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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography who who has expertise in the field of Earth Observation. Application deadline 10th May, with a possible start date of 1st October. Further details can be found here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Physical Geography
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Human Geography
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Hashem Abushama (Oxford University) to the Department on February 3rd for an event organised by our Urban Worlds research cluster. Hashem will present on the theme 'Palestine: urban spatial disarticulations, national questions'.
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.
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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🚨*New publication alert*🚨 My new article is a true labour of love that grapples with the fugitive mobilities of migrants in Kenya. Through their stories, I think about escape, im/mobility, life-seeking, freedom and border abolitionism at the margins. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
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1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area
Han Cheng,  Deen Sharp

2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations
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3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates
Vera Smirnova

4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh

5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography
Han Cheng

6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa
Maano Ramutsindela

7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities
Kaya Barry

8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis
Zuhri James

9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining
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1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion
Amy Robson

2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers
Austin Read

3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast
Julian Clark

4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality
Jonathan Darling,  Andrew Burridge

5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading
Matteo Proto,  Francesco Buscemi

6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London
Saskia Papadakis

7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK
Sarah M. Hughes

8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics
Charlotte Veal

9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India
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1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities?
David McCollum

2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic
Alison Stenning,  Wendy Russell

3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough
Victoria J. E. Jones

4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home
David Bissell,  Elisabetta Crovara,  Andrew Gorman-Murray,  Elizabeth Straughan

