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Julie Billaud

@juliebillaud.bsky.social
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Anthropologist. Member of @Allegra_Lab editorial collective. Interested in law, human rights, humanitarianism, global justice.

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Research Office @gvagrad-research.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🎙️ 8 high-quality podcasts by students on human rights and humanitarianism Produced under the guidance of professors Julie Billaud and Maria Neus Torbisco Casals @juliebillaud.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social #HumanRights #Humanitarian #Podcast shorturl.at/7gzVR
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality" Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
Poster for Faduma Abukar Mursal's talk at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality"
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New essay out co-authored with @mostowlansky.bsky.social on #AcademicFreedom, fear and the culture of silence in European universities. Published on @allegralab.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-si...
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Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within - Allegra Lab
The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues with his wife back
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Read the implementation guidelines for cutting ties with Israeli academic institutions on the @easainfo.bsky.social website and join our community check-in at 12 CET today. We want to hear from you ! @allegralab.bsky.social
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social
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The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Allegra Lab
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that best captures
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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions. Find out more and access the full Guidelines here: easaonline.org/implementati...
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
@easainfo.bsky.social just released its implementation guidelines for the Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions voted by the membership last year. Learn the concrete actions you can take to severe ties with Israeli academic institutions @allegralab.bsky.social
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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Exceptionnelle enquête de @mediapart.fr sur l’islamophobie en France : depuis janvier, notre rédaction a dénombré au moins un fait islamophobe tous les deux à trois jours. www.mediapart.fr/studio/panor...
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La haine : six mois d’islamophobie en France
Avant les assassinats d’Aboubakar Cissé et d’Hichem Miraoui, combien ont été agressés, discriminés, mis au ban parce que musulmans ? Quand le ministre de l’intérieur nie l’existence même de l’islamop…
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Fabulous new thematic thread on 'Recallibrating Syria' published on @allegralab.bsky.social. Check it out! https:// allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/recalibrating-syria/
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Recalibrating Syria Archives - Allegra Lab
‘Recalibrating Syria’ addresses the liminal moment that Syria has been going through the last two months. The contributors all engage this vibrant moment as one of recalibration, a recalibration of Sy...
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Recolonize anthropology! www.academia.edu/129910803/Re...
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Recolonize Anthropology! An Epistolary Exchange on How to Save the Discipline from Obscurity
Allegra Lab has uncovered an archive of letters from 2050. In the exchange between the Anthropological Association for Liberal Imperialism Through Urban Regeneration (alitur) and the Anthropological A...
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@allegralab.bsky.social wrote a contribution to this spécial issue of Public Anthropologist on "Speaking out against Palestinians' Genocide". It was supposed to be a satirical piece. Not sure it is still the case now, 10 months after its initial writing...
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🎙️ New podcast episode from @GVAGrad In this interview, @juliebillaud.bsky.social‬ talks about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I spoke about the US-Israeli 'humanitarian' scheme in Gaza for the German TV yesterday (5'34). The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation does not meet any humanitarian standard of humanity and impartiality and only serves to distract our attention from the ongoing genocide. youtu.be/lc3L1Z8sKBE?...
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Scenes of chaos: Israeli troops fire shots as crowd scrambles for food at new Gaza aid hub | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I watched fellow anthropologist Prof. Dr. @juliebillaud.bsky.social speak live on @news.dw.com this morning on #Gaza and why the current 'aid‘ scheme does by no means meet any standards of #humanitarianism. You can watch her again at 1pm CET today here: www.dw.com/en/live-tv/c...
