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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge
@campolis.bsky.social
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The Department of POLIS at the University of Cambridge - teaching and researching the world's most complex and pressing issues in politics around the world.

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🏆POLIS would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Dr. Alami and his co-author, Professor Adam Dixon, on this achievement.
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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In their new paper published in @theelrr.bsky.social Ashwin Varghese (@cghrcambridge.bsky.social) and Aishwarya Rajeev argue that the gendering of emergent technology is underpinned by the sexual division of labour.

Read the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gender, work, and the anthropomorphisation of technology | The Economic and Labour Relations Review | Cambridge Core
Gender, work, and the anthropomorphisation of technology
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November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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📙 Book Talk: 'The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West' with author Professor Amitav Acharya.

📆 Thurs 13 Nov
🕔 5pm-6.30pm
📍 SG2 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP

More information: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/inter...
International Relations Seminar Series | Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
Everyone is welcome and there is no need to register.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Join Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge, for our final seminar of the series on #AlgorithmicGovernance.

🗓️ Wednesday 12th November 2025
🕔 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 SG2, Alison Richard Building

Get tickets here: cghr-12nov25.eventbrite.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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New event! Britain and the Balkans – 30 years after the Dayton Agreement

Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans.

🗓️20th Nov, 17:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Please join us for a talk with Professor Amitav Acharya on his new book 'The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West'.

🗓️Thurs, 13 Nov 2025
🕔5pm-6.30pm
📍SG2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge

All welcome.
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Join us this afternoon for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Day session for the:

MPhil in Politics and International Studies: 15:00 - 15:45
Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies (PhD + MPhil): 17:00 - 17:45

Register and find out more on the postgraduate website: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
Postgraduate Open Days | Postgraduate Study
Virtual Postgraduate Open Days, 3-14 November 2025 Join us for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Days and discover if Cambridge is the right place for you. The event takes place entirely online and featur...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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📰Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written an article titled 'Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances'.

Read the article now: doi.org/10.17863/CAM...
Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances
This article is about the relationship between environment and desire, focusing on male combatants in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Most LRA fighters were forcibly conscripted as teenage...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Check out this new research paper "Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash" in @nature.com by @mer29-cam.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, @highamian.bsky.social & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social

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Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash - Nature Climate Change
Restrictions on civil society may drive climate activists to shift from protest to litigation. However, challenges to judicial independence, deregulation and anti-climate litigation mean that activist...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Don't miss! Controlled Freedom: The Allied Forces in Vienna from 1945

Prof Oliver Rathkolb joins CfG & the Modern European History Seminar to discuss Vienna post-1945.

🗓️Next Wed 5th Nov, 17:30-19:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
🖋️More info: bit.ly/471fjkT
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨

Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉

Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0

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October 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Year 12 UK students considering applying to Cambridge: if you're from an underrepresented group, this free programme from @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social aims to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented at Cambridge.

Check out their page on insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DQWzHn8...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Join us this Monday for a visit from the Spanish Ambassador, José Pascual Marco Martínez, to discuss Spain-UK Relations: Strategic Partners in a Challenging Global Landscape

🕑Mon, 27 Oct 14:00 - 15:00 GMT
📍Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP

Register: spain-uk-relations.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I'm on @macrodosepod.bsky.social alongside great peeps, for an episode on war, climate crisis, and the economy.

My own remarks focus on the rise of state capitalism with a military-imperial twist, at the very heart of US empire

open.spotify.com/episode/4un1...

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October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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A great start to our Michaelmas programme for the Monday seminar in Political Thought and Intellectual History.

Duncan Kelly provided a synopsis of his current work in progress, followed by commentary from Fernanda Gallo

For details of our term card, see: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/mich...
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I’m giving a talk soon at the Instituto de Filosofia a Ciências Sociais do Rio de Janeiro @ufrjoficial.bsky.social (see below). In Portuguese. Wish me luck! Come along! Or just spread the word please. @campolis.bsky.social @camilavergara.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social @duncanbell.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books,
with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social

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Link below👇:
October 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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To those of you who have contacted us with difficulties registering for the Spanish Ambassador's talk, the cloud provider that Eventbrite uses experienced a global outage yesterday.

Please try again to reserve your space. spain-uk-relations.eventbrite.co.uk

We apologise for the inconvenience.
October 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Join Kwaku Adomaku @cambridgegender.bsky.social and Dr Shannon Philip @camsociology.bsky.social this Thursday evening to discuss "Queer Post-colonies in crisis?"
October 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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To those of you who have contacted us with difficulties registering for the POLIS Lecture, the cloud provider that Eventbrite uses experienced a global outage.

They are back up and running, so please try again to reserve your space. polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk

We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Join us for the inaugural POLIS Lecture.

Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation.

🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm
📍Alison Richard Building

Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Join our new research network 'Academic Freedoms' for its inaugural event on 21 October at 4.30pm

The Lego Serious Play methodology uses Lego building to access both established and unexpected ways of thinking through an emphasis on making rather than talking.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47807/
Building academic freedom - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The University and Cambridge SU's social media teams worked together to help promote the Freshers' Fair this week, to help students settle into Cambridge life and make new friends.

Watch the interviews with students at the Freshers' Fair on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DPlpHqS...
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