Franca Kappes

1/4 #EISAPEC25 was a blast! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! It also marked the end of @besteisleyen.bsky.social term as @europeanisa.bsky.social President and of #JoanaRicarte's role as ECD portfolio holder. Thank you both for your unwavering support of the #EISAECD community ✨🚀

3/4 We also warmly welcome #FrancescoRagazzi -new #ECD contact point of the @europeanisa.bsky.social board ➕our group's new members @mcianforlini.bsky.social @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social. A HUGE thanks to the departing @samarjit.bsky.social & #NeslihanDikmenAlsancak

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

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👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 Are you an Early Career Researcher attending #EISAPEC25?

Don't miss the @ecdeisa.bsky.social #SpecialSessions!💯

💥We’ve put together a dynamic program designed especially for ECRs. Check out this thread 🧵 to see what's happening ⬇️.

We look forward to meeting you!

This will also be my first PEC as a part of the @ecdeisa.bsky.social. It would be great to see some of you at the great events last year’s group has put together!

If you're interested in matters of Anthropocene governance and the ontologies it bears, climate displacement, mobility inequalities, disaster capitalism in the Caribbean, please join me for what promises to be a very interesting panel discussion on Friday, 29 August (Belmeloro, Filopanti 5).

I will soon leave for #EISAPEC25 taking place in Bologna, where I will be presenting a paper on "The Nomad Century Revisited: Stratified Infrastructures of Neo-nomadic Mobility and the Unmaking of the Social Contract in the Anthropocene," which gives a glimpse into my ongoing dissertation research.

🟡 Deadline Approaching Soon 🟡

November may not be the most picturesque season for a stroll along Lac Léman, but @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social, Victoria Motta and I would still be very happy to welcome you at the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025 .

More information 🔽

#CfP ⚠️ Join us for the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025, from 24–25/11/25, @gvagrad.bsky.social for "Diffractive Conversations on the Present-Future of Global Governance Research" co-convened by @tempus-fugit17.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social

🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️

I'm looking forward to contributing my little share to @europeanisa.bsky.social's excellent work as a new member of its Early Career Development Group @ecdeisa.bsky.social & to hopefully meeting many of you at #EISAPECE2026 in Bologna next month! Feel free to reach out, if you'll be around too ☕ 🇮🇹🍝

We’re excited to welcome our new members 🎉: @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social,& #MatteoCianforlini!

We look forward to working with you 🤝

Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨

It's been a super enriching discussion!

Islamism The best books on Islamism, as recommended by author and academic Malise Ruthven

"Any idea that Islamism is a monolithic ideology is defeated by the data. And of course the bottom line on that is the lack of a central authority and institutions in Islam."
fivebooks.com/best-books/i...

The Politics of Feeling The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period ha...

The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis:

mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...

Excited to be debating 'Posthuman Method Configurations' in our workshop co-convened with @lucasperezfl.bsky.social
at #EWIS2025. Reach out if you're around and would like to meet for ☕️ @europeanisa.bsky.social

It simply is no longer viable for us to hold the 2026 World Humanist Congress in Washington DC as planned, with the US in the state it is. Delighted to announce that we will instead be hosted by the wonderful people of Ottawa, Canada!

Das WZB von oben. Foto: Nadim Bazze

Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...

Maybe if we said it caused “learning loss” more people would care

Puerto Rico’s power struggles The island is staring down a dirtier, and potentially darker, future — with little say over what happens.

Puerto Rico is staring down a dirtier, and potentially darker, future — with little say over what happens.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Courses - ECPR Methods School at General Conference European Consortium for Political Research

Registration now open!

🎓 Methods School at the General Conference #ecprgc25
📆 26 – 29 August 2025, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Browse courses on #quantitative, #qualitative, creative, or #mixedmethods

🔐 Secure your space buff.ly/KN2oD4U

#AcademicSky #PoliSky

Sure it’s just a blip and not what scientists have been warning about for decades. Carry on as usual

📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.

PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

ICE Official Reveals Miserable Conditions for U.S. Immigrants at Djibouti Prison A top ICE official said illness is common at Camp Lemonnier, with inadequate medical care and exposure to smoke from burn pits.

SCOOP: A top ICE official said illness is common at Camp Lemonnier, with inadequate medical care and exposure to smoke from burn pits.

Merz erklärt Menschenrecht auf Teilhabe zum Luxusgut Erfahre mehr über die Arbeit der Grünen im Bundestag: Wir kämpfen für eine ökologische, gerechte und zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft.

"#Merz" erklärt Menschenrecht auf Teilhabe zum Luxusgut" www.gruene-bundestag.de/presse/pm-ju...

@isanet.bsky.social Perhaps moving the ISA outside of the US would enable your very own graduate students whose student visas have been revoked or will never be granted to attend in person... not that passport inequalities haven't been a persistent issue for years. #ISA2026

Thrilled to serve as co-convener alongside Victoria Motta, Carolina Futuro, and @fhofmann.bsky.social. If you're interested in what the #InternationalPoliticalSociology community in 🇨🇭 is up to or, even better, want to join us make sure to follow @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social and to reach out via 💻 🕊️📮

"The #humanities ... won’t give us all the answers, but they keep us asking the right questions—and without that, no future worth having can be built."
Peter Sutoris @wonkhe.bsky.social