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Text: ISA-AP Conference 2026 "From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order" 28-30 November 2026 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi, India

📣 ISA Asia-Pacific announces its 2026 Conference at JNU, New Delhi!
Theme: “From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order.”
📅 Nov 28–30, 2026
📝 Submissions due Apr 30, 2026
More info: buff.ly/tJEmR08

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century.   Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner ...

Matthew Perkins-McVey, Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, February 2026 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My inaugural lecture, "Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology” last October was an opportunity to share my vision for a new field of knowledge and celebrate the creation of the first ever chair in Global Political Anthropology | @facultyofartsug.bsky.social books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...

A black and white photo of a woman (Merze Tate) on a bike outside the Radcliffe Camera on Oxford

1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social

In our annual Russia and Eurasia issue, Agha Bayramov (@cirr-ug.bsky.social) details the Caspian ecological crisis and the region's green energy ambitions.

Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press

Also in our new issue: Agha Bayramov (@cirr-ug.bsky.social) on Caspian green energy ambitions, Catherine Wanner on dispossession and resilience in Ukraine, and J. Eugene Clay on late Soviet spiritualism.

Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).

Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!

Thank you so much for your wonderful talk, Patricia! Staff and students were delighted to meet you and celebrate the publication of Erased. We hope to host you again soon and look forward to your next project!

Looking forward to welcome @siculovevo.bsky.social tomorrow at the HTIR Colloquium in Groningen.

Come and learn about the fascinating history of oceanic pollution and environmentalism!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social

Social Theory and the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge - gloknos

Join us (online/in person) on 16 April to discuss Social Theory & the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge w/ the authors/eds of 3 fantastic new books in our Global Epistemics series w/ Rowman & Littlefield (Bloomsbury) edited by @berytia.bsky.social. Info & registration here: tinyurl.com/nonhege

And here is our final term of History and Theory of International History colloquia @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

With the early summer arriving in Groningen, we have plenty of talks to think together and let the sunshine in...

All welcome - See you there!

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👏 Out in the journal Politics in open access: CIRR member Julia Costa Lopez @jcostalopez.bsky.social with Katharine Millar's @drkmillar.bsky.social paper on Conspiratorial Medievalism: History & Hyperagency in the Far-Right Knights Templar Security Imaginary 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Including a chapter by our colleague Xavier Guillaume, with Nicolas Lemay-Hébert on 'The Game of Everyday Resistance' 👏

Including a chapter by our colleague Xavier Guillaume, with Nicolas Lemay-Hébert on 'The Game of Everyday Resistance' 👏

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

👏 Out in the journal Politics in open access: CIRR member Julia Costa Lopez @jcostalopez.bsky.social with Katharine Millar's @drkmillar.bsky.social paper on Conspiratorial Medievalism: History & Hyperagency in the Far-Right Knights Templar Security Imaginary 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Out now in Open Access: Our colleague Yuleng Zeng's paper with Brad Epperly in the Journal of Law & Courts

🎉 Out now in open access: CIRR member Andreas Aagaard Nøhr and Rune Gram Hagel Jensens' Critical Review of Jes Adoplphsen's Problemer i Videnskab in the Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education journals.aau.dk/index.php/pb...

A stack made in heaven? Exploring AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value How have socio-technical practices in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) communities shaped one another and society more widely? This article…

🎉 Out now (open access) in Progress in Economic Geography: CIRR member Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Ludovico Rella's paper on AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out now in the Italian Political Science Review (open access): CIRR member Matteo Casiraghi's paper with Tiziana Corda 👇

Graduate symposium – Doing International Political Sociology International Political Sociology (IPS) has now established itself as an interdisciplinary approach to International Relations that problematizes the...

📣 Call for Papers: Graduate Symposium - Doing International Political Sociology @doingips.bsky.social organised by our PhD students @kawezel.bsky.social & Federico Petris in Groningen 4-5 June 2025. A fantastic opportunity to present your work! Deadline 4 April 👇 www.rug.nl/research/ico...

Graduate symposium – Doing International Political Sociology International Political Sociology (IPS) has now established itself as an interdisciplinary approach to International Relations that problematizes the...

📣 Call for Papers: Graduate Symposium - Doing International Political Sociology @doingips.bsky.social organised by our PhD students @kawezel.bsky.social & Federico Petris in Groningen 4-5 June 2025. A fantastic opportunity to present your work! Deadline 4 April 👇 www.rug.nl/research/ico...

A stack made in heaven? Exploring AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value How have socio-technical practices in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) communities shaped one another and society more widely? This article…

🎉 Out now (open access) in Progress in Economic Geography: CIRR member Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Ludovico Rella's paper on AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉 Out now in open access: CIRR member Andreas Aagaard Nøhr and Rune Gram Hagel Jensens' Critical Review of Jes Adoplphsen's Problemer i Videnskab in the Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education journals.aau.dk/index.php/pb...

Participatory Transitional Justice as Anticipatory Project: North Korea, Diasporas and Uncertain Futures ABSTRACT∞. This article examines how insights from the transitional justice literature can be applied to North Korea, where the political system prevents g

Out now in Open Access: Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings & her collaborators examine how insights from the transitional justice literature can be applied to North Korea, where the political system prevents grassroots, participatory approaches to accountability, truth-telling, commemoration and reconciliation.

Today in Groningen! Don't miss Jill Massino's talk at the HTIR Chair Group's Colloquium if you're around 👇 @antoniofdo.bsky.social

YouTube video by Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development Video Recording | Launch of RAS Sustainable Technology Research Group

If you missed the launch of the Sustainability Technology (SusTech) Group our CIRR colleague Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn recently launched at the Rudolph Agricola School for Sustainable Development, watch it here!

Congrats to Beate Jahn & Sebastian Schindler & their authors for this superb Encyclopedia of IR. Delighted to see CIRR members @jcostalopez.bsky.social (Benchmark dates); Filipe dos Reis (State), @berytia.bsky.social (Behaviouralism) & many CIRR collaborators 👏 | www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Book Launch talk today - come one and all, to hear fascinating histories from below on everyday socialism in Eastern Europe.
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social

CfP - Deadline 31 March! CIRR colleagues are co-organising the 2025 edition of the Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries (Politicologenetmaal). Submit your proposal to one of 15 fantastic workshops and join us for a promising conference in our wonderful city of Groningen!

CIRR is also on LinkedIn! Follow us there to stay updated on our activities and our members' publications: www.linkedin.com/in/cirr-cent...