Please join us in person or online to hear @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social and @hmberents.bsky.social discuss their research collaboration about images of childhood as technologies of governance. Wed 22 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Check it out: following her amazing book on Affective Imagery, which we recently discussed in our @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program, here is @mtrotem.bsky.social’s new article in IPS.

Here a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Saffron O’Neill from the University of Exeter discussing her fascinating new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol University Press 2025) with Matt McDonald from UQ. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Upcoming Event: Saffron O’Neill on The Visual Life of Climate Change — Roland Bleiker Prof Saffron O’Neill from the University of Exeter discusses her fascinating new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol University Press 2025) with Prof Matt McDonald (UQ).

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Saffron O’Neill (Exeter) discusses her new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol UP) with Matt McDonald (UQ). Wed 1 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Oh, glad you enjoyed it, Jenny, and thanks for sharing.

Please find here a video of @mtrotem.bsky.social’s recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event during which we discussed her interesting new book Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste. Thanks so much for joining us, Marcelle. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Upcoming Event: Marcelle Trote Martins on The Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies — Roland Bleiker Dr Marcelle Trote Martins discusses her new book Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste (Bloomsbury 2024).

Please join us in person or online for the first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester: @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester) discusses The Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies. Wed 11 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Join us in person or online for our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social events to hear about new research from @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester), Saffron O'Neill (Exeter), @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

'Seeing and sensing world politics' with Professor Roland Bleiker - Review of International Studies – The podcast In this episode, we talk about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of the keynote address which was delivered by Roland Bleiker at the 2025 BISA conference. Roland is a Professor in…

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Spend your morning commute listening to the latest RIS podcast episode! Our editor Seb chats to Roland Bleiker about his 2025 BISA keynote address ⤵️

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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Help us make a difference today! 👉 https://www.bisa.ac.uk/give/donate

“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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