🚨Gregynog Ideas Lab XII – Registration Still Open
I first attended as an MA student, and it has shaped my research ever since. It remains one of the most special spaces I know in academia, creating room for slow, collaborative thinking and conversations beyond conferences. Highly recommend attending
🚨Publication Alert!
My new article, “Poetic Imageries: Remembering through Poetry in Timor-Leste”, is now out Open Access in International Political Sociology
Would love to hear your thoughts and reflections.
doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
There’s still time to submit your abstract!!
🚨Registration still open!
The Ideas Lab offers space for deep engagement, discussion, and experimentation across political theory, international politics, and critical approaches to contemporary global challenges.
The fee includes full board accommodation and all activities.
🚨Join us in Manchester! Submissions open until 07/04!
Alexandra Park, Manchester
📣We have kicked of todays event with @epir-bisa.bsky.social!
👉A virtual roundtable to discuss ‘Traversing Memories in Global Politics’, the most recent special issue from @millennjournal.bsky.social
👉We are joined by Arthur Duhé, Anh Nguyen, Chaeyoung Yong, and editor Kinti Orellana!
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...
Send us your thesis on emotions!
🚨 Registration now open!
Gregynog Ideas Lab 2026– 13–17 July 2026
A week of intensive discussion & collaboration at Gregynog Hall!
Info: gregynog.blogspot.com
Register: lnkd.in/evg5rbAR
@jennyedkins.bsky.social
Thrilled to receive a BISA Early Career Small Research Grant for my project Fragments of Witnessing: War, Images & Immigration in the UK. Grateful for the support! 🎉
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...
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Join us this Wednesday!
🚨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...
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 🌟
🌟 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! ✨
🚨 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 !
🌟@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.
‼️Send us your thesis!