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Marie Petersmann

@mariepetersmann.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at LSE Law School (@lselaw.bsky.social) International law, ecology, and climate justice. www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/academic-s…

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Jasper Blom @jasprblom.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I had a blast at the LSE just before the Easter break. Impressive work by students on bank accountability for climate change, a panel full of interesting contributions and a packed lecture hall. Kudos to @mariepetersmann.bsky.social for bringing this together www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Who pays for climate breakdown? Banks, financed emissions, and the road to climate accountability - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
As the world’s biggest banks continue to pour billions into fossil fuels—nearly US$8 trillion since the Paris Agreement—a pressing legal...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
How did rare earth minerals become the focus of a geopolitical battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism? Join us on 12 March 5.30-7pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a lecture by @triofrancos.bsky.social & discussion w/ @cschwobelpatel.bsky.social. 🔗 Register shorturl.at/GwbFh
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Amna A. Akbar | In South Minneapolis
ICE have gone from wearing tactical army gear to Midwestern civilian garb; I have even seen photos of agents in...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Shipping giant MSC facilitates trade from Israeli settlements through the EU. Commercial documents shed light on hundreds of shipments from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
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World’s biggest shipping company facilitates trade from Israeli settlements
Commercial documents shed light on hundreds of shipments from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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tomscheunemann.bsky.social @tomscheunemann.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
With Fiona Schrading, I will host the standing section "IR in the Anthropocene" at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Lisbon, 1-4 Sept. This year we will focus on "Stuckness in the Anthropocene and Landscapes of Destruction". We are looking forward to your contributions! Deadline 19. Feb
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
It's an attempt to write a way out of the rather desolate place that I took readers to in a recent piece in EJIL (on the kinds of presentism propagated by digital tech) through engagement with recent work of @mariepetersmann.bsky.social Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & others.
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
How do we, how can we, how might we, think about the 'right now' in international legal work? I just shared on SSRN a preprint of an article forthcoming in the Edinburgh Law Review entitled 'International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law'. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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<p><span>International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law</span></p>
<p><span>How are scholars of law, especially international law, struggling to diagnose and inhabit the present? And how do those various efforts speak to one an
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📣 LSE Staff & Student Rally to demand Divestment ‼️ Join us tomorrow 25 Nov at 12.30 to protest against LSE's continued and *increasing* investments in the arms trade, crimes against the Palestinian people and the climate breakdown. The staff petition is still open: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Join us tomorrow 13 November 6-7.30pm at @lselaw.bsky.social for a discussion on the 'Recognition of the State of Palestine – Contested Interpretations'. Register here and come along! lselaw.events/event/recogn...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Very excited to welcome you all at @lselaw.bsky.social on Tuesday 11 November 6-7.30pm for a discussion with the always inspiring *Wendy Brown* on 'The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives': lselaw.events/event/the-ex... Come along! No registration needed. MAR 2.04.
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The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives - LSE Law School Events
This talk examines the limits of liberalism for handling urgent contemporary problems, among them the climate emergency and the conquest of states by concentrated capital. Acknowledging that the Right...
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VidyaKumar 🕵️🪐🚀💫⚖️🇵🇸 @vidyakumar.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾
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Recognition of the State of Palestine - Contested Interpretations - LSE Law School Events
What is the meaning and significance of the legal recognition of the state of Palestine in international law?   Speakers: Prof Vasuki Nesiah, Dr. Shahd Hammouri, Dr Mazen Masri & Dr Nora Jaber
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide. Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones
In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
At ELU-S Plenary on 'Sustainability, Social Justice and Democracy' last week in Prague, I talked about the repression against social movements for climate justice and the end of the genocide in Gaza, and the use of terrorism-labels to proscribe their actions, inspired by the activism of Conor Gearty
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
⏳ Starting at 16:00! Join us live for the 2nd episode of #EUIConversations, titled 'Moral abdication: how the world failed to stop the destruction of Gaza', with Didier Fassin, Revital Madar, and Nicolas Guilhot. 🎥 Follow the livestream here: buff.ly/CRE5EaD
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
'Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich recently boasted that Israelis are finally going to conquer the Gaza Strip: "we are no longer afraid of the word occupation". Smotrich's audacity is our failure'. #NouraErakat on the necessity to refuse what she calls a #NakbaPeace www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686
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Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Addresses the UN in Commemoration of the 77th Anniversary of the Nakba
Comemmorating the 77th anniversary of the start of the Nakba, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat adressed the UN. During the address, Erakat  highlighted the shortcomings of international law in stoppin...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
With more than half a million people in London to march for Gaza and call on the British government to end its complicity in genocide.
