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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's been inspiring to engage with Anca Parvulescu's & @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's book 'Creolising the Modern': rather than doing a traditional review, I decided to extract the lessons the book offers to (still quite West-centric) scholarship on race & racism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe - Aleksandra Lewicki, 2025

In this book review, Aleksandra Lewicki engages with Anca Parvulescu’s and Manuela Boatcā’s ‘Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires’ to extract key ...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"traces eugenics’ Western origins whilst examining its circulation across Central & Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Poland...demonstrates how eugenics profoundly shaped discourses on race & national belonging & advocates for a more inclusive understanding of its racialized global impacts"

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‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation

Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. B...

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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live! This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA). Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood. Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.

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Confront-Eugenics @confronteugenics.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Check out this paper by @bobi24.bsky.social & #MariusTurda on #colonialism #eugenics & #race in #Central & #Eastern #Europe published by @gscjournal.bsky.social Here is the link: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

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Bolaji Balogun @bobi24.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Come and work with us at SOAS! An experienced Project Manager is needed for an ERC project on sport and religion in Africa - vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Until Friday, you can get our book (and all other @cornellupress.bsky.social books in print) at half price when ordering to the U.S. using the code below!!

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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 05/02/2025

The International Sociological Association (ISA) deeply mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy, a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and the 17th President of ISA. Michael was fatally struck in a hit-and-run accident on February 3rd. His loss is immeasurable.

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Bolaji Balogun @bobi24.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia! I'm looking forward to kolacja wigilijna!

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