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Dr. Lisa Gaufman

@lisares.bsky.social
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Assistant professor @ University of Groningen. 📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" rb.gy/493gts 📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" rb.gy/8yyzy4

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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you @clingendael.bsky.social for hosting your annual REKA conference! We had a great discussion about the perils of studying political attitudes in authoritarian regimes (and not beetroot and other assorted vegetables despite what the background might suggest). Photos by Simone Both
Lisa is talking and beetroot is lurking behindLisa is listening and more vegetables are lurking behind
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The amount of Harry/Draco slasher fan fiction in Russian in early 2000s was mind boggling. There was also a lot of Snape fare…
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you @cei-iscte.bsky.social for hosting @europeanisa.bsky.social #PEC2026 #EISA2026 with lots of meaningful conversations and interventions. It was an honor to have been a program co-chair together with Nizar Messari and to engage with so many wonderful scholars!
A panel of serious-looking academics sitting at a table in Lisbon’s ISCTE
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 02/09/2026
highlight of my #EISAPEC2026 is discussing Easting the West with these wonderful people! @europeanisa.bsky.social
A panel of six people seated at a table during a book roundtable, with a presentation slide projected behind them.
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Congrats, Max!!!
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If I am fired from the biology department for teaching the students that women’s wombs wander, causing hysteria, it is not a threat to academic freedom
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey, it's (re)-publication day! My book "Everyday Foreign Policy" has come out in paperback with @manchesterup.bsky.social Not only is it way more affordable, it has a whole new chapter. There is also an additional 50% discount in the summer sale: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526197924/
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Manchester University Press - Everyday foreign policy
Everyday foreign policy - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Everyday foreign policy by Elizaveta Gaufman
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Duck of Minerva @duckofminerva.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How Russian economic policy is gender Every year I make my third year Bachelor students read Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the rational world of defense intellectuals” and they are genuinely surprised by the number of penile metaphors one can use to describe a missile. Except this year:…
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How Russian economic policy is gender
Every year I make my third year Bachelor students read Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the rational world of defense intellectuals” and they are genuinely surprised by the number of penile metaphors one can use to describe a missile. Except this year: current Secretary of Defense (War?) has prepared them for lots more virtual dick-measuing exhibits.  The need to appear masculine has often driven many militaries.
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Is that the correct shade for Reflecting Pool these days?
A photograph of a hand holding a small bottle of color-correcting cream for redness that contains niacinamide and green algae. The bottle looks light green
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Duck of Minerva @duckofminerva.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Duck contributor @raulpachecovega.bsky.social. He was a friend to all on their social science journeys. If anyone would like to write a tribute, please DM us.
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Devastating news. Raúl was a beautiful person and a talented reseacher. Incredibly generous and kind. May his memory be a blessing.
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Duck of Minerva @duckofminerva.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Dugin, the Ultimate Tradwife Alexander Dugin is one of those figures who hover permanently in the discussions about Russian ideology, Eurasianism, empire, conservatism, and whatever else people project onto modern Russia. Contrary to popular belief, he is not “Putin’s favorite philosopher” (that…
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Dugin, the Ultimate Tradwife
Alexander Dugin is one of those figures who hover permanently in the discussions about Russian ideology, Eurasianism, empire, conservatism, and whatever else people project onto modern Russia. Contrary to popular belief, he is not “Putin’s favorite philosopher” (that would be Ivan Il’in). But given that the Russian state has yet to articulate the vision of Russia’s future, I settled for the next best thing: an…
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Have you seen the painting that Xi gifted to Putin? A great illustration for the Chinese-Russian relationship
Painting of Putin in the background looking lovingly at Xi who stands in the foreground
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wow, congrats!!!
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
OMG, they reached out to me as well! With a wrong book title lol
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The real deal is getting a paperback this summer though! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526197924/
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Manchester University Press - Everyday foreign policy
Everyday foreign policy - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Everyday foreign policy by Elizaveta Gaufman
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Second time I am getting “invitations” from “book clubs” (aka AI scams) and it’s the second time they can’t get the name of my book right lol. I guess having a long title and subtitle helps!
Screenshot of a scam email that reads:  Dear Dr. Gaufman,

I hope this message finds you well.