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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Wrapping up today's panel sessions are Bossissi Nkuba, @mariepetersmann.bsky.social and Julia Suárez-Krabbe, chaired by Olivia Rutazibwa. #LSEHumanRights
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The #BritishPavilion — curated by Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, and Owen Hopkins — was awarded a Special Mention #LaBiennale for #GeologyofBritannicRepair ✨ I'm here for a 2-day workshop on #InhumanReparations Kathryn co-organised w/ Elsa Noterman and Archie Davies at the Pavilion👇
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Looking forward to this 2-day workshop on 'Amazon of Rights: Global Jurisprudence in Times of Urgency'. Thanks to Luis Eslava, Cecilia Oliveira, Igor Karim and Michael Riegner (@rifs-potsdam.bsky.social) for bringing us all together.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This just out now, wherein @david-whyte.bsky.social (of @ccccjustice.bsky.social) gently pick apart the case for an international crime of ecocide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation
Calls to criminalise ‘ecocide’ are, it seems, everywhere. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. The need for a quick and plausible fix makes intern...
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Radio Web MACBA @radiowebmacba.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New #podcast 🌴 Conversation with architect and curator Paulo Tavares rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Reflecting on what he calls “a moment of shift” in today’s political climate, Paulo develops his notion of “critical proximity” as well as his understanding of architecture as a political field.
CCCB, 2025  CC BY-SA-NC Andreu Adrover
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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Read more on our website and join us on Saturday 17th May for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Prof. Françoise Vergès: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/in-...
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In Search of Common Ground - Stuart Hall Foundation
“How can we organise these huge, randomly varied, and diverse things we call human subjects into positions where they can recognise one another for long enough to act together, and thus to take up a p...
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
london today ❤️‍🔥
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/03/2025
‘American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out “reforms” – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader.’ Adam Shatz on Columbia’s surrender: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Adam Shatz | Submission
There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Join us tomorrow 6.30-8pm @granthamicl.bsky.social for 'Climate Liability on Trial: Lessons from Luciano Lliuya v RWE' Featuring Saul Luciano Lliuya himself in conversation w/ @frediotto.bsky.social, Nigel Brook, Noah Walker-Crawford & me. Hong Kong Theatre & online: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Climate Liability on Trial: Lessons from Luciano Lliuya v RWE - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
This panel discussion will consider the implications of the landmark climate litigation case, Luciano Lliuya v RWE in which a Peruvian farmer is seeking to hold a major German energy company to accoun...
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Plixavra Vogiatzoglou @plixavra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
During a workshop on 30-31 January, we critically examined #digitalsovereignty through a #feminist lens. Our collective writing exercise resulted in a blog post just published on Critical Legal Thinking. It is available via the link below! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/18/t...
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To Reclaim or Resist: Can Digital Sovereignty Ever Be Feminist?
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK; Bloem van Smarten (1990-1991) On 30 and 31 January 2025, a group of researchers participated in a workshop examining
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Leila Ullrich @leilaullrich.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Check out our wonderful collection of essays plotting, dreaming, reimagining, abolishing, redistributing and reconstructing ICL's Critical Aftermaths w. Christine Schwoebel-Patel & @riclements.bsky.social @oxfordcrim.bsky.social
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Deadline for abstracts is this Friday! ‘Race, Refuge & Repair’ @uctlaw.bsky.social with @bordercrim.bsky.social @refugeestudies.bsky.social & KCL Law with E. Tendayi Achiume, @madlingozi.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social, @seanmacr.bsky.social & Siphamandla Zondi law.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
So grateful to Benedict Kingsbury & Angelina Fisher @nyulaw.bsky.social for this workshop on 'Space Law & Earth Justice' 20-21 March: guariniglobal.org/space-law-an... I'm in a panel on 'In/Justice & Ir/Reparability' w/ Tendayi Achiume, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Guy Fiti Sinclair & Donny Persaud 🔥
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SPACE LAW AND EARTH JUSTICE — Guarini Global Law & Tech - NYU Law
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
if you were ever dying to read about how ICL functions as a mode of accumulation and what the implications of that are for its abolition - then today is your lucky day! (& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Join us tomorrow 12:00–13:30 @lselaw.bsky.social for a screening of *Reclaiming Now* Dr Allison Lindner (@ucllaws.bsky.social) will present her film and discuss how to translate research on waste pickers and sustainable development in South Africa for wider impact: lselaw.events/event/transl...
