Dr Eve Hayes
@evehayes123.bsky.social
Lecturer | Humanities Training | @ihr.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social & School of Advanced Study | Caribbean Seminars @ilcs.bsky.social | Book: 'Legal Identity, Race & Belonging' https://shorturl.at/JPH0j Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa #digitalidentity
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Dr Eve Hayes
@evehayes123.bsky.social
· Feb 28
PhD at the Institute of Historical Research
Undertake doctoral research in the history of the world from the fourth to the 21st century with supervision from the Institute of Historical Research.
www.sas.ac.uk
Are you looking to take up a PhD in London in September 2025? I am currently taking new applications @ihr.bsky.social from PhD students in Spanish and Francophone Caribbean history, including Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Haiti. DM if interested!
www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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⚡ We’ve relaunched the former Jovians group as a new network EnergHist! From electricity to coal, atoms, wind & more.
New conveners, Zoom hangouts, newsletter & space to share work.
Want to join? groups.google.com/g/energhist
please spread the word! #EnergyHistory
New conveners, Zoom hangouts, newsletter & space to share work.
Want to join? groups.google.com/g/energhist
please spread the word! #EnergyHistory
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
⚡ We’ve relaunched the former Jovians group as a new network EnergHist! From electricity to coal, atoms, wind & more.
New conveners, Zoom hangouts, newsletter & space to share work.
Want to join? groups.google.com/g/energhist
please spread the word! #EnergyHistory
New conveners, Zoom hangouts, newsletter & space to share work.
Want to join? groups.google.com/g/energhist
please spread the word! #EnergyHistory
Delighted that our #LASA2026 roundtable to collaboratively explore the future of Haitian and Dominican Studies, building on discussions raised w/ colleagues at the Global Dominican conference hosted by @uolondon.bsky.social in 2018. Looking forward to reconnecting w/ LASA Haiti-DR colleagues too.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Delighted that our #LASA2026 roundtable to collaboratively explore the future of Haitian and Dominican Studies, building on discussions raised w/ colleagues at the Global Dominican conference hosted by @uolondon.bsky.social in 2018. Looking forward to reconnecting w/ LASA Haiti-DR colleagues too.
I graduated from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social in French, Spanish, German and Portuguese back in 2005. How many working class Brits can say that they became fluent to university level in five languages? This TRANSFORMED my life and world view. Shambolic. Short-sighted. Devastating.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I graduated from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social in French, Spanish, German and Portuguese back in 2005. How many working class Brits can say that they became fluent to university level in five languages? This TRANSFORMED my life and world view. Shambolic. Short-sighted. Devastating.
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I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
I got my BA in modern languages from the University of Nottingham 20 years ago. This news is bloody depressing albeit not surprising.
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I got my BA in modern languages from the University of Nottingham 20 years ago. This news is bloody depressing albeit not surprising.
Our next CLACS Caribbean Seminar will be hosted by the fantastic Renée Landell & @deannalyncook.bsky.social
The Youth Ambassadors of our Country: Little League Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao w/Jan Bant
@ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Youth Ambassadors of our Country: Little League Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao w/Jan Bant
@ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Caribbean Studies Seminar
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our next CLACS Caribbean Seminar will be hosted by the fantastic Renée Landell & @deannalyncook.bsky.social
The Youth Ambassadors of our Country: Little League Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao w/Jan Bant
@ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Youth Ambassadors of our Country: Little League Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao w/Jan Bant
@ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Lovely to be back in beautiful Aberdeen tonight where my PhD journey began.
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Lovely to be back in beautiful Aberdeen tonight where my PhD journey began.
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📢Join us for the first seminar of the 2025-26 Caribbean Seminar Series!
"Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling
🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online
More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
"Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling
🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online
More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
September 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢Join us for the first seminar of the 2025-26 Caribbean Seminar Series!
"Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling
🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online
More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
"Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling
🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online
More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Delighted to be giving the keynote address at the upcoming Privacy Symposium Africa in Nigeria talking about the exclusionary risks of digital identity systems #PSA2025
📍Topic: Digital Identity & Biometric Data in Africa: Striking the Balance Between Inclusion, Security, and Privacy bit.ly/uwpsa
📍Topic: Digital Identity & Biometric Data in Africa: Striking the Balance Between Inclusion, Security, and Privacy bit.ly/uwpsa
October 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Delighted to be giving the keynote address at the upcoming Privacy Symposium Africa in Nigeria talking about the exclusionary risks of digital identity systems #PSA2025
📍Topic: Digital Identity & Biometric Data in Africa: Striking the Balance Between Inclusion, Security, and Privacy bit.ly/uwpsa
📍Topic: Digital Identity & Biometric Data in Africa: Striking the Balance Between Inclusion, Security, and Privacy bit.ly/uwpsa
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Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion
Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Local Historians come and make your own short film! One day free course at the @heritagewshc.bsky.social on Monday 10th November. Fun collaborative day learning new skills to share local history and heritage. For more information and to book visit: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Local Historians come and make your own short film! One day free course at the @heritagewshc.bsky.social on Monday 10th November. Fun collaborative day learning new skills to share local history and heritage. For more information and to book visit: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
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We're delighted to announce that Sir Hilary Beckles will be delivering an important lecture on reparatory justice next month:
The Coming Enlightenment: Reparations Now for Tomorrow
17 November, 6pm-8:30pm, Senate House
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#ReparatoryJustice #Commonwealth
The Coming Enlightenment: Reparations Now for Tomorrow
17 November, 6pm-8:30pm, Senate House
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#ReparatoryJustice #Commonwealth
October 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We're delighted to announce that Sir Hilary Beckles will be delivering an important lecture on reparatory justice next month:
The Coming Enlightenment: Reparations Now for Tomorrow
17 November, 6pm-8:30pm, Senate House
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#ReparatoryJustice #Commonwealth
The Coming Enlightenment: Reparations Now for Tomorrow
17 November, 6pm-8:30pm, Senate House
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#ReparatoryJustice #Commonwealth
A fantastic welcome to new PhD researchers in history and related disciplines today hosted by the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social with contributions from @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org colleagues.
