Birgit Poopuu
@birgitpoopuu.bsky.social
Associate Professor of IR @Tallinn University. Fierce interest in plural worlds, (non)violence, experiential knowledge, Syrian revolution, collaborative work, decolonial love, critical-relational perspectives on security
https://securityhub.ee
https://securityhub.ee
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❗Our Call for Papers (Abstracts) is officially out! 1/2
👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts.
✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...
👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts.
✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...
Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub
Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.
securityhub.ee
May 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
❗Our Call for Papers (Abstracts) is officially out! 1/2
👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts.
✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...
👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts.
✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...
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🙌We are so proud of our students!
✨Our MA student, Hans Kristjan, wrote a post "A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests?" for #CEEShub, reflecting on the politics of security as a soldier in the #EstonianDefenceForces.
securityhub.ee/blog/a-soldi...
✨Our MA student, Hans Kristjan, wrote a post "A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests?" for #CEEShub, reflecting on the politics of security as a soldier in the #EstonianDefenceForces.
securityhub.ee/blog/a-soldi...
A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests? - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub
This blog post is based on an exceptional student assignment for the course “Perspectives on Global Security” taught in the International Relations MA program at Tallinn University. Hans’ assignment w...
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April 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🙌We are so proud of our students!
✨Our MA student, Hans Kristjan, wrote a post "A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests?" for #CEEShub, reflecting on the politics of security as a soldier in the #EstonianDefenceForces.
securityhub.ee/blog/a-soldi...
✨Our MA student, Hans Kristjan, wrote a post "A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests?" for #CEEShub, reflecting on the politics of security as a soldier in the #EstonianDefenceForces.
securityhub.ee/blog/a-soldi...
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As Israel continues with its genocide should be the title
Gaza City hospital hit, civil defence officials say, as Israel intensifies military operations
Gaza City hospital hit, civil defence officials say, as Israel intensifies military operations
Al-Ahli hospital struck, says Gaza’s civil defence agency, amid widening Israeli offensive that has cut off access to southern city of Rafah
* See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage
An Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital in Gaza City early on Sunday, its civil defence agency said, as Israel seized a corridor further south in the war-battered Palestinian territory and said it planned to expand its military offensive.
There were no reports of casualties in the strike and the Israeli military told Agence France-Presse it was looking into the incident. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
As Israel continues with its genocide should be the title
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✨Our team has been very busy this March.
🙌 @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social, @benjaminklasche.bsky.social, and @tonicerkez.bsky.social have all been traveling, both virtually and physically, across Europe to deliver fantastic talks at #Striling and #Nicosia.
Info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...
🙌 @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social, @benjaminklasche.bsky.social, and @tonicerkez.bsky.social have all been traveling, both virtually and physically, across Europe to deliver fantastic talks at #Striling and #Nicosia.
Info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...
#isa2025 #ceeshub | CEEShub at Tallinn University
✨Our team has certainly been up to a lot since #ISA2025! Please take a moment to read what #CEEShub has done during March.
👉Our PI and co-director, Dr Birgit…
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March 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
✨Our team has been very busy this March.
🙌 @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social, @benjaminklasche.bsky.social, and @tonicerkez.bsky.social have all been traveling, both virtually and physically, across Europe to deliver fantastic talks at #Striling and #Nicosia.
Info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...
🙌 @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social, @benjaminklasche.bsky.social, and @tonicerkez.bsky.social have all been traveling, both virtually and physically, across Europe to deliver fantastic talks at #Striling and #Nicosia.
Info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...
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This is an incredibly significant article that vividly exposes the horrors of russian occupation. I deeply admire these women's immense courage in sharing their stories. May they find their way to healing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/w...
Slowly, Ukrainian Women Are Beginning to Talk About Sexual Assault in the War
Thousands of women may have been raped by Russian soldiers, experts say, but have kept quiet for fear of the stigma. But that is changing.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is an incredibly significant article that vividly exposes the horrors of russian occupation. I deeply admire these women's immense courage in sharing their stories. May they find their way to healing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/w...
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Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
March 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.
What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸
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I am very proud of Momodou Taal and other students on F-1 visas for suing Trump for his executive orders. A true show of bravery at a time when so many folks are cowering.
March 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I am very proud of Momodou Taal and other students on F-1 visas for suing Trump for his executive orders. A true show of bravery at a time when so many folks are cowering.
