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I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan.
Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.

Yes, come!!

Avec plaisir!

Thanks dear Sandeep x

I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan.
Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.

Time for the ISA to take a stand against colonial genocide & scholasticide in Palestine 🍉
#BDSatISA

Who’s going to the @histmat.bsky.social conference in Athens?

Congrats Lukas!

Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts The study of policies limiting the production of fossil fuels must be appropriately historicised. Contextualising these policies within a longer-term …

📝 My new article “Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts” is out in Energy Research & Social Science! Read and share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're excited to share the programme of CCPT events this semester and hope to see you there!

Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring

The government’s overall Oh well that’s how it is now attitude when one of the main pillars of your economy crumbles right there for everyone to see is quite difficult to comprehend.

“The guarantee of liberty, equality, and property implies that the visible fist of the State must complete the work of the invisible hand of the market”
- Samir Amin in Eurocentrism

I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed

go.bsky.app/6hwHCnh

Frankfurt Uni cancels a conference on "Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine“. Can't make it up.

Excited to share that my latest research has been published in the Critical Studies on Terrorism Journal!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025) : Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe - Historical Materialism Le dernier « Congrès Marx International » a eu lieu à Paris en 2010. Depuis lors, dans l’espace francophone, aucune conférence internationale s’inscrivant explicitement dans le cadre du marxisme, dura...

The CfP for Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26–28 June 2025) 'Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe' is now online. Please send in your abstracts by 15 February. Further details, in both French and English, below.

This looks great!!

Excellent opportunity for Black UK students to enrol in a PhD in any research area. 12 scholarships available at the University of Glasgow.

Madame la présidente du Parlement européen, reprogrammez la conférence de Maboula Soumahoro sur l’antiracisme ! Dans une lettre ouverte à Roberta Metsola, plusieurs centaines d’intellectuels et de personnalités dénoncent le report, sous la pression d’élus d’extrême droite, d’une intervention de la chercheuse Ma...

Great many people show support to our colleague in Anglophone Studies, Dr Maboula Soumahoro, whose specialism in critical race analyses in France & US is well known. EU Parliament cancelled her intervention follwing sustained pressure from the far-right.
Collective✊🏾
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Preparing next week’s lecture ✍️🧑‍💻

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Help Umm Saeed and her family survive in Gaza Umm Saeed, a mother of six, is living in the Deir al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza—one of the many families struggling to survive amidst the ongoing conflict and devastation. Her family, once ful...

Umm Saeed, a mother of six, is living in the Deir al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza—one of the many families struggling to survive. Their home was bombed, their belongings destroyed, and their world turned upside down. Please donate and share.
chuffed.org/project/1167...

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Move by international criminal court puts Netanyahu at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county’s former defence…

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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