October 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A fantastic welcome to new PhD researchers in history and related disciplines today hosted by the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social with contributions from @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org colleagues.
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Digital IDs
💸 Will cost billions
⚠️ Will be riddled with errors
❌ Won’t reduce irregular migration at all.
Tell Starmer to scrap his scheme ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/j2ld
💸 Will cost billions
⚠️ Will be riddled with errors
❌ Won’t reduce irregular migration at all.
Tell Starmer to scrap his scheme ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/j2ld
Keir Starmer: ID cards are a recipe for repression | Good Law Project
Digital IDs don’t reduce migration but they do open the door to authoritarian control – it’s time to fight back
goodlaw.social
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Digital IDs
💸 Will cost billions
⚠️ Will be riddled with errors
❌ Won’t reduce irregular migration at all.
Tell Starmer to scrap his scheme ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/j2ld
💸 Will cost billions
⚠️ Will be riddled with errors
❌ Won’t reduce irregular migration at all.
Tell Starmer to scrap his scheme ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/j2ld
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📢 Sign up now for our training sessions this term!
Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
ILCS Research Training Programme
Training Programme
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📢 Sign up now for our training sessions this term!
Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
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First seminar of the academic year for the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies on Tuesday 28th October sees YPCCS alumni, Professor Alison Donnell taking about her internationally acclaimed 2025 publication 'Lost and Found' (Papillote Press). Please share. All welcome.
October 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
First seminar of the academic year for the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies on Tuesday 28th October sees YPCCS alumni, Professor Alison Donnell taking about her internationally acclaimed 2025 publication 'Lost and Found' (Papillote Press). Please share. All welcome.
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The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.
My daughter’s birthdays are joyous yet always tainted with a hint of sadness. 5 years ago today we were both close to leaving this world. The trauma, in the midst of the pandemic shortly after escaping my violent abuser, transformed our lives. Together, we have built a beautiful life & a happy home.
September 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
My daughter’s birthdays are joyous yet always tainted with a hint of sadness. 5 years ago today we were both close to leaving this world. The trauma, in the midst of the pandemic shortly after escaping my violent abuser, transformed our lives. Together, we have built a beautiful life & a happy home.
A video I recorded w/Women in Identity underlining the dangers of universal #digitalidentity, the significant impact of these rapidly evolving technologies & the (un)intended consequences they will have in challenging people's right to exist & citizenship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBV1...
Talking Legal Identity, Race and Belonging with Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf
YouTube video by Women in Identity
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A video I recorded w/Women in Identity underlining the dangers of universal #digitalidentity, the significant impact of these rapidly evolving technologies & the (un)intended consequences they will have in challenging people's right to exist & citizenship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBV1...
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What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
Caribbean Studies Seminar
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
September 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
Digital identity is integral to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It began with providing the income poor with a legal identity (i.e. birth certificate) and has morphed into an international effort to identify every living person on the planet. This is not just about the UK - it’s GLOBAL.
September 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Digital identity is integral to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It began with providing the income poor with a legal identity (i.e. birth certificate) and has morphed into an international effort to identify every living person on the planet. This is not just about the UK - it’s GLOBAL.
Digital infrastructures are complex, contradictory & problematic. They can work well but if weaponised, poorly conceived and/or driven by outsider interests they run the risk of becoming downright dangerous. An article I wrote years ago @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/how-some-cou...
theconversation.com/how-some-cou...
How some countries are using digital ID to exclude vulnerable people around the world
When it comes to civil registrations, some states are using exclusionary mechanisms to block anyone it considers undesirable, as happened to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
theconversation.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Digital infrastructures are complex, contradictory & problematic. They can work well but if weaponised, poorly conceived and/or driven by outsider interests they run the risk of becoming downright dangerous. An article I wrote years ago @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/how-some-cou...
theconversation.com/how-some-cou...
Digital ID isn’t about inclusion, it’s about those left behind, invisibilised & excluded. There is ample evidence that digital infrastructures can have dire (un)intended consequences for documented people w/ VALID claims to citizenship. Think statelessness, children born to migrants, Windrush, etc.
Having studied #digitalID in depth for my PhD and written a book about this way before anyone had even flagged it as a problem - this a TERRIBLE idea. We have been warning the UK government about the dangers of digital ID for years. No one listened. #digitalidentity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Digital ID isn’t about inclusion, it’s about those left behind, invisibilised & excluded. There is ample evidence that digital infrastructures can have dire (un)intended consequences for documented people w/ VALID claims to citizenship. Think statelessness, children born to migrants, Windrush, etc.