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Delighted to co-announce this fabulous Political Technologies seminar series with the co-conveners, Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social. Do check out the poster below!
@uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

together with @egeertsphd.bsky.social and @maybenansi.bsky.social I am convening a new research cluster @ucc.ie on Political Technologies. Here is our first year's seminar programme. Please join us online for these talks - links to follow. @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.

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“The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), a 500-member body of academics founded in 1994, passed a resolution on Monday, stating that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza fulfil the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 United Nations Convention…

Israel’s Actions in Gaza Are 'Genocide,' Says Association Israel has previously strongly denied that its actions in Gaza constitute genocide, citing its right to defend itself.

Breaking - International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) resoundingly agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide

and that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

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Today, GHF called on women in Gaza to come and collect food aid. But just now, 45-year-old Khadija Abu Anza arrived at Nasser Medical Complex after being shot while trying to reach the aid distribution point in northwest Rafah.

#ceasefire #Gaza #GazaIsBeingStarved

Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish Think of Others   As you prepare your breakfast, think of others   (do not forget the pigeon's food).   As you conduct your wars, think of o...

Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish
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"The school was hit and caught fire while we were inside."

A girl who survived an Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza was interviewed moments after the attack, which killed members of her family.

A moment of judgment has come at last: not just for Netanyahu but for his enablers | Owen Jones Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza has prompted international condemnation, but many of those critics will face their own reckoning, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Suddenly, something is shifting.

Israel's apologists have realised that a reckoning is coming.

They understand that they're not going to get away with this abomination.

And they are absolutely right 👇

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Yay me

great presentation by @maybenansi.bsky.social from @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social of his work on Lacan and Fanon at the @ucc.ie CACSSS research day today

“The thing that we all insisted wasn’t happening and scolded people, and agitated for their blacklisting, arrest and exclusion from the public square for saying was happening, that thing we all said was cynical terrorist agitprop by gullible fools? That thing? Well, we would like it to stop now.”

Oliver Davis: Ireland may be in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance Some academics believe ancient Irish warriors used psychoactive substances — magic mushrooms, liberty cap, and fly agaric — presaging the adoption of psychedelic drugs in modern medicine

psychedelics in Ireland: my op-ed for today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social, reflecting on our recent @ucc.ie workshop in the psychedelic humanities @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

JL’s Birthday yadayadayada

Getting ready for the psychedelic humanities research day, hosted by Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social and kicking off at 11am this morning in the Aula Maxima!

Video captured the moment Israeli forces blew up Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital and an adjacent medical school over what the military claims was a Hamas presence.

God you poor things! All three of you! This all sounds really very stressful🥺😔

It was an honour to chair this fascinating and important plenary, delivered by a wonderful colleague

Reflection on cuts and closures in the humanities from @britishacademy.bsky.social, including an essay on the work of @englishassociation.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social, thanks to my brilliant colleagues journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/thematic-col...

Wonderful to hear our former colleague @donalh.bsky.social give the opening keynote to the @sofeir.bsky.social conference happening at UCC today and tomorrow! Dónal’s paper was on Colonial Complicity and the Limits of Irish Anti-Imperialism: The Scheme to Settle Irish Peasants in French Algeria

Make sure to check out the exhibition happening at Boole Library as part of the @sofeir.bsky.social conference, open to the public until 1pm today!

I really understand this anxiety and it’s really becoming not worth the hassle anymore (for me at least). I’m really sorry about Bertie and I hope he’s resting and you, too

On Wednesday (19th March, 3.30pm, ORB G27 and via Teams), Prof Patrick Bray (UCL) will join us to present a paper entitled ‘Stendhal’s Inappropiable Taste: Body, Language and Landscape in Vie de Henry Brulard’. All welcome!

‘For example: “freedom or death”; it’s up to you to choose. If you choose death, you will be free, but you won’t be able to do much with your freedom.’
—Jean Oury

A View from the Riverbank: The False River of Julian Poydras,…

I'm going to be talking about something terrifyingly out of my period at one of the institutions I most admire (Newberry Library, Chicago, March 28) - come along and see me tremble! www.newberry.org/calendar/a-v...

This Friday (7th March, 10am, 1.24, ORB), our wonderful colleague Dr Charlotte Berkery will deliver a paper on 'Night Air: The Miasmic City in Balzac's La Cousine Bette'. This talk is organised by the Rethinking Spatial Humanities research cluster. All welcome!

Work from home and masks never did become the new normal but impunity and genocide sure did