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Roland Bleiker

@bleiker.bsky.social

Writes about the politics of images & emotions across conflict, security, resistance, humanitarianism. Prof of International Relations UQ. Runs @visualpolitics.bsky.social. https://www.rolandbleiker.com

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Dr. Katrina Lee-Koo put together a fantastic Editor's Collection for RIS on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Resolution 1325 was passed 25 years ago and these articles reflect on where we came from, and what is still missing โคต๏ธ

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23.10.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Huge congratulations to Haneol Mun on a fantastic Ph.D. project presentation (SOI) today for a great thesis on The Political Power of Cinema in East Asia. Thanks to readers Nicole George, @minranliu.bsky.social and Anais Hull and chair Andrew Phillips.

24.10.2025 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program event with Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy at UQ, who discusses her new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP 2024). Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

13.10.2025 19:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Marguerite La Caze (Philosophy UQ) discusses her book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP). Wed 8 Oct, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

06.10.2025 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

21.09.2025 09:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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First talk of my trip - at the Universitรฉ de Montrรฉal - out of the way. Thanks to Vincent Pouliot for the invitation and to everyone who came along. If there are colleagues in town who would like to meet up, pease get in touch. I am here for a couple more days.

20.09.2025 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œ[How] can artistic practices enable us to visualize the legacies of conflict and visions for peace beyond established conventions?โ€

Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

15.09.2025 07:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next? This event offers a compelling exploration of the global forces shaping our futureโ€”and why they matter for Australia, the Indo-Pacific, and the world.

If you are in Brisbane, come join us for the inaugural professorial lecture by my wonderful colleague Andrew Phillips. Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next? Wed, 17 Sep, 5pm - 7pm. All welcome, but need to register here: events.humanitix.com/who-killed-t...

10.09.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Honoured to discuss โ€œThe Seductive Power of Grand Narrativesโ€ as part of this forum on Oliver Richmondโ€™s ambitious and important @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book on The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Open-access in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

10.09.2025 07:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Available to watch: yesterdayโ€™s @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with Simon Philpott and William Clapton discussing their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics (including Willโ€™s new @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

04.09.2025 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1 Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. Youโ€™ll find weโ€™re about leading research, academic excel...

My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies."

Great project โœ”๏ธ
Awesome supervisor โœ”๏ธ
Excellent department โœ”๏ธ
Lovely City โœ”๏ธ

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

01.09.2025 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) at Cardiff University Apply now for the Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

๐ŸŽ‰ 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:

๐ŸŒŽ Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
๐Ÿ“ Political theory inc history of political thought
๐Ÿ“š History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR

Apply here ๐Ÿ‘‰

01.09.2025 08:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event:

Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
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Wed 3 Sept 5-6pmย BNE time (UTC+10).

In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

01.09.2025 06:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies โ€“ The podcast Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill,โ€ฆ

Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social podcast: a must listen! ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments ๐ŸŒŸ
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more

Find it here ๐Ÿ‘‰

20.08.2025 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Drawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wongโ€™s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to โ€œwhat aesthetics do or could do.โ€ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

20.08.2025 05:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Hello fellow educators and listeners,

What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know โ˜บ๏ธ
Al and Seb

12.08.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Militarisation and Biodiversity: Ecological Politics in the Korean DMZ โ€” Roland Bleiker By Roland Bleiker

Here a new blog about my old home Panmunjom and the intriguing links between militarisation and biodiversity: a review of Eleana Kimโ€™s insightful book Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (Duke 2022). www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/inside-...

12.08.2025 05:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gillian Whitlock and Zhila Gholami on Refugees and the Arhive โ€” Roland Bleiker

Here a video of yesterdayโ€™s fascinating @visualpolitics.bsky.social discussion between Gillian Whitlock & Zhila Gholami on archival research about refugees. Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson, topics include Gillian's Bloomsbury book and Zhilaโ€™s Fryer project.
www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

07.08.2025 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please join us in person or online for our first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester:
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Profย Gillian Whitlockย and Dr Zhila Gholamiย discuss their archival research on refugees.
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Wed 6 Aug, 5-6pmย Brisbane time (UTC+10).

