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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here is our new program, held online and in person in Stockholm next semester. We are lucky to welcome several fantastic scholars who discuss their ongoing research on visual politics. All welcome. Details and registration here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This was Emma’s last project. She gave it her everything, working out of hospitals in very difficult circumstances. In the end she ran out of time and life. I then spent the next 18 months doing my best to complete the project as Emma had envisaged it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Please join us in person or online for the first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester: @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester) discusses The Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies. Wed 11 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Upcoming Event: Marcelle Trote Martins on The Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies — Roland Bleiker

Dr Marcelle Trote Martins discusses her new book Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste (Bloomsbury 2024).

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We have a bumper crop of podcast episodes to catch up on, including this latest one with Dr. Katrina Lee-Koo about the 25th anniversary of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda! 🎧👉 buff.ly/fvjcRFh

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Here a video of Michael Barnett’s amazing Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture on Mobilising Compassion. Comments by Bina D’Costa and Fiona Terry. Chaired by Katrina Lee Koo. Introduced by Heather Zwicker and myself. Thanks so much to everyone who came along. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/michael...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion 4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...

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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Here is a video of our most recent event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their fascinating new book Creating Justice - which revolves around conversations between artists and scholars on issues of human rights and social change. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

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Available to Watch: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker

Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

So much of the burgeoning literature on the visual politics of populism is 'top-down' - how do populist leaders & parties use visuals, basically. This article flips it, and looks at it from the 'bottom-up', examining how populist publics self-mediate as 'the people' under populism

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. Wed 5 Nov 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Details & Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Upcoming Event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker

Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton join us online to discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).

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Elisa Serafinelli, Ph.D @eliserafinelli.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Join me 6 Nov, 12–1pm for “Reimagining the World from Above: The Semiotics of Drone Visuals”, hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture, @Cambridge_Uni #DroneCulture #VisualCulture #AIandSociety #DigitalMedia #VisualStudies #MachineVision

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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our next event is coming up: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. Wed 5 Nov 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Details & Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Upcoming Event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker

Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton join us online to discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).

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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

⚡ Out now: Javnost-The Public special issue "The far-right and the politics of films, series and videogames", co-edited w @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, Omran Shroufi, Joke Bauwens & me. Full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/3...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program event with Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy at UQ, who discusses her new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP 2024). Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Please find here a video of our latest event: a conversation between Simon Philpott and William Clapton about their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSa...

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Simon Philpott and William Clapton on Popular Culture and Global Politics

YouTube video by Roland Bleiker

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics. Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10). In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Please join us in person or online for our first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester: Prof Gillian Whitlock and Dr Zhila Gholami discuss their archival research on refugees. Wed 6 Aug, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Zoom rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Our #BISA2025 keynote speech by @bleiker.bsky.social is now published! 🎉 Entitled: 'Seeing and sensing world politics' - co-authored with Dr Emma Hutchinson - this year's keynote was recorded as a lasting memento from #BISA2025 🌟 Watch now 👉 buff.ly/IXfXfpA @visualpolitics.bsky.social

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#BISA2025 keynote recording: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics

Watch the #BISA2025 50th anniversary keynote from Roland Bleiker on seeing and sensing world politics.

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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Our new program is out. Join us either in person or online to hear from great scholars: Gillian Whitlock, Zhila Gholami, William Clapton, Simon Philpott, Eliza Garnsey, Caitlin Hamilton, Marguerite La Caze and Michael Barnett. For zoom link see here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. Join us to hear from amazing scholars, inc Gillian Whitlock, Zhila Gholami, William Clapton, Simon Philpott, Eliza Garnsey, Caitlin Hamilton, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Barnett, Bina D’Costa, Fiona Terry. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We look forward to welcoming Prof Michael Barnett (GWU), who will give the First Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture: 4 Dec 2025 on Mobilising Compassion. With comments by Prof Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC). All welcome. More info here. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/hutchis...

