Sarah Gharib Seif

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

Call for papers: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA - Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group

🚨 Call for papers 🚨

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉

Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw

niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif

Putting together a panel for #BISA2026 on grassroots resistance. If you have a paper, get in touch! I'm keen to bring together diverse perspectives and approaches.

📧 DM if you're interested

⏰ Deadline: October 30th

@mybisa.bsky.social

Our @mybisa.bsky.social CPD annual workshop will be happening on 1 December, on Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis. You can find the full CfP below and attached – the deadline for expressions of interest is 5 November 2025!

@niharikaan.bsky.social

Our @mybisa.bsky.social CPD annual workshop will be happening on 1 December, on Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis. You can find the full CfP below and attached – the deadline for expressions of interest is 5 November 2025!

@niharikaan.bsky.social

Just a reminder that we are still looking for abstracts for this panel!

If you're submitting an abstract for this, please do so by Friday.

That gives us time before the BISA deadline to read through the papers and then let everyone know so that you can submit your abstract as a single paper if you'd like to.

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation Joint Call for Papers from the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and Environment and Climate Politics Working Group We are putting out this joint call in recognition that many researchers are working at the intersection of our two working groups - and during a time when the realities of this intersection between colonialism, empire, and the environment have never been more clear. This moment makes evident the interconnections between militarism and settler colonialism and genocide and ecocide, and therefore the need to situate our knowledge and approaches within anticolonial, indigenous and translocal perspectives. Recognising the importance of scholarship that addresses these issues, we are calling for papers for BISA2026 that are related to the topics of how imperialism / colonialism / extraction / capitalism are in relationship with environmental degradation. This can be on a material level, where the functions of occupation and extraction lead to environmental destruction, or on a more discursive level, where hierarchies of life are used to justify and naturalise ongoing violence against people and places. Whilst we are keeping this Call quite broad to encourage wide-ranging submissions, some paper topics or research areas might include: • Genocide and its links to environmental destruction, for example in Palestine, DR Congo, and Sudan, to name a few. • Ecological imperialism – theoretical contributions or case studies • Reparative justice and climate change • The construction of new ‘frontiers’ – how imperialism and extraction is moving to new areas such as the deep sea or space • Anticolonial and anti-extractive organising and decarbonization and fossil fuel phase outs • Indigenous approaches on relationality, connectedness and climate justice • The role of academics in perpetuating or resisting these forms of harm Please send your 200-250 word abstrac…

Call for Papers for #BISA2026!

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation.

This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups.

Deadline Friday 24 October.

Extract from the linked article "Race Reports": "What does it mean for the university to acknowledge the 'displacement of indigenous people' in the nineteenth century as a generative driver of its wealth at the same time as it exhibits a studied indifference or, worse, active hostility to those campaigning against the decimation of the indigenous people of Palestine in the genocide that has been ongoing since October 2023? Within weeks of the onset of the genocide an early facade of institutional neutrality, itself premised on a morally objectionable equation of the violence of the colonised and the coloniser, gave way to outright condemnation of Palestine solidarity"

"Race Reports: How universities 'reckon' with their imperial past, and how their investment portfolios say otherwise." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Excellent - by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/19/live-israel-kills-more-than-50-in-gaza-as-un-warns-of-catastrophic

Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE.

Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Decolonial Methodologies workshop University of St Andrews 25 April. Keynote Speech: Jasmine Gani (LSE)

Honoured to be giving the keynote speech tomorrow (25 Apr) at the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference at St Andrews. I'll be speaking about our intellectual and ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide
@standrewsir.bsky.social
@lseir.bsky.social

Mask Off Maersk: The Logistics Corporation Facilitating Genocide Popular Cradle · Episode

Are you listening to Popular Cradle? New episode about the logistics giant Maersk, which has shipped millions of pounds of military cargo to israel over the course of the genocide.

open.spotify.com/episode/3rIR...

A feminist analysis of the coloniality of militarization: thinking with Kashmir at the margins of the Global South This article was named the winner of the 2023 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This highly original piece advances underexplored sites for decolonial theorization while embedding evocative met...

my new article that analyses the colonial logics and underpinnings of militarisation, and builds a critique of liberal feminist IR analyses and research agendas is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.

Open Letter to the International Studies Association on the targeting and harassment of our colleague Dr Catherine Charrett *** We invite scholars to sign this Open Letter *** Dear colleagues, We write as scholars working on gender, feminist and queer international relations, racism and (settler) colonialism, issues pertai...

International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...

Censorship & Antidemocratic Governance at the ISA The International Studies Association (ISA) claims to be “an organization that is governed by and answerable to its membership.” However…

What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

Thanks so much Chris!

CALL FOR PAPERS
(In)Justice and The Global

22nd-23rd May 2025
The 13th Graduate Conference in International Political Theory at St. Andrews. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Keynote Speakers:
David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social
Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social
Jason Ralph @jasonralph.bsky.social

Thank you so much Roxani - so grateful for all of your support in so many ways 💗

Thank you sooooo much Jasmine! 💗 I am endlessly grateful!

I passed my viva earlier this week! Thank you to Prof Gurch Sanghera and to Prof Richard Jackson for the generous engagement & a stimulating viva experience! I’m so grateful to @jasminekgani.bsky.social & @rkrystalli.bsky.social for being the best supervisory team - and to everyone at St Andrews IR!

Thanks so much Margot!

This evening we have the CPDWG roundtable on anti-imperial feminist architectures of resistance with Dilar Dirik and Afaf Jabiri #bisacpd24 @niharikaan.bsky.social @sarahgharib.bsky.social

The afternoon session at #bisacpd24 is on ‘how would you teach Palestine?’ led by charity Makan. Currently we are discussing gaps in education on Palestine.
@sarahgharib.bsky.social @niharikaan.bsky.social

Session 2 has begun at #bisacpd24 and is chaired by the wonderfully passionate @jasminekgani.bsky.social
We’re discussing the imaginaries of the anti colonial and the anti imperial.
@uniwestminster.bsky.social @stoffelalex.bsky.social

After small group discussions some common themes were:
-body as an archive of pain
-silencing by institutions
-definitions of feminism and its relationship to facism
#bisacpd24 @niharikaan.bsky.social

Session 1 is on the tools that anti-imperial feminist, queer/trans and anti-racist thinking offer us to make sense of the present global moment. There are several 5-min provocations before a group discussion #bisacpd24

What a room of fantastic scholars. Introductions done so we’ll soon be moving on to the first session chaired by @niharikaan.bsky.social #bisacpd24

Is live Bluesky a thing? It is now! We’ll be bringing you updates from today’s Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial WG events in London all day today!
Starting now with intros from conveners Sarah, @niharikaan.bsky.social and Catherine #bisacpd24 @uniwestminster.bsky.social