Thanks Geneva for a wonderful few days of conversations! Sad to hear extent & impact of massive cuts to #UN & #ICRC budgets. But woke this morning to fresh snow & these gorgeous clouds.
@ninareiners.bsky.social
@stephofmann.bsky.social
@ninahall.bsky.social
Associate Prof of International Relations, Johns Hopkins, SAIS Europe. IR, NGOs, IOs, advocacy, and climate change Recent bk: https://www.cambridge.org/it/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/climate-acti
Thanks Geneva for a wonderful few days of conversations! Sad to hear extent & impact of massive cuts to #UN & #ICRC budgets. But woke this morning to fresh snow & these gorgeous clouds.
@ninareiners.bsky.social
@stephofmann.bsky.social
Thanks Hans! We finish our article on #climate litigation pointing out that #climate movement needs to support #democracy movements, otherwise they'll have serious trouble in long term.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NYT ripped into the Sierra Club for going woke (abandoning #climate campaign for DEI).
Read @davekarpf.bsky.social on the actual challenge US #climate movement faces - esp. Erosion of democracy.
@hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
In London? Come along tonight "Governing the End" Lisa Vanhala's new book on #climate loss and damage. 18.30 @ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
In a new Nature Climate Change comment, we call for reflection on the role and purpose of #climatelitigation in light of unfortunate trends of challenges to judicial independence, deregulation & anti-climate litigation
w/ @mer29-cam.bsky.social @highamian.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social
Check out this new research paper "Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash" in @nature.com by @mer29-cam.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, @highamian.bsky.social & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Zohran Mamdani's won NYC mayoralty. Worthwhile reading his dad's book "Neither Settler nor Native", Harvard.
A fascinating account of how nation state intertwined with colonial state: making indigenous ppls "permanent minorities"
share.google/Tqcv0mEtRjyO...
A BIG thanks again to @highamian.bsky.social for coordinating this & being corresponding author!
03.11.2025 11:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0& here's the full article (view only link) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
03.11.2025 10:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Reorienting #Climate litigation in a time of backlash, shrinking civic space & challenges to judicial independence
Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Had such a great and productive time with these amazing people in Rapallo for the Exploratory Symposia @europeanisa.bsky.social !
Perhaps weโre smiling too much for discussing the Far-Right in International Politics, but how can you blame us considering our projectโs progresses and that view!
"Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss & Damage"
In London next Weds? Join this book launch of new brilliant work by Lisa Vanhala @ucl.ac.uk
Looking fwd to it! @birshao.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
Buongiorno Rapallo! #EISA what a spot!!
26.10.2025 12:06 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0En route to Rapallo for #EISA working sessions.
Thanks to Lisbeth Zimmerman & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social for getting us time in a wonderful place to write!
That's right ๐ Bologna in May is fantastic!
24.10.2025 17:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In London? I'm speaking on Far Right and Global Environmental Politics. Thurs 6 Nov 2-3pm @soasuni.bsky.social
Please join! Deets below๐
Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Submit by Dec 15๐
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please spread the word ๐
Thanks to @stephofmann.bsky.social & the IR crew @eui-eu.bsky.social for wonderful feedback!
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Huge CONGRATS to @hahrie.bsky.social for winning a McCarthur Genius Grant! Fantastic news!
hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...
What a wonderful weekend of "Sensing the Climate" conversations and experiences at our Festival!
Here are artists Mali Weil & Joanne Yao in Le Serre, Bologna.
Thanks all volunteers & participants! @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
Next Thurs 16 Oct I'll be @unileiden.bsky.social Hague Campus.
Speaking on "Far Right and Global Environmental Politics" 17 - 18.30.
Details ๐ please join & spread the word!
What a scoop! Defence documents from five eyes meeting ๐๏ธ left at a charity shop. Detail deepening military alliance to counter China.
Uncovered by investigative journalist Nicky Hager.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...
Excited for #EISARapallo25 in a few weeks!
With Prof. Lisbeth Zimmermann, @ninahall.bsky.social & others, we'll discuss the role & impact of the Far-Right in International Politics!
And we're in great company! Programme's out now!
eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...
Thanks @europeanisa.bsky.social !!
"If movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live"
- New Yorker article on cinema festival in Bologna.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Wonderful discussion this morning on how artists and academics listen to the living world. Joanne Yao & Mali Weil artist collective.
#Sensing the #Climate
@ Le Serre Bologna
Festival of Ecological Imagination
UniBo & @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Italy: National strike in solidarity w/ Palestine today. The second national strike in2 wks.
Thousands of Italians taking to the streets. Here's Bologna getting ready this morning.
And it's happening!! #Sensing the #climate festival at Serramadre, Bologna.
First event: workshop on the floods which hit Bologna last year.
Full program here:
serramadre.art
You're on it as always!! ๐
01.10.2025 16:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In two wks I'll be Leiden University, speaking at the Hague campus Thurs Oct 16 (17.00 - 18.30). Please join!
@unileiden.bsky.social
@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...