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Sarah Bellows-Blakely

@bellowsblakely.bsky.social
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Historian at Freie Universität Berlin | 📕 Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi (U of Chicago Press, 2025) | Global historian of Africa, Europe, gender, knowledge, the UN, and institutional processes of erasure

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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you for these lovely and generous words! I just put your book at the top of my reading list, it looks fabulous.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026
It would actually have been conceptually impossible for the Vanderbilt/WashU report to have been peer reviewed because the premise of the report is that we should ignore half a century of peer-reviewed research in the humanities when we assess what they have contributed to knowledge.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thrilled to see the American Historical Review publish a review of my book. Many thanks to reviewer Selina Makana for these generous words! "This book should be required reading for anyone interested in girlhood studies, humanitarianism, and development studies." doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely. Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi
At the dawn of twenty-first century, there emerged a plethora of compelling narratives among scholars, policymakers, and activists that underscored the imp
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Rose Trappes @rosetrappes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ever noticed that feminist philosophy of science seems to have become sort of... mainstream? Well I did. And I wrote a paper about it. Forthcoming in Ergo, read it here: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30435/ #philsky
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thrilled to see another review of my book out, this one in h-soz-kult: www.hsozkult.de/review/id/re...
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My first session of HIST 491: Historiography, in which we discussed Hartman's "Venus in Two Acts" and Hamlin's "Historian and Ethics--Finding Anne Moody." The students liked the readings.
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I taught Hunt’s essay in my MA Global History writing seminar last semester—students loved it. A timeless classic.
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jason Arday’s “rise and fall expose the moral bankruptcy of a system that wants the appearance of racial progress without the work of structural change.” -Paul Tiyambe Zeleza paulddf.substack.com/p/who-killed...
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Who Killed Jason Arday?
Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I feared this would happen. His story was troubling but the wave of hatred and obsession in the media when he was clearly someone who was vulnerable - whatever you thought of him - was entirely disproportionate and in my view fuelled by racists. My thoughts are with his loved ones tonight.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Absolutely right. My second book underwent not one but two pretty radical reframings as a result of what I found (and did not find) in the archives.
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It has been brought to my attention that the forest fires around Bordeaux are burning up the pine plantations set up on drained wetlands there in the 19thC, a project widely admired and imitated around the world. In case someone wants to fund my global history of pine project.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I just had this conversarion with an editor yesterday. If you start hedging for imagined bad faith readers, you have stopped writing and started journaling a fan fic to them.
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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It *is* dangerous offloading. It *also* produces bad (i.e, mediocre banal, and uninspiring) scholarship. LLMs can't compile evidence (they lack judgment), identify counterarguments/holes (they extrude comments remixed from thoughts had by other humans), and proofreading is what spellcheck is for.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"African studies has not been able to escape its anthropological roots and its voyeuristic practices. The contributions [of the few African scholars] are often considered to be subjective, emotional, not sufficiently grounded in scholarship from the Global North, and a threat to the status quo."
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SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨Last chance to book!🚨 Registration for our amazing summer meeting closes TOMORROW. So don't miss the chance to celebrate @zslofficial.bsky.social's 200th anniversary as we explore the history and science of the zoo, at the zoo! 🐒🐠🐻‍❄️🐘 Book your ticket NOW 👇 shnh.org.uk/the-zoologic...
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The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, 1-3 July 2026 - Society for the History of Natural History
This three-day international meeting, held in SHNH’s 90th year, will mark the bicentenary of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and delve into its history and impact on our knowledge of the natura...
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Alvina Hoffmann @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Very excited to have this essay out in @aeon.co
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026
We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The latest Special Issue from Colonial Latin American Review 👇🏾 Female Lives in Motion. Transatlantic Migrations and Mobilities of Women of Color and Spanish Women in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries A great collection of articles on women's history 👏🏾 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccla20/3...
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s
Contemporary international migration debates have been marked by a confrontation between the requirements of refugee and asylum law, on the one hand, and accusations they are being abused, concerns...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by Adrian Blau, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner’s seminal essay. @adrianblau.bsky.social Now Open Access: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond | Home
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 07/03/2026
Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH. The article covers newly released discovery in the case. Here’s what discovery confirmed: 🧵(1/7)
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thank you to Anna Adima and H-Africa/ H-Net Reviews for this lovely review of my book!