I recently spent time with Everyday Life After the Irish Conflict: The Impact of Devolution and Cross-Border Cooperation and was particularly struck by the way the work explores the lasting effects of conflict not only through institutions and political structures, but through the routines, identities, and experiences of everyday life. What feels especially compelling is the extent to which the book reveals how questions of identity, belonging, memory, and cooperation continue unfolding long after formal political agreements have been reached.
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
+1 voor Crosta Mollica! Ze hebben ook een knoflook/kaas versie, echt lekker
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Almost got scammed by a “San Francisco book club”, so tread carefully…
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
He even refused to call it a war, just a “special military operation”…
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I am sorry, but even Stalin didn’t try pulling this shit
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A similar process happened in the 20th century Soviet Union: people started using prison slang (of Yiddish-Romani origin) and now most don’t even know what was the origin of the words they say.
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I summarized the foreign policy implications of the “carnival barking” yesterday for @france24.com youtu.be/PYH2QuB_gRM?...
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Trump operates in 'carnival framework' that allows rule-breaking in domestic and foreign policy
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Did someone say carnival?.. We should have written a foreign policy chapter, @bganesh.bsky.social
Cover of the book “The Trump Carnival: populism, transgression and the far-right” by Elizaveta Gaufman and Bharath Ganesh
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
That was me and @chenchenzhang.net two years ago when we organized the EWIS workshop! Unfortunately, Schengen visa troubles prevented us from making an actual photo…
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The state of the world is terrible, but on the plus side sloths exist
A brown-colored sloth hanging upside down on a tree. You can see his dark brown face and brown eyes
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Il y avait même un film soviétique « Aniskine et Fantômas », où un farceur laissait un mot dans une boîte aux lettres disant « J'ai besoin d'un cadavre et je t'ai choisi, à bientôt, Fantômas » (cela rime en russe)
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Gotta say, when the full scale invasion of Ukraine started, I did start to think fondly of Covid…
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Aida A. Hozic @hozic.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Contesting Imperialism(s) - Central and East European ISA conference in Sarajevo, BiH, June 17-19, 2026. Deadline for proposals - April 10, 2026. There will be a pre-conference workshop for young scholars. For info, please visit: ceeisa2026.com
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
You would be surprised (or not) to hear how often this word is used now among Western disinformation ‘experts’, because disinfo is apparently only something that the Russians do by means of [insert other basic transliterated Russians words]
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I started teaching a conflict management class with a Ukraine case study in early Feb 2022, added a Karabakh session in early 2023 and just yesterday we were discussing “the board of peace” 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
US admin rn
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some of you may die is written on a poster
ALT: some of you may die is written on a poster
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Stay safe, Paul!
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
What's the stage of mediatization that makes one want to crush their own bones?...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Four years ago today, we went to bed only to wake to the sound of explosions the first many of us had ever heard. We woke up to war. ​Since then, the war has been with us every second. No one is truly safe, no one is okay, and the future remains uncertain. Even when we laugh,
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Nikolay died on Feb 20th 2026. He was an incredibly talented man, who could find words and music to describe Russia's gaping wounds. I don't have my own words. Рухнет твой дом И собаки умрут! Но лишь любовь моя Будет тут
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Russia's war against Ukraine? "Apple Orchard" www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Cs...
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Shortparis, Хор ветеранов им. Ф. М. Козлова – Яблонный Сад
YouTube video by Shortparis
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Russian state? "New" www.youtube.com/watch?v=96W2...
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Shortparis – НОВОЕ НОВОЕ (2022)
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
societal apathy and alienation? "The structures do not go out onto the streets" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEpo...
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Shortparis – КоКоКо / Cтруктуры не выходят на улицы
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Inequality and dire economic conditions? "20" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi7S...
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Shortparis – Двадцать
YouTube video by Shortparis
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Xenophobia and terrorist attacks? "Frightening" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdt...
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Shortparis - Страшно
YouTube video by Shortparis
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Militarisation of society? "Moscow speaking" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1A...
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Shortparis - Говорит Москва
YouTube video by Shortparis
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When my students enrol into Russian Politics and Society course, they see a photograph of Nikolay Komyagin from a Russian art-punk band Shortparis. Not another picture of St. Basil's cathedral or nesting dolls. You can take a song from Shortparis and literally teach post-Soviet Russian politics 🧵
screenshot from a student-learning portal with a black-and-white photograph of Nikolay Komyagin and inscription "politics and society 1: Russian"
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Erinnert mich an den Artikel über die Modeentscheidungen von Thierry Baudet in der Volkskrant 🫠🫠🫠
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
First seminar on Russian politics and culture of the semester: ended up analysing Ilya's Russian monologue from #heatedrivalry with the students. If that's not something that will get the kids to class I don't know what will!
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Well, Russian foreign ministry often cites Gramsci!
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Bonus: @greenleejw.bsky.social ‘s drawings work really well as embroidery patterns!
Embroidery of an axolotl on a hoop in blue grey thread based on the artwork of Surprised Eel historian
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Institute of Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS) @iniis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
How do Russian political and cultural elites legitimize the war on Ukraine, three years into what was supposed to last only a couple of days? And how do these justifications change over time? Elizaveta Gaufman (@lisares.bsky.social) has a couple of ideas on this: open.spotify.com/episode/36CY...
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Legitimizing the War on Ukraine in Russia (with Elizaveta Gaufman)
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Max Alyukov @max-alyukov.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New preprint is out! Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
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Precious Chatterje-Doody @preciouschatd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Funded collaborative PhD opportunity on contested memory with me in @oupolitics.bsky.social and Arthur Dudney at Arcadia: granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi... Deadline 7th Jan, please share!
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Contested histories: cultural memory, narratives and archives
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