Roland Bleiker

Fascinating article by Francesco Ragazzi on “multimodal” research - and an invitation to submit corresponding articles on aesthetics experiences and collaborations to Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences brill.com/view/journal...

Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.

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In this @risjnl.bsky.social podcast, @bleiker.bsky.social talk to @sebkaempf.bsky.social about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of his keynote address delivered at #BISA2025.

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Big thanks to the Swedish Research Council and, for the invite, sponsorship and work on the application to @linushagstrom.bsky.social, Simon Hollis and Olov Wenell. I look forward to collaborating with them and many other wonderful colleagues at Försvarshögskolan and elsewhere in Sweden.

Olof Palme visiting professorship The Swedish Research Council has decided that Roland Bleiker, professor in international relations at University of Queensland, Australia, will be the holder of the 2026 Olof Palme visiting professors...

We did not share this when announced because saying yes was only possible by having to assume - impossibly - that Emma will no longer be here: I am grateful to spend most of this year as Olof Palme Visiting Professor at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. www.vr.se/english/appl...

Emma Hutchison co-initiated this ARC project, so we were particularly lucky to be in the room that was just re-named in her memory. There will be a separate and proper thanks to our Head, Katrina Lee-Koo and everyone who so kindly supported this wonderful way of honouring Emma.

Thanks to all in-person and online participants in our Visualising Humanitarianism ARC Linkage workshop & esp to co-organisers Anita Schenk, @adarshbadri.bsky.social, Subodha Dilhari and Haneol Mun. Photo-credit and thus absent from the picture: Michael Aird. rolandbleiker.com/visualising-hu…

Here a video of Michael Barnett’s amazing Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture on Mobilising Compassion. Comments by Bina D’Costa and Fiona Terry. Chaired by Katrina Lee Koo. Introduced by Heather Zwicker and myself. Thanks so much to everyone who came along. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/michael...

Calibri has for long been our default font, but even more so after reading this NYT article today on the US State Department’s new “typeface policy.” 🙂. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

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“Having seen the incredible talent of young BISA scholars, and knowing the difficult situation they face at the beginning of their career, the AspIRing Scholars Fund is a cause well worth supporting.” - Roland Bleiker 🎉

Can you mobilise compassion? - ABC listen It feels like compassion is dwindling in the current political climate. Can compassion be mobilised again? Or is the age of humanitarianism over? Michael Barnett is in Australia for the Annual Emma Hu...

ABC Radio National offers a fascinating interview with Michael Barnett about mobilizing compassion and his first Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture, held last week at UQ. Lecture video still to come. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with

Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion

4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...

The last evening with the love of my life was a year ago today. It’s been a blur since: time lived without its flow (Denise Riley). So here one of my favorite photos, the url to my Emma tribute and big thanks to those who so kindly supported us during & after. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...

Available to Watch: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).

Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton discuss their fascinating and unusual new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

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NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social -

Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1

The Icon, Distributed: The Spectral Visual Politics of News Photography - Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson, 2025 Photographic icons provide broad audiences with a stable resource for public discourse and a sense of continuity. However, changes to our media landscape, most ...

On the role of icons in news media: Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson’s insightful new essay open access in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Aesthetic Imagination and Security Policy — Roland Bleiker By Roland Bleiker

Here a blog that summarises my chapter in Andrew Carrr’s book in memory of Brendan Sargeant, one of Australia’s leading strategic thinkers.  I use my previous visual autoethnography of Korean security to engage Sargeant’s concept of the strategic imagination. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/aesthet...

Looks excellent, Ben. Congratulations. I look forward to reading more carefully.

🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆

'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social

How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?

Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:

Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).

4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.

All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...

Visualising the COVID-19 pandemic through tropes: an autoethnographic and critical perspective The article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified a narrative of uncertainty, perpetuating existing social hierarchies related to gender and racial discrimination. Using a critical vis...

My article “Visualising the COVID-19 Pandemic through Tropes: An Autoethnographic and Critical Perspective” is finally out in the @cambridgecria.bsky.social
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Upcoming Event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton join us online to discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. Wed 5 Nov 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Details & Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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 ⤵️

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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.

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/...

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-...

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....

First talk of my trip - at the Université de Montréal - 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.

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“[How] can artistic practices enable us to visualize the legacies of conflict and visions for peace beyond established conventions?”

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

Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next? This event offers a compelling exploration of the global forces shaping our future—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...