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Fadia Dakka
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Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Higher Ed | CUS | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos

Somewhere in Birmingham and often in other places.
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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · May 28
"All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful"
(EB, 1949)
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teachinginhe.bsky.social
New publication alert! 🚨

Towards a critical approach to diaspora engagement in teaching and education development in conflict-affected contexts

Points of Departure piece by Oudai Tozan and Ahmad Akkad

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #Diaspora
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Towards a critical approach to diaspora engagement in teaching and education development in conflict-affected contexts by Oudai Tozan and Ahmad Akkad. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link). A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
February 9, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Writing an introduction is mostly deciding which literatures you're brave enough to annoy
February 9, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
“no one who has witnessed over two years of genocide in Gaza is likely to disagree with either Hammad or Said that the intellectual class has utterly failed to fulfill its social function”
lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 8d
"What is the task of the intellectual at a time when, at the heart of liberal democracies, genocide is normalized and protest suppressed?"

Rebecca Ruth Gould revisits Edward Said: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/edward-said-representations-intellectual-gaza-crisis-israel-fitzcarraldo/
February 7, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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philosopher1923.bsky.social
TODAY! Thurs. Feb. 5 ~ I pm ET / 6 pm UK
"Ask the Philosopher"

Have any burning philosophical questions you'd like discussed?? Share them with us at thephilosopher1923@gmail.com, then join Michael Bavidge, Michael Spicher, and Tara Emelye Needham

#Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
Select tickets – Ask the Philosopher – Zoom
Ask the Philosopher – Zoom, Thu 5 Feb 2026 - Join The Philosopher for an informal, philosophical chat with members of our Editorial Team. Bring your philosophical questions*, and we will try our best ...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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tomwestern.bsky.social
We've launched our new migration masters @uclgeography.bsky.social – Migration, Politics and Society
Full of creative and critical approaches, and taught by really good people. Please pass on to students who might be interested!

www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
Wasn't necessarily expecting to get our research covered in Attitude Mag but I'm so glad @attitudemag.bsky.social has:

"We are calling upon researchers across the UK to reject the recommendations of the Sullivan Review," says Dr Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social"
www.attitude.co.uk/news/uk-gove...
UK Government review on sex and gender slammed by professionals for wrongly portraying trans identities
Researchers have warned that the UK Government’s review on sex and gender risks harming studies relating to trans identities.
www.attitude.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
Many university researchers (& many social scientists) have no idea that the 'Sullivan Review' (named after its lead author, sociologist Sullivan) exists nor of its potential potency.

@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I wanted to set the Review in context

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In selecting Sullivan, the commissioners chose an advisory group member of Sex Matters, which understands sex as binary, ‘real, immutable and important’ (what it calls ‘objective reality’) and claims, in contrast, ‘gender identity’ as a determination of whether ‘someone is male or female (or both or neither)’ is merely a ‘strongly held and erroneous personal feeling’ (Sex Matters 2024). Prior to selection, Sullivan had made clear she disagreed with research not conceptualising sex as binary and immutable (e.g., Sullivan 2020). While SR1 does not use the phrase ‘gender critical’ to describe its framework, it is allied—through its lead author, terminologies and recommendations—with those self-identifying as ‘gender critical’ feminists. It includes, for example, terms such as ‘adult human female’ (SR1, 11, 43) which some scholars have recognised as an ‘anti-transgender dogwhistle’ (Duffy 2025). ‘Gender critical’ feminism has been analysed by other feminist and queer scholars as part of a broader anti-gender movement (Butler 2025), gender conservatism (S. Ahmed 2021) and a manifestation of ‘postfascist feminism’ (Bassi and LaFleur 2022).2 These scholars have demonstrated that this movement's arguments are, as in Bassi and LaFleur's (2022, 317) words, ‘genealogically coherent with multiple conservative moral panics and resilient fascist tropes’. Meanwhile, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (2025a, n.p.) has stated that ‘the beliefs held by the gender critical movement overlap significantly with those held by various authoritarian governments and fascist political parties the world over’.
February 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
I never post a link to the THE but the THE has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and my paper with the headline, 'Trans research "at risk" if data collection guidance adopted'

