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The Department of POLIS at the University of Cambridge - teaching and researching the world's most complex and pressing issues in politics around the world. www.polis.cam.ac.uk
PSRM abstract discussing a study on the impact of resident diplomacy on visa issuance by UK diplomatic posts, emphasizing the change in adjudication processes and its effects on international relations.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @psrm.bsky.social -
Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance - https://cup.org/4mAJ8gu
- David Lindsey
Promotional banner for JPH (Journal of Policy History ) featuring the text "Access the latest issue" in elegant typography on a cream background.
Where not #OpenAccess the latest issue of the Journal of Policy History is free to read until the end of October 2025 -
Volume 37 - Issue 4 - https://cup.org/4mxcRaj
#jph
Banner in red and yellow announcing 'Political Analysis: Access the latest issue.'
Where not #OpenAccess the latest issue of @polanalysis.bsky.social is free to read until the end of October 2025 -
Political Analysis - Volume 33 - Issue 4 - cup.org/4pDmln8
Interested in #AIGovernance, and the power asymmetries between marginalised communities in the Global South and tech giants in the Global North?
Join Dr Andrea Medrado (@andreamedrado.bsky.social) on Oct 22 for our second seminar of Michaelmas. Get your tickets: cghr-22oct25.eventbrite.co.uk.
Coming up in 10 days now!
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"I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises..."
It's 40 years since Neil Kinnock tore into Militant at the Labour Party conference.
I joined David Runciman on @ppfideas.bsky.social to talk about Kinnock, Trotskyism & the legacy of THAT speech today. Enjoy!
www.ppfideas.com/episodes/now...
Nouvel article sur le marasme économique, crise du capital, et revanche de la propriété étatique, écrit pour @positions-revue.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
📰Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written
an article for @jeasjournal.bsky.social titled 'Babies, buildings,
and bones' examining the (im)materiality of love and homemaking after war.
🌍 Read the article now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@cambridgegender.bsky.social is excited to announce the speaker at this year's Juliet Mitchell Lecture will be Prof Lila Abu-Lughod discussing "Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Feminism and Anthropology"
📆 15 October
⏰17.30
📍McCrum Theatre
Register early:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-juliet...
🏆Huge congratulations to this year's R.A. Butler Prize winners.
1st prize to Lydia Davenport (Holmes Chapel Sixth Form), 2nd prize to Daniel Zhang (The Hotchkiss School) and 12 special
commendations to students from 5 countries.👏
Thank you to all who entered.
polis.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-ra...
I have a piece in the new Cultivate issue reflecting on intersectionality as a theoretical tool www.cultivatefeministjournal.com/issue-7-spac...
16.09.2025 05:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0📢 Congratulations to @iliasalami.bsky.social whose book 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' has been shortlisted for two best book awards. 📘👏
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📖Join us for the launch of "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?", the latest book by political scientist and author Professor James Fishkin.
📆Thurs 18 Sept
🕠5:30 - 7PM
📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College
Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#Democracy @kingscollege.bsky.social
📖Join us for the launch of "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?", the latest book by political scientist and author Professor James Fishkin.
📆Thurs 18 Sept
🕠5:30 - 7PM
📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College
Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#Democracy @kingscollege.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
📚Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written a book review of "In Love and at War" by @hilarymatfess.bsky.social in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social.
📕In Love at War: cambridge.org/core/element...
📑Book Review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trump-Putin summit has brought the outline of a peace deal into view by Professor Marc Weller for inews.
inews.co.uk/news/world/t...
How do federal and state governments drive innovation in the US? My new paper @cjres.bsky.social shows how the 'Polycentric Innovation State' with multi-level, place-based policies is reshaping regional growth in places like Michigan and Maine
academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
Second year HSPS student Ismail, and surprise guest Astrid, explain a humanities course that is unique to Cambridge: Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS).
youtu.be/hig5UOkDh68
This is just one of the ways to study politics at Cambridge. Learn more here: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/study-at-pol...
🏆🎉Congratulations to @absander.bsky.social , the winner of this year's Lisa Smirl PhD Prize for the best PhD thesis completed in the previous academic year.
Read more: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/news/antoine...
@campolis.bsky.social
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📸We're thrilled to announce the winners of the POLIS PhD Fieldwork Photography Competition!
Congratulations to:
🥇Amelia Amemate (Dela)
🥈Daniel Rincon Machon
🥉 Karen Dominguez Mendoza
View the winning images here: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/news/announc...
Congratulations to Professor Duncan Kelly on his appointment as Professor of Politics. This marks a significant milestone in Professor Kelly's distinguished career at Cambridge, so please join us in congratulating him on his appointment.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Purple Prize certificate with the BISA 50 year logo, the words WINNER and L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 Farhana Afrin Rahman - After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps (Cambridge University Press) “Winning the prize is both an incredible honour and a deeply meaningful affirmation of the stories and struggles at the heart of my book. I hope this recognition helps to amplify the voices of Rohingya refugees and contributes to a more thoughtful and engaged conversation around gender, displacement, and belonging. I’m extremely grateful to the prize committee for this award.”
Our L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 winner was Farhana Afrin Rahman @campolis.bsky.social for her book 'After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps' @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org 🎉
🌟 Read more - buff.ly/Rvd09Wk
✨ Another huge congratulations to Dr Farhana Afrin Rahman for winning the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 for her phenomenal book 'After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps'.
📕 www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... 🏆
🎙️What is the value of speaking other languages?
"We're in a current geopolitical situation where we need to be able to speak other languages... & that works through things like soft power & diplomacy as well social cohesion, conflict resolution."— Wendy Bennett
🎧https://pod.fo/e/2fb7e1
#podcast
Admitting the Possibilities of Error: Conceptual drawings by Kirsten Lavers. Exhibition extended to 29 August.
Exhibition extended! 🎉
We are happy to announce that we are extending Kirsten Laver's beautiful exhibition 'Admitting the Possibilities of Error' to 29 August 2025.
The exhibition is open from 9am - 5pm on weekdays or by special appointment.
Find out more at buff.ly/rd45heH
New blog on how the Renters’ Rights Bill could improve private renters’ mental health
Private renters face mental health risks due to tenancy uncertainty. Marco Felici explores how banning "no fault” evictions in the UK’s Renters’ Rights Bill could help
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/renters...
📰New article by @haugejostein.bsky.social in Global Currents, a newsletter about international political economy, titled "Is China a climate champion? How the world's largest emitter is actually leading global decarbonization."
www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/is-china-a...
#China #ClimatePolicy
📢We're hiring a full-time postdoctoral research associate based in the Centre of Governance & Human Rights @cghrcambridge.bsky.social for 2 years to collaborate with Prof Sharath Srinivasan on 'Communication Technology and Contentious Politics'.
Learn more: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51939/
