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‘Memory of What Is to Come’: Zapatista Memorial Strategies for International Activism - Arthur Duhé, 2025 In International Relations, the ‘mnemonic turn’ has primarily centred on national memories and the challenges they pose in building international communities. A...

📝 How can memories such as colonisation be mobilised for internationalism? In Vol. 53 Special Issue, @arthurduhe.bsky.social examines how the Zapatistas used traumatic memory in the 2021 Journey for Life to build solidarity with European activists.
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📝 Out now in Vol. 53 Special Issue! @anhphnguyen.bsky.social shows how South Korea, Japan and Indonesia navigate unwanted memories and feared futures through anticipatory temporal othering.
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Trauma Time and Memory in Understanding Gender-Based Violence - Chaeyoung Yong, 2025 This article draws upon Jenny Edkins’ notion of ‘trauma time’ and asks how it helps us to better understand entanglement with past trauma in the context of gend...

📝 Out now in Vol. 53! Chaeyoung Yong argues that trauma time offers key insights into "understanding GBV by highlighting the socio-political nature of trauma and critiquing the linear narrative of healing and restoring the social order."
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What role do disasters play in global politics? In Vol. 53’s Special Issue, Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins, and @kandidapurnell.bsky.social explore how embodied trauma disrupts the status quo — and may open a path to a new social-political order.

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Traversing Memories in Global Politics - Kinti Orellana Matute, Woohyeok Seo, Pauline Zerla, 2025

📝 What role do memories play in global politics, and what do they reveal about knowledge production in IR?
Read the Intro to Vol. 53 Traversing Memories in Global Politics by Kinti Orellana Matute, @seowoohyeok.bsky.social & Pauline Zerla 👇
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🚨Millennium’s Vol. 53 Special Issue, “Traversing Memories in Global Politics,” is out! Watch this space for short teasers of the individual articles over the next few weeks.

Symposium presentation

Group picture with symposium participants

Keynote speaker, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare

Throwback to our 2025 Symposium: Grateful to all speakers who presented their drafts and sparked thought-provoking discussions. Special thanks to our keynote, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the special issue featuring the completed articles!

For those who don’t know, on November 3rd I gave my first conference/symposium keynote for @millennjournal.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social. My keynote was based on my 2022 reflection piece,‘Your Work is Not International Relations’.Thank you to everyone who attended and the editors for inviting me

🗳 Reminder EB members – Tomorrow (Thursday, 27/11) is round two of our Vol. 55 elections! Please attend and cast your vote (if you are an eligible voting member) for the new Editors.

❗The meeting will take place via Zoom only, from 12:30–1:30 pm. Check your emails for more information!

🗳Reminder EB members - Today is the first round of our Vol. 55 elections! Please attend and cast your vote (if you are an eligible voting member) for the new Deputy Editors. The meeting will take place via Zoom only, from 12.30pm-1:30pm. Check your e-mails for more information!

I'm delighted to share my new article, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! It examines how the Zapatistas used colonial memory while forging transnational alliances with European activists.
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Call for applications: Vol. 55 Editorial Team of Millennium Journal of International Studies Millennium is seeking three Editors and three Deputy Editors to make up the Vol. 55 Editorial Team. All editorial roles at Millennium are elected roles; the elections for vol. 55 (Editors and Deputy Editors) will be held on Thursday, the 20th of November 2025. Please ensure you are available for the elections between 12.30 - 14.00, via Zoom. To be eligible to stand as a candidate for the Deputy Editor, you must be a postgraduate student (master’s or PhD student) based at a University of London institution (i.e. LSE, SOAS, King’s, Goldsmiths, etc.). To be eligible to stand as a candidate for Editor, you must a) be a PhD student based at a University of London institution, and b) run as part of a team of three [3]. Please contact us for more information about this role, especially if you have any questions regarding finding additional team members or if you have any questions not answered in this call. To run for any of the positions, you must email us at millennium@lse.ac.uk declaring your candidature (including full name, degree programme, and university affiliation) by 23:59 on 13 November 2025 (GMT). Please see below for more details on the roles and the election process. For more details about the journal, please see our website https://millenniumjournal.org/ For information on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-cJfPXS4i3XedqKSGVsOSzLow0Mq6WNhtVRGwFRlVb4/edit?tab=t.0

Millennium is seeking three Editors and three Deputy Editors to make up the Vol. 55 Editorial Team! To run for any of the positions, email us at millennium@lse.ac.uk declaring your candidature by 23:59 on 13 Nov 2025 (GMT). More information on: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Icon, Distributed: The Spectral Visual Politics of News Photography - Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson, 2025 Photographic icons provide broad audiences with a stable resource for public discourse and a sense of continuity. However, changes to our media landscape, most ...