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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Emma Hutchison's contribution to #IR was groundbreaking in exploring the role of #Emotions in #GlobalPolitics. Watch ISA's Theory Section honor Dr. Hutchison by revisiting her work & reflecting upon the promises and challenges posed in her theories of #Community & #Trauma: buff.ly/GXysOHu

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Here the video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography. Big thanks Juliet for joining us. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation on my latest book Wronged and all things victimhood, neoliberalism, politics and justice at the @visualpolitics.bsky.social Thank you @bleiker.bsky.social! @lsemedia.bsky.social

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Please join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social (LSE) discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. Wed 7 May, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Upcoming Event: Lilie Chouliaraki on The Symbolic Politics of Victimhood — Roland Bleiker

Prof Lilie Chouliaraki will join us online to discuss her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024)

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Nick Caddick @nickcaddick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🚨 Publication alert! Great to see ‘Film, Narrative Agency, and the Politics of Care in Veteran Britain’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social: In it, we explore how co-produced filmmaking practice can offer creative means for empowering communities as storytellers in global politics. A short summary 🧵:

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Here a video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social from @nclpolitics.bsky.social discusses her Ph.D. research, focusing on collage as a method to understand nuclear weapons and war. Thanks Emily for your talk & for visiting us. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

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Emily Faux on Representing Nuclear War — Roland Bleiker

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social (@nclpolitics.bsky.social) discusses collage as method for her Ph.D. research on nuclear weapons and war. Wed 9 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Upcoming Event: Emily Faux on Representing Nuclear War — Roland Bleiker

Join us for our next Visual Politics event with Emily Faux (Newcastle University, UK) on Representing Nuclear War.

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Just arrived in Canberra. For locals: pease join us on Wednesday for the opening of this exhibition on Alternative Humanitarian Visuals - held in honour of Emma Hutchison - and involving an ICRC-ANU-UQ collaboration. Wed 26 March 5pm. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Here is a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox on painting the politics of drones. Kathryn is both a visual artist and a scholar with a Ph.D. who explores the links between technology, security and militarization. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

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Painting the Politics of Drones with Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox — Roland Bleiker

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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We are look forward to discussing new research with amazing scholars from different disciplines - art history, politics, communications and geography, incl @julietjfall.bsky.social @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @emilyfaux.bsky.social. Join us online / in person www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Our @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. We discuss new research with wonderful scholars from different disciplines: K. Brimblecombe-Fox, @emilyfaux.bsky.social, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social and @julietjfall.bsky.social. Join us in person or online. www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

ANNUAL PRIZES - DEADLINE TODAY! 🌟 Our annual prizes recognise excellence & achievement through research and teaching in International Studies! Make sure you see our prizes and nominate here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes @risjnl.bsky.social @bisawarstudies.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social

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Distinguished contribution
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EDI
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Nominate now for our annual prizes

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Watch our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @kayatbarry.bsky.social talks to Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about her fascinating research on art and migration, including participatory photography to document the lives of migrant farming workers in Australia. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

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Kaya Barry on Art and Migration — Roland Bleiker

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Please join us in person or online for our next Visual Politics event: @kayatbarry.bsky.social discusses her ARC DECRA project on art, migration and community engagement. Wed 4 Dec 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Rm 501/39a. Zoom rego here: www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...

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Upcoming Events — Roland Bleiker

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Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

How is storytelling a powerful tool in migration communication? "Storytelling as Strategic Communication on Migration" @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores how story telling can shape perceptions & policies www.icmpd.org/file/downloa...

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Bina D’Costa @binadcosta.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Please circulate through your networks. Call for expressions of interest for a fully funded short term research fellowship in Australia for a Myanmar academic or researcher Members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.

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Myanmar-Australia Visiting Fellowship Program 2025 | ANU Myanmar Research Centre

Call for expressions of interest for a fully funded short term research fellowship in Australia for a Myanmar academic or researcher, closing on Friday, 22 November 2024.

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Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here a video of our last event: Federica Caso interviewed by Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about Settler Military Aesthetics and her new Edinburgh UP book, which exaines war commemorations are part of broader militarised forms of governing societies. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

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Available to Watch: Federica Caso on Settler Military Aesthetics — Roland Bleiker

Dr Federica Caso is interviewed by Dr Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about her new book Settler Military Politics: Militarisation and the Aesthetics of War Commemoration (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). T...

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