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Stefania Di Stefano

@stefaniasds.bsky.social
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Postdoc researcher in content moderation at CNAM | PhD in Intl Law @gvagrad.bsky.social | Visiting Lecturer @RGSL_LV | Coordinator @ESIL_Tech & @esilearlycareer.bsky.social | she/her Antifascista, sempre

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sooo I haven’t been around much in the past few months, but I’m back to share this 🫣 I’m very grateful for this recognition, and to everyone who accompanied me during my PhD journey!
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CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The DSA-GDPR Connection: Crafting a Roadmap for Risk-Based Digital Regulation Organised by @stefaniasds.bsky.social with @stefaniasds.bsky.social, Clara Tabuteau, Suzanne Vergnolle More information: cpdp.be/127488 #CPDP2026 #CompetingVisionsSharedFutures #CPDPWorkshops
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026
happy to see the final version of this Transnational Legal Theory SI on critical views of human rights in platform governance, which I co-edited with Barrie Sander, @hlahmann.bsky.social, Matt Canfield & Jelena Belic 😊 doi.org/10.1080/2041...
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Human rights in the governance of digital platforms: introduction to the special issue
Published in Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2025)
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Valère Ndior @hvaloche.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
regulation-tech.cnam.fr/lunch-and-le... Si ça vous branche, je parle ce mardi (en ligne) de nos recherches en cours @univbrest.bsky.social sur les chartes de réseaux sociaux adoptées par les institutions pour encadrer le comportement des agents. Merci Suzanne Vergnolle @stefaniasds.bsky.social !
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Lunch & Learn #8
Réseaux sociaux et travail : l'impact des chartes internes sur l'expression des employé.e.s, échanges avec Valère Ndior Le 6 janvier 2026 de 12h30 à 13h30 Les institutions et les entreprises prod...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The "embarrassing, scandalous coda" of the Supreme Court's TikTok decision--new from @evelyndouek.bsky.social and me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer
The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s pen
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A few days ago, many large online services published their latest systemic risk reports. But are these reports helpful in understanding content moderation practices? With Suzanne Vergnolle, we illustrate in @verfassungsblog.de why the DSA’s promise of transparency is failing to deliver.
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Dr Birgit Schippers @birgitschippers.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Thanks for sharing, Stefania. This is such an important topic, which aligns with the recent interdisciplinary workshop on spatial open source intelligence that I co-hosted with my colleague @annalisaricardi.bsky.social at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
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S-OSINT Workshop | University of Strathclyde
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of 'misdiagnosing' its limits
Stefania Di Stefano
*International Law Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; "Postdoctoral researcher, LISE (Cnam/CNRS), Paris, France

ABSTRACT
International human rights law (IHRL) has emerged as a dominant discursive framework for articulating and addressing issues raised by digital platforms.
Despite its potential to offer a global language to articulate and address the questions raised by digital platforms, the THRL project' has its detractors, who argue that this normative framework is inadequate to address the unique challenges that these new actors and technologies pose. Taking content moderation as a framework of analysis, this article critically engages with the criticisms aimed at IHRL in this sphere and questions whether these critiques are diagnosing an inadequacy of IHRL in content moderation. The article argues that the limits of IHRL that have been identified originate from and reflect a traditional approach to international law, and offers an alternative diagnosis: it argues that these 'limits' are in fact symptomatic of instances of change in international law.

ARTICLE HISTORY Received 17 November 2024; Accepted 31 July 2025

KEYWORDS International human rights law; content moderation; legal change; digital platforms; business and human rights
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Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte @ramiroau.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Why the voluntary approach to business and human rights sucks (and a few things that can be done about it). www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNN8T...
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Bad cover versions of law: on the inherent limits of voluntary human rights obligations, as applied to internet companies doing content moderation
This article argues that human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) in the technological sector are inherently handicapped by the voluntary approach to business and human rights in which they are conc...
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of 'misdiagnosing' its limits
Stefania Di Stefano
*International Law Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; "Postdoctoral researcher, LISE (Cnam/CNRS), Paris, France

ABSTRACT
International human rights law (IHRL) has emerged as a dominant discursive framework for articulating and addressing issues raised by digital platforms.
Despite its potential to offer a global language to articulate and address the questions raised by digital platforms, the THRL project' has its detractors, who argue that this normative framework is inadequate to address the unique challenges that these new actors and technologies pose. Taking content moderation as a framework of analysis, this article critically engages with the criticisms aimed at IHRL in this sphere and questions whether these critiques are diagnosing an inadequacy of IHRL in content moderation. The article argues that the limits of IHRL that have been identified originate from and reflect a traditional approach to international law, and offers an alternative diagnosis: it argues that these 'limits' are in fact symptomatic of instances of change in international law.

