We’re excited to launch the official Gregynog Ideas Lab Summer School LinkedIn page! Our 2026 Summer School was a fantastic week of conversation, collaboration and new ideas. We’re already looking ahead to Gregynog 2027 - more details coming soon! www.linkedin.com/company/greg...

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🚨 There's still time to register for the 12th Gregynog Ideas Lab in Critical IR for PhDs and early career scholars. I strongly encourage MA, PhD students and early-career scholars to consider attending. Register here: estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...

🚨Publication Alert! Delighted to share our new article, co-authored with @dasilvajr.bsky.social, now published: Contingent Safe Waters: Aesthetic Dissensus Between Metaphor and the Whitening of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Refugees in the Spanish Press www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨Gregynog Ideas Lab XII – Registration Still Open I first attended as an MA student, and it has shaped my research ever since. It remains one of the most special spaces I know in academia, creating room for slow, collaborative thinking and conversations beyond conferences. Highly recommend attending

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

🚨Registration still open! The Ideas Lab offers space for deep engagement, discussion, and experimentation across political theory, international politics, and critical approaches to contemporary global challenges. The fee includes full board accommodation and all activities.

🚨Registration still open!
Gregynog Ideas Lab XII – 13–17 July 2026 A week of intensive discussion & collaboration at Gregynog Hall! 
 Info: gregynog.blogspot.com
Register: estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...

🚨 Join us next Thursday (21/05) for this very interesting discussion on Ben Anderson and Anna Secor's newest book, "The Politics of Feeling"! The event is online and free to attend! Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Book talk - The politics of feeling: populism, progressivism, liberalism- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) | BISA

- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) Working Group

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🚨Registration open for the 12th Gregynog Ideas Lab! An intensive, interdisciplinary summer school bringing together scholars and postgraduate researchers for a week of collaborative thinking in the extraordinary setting of Gregynog Hall, Wales. Register here: estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 🏆We are thrilled to announce the 3 shortlisted authors for the EPIR Thesis Prize: Elisabeth Moerking, U Bristol Anh Nguyen, SOAS/U St Andrews Bruno Sowden-Carvalho, U Birmingham 🎉Congratulations & good luck for the final outcome!

🚨Gregynog Ideas Lab XII – Registration Still Open I first attended as an MA student, and it has shaped my research ever since. It remains one of the most special spaces I know in academia, creating room for slow, collaborative thinking and conversations beyond conferences. Highly recommend attending

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

🚨Registration still open! The Ideas Lab offers space for deep engagement, discussion, and experimentation across political theory, international politics, and critical approaches to contemporary global challenges. The fee includes full board accommodation and all activities.

🚨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/...

Poetic Imageries: Remembering through Poetry in Timor-Leste

Abstract. This article examines how poetry intervenes in the visual politics of remembering trauma in postconflict societies. In Timor-Leste, much of the I

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There’s still time to submit your abstract!!

Society for Terrorism Research (STR)@socterres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Final hours to submit your abstract for the 10th Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research (STR) at the @Manchester.ac.uk on May 29, 2026. Submit your abstract by 23:59 GMT tonight: indico.global/event/15845/

🚨Registration still open! The Ideas Lab offers space for deep engagement, discussion, and experimentation across political theory, international politics, and critical approaches to contemporary global challenges. The fee includes full board accommodation and all activities.

🚨Join us in Manchester! Submissions open until 07/04!

Society for Terrorism Research (STR)@socterres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are happy to announce Professor Martin Coward (@QMUL.bsky.social) as the Keynote Speaker for the 10th Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research (STR) at the @Manchester.ac.uk on May 29, 2026. Submit your abstract by April 07, 2026: indico.global/event/15845/

Alexandra Park, Manchester

📣We have kicked of todays event with @epir-bisa.bsky.social! 👉A virtual roundtable to discuss ‘Traversing Memories in Global Politics’, the most recent special issue from @millennjournal.bsky.social 👉We are joined by Arthur Duhé, Anh Nguyen, Chaeyoung Yong, and editor Kinti Orellana!

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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Send us your thesis on emotions!

Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group@epir-bisa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨EPIR THESIS PRIZE CALL We are pleased to announce our 2026 Thesis Prize, to be awarded for the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR.🏆 The Prize is a collaboration with he Brill Critical Emotion Studies book series. Deadline: 20 March 2026 @mybisa.bsky.social

🚨 Registration now open!
Gregynog Ideas Lab 2026– 13–17 July 2026 A week of intensive discussion & collaboration at Gregynog Hall! Info: gregynog.blogspot.com
Register: lnkd.in/evg5rbAR @jennyedkins.bsky.social

Thrilled to receive a BISA Early Career Small Research Grant for my project Fragments of Witnessing: War, Images & Immigration in the UK. Grateful for the support! 🎉

BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Annoucned now: our BISA members awarded our ECSRG and L&T grants! Our ECSRG grants were awarded to Xu Peng, Dr Bohdana Kurylo, Dr Marcelle Trote Martins and Rodrigo Campos 🎉 And our L&T grant was awarded to Massimo D’Angelo 🌟 Find out more about all their projects here: https://ow.ly/Sk6P50XZuy0

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...

Join us this Wednesday!

Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group@epir-bisa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨NEXT EVENT🚨 📖 Seminar series session with Todd McGowan (U of Vermont), presenting his new ‘Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan’ and introducing Lacanian psychoanalysis for politics & IR. 🗓️ Wednesday 10 December, 4pm BST (online) 🔗Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

🚨Next event! 📖 Book talk with Billy Holzberg (KCL) on his new ‘Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control’ 🗓️ Next Tuesday, 25th November at 4:00pm (Online, UK time) 📝 To register for the event: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Book talk - Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) | BISA

- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) Working Group

bisa.ac.uk

I was very honoured to chair and help organise this special roundtable in honour of Prof Emma Hutchison at #BISA2025 - a moving tribute to her work on emotions and politics. Deep thanks to @rbleiker for his generous support, and to all the speakers who made it so meaningful 🌟

🌟 Join us for the EPIR Working Group lunch meeting at #BISA2025 - right after the roundtable in honour of Prof. Emma Hutchison! A chance to continue the conversation over lunch 📩 RSVP to epir.group@bisa.ac.uk (for catering purposes) All welcome! #EPIR #EmotionsInIR #BISA25

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The British International Studies Association is a learned society that promotes the study of international relations and related subjects through teaching, research, and facilitation of contact betwe...

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🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 EPIR Thesis Prize! 🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan 🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