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Socio-Legal Hub Seminar Series: Translating Research on Waste Pickers and Sustainable Development for Impact + Film Screening of ‘Reclaiming Now’ (by Author) - LSE Law School Events
The Socio-Legal Hub Seminar Series is a forum for substantive, methodological and conceptual discussions within the field of socio-legal studies. In her short talk to accompany the film, Dr Lindner wi...
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited to welcome Nath Gbikpi (Senior Associate Solicitor @leigh-day.bsky.social) to @lselaw.bsky.social to deliver the 1st of 3 Masterclasses on: Who Can Come, Who Can Stay, Who Must Go: A Practical Introduction to UK Immigration Law LSE students & alumni register👇 lselaw.events/event/who-ca...
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005
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CLSGC Annual Lecture: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the...
The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is happening tomorrow at 6.30pm! 'The Ecological Face of the Commune Form' Public lecture by Professor Kristin Ross (NYU) hosted by the one and only Dr Ayça Çubukçu (@aycacu.bsky.social). In person and online – come along! LSE Centre Building Lecture Theatre: lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...
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The ecological face of the commune form
At this free LSE event Professor Kristin Ross will discuss her new book The Ecological Face of the Commune Form.
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 10/03/2025
📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify! Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke. voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
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Introducing the Second Seasons of Digital Echoes
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New work with Gavin Sullivan in the German Law Journal! Informed by unique access, we trace the design of Cerberus: an AI-based risk tool deployed by the UK Home Office. Cerberus, we argue, enacts a governmentality of suspicion that evades our regulatory repertoire. cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion | German Law Journal | Cambridge Core
The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion - Volume 25 Issue 8
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
good series this in the Guardian looking at investor-state dispute settlements www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels
Companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines – and the risk of huge damages is already stopping countries from passing green laws, ministers say
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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"The Ecological Face of the Commune Form," public lecture by Professor Kristin Ross (NYU) at the London School of Economics on March 12, 6:30 pm. In person and online--all invited! @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social Register: lse.ac.uk/sociology/even
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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Mona Paulsen @monapaulsen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Please join us if you are in London for a LSE Law Event: Trump 2.0 and U.S Foreign Economic Policy on Monday, March 3 from 18.00-20.00 Speakers: Kathleen Claussen Rupert Schlegelmilch Alan Beattie Chad Bown Chair: Mona Paulsen lse-law-school.ticketleap.com/trump-20-and...
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Trump 2.0 and U.S Foreign Economic Policy
This panel will discuss trade-offs concerning U.S. foreign economic policy in the second Trump administration. The [three] experts will analyse proposals made during the Trump campaign, including the ...
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things & had lots of fun doing it ❤️‍🔥
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Can't wait for this talk tomorrow at LSE @lsehumanrights.bsky.social 🔥 Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss her new book with Sara Salem: #DarkLaboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis 📆 Tuesday 4 March, 5-7pm, Old Building 3.24 lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev... All welcome!
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Dark laboratory: on Columbus, the Caribbean, and the origins of the climate crisis
Join Tao Leigh Goffe at this free LSE event discussing her new book, Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.
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The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🎉 No Other Land Wins the Oscar for Best Documentary! 🎉 Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s very own reporter, Yuval Abraham, and long-time contributor, Basel Adra, on winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for their powerful film, No Other Land. #NoOtherLand #Oscars2025
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UCL Gender and Feminisms Research Network @ucl-gfrn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism 7 March 2025, 1pm-5pm A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism
A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms'
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