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
www.deutschlandfunk.de/gaza-humanit... mit Kommentar von Prof. Dr. @juliebillaud.bsky.social
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„Gaza Humanitarian Foundation“ – Dubiose Genfer Stiftung will Hilfe organisieren
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Research Office @gvagrad-research.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📸 The winners of our #PhotoCompetition are: 🏆 Luisa.Lupo, Public Prize – TRACES OF VIOLENCE 🎖️ Nora.Doukkali, Jury Prize – STOLEN TIME 👉 shorturl.at/M8umu Thanks to all 26 participants, the 580 voters, and the jury: @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Tobias.Marshall, Antoine.Tardy, @elenabutti.bsky.social
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RESEARCH PHOTO COMPETITION AT THE GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE | IHEID
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Citing creative work well—citing it with care—requires a relational approach. To name a creative piece is not enough. We must let it speak inside our work, shift our tone, fracture our arguments, delay our conclusions." #CreativeAnthropology allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...
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Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology - Allegra Lab
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work  “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. When? Jun 5th 2025 12:30 CEST Where? us06web.zoom.us/.../register... More info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-o...
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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
En 2022, le ministre de l’intérieur et candidat à la présidence de LR a bénéficié, grâce à un sénateur millionnaire, de luxueux bureaux sur les Champs-Élysées, sans trace de paiement ni déclaration dans ses comptes de campagne, ce qui est interdit. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
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Bruno Retailleau s’est fait offrir son QG de campagne sur les Champs-Élysées
En 2022, lors de sa première campagne pour la présidence du parti Les Républicains, l’actuel ministre de l’intérieur a bénéficié, grâce à un sénateur millionnaire, de luxueux bureaux donnant sur la p…
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world... allegralaboratory.net/collective-t...
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Collective Thinking, Collective Action - Allegra Lab
Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case this is being read in the future
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Elena Butti @elenabutti.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📸 The Geneva Graduate Institute is holding a research photo competition! 🤓 And I have the honor of being part of the jury - with @juliebillaud.bsky.social, Antoine Tardy, and Tobias Marschall. 💡 You can view the portfolios here shorturl.at/75aqX 📥 and vote your top 3 here shorturl.at/rVNj0
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RESEARCH PHOTO COMPETITION AT THE GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE | IHEID
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Hugues Jallon - Le Temps des salauds Comment le fascisme devient réel À paraître en septembre chez Divergences
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social
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Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#AcademicFreedom is the right to say everything but not anything. It is based on the rejection of bullshit. It only exists when it is actively practiced in the everyday. Refusing bullshit and telling the truth is practicing academic freedom.
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Working Group on Human Rights and #AcademicFreedom of @easainfo.bsky.social is organising a community check-in event on May 23 from 12 to 1pm CET. If you want to report an issue or get some information or advice, join us on line! www.easaonline.org/news/community
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EASA Community Check-in
Invitation for the Community Check-in zoom event
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...
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Academic Freedom Under Fire: Why It Matters and How to Protect It
Graduate Institute What Matters Today · Episode
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!
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Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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MINT | Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A great initiative by our MINT Students!
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Students in the Human Rights and Humanitarianism track have produced fantastic podcasts. They cover notions such as 'nakba', 'state of emergency', 'self-determination', 'apartheid' or 'environmental justice' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le 5/04 à 10h30, je ferai la modération d'une discussion sur le livre de Kaoutar Harchi "Ainsi l'animal et nous" aux Bains des Pâquis dans le cadre du Festival Histoire et Cité. Venez nombreux! histoire-cite.ch/programme/ce...
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Ce qu’animaliser veut dire - Festival Histoire et Cité
En hiérarchisant les espèces animales, les humains ont établi des catégories ayant mené à des régimes de domination. Cette dynamique d’infériorisation du monde animal peut s’étendre aux groupes sociau...
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Together with Antonio De Lauri, I wrote about how South Africa's solidarity with #Gaza and its intervention at the ICJ could be seen as a manifestation of postcolonial humanism. @gvagrad.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sarah Phillips' poem "In times like these" now out on Allegra allegralaboratory.net/in-times-lik...
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In times like these - Allegra Lab
Last year, I submitted an abstract for a conference about the future of authoritarianism with the title ‘knowledge production and transparency in a time
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Nadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
„[J]ust remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.“ Toni Morrison
Vinyl by Hauschka „Philantropy“
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Sébastien Chauvin @sebchauvin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
J'ai répondu aux questions de Camille Degott notamment sur l'attaque sans précédent contre les minorités de genre, au moment où une partie de la droite romande cède aux sirènes du trumpisme sur le fond comme sur la forme. www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
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Est-ce que tout le monde a un genre?
