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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Congratulations to @mostowlansky.bsky.social, Elmira Muratova, and everyone who contributed to Humanitarianism from Below? Universalism and the Politics of Inhumanity, which publishes today! Read and download it free: uclpress.co.uk/book/humanit...

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Humanitarianism from Below?

Since the late twentieth century, wealthy nations and international organisations have claimed a monopoly on humanitarianism. Even critical views of this regime of global aid and assistance have reinf...

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

New book out in Open Access with UCL Press, co-edited with Elmira Muratova, with chapters on case studies ranging from Ukraine, Turkey-Afghanistan, diasporic West Africa, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan-Kuwait, and Indigenous Canada. Free download from the link in the thread.

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Research Office @gvagrad-research.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

New PhD 👉 Digital technologies, mobility, and border violence in European borderlands | by 🎓 Nina Khamsy @gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social 📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence? 👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ

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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

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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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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Job alarm with the fabulous @juliebillaud.bsky.social in a project on “Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Technological Innovation”, hosted by @gvagrad.bsky.social erecruit.graduateinstitute.ch/recrutement/...

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Recrutement eRecruiting Graduate Institute - PHD RESEARCHER (F/M/D)

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Great funding opportunity for scholarly - creative - transdisciplinary projects that relate to Asia in the broadest sense possible (and no, there is no fascist language code that you have to adhere to in order to get funded): deltamove.org/small-grants...

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Small Grants Scheme - Delta on the Move Foundation

Small Grants Scheme The Foundation’s Small Grants Scheme has been established to support creative scholarship and independent projects with an inter-disciplinary and inter-Asian nature that may not ha...

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus

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Michael Gentile @michaelgentile.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This is a good summary.

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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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MINT | Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Professor Billaud (@juliebillaud.bsky.social) and Professor Mostowlansky (@mostowlansky.bsky.social) discuss their Spring 2025 Course on Comparative Humanitarianisms. Read more about it here 👇

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I have held a professorship in urban studies at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) sind the beginning of this year. If you would like to get some insights into what my students and I have been up to have a look at this short article based on our collaboration. allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-i...

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Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine - Allegra Lab

In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that citizens had to

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Plenty of heated debates around types of missiles and escalation outside Ukraine. Viewed from Kyiv it all seems fairly superficial and catering to rather abstract fears of people far away. What people disconnected from Ukraine often seem to miss are degrees of much more mundane, but grinding terror.

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Tajik music in the 90s was absolutely incredible. Still my favorite recording from those days youtu.be/sUSzgiGQDcM?...

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ДАЛЕР Н МУБОРАКШО М ДУНЁИ САВДО БИГЗАРАД

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