Nick Caddick
@nickcaddick.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof at Anglia Ruskin University: Narrative and conflict, international relations.
They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days. But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social podcast, is recording at #BISA2025 🎙️ Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social @faloulah.bsky.social & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉 Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl @bisasee.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social
Come join myself, @faloulah.bsky.social and Daniel Drury at the @e-international.bsky.social stand @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Come have a chat and record with us LIVE for the Thinking Global Podcast!
#BISA2025 conference delegates, remember to head to the exhibition hall and speak to @e-international.bsky.social who are podcasting live with Thinking Global - stop by for a quick chat about the work you’ve just presented!
In Belfast for the first time, looking forward to the start of @mybisa.bsky.social and meeting colleagues and friends and, especially, a panel tomorrow honoring Emma with several wonderful scholars she read and admired.
Flying out of Gatwick feels a bit weird on the day I learn that Javed Syed, a graduate of my university along with his wife and children, was on the Air India flight that never made it here. RIP @angliaruskin.bsky.social
Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up at #BISA2025 TOMORROW 🎉 Come and join the Postgrad Network @ at The Sunflower Pub & meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs! 🌻 Find out more details now 👉 buff.ly/8t8P90k @julietdryden.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
'The “war on woke” is the calling card of the global fascist right. Orbán’s attack on CEU for “gender ideology” began his destruction of 🇭🇺 democracy. Putin justified his full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦 by appealing to the supposed dangers 🇺🇦’s liberal democracy poses for traditional gender roles...'
Bart Bonikowski@bartbonikowski.bsky.social · last yr.Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🎉 #BISA2025 featured roundtable! 🎉 19 June 'War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives' w/ Amnon Aran @andypayne.bsky.social Katerina Dalacoura & Sam Rose - director of @unrwa.org Gaza Read more 👉 buff.ly/4eGQiHv @bisawarstudies.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Featured events
All the featured events at the #BISA2025 conference, including our journals, special and satellite events.
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Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social colleagues today marching to protest against the savage job cuts at their institution! ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿
University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · last yr.📢 National Demo Announced at Newcastle University UCU members from across the UK will descend on Newcastle on Wednesday 11 June for a national demonstration against job cuts. ✊ Join us and make your voice heard www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards
Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza
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BISA postgrad network and early-career development day 2025 🎉 17 June @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 🎉 Inc/ @therealisthom.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and more! 🌟 Sign up now 👉
Postgraduate and early-career development day 2025
Register for the PG/ECR workshops taking place in Belfast in June 2025.
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'Racism without ‘#race’: colorblindness, blackness and everyday #racism in contemporary Germany' From #Identities issue 32.2, by Daniel Williams: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Excited to be serving another term as a trustee at @mybisa.bsky.social and grateful to all the members for voting in the elections! 🙏🏻
BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.🚨BISA trustee election results now announced! 🚨 Huge congratulations to all our winners: @victoriambasham.bsky.social @jamiejhagen.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social Marianna Charountaki, Andrew Dorman @unamcgahern.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social 🎉 read more 👉 buff.ly/SK74lqo
🌟Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial WG Early-Career Researcher Prize 2025 winner: 🏆Asad Zaidi 🏆 “Pakistani contested worldmaking in international politics: The Afghan-Soviet War, Cold War counterinsurgency, and the struggles for decolonization” More & runner-up 👉
Announcing the winners of the Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group Early-Career Researcher Paper Prize 2025- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA
- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group
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A friendly reminder to check out the #BISA2025 program and be sure to add our sponsored panels and events to your list! It’s BISA’s 50th anniversary, so we want to know how this conference has impacted your career. Let us know with the hashtag #MyFirstBISA 
BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · 2y ago📢The #BISA2025 programme has been released & registration is open!! All submissions should have received an email notifying you about your status on the programme & details of registration/accommodation. Any queries email conferences@bisa.ac.uk @julietdryden.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
🌟Africa and International Studies WG and @chathamhouse.org event 🌟 The workshops focus is sharing experience and knowledge-based perspectives on the future of the UK-Africa relationships! Inc/ @drstephenhurt.bsky.social @ruthbookbinder.bsky.social and more 16 May 👉https://buff.ly/YaxT5Lw
The future of UK-Africa relations- Africa and International Studies | BISA
- Africa and International Studies Working Group
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@mybisa.bsky.social colleagues! After serving as your conference chair for Birmingham and Belfast, I’m standing for election for two more years as trustee. I’d love the opportunity to keep working for our members and would really appreciate your vote! Vote by 12th May! www.bisa.ac.uk/news/executi...
Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now!
Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.
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The @mybisa.bsky.social Executive Committee 2025 candidates are now live. I'm running for EDI officer & would appreciate your vote! Eligible voters received an email with their ballot yesterday. Full details, about all the candidates, including my personal statement, available here: bit.ly/4lZWd40
Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now!
Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.
bisa.ac.uk
🎉Sign up now for Cynthia Enloe's #BISA2025 public lecture!🎉 Titled - 'What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’' Bound to be very popular so don't miss out 👉 buff.ly/mcqIxmK @clarkuniversity.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Public lecture: What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’
Cynthia Enloe delivers public lecture at Queen's University Belfast to open #BISA2025.
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🚨 Publication alert! Great to see ‘Film, Narrative Agency, and the Politics of Care in Veteran Britain’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social: In it, we explore how co-produced filmmaking practice can offer creative means for empowering communities as storytellers in global politics. A short summary 🧵:
Registration is open for a @isanet.bsky.social webinar on Theorizing Emotions in World Politics in memory of Emma Hutchison. 5 June 2025 14:00h GMT. Thanks to chair/participants: @aslifc.bsky.social @freyberg-inan.bsky.social Zaynab El Bernoussi Jessica Auchter isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: In Memory of Emma Hutchison: Theorizing Emotions in World Politics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Despite its centrality to world politics, emotions were rarely acknowledged as a significant point of engagement and theorization in the discipline of International Relations. That begin to change wit...
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🌟 Nominations close tonight!🌟 Last chance to submit your applications to serve on the BISA Executive Committee 2025. Deadline - 11.59pm (UK time) TONIGHT. link - buff.ly/ErPLmMh @nickcaddick.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @profjackholland.bsky.social
Call for nominations to serve on the BISA Executive Committee 2025
We're pleased to announce we have six trustee positions up for election to the Executive Committee.
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I’d absolutely encourage colleagues to consider putting themselves forward to stand as a trustee. For me it’s been a hugely rewarding experience and opportunity to support the discipline of international studies. Happy to chat with anyone considering standing for election
BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.🌟 Become a BISA trustee! 🌟 It is the last week for trustee nominations to the BISA Executive Committee! To apply - buff.ly/VE70JUg @ipegbisa.bsky.social @epir-bisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Honestly not an easy decision for the judging panel here! Good luck to the excellent authors and books on the shortlist
BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.📚Just announced - our Susan Strange Best Book Prize shortlist of 3 excellent books 📚https://buff.ly/ukrRf2J Huge congratulations to all the authors! @profsophieharman.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @laramonteco.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
BISA AspIRing Scholars Fund🌟 Just launched - a fund that will be entirely dedicated to providing vital grants for PhD students and early-career academics - every contribution, big or small, makes a huge difference! buff.ly/ba1kXbR @nickcaddick.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social
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Looking forward to taking part in this ahead of #BISA2025 in Belfast. Be sure to register!
BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.Register for our 2025 Postgraduate and early-career development day! With panels including: @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social , @nickcaddick.bsky.socia l, @amnakaleem.bsky.social , @profjackholland.bsky.social and @drnickwright.bsky.social a must register 👉 buff.ly/hYKG2bu @uk.theconversation.com
