🌕This week at SSE - Have you ever blown out a candle for your birthday, and made a wish? Do you cross your fingers or look for four-leaf clovers for good luck? We all rely on small rituals to manifest what is not yet available to us.
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Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:
@qmulsse.bsky.social's Tom Chidwick's forthcoming book on the 1 March 1979 Scottish devolution referendum is now listed on @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social's website!
Read the blurb and pre-order your copy of "Now or Never!", which reveals the full story of the referendum, now!
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I just published something on my Substack about one reason, among many, why I don't think communicating public consensus on climate change is anything like as powerful a climate policy tool as people make it out to be.
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Many congratulations to Sam Halvorsen from Geography (GES), Liesbeth Corens from History & Karl Pike from SPIR, who have all received funding awards from the Leverhulme Trust. In a double win, Sam has also received a grant from the British Academy. Read more:
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Are you a Zimbabwean migrant in the UK who sends money, food or goods to Zimbabwe? Researchers at @qmulsse.bsky.social want to hear from you. Our survey explores how remittances support climate adaptation in Zimbabwe. 🔗 tinyurl.com/25evy7ns Please share widely! 🇿🇼🇬🇧
Join us for this event on solar geoengineering and its planetary consequences! @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and Jef Huysmans will be in conversation with Joanne Yao and Danielle Young.
April 15, 4.30pm @qmulsse.bsky.social L.
Coffee, tea and cake will be served 🥳🥳
Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx reading group
We’ll meet three times at Queen Mary’s Mile End Campus to discuss the book and its implications for us today
23/4, 1/5, 5/5 @ 2-4 pm @qmul.bsky.social
IHSS
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Studying Populism as Discourse: New Directions
Research Workshop
22 April 2026 @ 1-5 pm @qmul.bsky.social
A critical assessment of the discourse theoretical (Essex School) approach to the study of populism
IHSS
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@theorylab.bsky.social
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absolutely agree about the failures of the image choice. But also: YAY for our lovely @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague Tom Asbridge whose book got this excellent review in the Guardian! #MedievalSky
We're delighted that David Torrance is going to be speaking about The Edge of Revolution, his new history of the General Strike, at @qmulsse.bsky.social next month!
We'll ask why the strike took place and what the lessons are for the union movement and workers’ rights today. Do join us if you can!
🥳The QS World University Rankings has placed SSE's Department of Geography and Environmental Science in the top 100 of universities globally for 2026. T
Congratulations to everyone in the department for their hard work and dedication to their discipline.
Slide of Hilton’s charity after empire (with a picture of Princess Anne) and a gravestone for Clutton-Brock
Excited to be launching Matthew Hilton’s Charity After Empire! @qmulsse.bsky.social & @qmcbs.bsky.social
Get your (library’s) copy here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... #SkyStorians
Join us on 22 April 2026 @qmulsse.bsky.social, QMUL for the 4th Edition of the DoingIPS Spring Symposium, this year on 'Enchanting the Social: Rituals for Collective Life'.
Full programme and registration link at www.doingips.org/symposium-2026.
Please do share far and wide within your networks!
This #WorldWaterDay we welcome and congratulate Rinan Shah who joins SSE's Geography Department as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. Read about her research into water scarcity in the Himalayas + how she managed to apply successfully for this competitive grant 👇
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Congratulations to Dr Innocent (Ib) Batsani-Ncube, whose book has been shortlisted for L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. Ib examines China's expanding influence, using parliament buildings as a lens for understanding China–Africa relations. Read more👇
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AI will never replace anything especially people or historians
"The book is an invitation to readers to reckon with our complicity and our collective responsibility, especially in these violent times, globally, because as Maya Angelou reminds us, none of us can be free until all of us are free."
Read full interview with Niharika👇
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According to Microsoft, AI is going to replace historians. SSE historian Leslie James writes how this just will not be the case in a world where knowledge exists in song, dance, and parchment, not just as digital data.
Read article 👇
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Prof Patrick Porter speaking at QMUL on Thursday 5 March 2026, taken by Gary Schwartz.
Close-up of Prof Patrick Porter speaking at QMUL on Thursday 5 March, taken by Gary Schwartz.
Sophia Gaston speaking at QMUL on Thursday 5 March, taken by Gary Schwartz.
Prof Patrick Porter, Sophia Gaston and Dr Robert Saunders at QMUL, taken by Gary Schwartz.
A magnificent lecture by @patporter76.bsky.social on Thursday, marking 80th anniversary of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech.
We then had a fascinating response by @sophgaston.bsky.social on the challenges of the UK-US relationship today.
Thank you to everyone who joined us @qmulsse.bsky.social!
Remarkably blurry picture of two speakers and an enchanted audience
Yay Leslie!!! Excited to be launching The Moving Word by Leslie James @harvardpress.bsky.social with colleagues from @qmulsse.bsky.social & beyond:
Get your copy here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #Skystorians
Tonight, we’re delighted to welcome @patporter76.bsky.social to @qmulsse.bsky.social to mark 80 years since Winston Churchill’s momentous “Iron Curtain” speech.
Patrick has written for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social to explore its impact & lessons for today.
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‘We are nature’
A few photos from last night's parliamentary reception, where current students, alumni, MPs, Peers and academics met up to celebrate the success of the parliamentary studies placements this year.
My excellent @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague Leslie James finds a glimmer of hope in the ashes of the AI revolution...
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For #WorldBookDay: History @qmulsse.bsky.social is bringing a lot of excellent books to the world :)
Come and celebrate them -- dates & details in the thread. #SkyStorians
Queen Mary Gardening Club hosted an event at #CAW2026 to give staff and students the chance to discover ways of tackling sustainability by building relationships with plants and soil at the QMUL campus:
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Next Thursday, we will welcome @patporter76.bsky.social and @sophgaston.bsky.social to @qmulsse.bsky.social to mark 80 years since Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech.
All of our events are free-to-attend and tickets are still available so do join us if you can!
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