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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New blog based on the Foreword I wrote for Tiffany Fairey’s insightful new book Imaging Peace: Transforming Conflict, Resisting Violence and Building Community through Photography (Edinburgh UP). Skip the blog, but do read Tiffany’s amazing book 😀. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/visual-...

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From Visualising to Enacting Peace — Roland Bleiker

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now available: video of our recent Visual Politics event in Stockholm: @linushagstrom.bsky.social, @chrisagius13.bsky.social and Alexandra Brankova from Försvarshögskolan discuss their collaborative project on Narrative Power Politics. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join us in person or online for a Visual Politics event at Försvarshögskolan. @linushagstrom.bsky.social, @chrisagius13.bsky.social & Alexandra Brankova discuss their project Narrative Power Politics. 23 Sept 2026, 4-5pm Stockholm time (GMT+2h). Details/rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Check out this impressive new book by Tiffany Fairey: a comprehensive and insightful engagement with peace photography. I was honoured to write a forword, but found it hard to find words that do not completely fade in comparison to the ones that follow. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-imaging...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It has been a great pleasure to work with the amazing Haneol Mun on this new updated version of the “Aesthetic Turn” entry for the Oxford Bibliography in International Relations. If of interest, here is the text: static1.squarespace.com/static/660f3...

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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social #FirstView

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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This was Emma’s last project. She gave it her everything, working out of hospitals in very difficult circumstances. In the end she ran out of time and life. I then spent the next 18 months doing my best to complete the project as Emma had envisaged it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here are our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program, held online and in person in Stockholm next semester. We welcome great scholars, incl Lene Hansen for the 2nd Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture. Here more info and rego details: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If you are in Stockholm next week and up for this and, especially, for a chat over drinks, then please come along to my little ‘installation’ gig at the Swedish Defence University. Details here (all welcome but registration required): www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Here a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith) discussing their collaboration about images of childhood as technologies in the governance of political violence. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Emma would be pleased, I think, to see her voice - and three of my photographs of her - out in The Lancet this week. This was a big concern for her: trying to make people understand how it feels to live with kidney disease and its daily challenges. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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.

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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/...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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...

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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).

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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/...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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...

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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).

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 15/01/2026

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. cup.org/4pPo9II

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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...

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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...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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…

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Help us make a difference today! 👉 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 🎉

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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...

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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...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

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...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 11/11/2025

NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social - Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - cup.org/43fcXN1

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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...

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Aesthetic Imagination and Security Policy — Roland Bleiker

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🎆 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?

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Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. Wed 5 Nov 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Details & Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Upcoming Event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker

Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton join us online to discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Dr. Katrina Lee-Koo put together a fantastic Editor's Collection for RIS on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Resolution 1325 was passed 25 years ago and these articles reflect on where we came from, and what is still missing ⤵️ buff.ly/5hlzhJM

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Huge congratulations to Haneol Mun on a fantastic Ph.D. project presentation (SOI) today for a great thesis on The Political Power of Cinema in East Asia. Thanks to readers Nicole George, @minranliu.bsky.social and Anais Hull and chair Andrew Phillips.

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program event with Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy at UQ, who discusses her new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP 2024). Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Please join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Marguerite La Caze (Philosophy UQ) discusses her book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP). Wed 8 Oct, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

First talk of my trip - at the Université de Montréal - out of the way. Thanks to Vincent Pouliot for the invitation and to everyone who came along. If there are colleagues in town who would like to meet up, pease get in touch. I am here for a couple more days.

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

“[How] can artistic practices enable us to visualize the legacies of conflict and visions for peace beyond established conventions?” Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If you are in Brisbane, come join us for the inaugural professorial lecture by my wonderful colleague Andrew Phillips. Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next? Wed, 17 Sep, 5pm - 7pm. All welcome, but need to register here: events.humanitix.com/who-killed-t...

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Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next?

This event offers a compelling exploration of the global forces shaping our future—and why they matter for Australia, the Indo-Pacific, and the world.

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Honoured to discuss “The Seductive Power of Grand Narratives” as part of this forum on Oliver Richmond’s ambitious and important @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book on The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Open-access in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Available to watch: yesterday’s @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with Simon Philpott and William Clapton discussing their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics (including Will’s new @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

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