On the role of icons in news media: Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson’s insightful new essay open access in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Call for applications: Vol. 55 Editorial Team of Millennium Journal of International Studies Millennium is seeking three Editors and three Deputy Editors to make up the Vol. 55 Editorial Team. All editorial roles at Millennium are elected roles; the elections for vol. 55 (Editors and Deputy Editors) will be held on Thursday, the 20th of November 2025. Please ensure you are available for the elections between 12.30 - 14.00, via Zoom. To be eligible to stand as a candidate for the Deputy Editor, you must be a postgraduate student (master’s or PhD student) based at a University of London institution (i.e. LSE, SOAS, King’s, Goldsmiths, etc.). To be eligible to stand as a candidate for Editor, you must a) be a PhD student based at a University of London institution, and b) run as part of a team of three [3]. Please contact us for more information about this role, especially if you have any questions regarding finding additional team members or if you have any questions not answered in this call. To run for any of the positions, you must email us at millennium@lse.ac.uk declaring your candidature (including full name, degree programme, and university affiliation) by 23:59 on 13 November 2025 (GMT). Please see below for more details on the roles and the election process. For more details about the journal, please see our website https://millenniumjournal.org/ For information on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-cJfPXS4i3XedqKSGVsOSzLow0Mq6WNhtVRGwFRlVb4/edit?tab=t.0

Millennium is seeking three Editors and three Deputy Editors to make up the Vol. 55 Editorial Team! To run for any of the positions, email us at millennium@lse.ac.uk declaring your candidature by 23:59 on 13 Nov 2025 (GMT). More information on: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment - Frederik Carl Windfeld, 2025 Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...

⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

Millennium is looking to hire a communications officer. This is a paid position for 2 hours/week, lasting for a year. University of London (of any colleges) postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD students) are eligeble to apply. The deadline is 12pm GMT (noon) 14th October. Interviews (online) to be held on Friday 17th October. For further information, see the full call for applications.

We are looking to hire a Communications Officer! Are you a University of London (of any college) Master's or PhD student with some experience working with WordPress, newsletter-ing, and social media? Consider applying! Deadline: Wednesday, 14th October, at 12pm GMT. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Millennium is looking to hire a communications officer. This is a paid position for 2 hours/week, lasting for a year. University of London (of any colleges) postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD students) are eligeble to apply. The deadline is 12pm GMT (noon) 14th October. Interviews (online) to be held on Friday 17th October. For further information, see the full call for applications.

We are looking to hire a Communications Officer! Are you a University of London (of any college) Master's or PhD student with some experience working with WordPress, newsletter-ing, and social media? Consider applying! Deadline: Wednesday, 14th October, at 12pm GMT. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Engaging With Temporal Others: Memory, Trauma and (In)security Across Time - Phuong Anh Nguyen, 2025 This paper examines how traumatic memory traverses temporal boundaries and shapes ontological (in)security across the past, present and future. Drawing on illus...

My new article is out now in @millennjournal.bsky.social !
Not the first paper I wrote during the PhD—but the first one to make it into the world 🌍
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Unfinished Peace, Unfinished Memory: Theorising Feminist Peace With Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art - Maria-Adriana Deiana, Heidi Riley, 2025 The critical engagement with everyday lived experiences and the politics of memory are key dimensions in Feminist Peace Research. They help us theorise feminist...

New publication in @millennjournal.bsky.social Theorising Feminist Peace with Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art. Co-authored with my colleague Heidi Riley as part of our project Talk4Peace #IRSky #FeminsitSky #AcademicSky

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📝The last article from Vol. 53, Issue 2 is now available on SAGE! Oleksandr Svitych explores how algorithms and big data reinforce power and domination in "Algorithms and IR: Towards a Critical Quantum Theory". Read it here 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great to join the roundtable with fellow editors of g/local journals at KNU. I introduced @millennjournal.bsky.social and shared thoughts on open access, PhD editors’ positionality, and generative AI. Excited to chair a panel on IR knowledge production via autoethnographies from East Asia later.

📌 On 19 July, @seowoohyeok.bsky.social will be chairing a panel titled "Millennium - Intersectional Experiences in IR Knowledge Production: Autoethnographic Accounts from East Asia." Please join us to listen to this inspiring discussion!

📌 On 18 July, @seowoohyeok.bsky.social will be participating in the roundtable “Meet the Editors Session II: Problematizing Ecologies of Publication” where he will introduce Millennium Journal's work and discuss the challenges of publication with other journal editors. Please join!

📣 We are looking forward to the Chuncheon Conference at Kangwon National University in South Korea starting tomorrow! Millennium's Associate Editor @seowoohyeok.bsky.social is there and will be sharing updates on his time representing Millennium Journal! Check out this thread for more ⤵️

Call for Abstracts: 2025 Annual Millennium Symposium (Vol. 54) After International Relations – Beyond critique: Building the new in the shell of the old Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 54 invites you to submit an abstract to this year’s…

‼️There are only a few days left to submit an abstract for the 2025 Symposium "After International Relations." Please read through the full call on our website and submit your abstract by 22 June 2025 at 23.59 GMT! millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...