Dès le début de son nouveau mandat, le président des Etats-Unis Donald Trump a pris une série de mesures ciblant les droits des personnes trans et non-binaires. Pourquoi les minorités de genre sont la...
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇 www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
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Spotlight | Professors Mostowlansky and Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives | IHEID
Professors Till Mostowlansky and Julie Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Out today: 'Being #fungible: they only want us from the neck down', a thought-provoking piece by @jamescuffe.bsky.social and @fionamur.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib... (and good to reconnect in this space, too!)
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Being Fungible - They Only Want Us from the Neck Down - Allegra Lab
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl of limbs in motion, with bags flapping like the wings of
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Want to review a book on #settlercolonialism? Check out this list here and get in touch! allegralaboratory.net/call-for-rev...
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Call for reviewers: Books on settler colonialism, borders and empire - Allegra Lab
As we wrap up our series on Mobilities and Migration, we are excited to launch our new book review series on settler colonialism, borders and empire!
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Juliette Duclos-Valois @jduclosvalois.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
On @allegralab.bsky.social, an interesting article by Nabil Salih who offers reflections on Iraqi art and imperial nostalgia with a selection of paintings by my dear friend Mohammed Abdul-Wasi. allegralaboratory.net/of-home-and-...
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Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia - Allegra Lab
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian flight descended over a pale Baghdad
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The commercial unfolding of AI has sparked wild computational narratives that seem to be out of control in their blatant appropriation and reduction of concepts such as “intelligence” or “civilization”. Read @anibalarregui.bsky.social on 'wild computing'. allegralaboratory.net/wild-computi...
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Wild Computing: a view from anthropology  - Allegra Lab
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more powerful
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Part 1 of our symposium @allegralab.bsky.social on Alice Wilson's book "Afterlives of Revolution" @stanfordpress.bsky.social "Wilson familiarises us with the untold, yet significant stories of a “forgotten” revolution and its revolutionaries". Fatemeh Sadeghi allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-o...
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Afterlives of Revolution: Fatemeh Sadeghi's comments - Allegra Lab
The Dhufar Revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was an attempt to depose the British-backed Sultan and implement social ideals based on egalitarianism. But the
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Our #FramingGaza series @allegralab.bsky.social is back with a fab essay by Faisal Al-Asaad discussing the temporalities of revolts in the MENA region. "A liberated Palestine is a precondition of a liberated Mashriq" 🇵🇸 allegralaboratory.net/temporalitie...
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Temporalities of revolt - Allegra Lab
Not long after Tufan Al-Aqsa in October, political ecologist Andreas Malm observed in an interview the peculiar temporality of popular revolt in the Arab
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Charlotte Al-Khalili on the repression and criminalisation of expressions of solidarity with Palestine in France. New contribution to our #FramingGaza series @allegralab.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/a-world-upsi...
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A world upside down - Allegra Lab
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – who participated in the 2011 revolution and
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Join us on May 14th at the Geneva Graduate Institute to discuss #Palestine, academic freedom and the paradoxes of Western liberalism with Ruba Salih, Ilana Feldman, Ghassan Hage and Emanuel Schaublin. Everyone welcome. Registration compulsory. 🇵🇸
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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
NEW EDITORIAL OUT @allegralab.bsky.social in which we explain why we keep talking about Palestine and why we think it is our responsibility as academics to do so #FramingGaza allegralaboratory.net/why-framing-...
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Why ‘Framing Gaza’? - Allegra Lab
There has never been a better documented war than the one unfolding in Palestine at the moment. As Elshaik, Martinez and Shaer write in their contribution
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Anyone anthro out there fancy writing a short note or a longer essay on the farmers’ protest in Europe? A good critical anthropological take seems to be missing from the discussion…! submissions@allegralaboratory.net
A french radical driving a tractor
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