@mtrotem.bsky.social
CivilWarPaths Fellow | FHEA | PhD UoMPolitics | Visual Politics | Memory and Trauma | Timor-Leste. MA/BA IRI_PUCRIO | BISA EPIR Convenor
Join us this Wednesday!
01.12.2025 20:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Next event!
📖 Book talk with Billy Holzberg (KCL) on his new ‘Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control’
🗓️ Next Tuesday, 25th November at 4:00pm (Online, UK time)
📝 To register for the event:
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
📣 Save the Date! 🗓️
We are thrilled to announce that the 10th Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research (STR) will be hosted by Dr. @MtroteM.bsky.social at @Manchester.ac.uk on May 29, 2026!
Watch this space, the CfP will be released shortly!
I was very honoured to chair and help organise this special roundtable in honour of Prof Emma Hutchison at #BISA2025 - a moving tribute to her work on emotions and politics. Deep thanks to @rbleiker for his generous support, and to all the speakers who made it so meaningful 🌟
18.06.2025 15:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌟 Join us for the EPIR Working Group lunch meeting at #BISA2025 - right after the roundtable in honour of Prof. Emma Hutchison!
A chance to continue the conversation over lunch
📩 RSVP to epir.group@bisa.ac.uk (for catering purposes)
All welcome! #EPIR #EmotionsInIR #BISA25
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 EPIR Thesis Prize!
🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan
🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi
Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏
Today I had the joy of presenting my book Affective Imageries at the CGP Seminar - the very cluster where I did my PhD at Manchester. It felt like coming full circle, sharing my work with the community that has been part of my journey. Grateful for the discussions and support! ✨
28.05.2025 21:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Roundtable Alert at #BISA2025 in Belfast!
Join us for a special roundtable celebrating the work of Prof Emma Hutchison
📍 Dublin Room, Europa Hotel
🗓️ Hosted by @BISAWG_Emotions and @MYBISA
#Belfast2025 #BISAConference
🚨 BISA 2025 Conference Panel Alert: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Emotions
📍 Blackstaff Room, Grand Central Hotel
🗓️19/06 / 15:00-16:30hs.
Sponsored by the @BISAWG_Emotions
#Belfast2025 #EPIR #EmotionsInIR #AffectInIR
A great discussion and fantastic questions! These @mybisa.bsky.social working groups aren't just good fun, they're great spaces to share and develop ideas in a friendly academic space. 10/10 would recommend. Thank you for organising @epir-bisa.bsky.social and @annemhoude.bsky.social !
13.05.2025 21:12 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
🌟@epir-bisa.bsky.social roundtable🌟
'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ Elisabeth Mörking, @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
@charlieprice.bsky.social and @theoaiolfi.bsky.social
13 May and open to all 👉 buff.ly/nnegvCu
@mtrotem.bsky.social
🌟Upcoming event @epir-bisa.bsky.social with Nicholas Gribble - 3rd April 🌟
'Dis-membering, re-membering: understanding the affective force of violence through fantasies in (post)war Sierra Leone' - buff.ly/tFeSac3
@annemhoude.bsky.social
@mtrotem.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
On this unusual sunny day in Liverpool, I had the honour of presenting my book at the Human Rights and Social Justice cluster, Department of Politics, @LivUni.
Perfect weather to match the inspiring discussions!
Trophies
EPIR THESIS PRIZE 2025 🚨
Nominations are OPEN for @epir-bisa.bsky.social + Brill Social Science Thesis Prize 2025
Awarded for the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR
Deadline: 28 Mar
Learn more & apply: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
@mtrotem.bsky.social
Thrilled to find my book ‘Affective Imageries’ at the @BloomsburyPol /
Rowman & Littlefield booth at #ISA2025! 🇹🇱
Had a great time yesterday at the ‘Corporeal Connections’ roundtable at #ISA2025! Such a fascinating discussion on embodiment and global politics with an amazing group of scholars.
04.03.2025 22:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0‼️Send us your thesis!
19.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‼️Join us this Thursday!
11.02.2025 13:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Join us next Thursday (13/02 - 4:30pm) to discuss Matthieu Grandpierron (Catholic University of Vendée) recently published book, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline!
Link: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
🚨🤓 Send your abstract to our Postgraduate/ECR Virtual Workshop: 'Intersection of Memory/Trauma and the Politics of Emotions in IR' until 17/02/2025!
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
🚨Do you want to be a co-convenor?
The BISA Emotions in Politics and IR working group is seeking applications for the position of co-convenor!
Please send a CV and a short statement of interest (no more than a paragraph) to epir.group@bisa.ac.uk until 28 February!
Join us!
🚨 NEW EVENT
Join us on our virtual seminar 'liquid fear, agency and the (un)conscious in securitisation processes' feat. @ngellwitzki.bsky.social (@UniOfYork), @charlieprice.bsky.social & @carvalhobds
11 Dec 4:30pm
Register: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
It finally arrived in hardcover, and a delightful smell of a new book! ♥️
20.11.2024 15:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to @mtrotem.bsky.social on the release of their book.
An insightful, innovative, and important analysis of an often harrowing but overlooked subject. 🇹🇱
🚨Join me next Wednesday (20/11) at 4pm at the @BISAWG_Emotions to discuss my new book!
The event is online, free and open to all!
Register here: bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…
See you there! 🤓