ARTICLE HISTORY Received 17 November 2024; Accepted 31 July 2025

KEYWORDS International human rights law; content moderation; legal change; digital platforms; business and human rights
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Looking forward to this discussion! Join us tomorrow from 12:30 to 13:30 Link in the thread below 🔗
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Next week I will be moderating a session of our Lunch & Learn series! This session, in English, will focus on the inner workings of an out-of-court dispute (ODS) settlement body. With Thomas Hughes, CEO of Appeals Centre, one of the certified ODS body pursuant to art. 21 DSA, we will discuss 1/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📖 My review of Anu Bradford’s "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford University Press 2023) is out on @zaoerv.bsky.social Many thanks to @alexanderwentker.bsky.social and @erik.d-64.social for editing this timely book review symposium. 🔗 doi.org/10.17104/004...
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This morning I made my first TV appearance and exercised my right to publicly criticise the most prominent politicians and leaders. The topic: a discussion on how this very same right is currently being suppressed in the US. 1/
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 15/09/2025
“Every age has its own Fascism, and we see the warning signs wherever the concentration of power denies citizens the possibility and the means of expressing and acting on their own will. There are many ways of reaching this point…” Primo Levi, writing in 1974
institutions and hospitals where all too frequently, as in Auschwitz, man loses his name and his face, his dignity and hope.
The very brutality of our experience in the camps turned us into accusers rather than judges, but it both disgusts us and gives us much to think about when we see the seeds of Fascism taking hold in those same countries (not their peoples) who are owed the world's gratitude for the defeat of Nazifascism. In the Soviet Union, there are still work camps from which people emerge humiliated and broken. Indiscriminate bombing has returned in Vietnam. Torture is practised in all the countries of South America where useful governments are propped up by the United States.
Every age has its own Fascism, and we see the warning signs wherever the concentration of power denies citizens the possibility and the means of expressing and acting on their own will. There are many ways of reaching this point,
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Javier Bardem shouts out @drmelob.bsky.social on the red carpet
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
In this thread by @ralfmichaels.bsky.social, a summary of (some) of the silencing attempts we have faced while organising our IG workshop and his excellent defence of our event, for which I’m extremely grateful.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
And it’s a wrap on #ESIL2025 ! This year, with my colleagues of the ESIL IG on Int’l Law and Technology, we have had the privilege of welcoming Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, as keynote speakers for our annual workshop. 1/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A must-read piece by @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa... “As academic and other institutions in the Global North closed ranks in support of a nuclear state unleashing unspeakable violence against an intentionally starved population, /1
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Defining Away Palestine
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Tomorrow I will have the great privilege of moderating the 2nd panel of our IG workshop on “Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law: A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide”.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A must-read piece by my (always) brilliant friend Alessandra Spadaro (and it even quotes one of my favourite poems).
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All Wars Matter? On a Different Way for International Lawyers to Engage with Armed Conflicts
[Alessandra Spadaro works as Assistant Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht University. She is conducting a three-year project titled “Business in and for war: the role and limits of in…
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The programme of our @esil-sedi.bsky.social IG on International Law and Technology pre-conference workshop is now available! With keynote presentations by Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, the workshop will explore 1/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It’s day 3 of my PIL course in Barcelona. There’s a coffee shop on campus. I’ve been getting my morning coffee here so for the last two days. This morning the barista started preparing my coffee as soon as I got in. And this cute little gesture made me so happy!
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Ci sono milioni di persone che vivono, lavorano e studiano in Italia, che contribuiscono al paese ma che non hanno il diritto di votare. Alla faccia di quelli che invece hanno questo diritto ma ne prendono gioco dicendo di stare a casa o non ritirare le schede, andate a votare domani.
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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
So much rage & fury put into this post (but then edited 🙃) The outrageous privatized aid plan for Gaza is a violation of international law and another confirmation that Gaza is being treated as a domestic problem, manageable by extralegal solutions #StopTheBlockade www.ejiltalk.org/privatizing-...
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Privatizing Aid: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Affair
Israel and its allies have introduced quite a number of legal and political configurations over the past 19 months that even the most creative Jessup moot court problem writers would not dare to imagi...
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
To be shared with each and every person who’s still trying not to call it for what it is: genocide. Thanks Alonso for articulating it in such a clear and straightforward way. Mainstream media has done a despicable job on Palestine - it’s all the more important to reach as many people as possible.
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ESIL Early-Career Network Co-Ordinating Committee @esilearlycareer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢 IT’S HERE!!! 📢 ✨The programme of our “HOW TO” series of events is out!!!✨ This brand new series of events aims to provide a range of skills and support to ESIL early-career members embarking on a career in international law.
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
18th May 1939, Giovanni Falcone is born in Palermo. "Those who stay silent and bow their head die every time they do so. Those who speak out and hold their head high die only once."
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“Eurovision threatens to fine RTVE if its commentators mention the Gaza conflict again in today's final.” Boycotted last year. Boycotted this year. Shame on EBU.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is a must-read piece.
“We can no longer pretend the ground is stable.
But we cannot fully turn our backs away either.
Gathering evidence, making arguments - these remain our bread-and-butter activities. They remain necessary, even if we don't yet know what legal structure, if any, will one day consider them.
At the same time, we must absolutely let go of the illusion that legal work today rests on solid footing. It doesn't. We need new tools and new frameworks. The insight is based on a basic realism, not on retreat. If there is a way to confront this moment, and its character of permanent polycrisis, it is in finding a strategic combination between an application of the existing rules and a fundamental reinvention.
What animal may fit to illustrate this third orientation? Perhaps this is the octopus: serious but playful, a radically different thinker with decentralised intelligence and a capacity to act as a whole.”
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Global Souths Hub @globalsouthshub.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🕊️ Today, on #InternationalDayOfLivingTogetherInPeace, lets reflect on @stefaniasds.bsky.social's, "Silencing Palestinian voices: on freedom of expression and Gaza", highlighting how international law often fails to protect the oppressed, especially in #Palestine. 📘 Read more here 👇
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on freedom of expression and Gaza
The right to freedom of expression is currently facing a global crisis unleashed by the conflict in Gaza. The conflict has led to a high polarisation of public opinion, with opposing factions…
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
9 May 1978, antimafia activist Peppino Impastato is murdered by Cosa Nostra. The song "I Cento Passi", originally by Modena City Ramblers, refers to the 100 paces separating his house from that of the mafia boss who ordered his murder. This version is by the choir of Maurolico High School in Messina
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I Cento Passi - Coro Maurolico (video ufficiale)
YouTube video by Coro Maurolico
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Update on the screaming kids: Here is my (effective) solution, which is also somehow making me think that I might have been struggling so far with auditory overstimulation…
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Remember that when people on the right in Italy say that 25th April is a "divisive" celebration they are correct. It divides anti-fascists from fascists.
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ESIL IG on Critical Approaches to International Law @cailesil.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Dear friends, dear colleagues, after receiving multiple inquiries about the venue of our pre-conference workshop, we are sharing the information about our decision to proceed with the organization of our event. We are also extending the deadline to submit your abstracts to April 27 🚨
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I got mail!!! The printed and submitted version of “DI STEFANO - Regulating Freedom of Expression in the Age of Social Media - New Actors as Drivers of Change in International Law [FINAL] CORRECT” (Yes - there were still typos in the [FINAL] version) I’m now *officially* Dr Stefania Di Stefano 🎓
Cover of my PhD thesis