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Columbia announced mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the Trump administration telling them to do just that if they wanted to keep getting funding
NEW letter to Columbia from Trump admin lists demands for “continued financial relationship” with the US government”:
—Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest
—“Time, place, and manner rules”
—Mask ban
—Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination
—Reform admissions
—MORE
—Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest
—“Time, place, and manner rules”
—Mask ban
—Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination
—Reform admissions
—MORE
March 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Columbia announced mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the Trump administration telling them to do just that if they wanted to keep getting funding
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We at @BDSatISA stand in full solidarity with our brilliant colleague @Helyeh_Doutaghi in the face of punitive treatment at Yale on the basis of AI smears. Please read Helyeh's brilliant statement & take a stand in solidarity!
x.com/Helyeh_Douta...
x.com/Helyeh_Douta...
Helyeh Doutaghi on X: "Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3 https://t.co/9GomHHXTNO" / X
Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3 https://t.co/9GomHHXTNO
x.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We at @BDSatISA stand in full solidarity with our brilliant colleague @Helyeh_Doutaghi in the face of punitive treatment at Yale on the basis of AI smears. Please read Helyeh's brilliant statement & take a stand in solidarity!
x.com/Helyeh_Douta...
x.com/Helyeh_Douta...
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Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
March 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
March 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
March 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...
Open Letter to the International Studies Association on the targeting and harassment of our colleague Dr Catherine Charrett
*** We invite scholars to sign this Open Letter ***
Dear colleagues,
We write as scholars working on gender, feminist and queer international relations, racism and (settler) colonialism, issues pertai...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...
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Last year, the Ambassador gave a speech at the opening of the "Unissued Diplomas" exhibition at the European Gallery of Tallinn University.
✨We are incredibly grateful to the Ambassador and the Ukrainian Embassy in Estonia for contributing their vital insights on this issue. 4/4
✨We are incredibly grateful to the Ambassador and the Ukrainian Embassy in Estonia for contributing their vital insights on this issue. 4/4
February 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Last year, the Ambassador gave a speech at the opening of the "Unissued Diplomas" exhibition at the European Gallery of Tallinn University.
✨We are incredibly grateful to the Ambassador and the Ukrainian Embassy in Estonia for contributing their vital insights on this issue. 4/4
✨We are incredibly grateful to the Ambassador and the Ukrainian Embassy in Estonia for contributing their vital insights on this issue. 4/4
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“We simply have not and were not able to stop this genocide.” Mohammed El-Kurd on Palestine and the complexities of resilience and victimhood.
Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide
A group of Palestinian children in Gaza gathered around microphones on November 7 2023 to make a heartfelt plea for their safety as Israel continued its ongoing genocidal campaign on the strip. The…
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February 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“We simply have not and were not able to stop this genocide.” Mohammed El-Kurd on Palestine and the complexities of resilience and victimhood.
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Their vision is depicted as a triangular graph (©️Dr Liiri Oja). 3/4
The graph elaborates how peacetime violence sets the stage for wartime violence.
The graph elaborates how peacetime violence sets the stage for wartime violence.
February 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Their vision is depicted as a triangular graph (©️Dr Liiri Oja). 3/4
The graph elaborates how peacetime violence sets the stage for wartime violence.
The graph elaborates how peacetime violence sets the stage for wartime violence.
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This week, we are thrilled to introduce our new Associate Editor, @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social! She is an Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (@securityhub.ee) at Tallinn University.
February 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This week, we are thrilled to introduce our new Associate Editor, @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social! She is an Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (@securityhub.ee) at Tallinn University.
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✨ We are so happy to be able to announce this and support the applicants!
#TallinnUniversity invites outstanding researchers to apply for a fully funded grant-writing workshop designed to help secure the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PF.
www.tlu.ee/en/yti/resea...
#TallinnUniversity invites outstanding researchers to apply for a fully funded grant-writing workshop designed to help secure the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PF.
www.tlu.ee/en/yti/resea...
Call for Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellows
Call for Applications: Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Workshop at Tallinn University
www.tlu.ee
February 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
✨ We are so happy to be able to announce this and support the applicants!
#TallinnUniversity invites outstanding researchers to apply for a fully funded grant-writing workshop designed to help secure the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PF.
www.tlu.ee/en/yti/resea...
#TallinnUniversity invites outstanding researchers to apply for a fully funded grant-writing workshop designed to help secure the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PF.
www.tlu.ee/en/yti/resea...
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“You’re going to need somebody who is willing to break the stranglehold of the two-party system.... What we need is someone who can coalesce the energies in this country ... into another party which can respond to the needs of the people. The Democratic Party cannot do it.” —James Baldwin, 1968
Baldwin’s Lonely Country - Boston Review
When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
www.bostonreview.net
February 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“You’re going to need somebody who is willing to break the stranglehold of the two-party system.... What we need is someone who can coalesce the energies in this country ... into another party which can respond to the needs of the people. The Democratic Party cannot do it.” —James Baldwin, 1968
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🍉On 13th February, the ISA council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉
#BDSatISA
#BDSatISA
February 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🍉On 13th February, the ISA council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉
#BDSatISA
#BDSatISA