5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention

6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis
Ankit Kumar,  Chandni Singh,  Lauren Hermanus,  Lalitha Kamath,  Wangui Kimari,  Mark Pelling,  Harriet Bulkeley
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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Palestine-Oxford Scholarship in Geography and the Environment
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/12/2025
For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.
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Gaza's displaced face storm disaster with almost nothing
For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“How does an understanding of the location of the catastrophe inform how we perceive it?” Check this open call 👇🏽organised by the ever- brilliant @ayamusmar.bsky.social extraterritorial.studio/specters/
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extra-territorial — Spectres Of The Undercommons
studio of the extra-territorial.
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by @ayanassar.bsky.social & Jessica Lehman. doi.org/10.1111/1745...
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Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more‐than‐human historical geography with salmon
This paper interrogates recent geographic literature on the more-than-human archive and argues that there needs to be more specificity when conceptualising and researching the more-than-human. It the...
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Excellent piece by comrade @jraden.bsky.social
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… ( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We are delighted to announce that Professor Ilan Pappé will deliver the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture: 'Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?' Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential. 📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025 🕕1800-1930 GMT 📍Online 🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU
The image shows an event poster for the annual lecture. Full details are available on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annual-lecture/2025
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence). It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East
Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Looking for ideas, recommendations, and inspirations on academic publishers who take 30-40 k word manuscripts ( similar to C. elements and P. pivots). For academic stuff, not trade.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New in TIBG! Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies. Read all papers here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n72yt46
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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop! @eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific....
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.
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PolGRG @polgrg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We're pleased to launch this year's Political Geography RG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize! 📣 Every university can submit one for a £100 prize - deadline 15th July. Full details and submission form available here: polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/p...
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Political Geography Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025
The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) is pleased to welcome submissions for the undergraduate dissertation prize, open to students at UK universities. Eligible dissertations should fall w…
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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
We'll be sharing some highlights over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, work on #BRISMES2026 is already underway! We’re delighted to announce that next year’s conference will be hosted by the Middle East Institute at SOAS (London) from 23–25 June 2026. We hope to see you there!
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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at #BRISMES2025 — to our plenary and keynote speakers, our conference organising team and student volunteers, and to our amazing hosts at Newcastle University, including the support staff who made the event possible.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 24/06/2025
two-year Career Development Fellowship in IPE, expertise in East Asia or Europe-China relations particularly welcome www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM855/c...
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Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy at Durham University
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#Employment The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise in either Religion and/or the Environment. mesana.org/resources-an...
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Middle East Studies Association
The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology (SEA) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise in either the Anthropology of Religion and/or...
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
‘The Book of Sana’a’: A Short-story Collection of Farce, Tricks, Myths, and More Gender-swapping tricksters, farcical hiring practices, detachable heads, and the serious science of speedbumpology populate the newly released Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof and part…
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‘The Book of Sana’a’: A Short-story Collection of Farce, Tricks, Myths, and More
Gender-swapping tricksters, farcical hiring practices, detachable heads, and the serious science of speedbumpology populate the newly released Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof and part of Comma Press’s Reading the City series.
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
taken command of the ship is a real funny way to spell hijacking is that us english british english or spineless english
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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Eid Mubarak to everyone observing around the world today ✨️ Eid is a time of happiness & celebration but my heart feels no joy when Gaza suffers beyond words 💔 #EidMubarak #FreePalestine
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"The 2020 protests involved a lot of commitment by brave citizens, but largely did not have this kind of organizational base––the kind that could potentially impose the costs of a concerted strike or boycott." @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Happening next week! www.brismes.ac.uk/events/gradu...
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Navigating Postdoctoral Funding and Applications in Middle East Studies
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Myka Abramson @mykaabramson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thrilled my book is out in the world! It's a book about the rise & fall of US hegemony; about the road novel's trafficking in the fantasies of individual freedom and self-making that propel it; and about why we need to shatter those attachments for a more collective vision, narrative and politics.
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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15/05/2025
How are Britain’s policies towards international students linked to its processes of bordering? Lili Schwoerer and @sanazraji.bsky.social @isrfoundation.bsky.social on racial capitalism, differential university fees and the move towards neoliberal education. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/igVwtCy
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 12/05/2025
"uncontrolled immigration" Lol you guys know how much you have to pay to apply for permanent residence in France? €225 Germany? €113 The UK? £3,029 PER PERSON. You are a family of three? that will be ten grand please.
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Colleagues in Durham are organising this wonderful event on May the 15th! Online and free but registration is required. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecologies-...
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Ecologies of violence & resistance: art as decolonial praxis.
An international online symposium exploring the role of art in the Anthropocene
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Fm JAE Assoc Editor @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social: the “JAE board is committed to this issue + we are looking for alternative formats + venues to publish this work – if not through the ACSA – then hopefully through other platforms + spaces.” I 🙏 this happens. Might also be an opp to 👋 Taylor&Francis.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
From the editors: "given the ACSA leadership’s attempts at censorship since before the call for papers was published in Sept 2024, it is clear that they are using the “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” as a convenient cover to execute what they had been planning to do all along."
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"The Asscn of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced [yesterday] it has canceled a forthcoming Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) edition abt 🇵🇸.... The announcement arrived on the same day McLain Clutter, JAE interim executive editor, was fired by ACSA." Shameful.
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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings
Unions said the plans would result in "devastating cuts" and called for Edinburgh University to use some of its assets instead.
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
En route
Street light against dusk sky
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The De/Anticolonial thematic group @geogdurham.bsky.social invites you to a Film Screening & Panel Discussion 👇 with discussants Dr. Aya Nassar, Dr. Silvia Hassouna and Dr. Diego Astorga. The event will be held on Tuesday 18 February, 16:15pm in the Confluence Building room (Durham Uni) room CB0008
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Are you thinking about enrolling on a masters programme? Then look no further! We have a suite of programmes available @geogdurham.bsky.social each of which is tailored to addressing urgent environmental, political, and social challenges. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4976a3m7
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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Join us at the AAG preconference hosted by Geographers for Justice in Palestine in Detroit!
An inviting red, black, and green graphic announcing the Geographers for Justice in Palestine - pre-AAG workshop on Sunday March 23, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan. A QR code links to the following https://linktr.ee/geog4pal?utm_source=qr_code
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Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Join us on 5 February at 4pm for a lecture by @pashukanist.bsky.social on international law, racism, and coloniality. Hosted by @uoelawschool.bsky.social and the Al-Waleed Centre. Register here: llc.ed.ac.uk/internationa...
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International Law and Racism Today: Colonial Legacy or Structural Necessity?
A public seminar featuring Dr Robert Knox (University of Liverpool) and co-organised by the School of Law and the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of ...
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
كاس وداير…
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Geographers: please join us at the pre-conference organized by Geographers for Justice in Palestine this March!! share widely!!
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