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 24/02/2026
History Workshop Journal just published its 100th issue—a landmark celebration of critical, community-driven history! From archival recoveries to new interpretations of protest, gender, & empire, HWJ reshapes how we think about the past: oxford.ly/46iUcd2 @historyworkshop.org.uk
Read History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue.
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Rethinking Internationalism conference
This conference presents exciting new research on the role and nature of internationalism and international organisations in modern history.
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the transformation of the world economy since the 80’s, as beautifully told in Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel (with a very brief shoutout to the city where I grew up) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
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Tanja Vuckovic Juros @tvuckovicjuros.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Download it today 4 free: Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Hidden Connection, ed. by Roman Kuhar & Adriana Zaharijevic! Bragging rights: endorsements by Judith Butler, @ericfassin.bsky.social, Ruth Wodak & @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space
This open access book advances knowledge of anti-gender mobilizations and offers helpful insights for academics, researchers, and policymakers alike.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 12/01/2026
Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026
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Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026
It’s going to be another banner year (in the words of lying African governments, a “bumper harvest”) for books from authors on the Continent and in its Diaspora! Here’s your list, sorted by month, with all kinds of genres included (including children’s books, at the end of the post). There’s no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notable—as always, a work in progress, subject to updates.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 12/12/2025
Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
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Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy
The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 16/12/2025
I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Had the pleasure of hosting a manuscript workshop for Disha Karnad Jani’s exciting work on the League Against Imperialism. Thank you to @tsasson.bsky.social, Masha Kirasirova, and Judith Surkis for your brilliant comments and generosity. I look forward to this book being out in the world!
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It was such a pleasure to give this keynote at the History & Political Economy Project conference in Boston. Great group of scholars doing ethically important work on neoliberal development planning and more. Thank you to the HPE Project organizers for inviting me!
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Christian Jacobs @christianjacobs.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Everybody is talking about culture – and nobody agrees on what it means. If you want to think about why, you can check out my book published this week. “The Politics of Culture“ is about how three political movements used the concept of culture in France between the late 1960s and the early 1980s:
Cover of "The Politics of Culture". It shows the title of the book, the author's name, and a cassette by Radio Assifa.
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Centre for Transimperial History, Leipzig University @transimperial.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Does anybody know of a translation company in Germany that provides translations of academic books from English into German? I have funds available to pay for a professional translation of my book into German, but it needs to be a company that is registered in Germany. Thanks in advance!
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Save the date! Really looking forward to this:
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Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢
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Project MUSE - Working-Class Internationalism through Children's Eyes: The International Experiences of Norwegian Young Pioneers in the Interwar Period
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
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Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner
Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.
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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Nov 3: Romain Tiquet
(Centre Marc Bloch)
Thinking Through Cases: A Political and Social History of West Africa Through Psychiatric Records

Nov 17: Matt Fitzpatrick 
(Flinders University)
The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment 
of Chinese Labourers

Nov 24: Dora Vargha 
(Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Communist M*A*S*H: The Making 
of Socialist International in a North Korean Field Hospital

Dec 1: Denis Cogneau
(Paris School of Economics)
joint event with the Frankreich-Zentrum
Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism, 
1830–1962 

Dec 8: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd
(Stockholm University)
A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and 
Social Norm
Jan 12: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Interna-tionalism in the 1930s

Jan 19: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam)
The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany,
1880 to the Present

Feb 3: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University)
A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Con-nected Yugoslavia to 
the World 

Feb 9: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077
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Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History-Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2024
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:
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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to: ✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website ✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org ✳️Enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org @genderandjustice.bsky.social
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LEX Research Network – Law Gender & Sexuality
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community. The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️
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