Nick Caddick

They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days.

But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼

Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social‬ podcast, is recording at #BISA2025 🎙️

Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social‬ @faloulah.bsky.social‬ & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉

Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl

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Come join myself, @faloulah.bsky.social and Daniel Drury at the @e-international.bsky.social stand @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Come have a chat and record with us LIVE for the Thinking Global Podcast!

#BISA2025 conference delegates, remember to head to the exhibition hall and speak to @e-international.bsky.social who are podcasting live with Thinking Global - stop by for a quick chat about the work you’ve just presented!

In Belfast for the first time, looking forward to the start of @mybisa.bsky.social and meeting colleagues and friends and, especially, a panel tomorrow honoring Emma with several wonderful scholars she read and admired.

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Flying out of Gatwick feels a bit weird on the day I learn that Javed Syed, a graduate of my university along with his wife and children, was on the Air India flight that never made it here. RIP @angliaruskin.bsky.social

Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up at #BISA2025 TOMORROW 🎉

Come and join the Postgrad Network @ at The Sunflower Pub & meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs! 🌻

Find out more details now 👉 buff.ly/8t8P90k

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'The “war on woke” is the calling card of the global fascist right. Orbán’s attack on CEU for “gender ideology” began his destruction of 🇭🇺 democracy. Putin justified his full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦 by appealing to the supposed dangers 🇺🇦’s liberal democracy poses for traditional gender roles...'

Featured events All the featured events at the #BISA2025 conference, including our journals, special and satellite events.

🎉 #BISA2025 featured roundtable! 🎉
19 June

'War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives' w/ Amnon Aran @andypayne.bsky.social‬ Katerina Dalacoura & Sam Rose - director of @unrwa.org‬ Gaza

Read more 👉 buff.ly/4eGQiHv

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Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social colleagues today marching to protest against the savage job cuts at their institution! ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza

Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:

"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Postgraduate and early-career development day 2025 Register for the PG/ECR workshops taking place in Belfast in June 2025.

BISA postgrad network and early-career development day 2025
🎉 17 June @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social‬ 🎉

‪Inc/ @therealisthom.bsky.social‬ @nickcaddick.bsky.social‬ @amnakaleem.bsky.social‬ @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social‬ and more! 🌟

Sign up now 👉

'Racism without ‘#race’: colorblindness, blackness and everyday #racism in contemporary Germany'

From #Identities issue 32.2, by Daniel Williams:

doi.org/10.1080/1070...

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Excited to be serving another term as a trustee at @mybisa.bsky.social and grateful to all the members for voting in the elections! 🙏🏻

Announcing the winners of the Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group Early-Career Researcher Paper Prize 2025- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA - Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group

🌟Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial WG Early-Career Researcher Prize 2025 winner:

🏆Asad Zaidi 🏆
“Pakistani contested worldmaking in international politics: The Afghan-Soviet War, Cold War counterinsurgency, and the struggles for decolonization”

More & runner-up 👉

A friendly reminder to check out the #BISA2025 program and be sure to add our sponsored panels and events to your list!

It’s BISA’s 50th anniversary, so we want to know how this conference has impacted your career. Let us know with the hashtag #MyFirstBISA 

I fear this is also Labour liberalism showing its true colours

Labour cabinet meetings be like

The future of UK-Africa relations- Africa and International Studies | BISA - Africa and International Studies Working Group

🌟Africa and International Studies WG and @chathamhouse.org event 🌟
The workshops focus is sharing experience and knowledge-based perspectives on the future of the UK-Africa relationships!
Inc/ @drstephenhurt.bsky.social @ruthbookbinder.bsky.social and more
16 May 👉https://buff.ly/YaxT5Lw

Thank you so much Toni! 🙏🏻

Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now! Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.

@mybisa.bsky.social colleagues! After serving as your conference chair for Birmingham and Belfast, I’m standing for election for two more years as trustee. I’d love the opportunity to keep working for our members and would really appreciate your vote! Vote by 12th May! www.bisa.ac.uk/news/executi...

Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now! Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.

The @mybisa.bsky.social Executive Committee 2025 candidates are now live. I'm running for EDI officer & would appreciate your vote! Eligible voters received an email with their ballot yesterday. Full details, about all the candidates, including my personal statement, available here: bit.ly/4lZWd40

Public lecture: What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’ Cynthia Enloe delivers public lecture at Queen's University Belfast to open #BISA2025.

🎉Sign up now for Cynthia Enloe's #BISA2025 public lecture!🎉

Titled - 'What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’'

Bound to be very popular so don't miss out 👉 buff.ly/mcqIxmK
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Read it here or DM me for a copy 😁 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And we also draw on @jamthomp.bsky.social notion of ‘care aesthetics’ which offered an insightful way of framing the emphasis on ‘making care visible’. Care aesthetics will also likely be of interest to scholars working on care in international politics, especially in connection with the visual!

To make this argument, we draw on intersecting bodies of work from feminist care ethics and feminist IPE, narrative theory, and film & visual politics. We hope that scholars in each of these areas and beyond will find something of interest in the paper.

Making care visible in care-depleted spaces seemed to us a worthwhile political act and that’s what we chose to highlight in this paper. It was also a way for these communities to enact narrative agency in settings where other people’s stories about veterans loom large as cultural representations.

We argue that the transitional spaces veterans enter into upon leaving the military are typically depleted of care through a dominant economic rationality that emphasises work and productivity. Care can be transformative after military service, and the films gave veterans the chance to show this.