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Regulating Freedom of Expression in the Age of Social Media:
New Actors as Drivers of Change in International Law

THESIS
submitted at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in fulfilment of the requirements of the PhD degree in International Law

by

Stefania DI STEFANO

Thesis N° 1562

Geneva
2025Email signature:

Dr. Stefania Di Stefano
Postdoctoral Researcher in Content Moderation
Cnam
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Important update: the kids are now playing with Spider-Man.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Did I really deserve an elementary school just outside my office, with kids and running around on the notes of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso”?
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil" "Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." Free this man immediately. apnews.com/article/mahm...
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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The way Meta did it still has a much higher initial ick factor, though. BRAGGING about your appeasement and calling it masculinity is just gross.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The dominoes keep falling. Doing the government's bidding, changing speech rules, and harming vulnerable minorities is still appeasement. Even if you do it YouTube style, quietly and with little fanfare.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Third day in France and it’s already “la grève!!!”
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spongebob holds a sign that says no fair
Alt: spongebob holds a sign that says no fair
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
There is one thing that I truly hate writing: ABSTRACTS. I really really can’t do it.
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Martins Paparinskis @mpaparinskis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Call for applications: International Law Commission assistants roster Secretariat launches call for qualified individuals to be included in roster of potential research assistants for Special Rapporteurs, Study/Working Group Chairs Deadline: 15 April 🔗 legal.un.org/docs/?path=....
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Official document of the United Nations
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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is a fantastic CfP so if you work on collection of evidence during atrocity crimes, especially involving technology, run and apply!
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Lys Kulamadayil @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Excited that @esil-sedi.bsky.social IG Tech is hosting the workshop "Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law - A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide" feat. Francesca Albanese, Eyal Weizman & Nahed Samour @FU Berlin. CfP 👉 lnkd.in/eSDeMN9n
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
📢 Call for Papers 📢 The ESIL IG on International Law and Technology is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our @esil-sedi.bsky.social pre-conference workshop The theme is *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law - A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
How it feels waking up every morning and going through the day.
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words `` it 's fine '' written above him .
Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words `` it 's fine '' written above him .
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