our work, shift our tone, fracture our arguments, delay our conclusions." #CreativeAnthropology allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...
Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology - Allegra Lab
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much
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Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. When? Jun 5th 2025 12:30 CEST Where? us06web.zoom.us/.../register... More info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-o...
En 2022, le ministre de l’intérieur et candidat à la présidence de LR a bénéficié, grâce à un sénateur millionnaire, de luxueux bureaux sur les Champs-Élysées, sans trace de paiement ni déclaration dans ses comptes de campagne, ce qui est interdit. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Bruno Retailleau s’est fait offrir son QG de campagne sur les Champs-Élysées
En 2022, lors de sa première campagne pour la présidence du parti Les Républicains, l’actuel ministre de l’intérieur a bénéficié, grâce à un sénateur millionnaire, de luxueux bureaux donnant sur la p…
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New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world... allegralaboratory.net/collective-t...
Collective Thinking, Collective Action - Allegra Lab
Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case this is being read in the future
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📸 The Geneva Graduate Institute is holding a research photo competition! 🤓 And I have the honor of being part of the jury - with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Antoine Tardy, and Tobias Marschall. 💡 You can view the portfolios here shorturl.at/75aqX 📥 and vote your top 3 here shorturl.at/rVNj0
RESEARCH PHOTO COMPETITION AT THE GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE | IHEID
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Hugues Jallon - Le Temps des salauds Comment le fascisme devient réel À paraître en septembre chez Divergences
Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social
Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney
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#AcademicFreedom is the right to say everything but not anything. It is based on the rejection of bullshit. It only exists when it is actively practiced in the everyday. Refusing bullshit and telling the truth is practicing academic freedom.
Geneva Graduate Institute@gvagrad.bsky.social · last yr.#Academicfreedom is under threat. Why does it matter, and how can we protect it? @danjgraham.bsky.social talks with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, anthropologist and advocate for academic rights, in our latest podcast.
The Working Group on Human Rights and #AcademicFreedom of @easainfo.bsky.social is organising a community check-in event on May 23 from 12 to 1pm CET. If you want to report an issue or get some information or advice, join us on line! www.easaonline.org/news/community
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Invitation for the Community Check-in zoom event
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In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...
Academic Freedom Under Fire: Why It Matters and How to Protect It
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I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!
Geneva Graduate Institute@gvagrad.bsky.social · last yr.@juliebillaud.bsky.social is hiring a PhD researcher with an anthropology, sociology, STS or Political Sciences (with ethnographic fieldwork experience) background for her 4-year SNF funded project on Digital Humanitarianism (shorturl.at/SLzUC) at the Geneva Graduate Institute. 👉 shorturl.at/H7CGZ
Julie Billaud@juliebillaud.bsky.social · last yr.Students in the Human Rights and Humanitarianism track have produced fantastic podcasts. They cover notions such as 'nakba', 'state of emergency', 'self-determination', 'apartheid' or 'environmental justice' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
A great initiative by our MINT Students!
Julie Billaud@juliebillaud.bsky.social · last yr.Students in the Human Rights and Humanitarianism track have produced fantastic podcasts. They cover notions such as 'nakba', 'state of emergency', 'self-determination', 'apartheid' or 'environmental justice' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