Zoom rego:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

05.08.2025 05:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Big thanks to @nickcaddick.bsky.social, @julietdryden.bsky.social, Kyle Greyson, @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and to everyone who kindly attended and helped organise the event and the amazing @mybisa.bsky.social conference.

30.07.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Emma and I collaborated on the keynote as long as she could. She will be co-author of the ensuing essay, which I hope to complete later this year.

30.07.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
#BISA2025 keynote: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics
YouTube video by MyBISA #BISA2025 keynote: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics

Here a video of my keynote at the recent 50th Anniversary #BISA2025 conference in Belfast. I am more writer than speaker, so this was a challenge. But I am grateful for the invitation and glad I did it for - and with - Emma Hutchison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWg...

30.07.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Professeur-e dans le domaine "Emotions et conflits" (6432)

Entry level position: assistant professor in emotions and international conflict at the University of Geneva. For colleagues who speak French. jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta....

29.07.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Portrait of the artist with old hat. Longest trip - away from hospitals - in many years. Excitingly disorienting. Glad to head home. Thanks to colleagues & friends I was lucky to encounter & apologies to those I failed to meet. Itโ€™s the best I could do at this stage. โ’ธFH

27.07.2025 07:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. Join us to hear from amazing scholars, inc Gillian Whitlock, Zhila Gholami, William Clapton, Simon Philpott, Eliza Garnsey, Caitlin Hamilton, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Barnett, Bina Dโ€™Costa, Fiona Terry. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

26.07.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tribute to Emma Hutchison โ€” Roland Bleiker

This annual lecture honours Emmaโ€™s pioneering work on emotions and images in international relations and on broader political and ethical challenges, including those related to humanitarian responsibilities. For more info on Emma see here: www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...

23.07.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mobilising Compassion with Professor Michael Barnett Join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture: Prof. Michael Barnet (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion.

This will be an in-person event, followed by a reception. A livestream link and subsequent video-recording will be made available. All welcome, but please RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/mobilising...

23.07.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please mark the date and join us later this year at UQ / @visualpolitics.bsky.social for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with

Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.

With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).

23.07.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Thinking Global Podcast Archives โ€“ E-International Relations If you like discussion of heavy questions in a light-hearted atmosphere with the big names from the world of International Relations, join Kieran Oโ€™Meara and the E-International Relations podcastโ€ฆ

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ @E_IR X #BISA2025 podcasts ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

With Kieran Oโ€™ Meara and @faloulah.bsky.social speaking to :
@bleiker.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @davidjwilcox.bsky.social @errichiello.bsky.social @jasonralph.bsky.social and many more! ๐ŸŽ‰

๐ŸŽง listen now -

22.07.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Purple certificate card with the BISA 50 year logo, the words WINNER and Best Article in the Review of International Studies Prize

Uygar Baspehlivan  - Theorizing the memescape: the spatial politics of internet memes

โ€œReceiving this award as an early career scholar is both a true honour and an incredible opportunity! I am so humbled to be recognised by a panel of such excellent critical scholars. I hope this award will inspire other ECRs and PhD students to experiment more with their objects of theorisation and widen interest in the everyday politics of moving digital media."

Purple certificate card with the BISA 50 year logo, the words WINNER and Best Article in the Review of International Studies Prize Uygar Baspehlivan - Theorizing the memescape: the spatial politics of internet memes โ€œReceiving this award as an early career scholar is both a true honour and an incredible opportunity! I am so humbled to be recognised by a panel of such excellent critical scholars. I hope this award will inspire other ECRs and PhD students to experiment more with their objects of theorisation and widen interest in the everyday politics of moving digital media."

๐ŸŽ‰ Best Article in the @risjnl.bsky.social winner this year was @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social

for: 'Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes' with judges finding the 'theoretical approach original & highly relevant' ๐ŸŒŸ

Summary - buff.ly/Rvd09Wk
DOI -

18.07.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@bleiker is following 20 prominent accounts