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Trans research ‘at risk’ if data collection guidance adopted Response to Sullivan Review argues recommendations could hit quality of findings and impinge on academic freedom Published on February 3, 2026 Last updated February 3, 2026 Patrick Jack Twitter: @paddywjack The recommendations of a review into how sex and gender data is collected could damage the quality of public research and is part of wider efforts to erase trans people from statistics, a new paper has argued.
February 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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pdse.bsky.social
Feels a bit weird to promote a review of my own book... but the book is not just mine, and contributors deserve to get their work noticed! Link in first comment.
February 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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scholarlycommrg.bsky.social
We recommend another seminar organised by Franek
franekkra.bsky.social Franek Krawczyk @franekkra.bsky.social · 8d
In two weeks I am organising another PaTHES
seminar! This time we will talk with Agata Zysiak on her recent book and utopian visions of socialist higher education

11.02
9:00 CET, Zoom: t.co/CVHdtpXDAH

@tdelaquil.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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philosopher1923.bsky.social
Sunday read:

"On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form"

Tatiana Llaguno advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour.

#Philosophy #Marxism
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-bein...
On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form
This essay advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour. Using a Hegelian-Marxist method centered on capital’s necessary appear...
www.thephilosopher1923.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM
fadiadk.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=y7aK... beautifully written and portrayed. A true gem 💫
DREAMS Trailer (2025) The Oslo Trilogy
YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage
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January 31, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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sparkbadger.bsky.social
Catherine O’Hara – a life in pictures www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...
Catherine O’Hara – a life in pictures
The comedian, actor and writer has died at the age of 71 after a brief illness. She was known for roles in Home Alone, Best in Show, Schitt’s Creek and The Studio
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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auralflaneur.bsky.social
Depressing from Philip Augar in the FT on the massive shift in burden from state to student. Aside from his ultimately economistic reduction of value, it’s surely the very definition of the learning experience that you can’t know what it should be in advance. It saps education of critical challenge.
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance

– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
Jonathan Kramnick continues his long critique of interdisciplinarity, now arguing that while its jargon remains, it is with changed “affect & ambition”: “Today the jargon lingers on in a kind of zombie state: animated, repetitive, & oddly untethered from belief” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Opinion | The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop
The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.
www.chronicle.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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lisabortolotti.com
With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
Dennett’s powerful ideas
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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January 26, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social & I are convening open panels at EASST (Sept) on 'STS & biology revisited: biosociality, interdisciplinarity & the biosociences, in an age of increasingly biological fascism'. Please consider submitting, &/or circulate to colleagues easst.net/conference/e...
Programme
Programme
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January 26, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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lisabortolotti.com
Se siete a Milano il 5 feb potete partecipare a un evento storico: gli Stati Generali del Museo della Filosofia museodellafilosofia.unimi.it/gli-stati-ge... Progetti su diritti per gli animali, guerra e pace, intelligenza artificiale, fake news e molto altro… #philsky #filosofiapertutti
Programme of the day History of the museum
January 25, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social
📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...

Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)
Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi
Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.
www.phenomenalworld.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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philosopher1923.bsky.social
We sometimes change in different directions from those we love, but how can braving the unknown together endear us to our lovers?
How do we cope with love being an endeavour fraught with uncertainty?

Join us Mon. Jan. 25 for ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
#Philosophy #Love
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Select tickets – "Love In Time": Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi – Zoom
"Love In Time": Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi – Zoom, Mon 26 Jan 2026 - What does it mean to love as ever-changing beings in an ever-changing world? We live in time, and so we ...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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philosopher1923.bsky.social
ICYMI: "Has Trump Proved Realists Right?"
Linda Kinstler talks with Alexis Papazoglou about the origins of realism, the Monroe Doctrine, applied realism and international law, legal legitimacy, and if Trump's strategy is realist or Machtpolitik.

#Philosophy #Politics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIP...
The Philosopher & The News: Has Trump Proved Realists Right? Alexis Papazoglou with Linda Kinstler
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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January 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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philosopher1923.bsky.social
The team at The Philosopher picked our favourite books that we read in 2025! We'd love to hear your favourites of the year as well!

See the full write-up at our substack or scroll down for an in-brief version. 1/12 🧵

#Philosophy #Booksky
thephilosopher1923.substack.com/p/editors-pi...
Editors' Picks: Reads of 2025
Special edition newsletter today!
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January 22, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
Highly recommend — and it takes up many of the analytical frameworks and conjunctural analyses elaborated by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social in @thedigradio.bsky.social’s 5 part history of modern Iran from 2022 thedigradio.com/History%20of...
January 23, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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philosopher1923.bsky.social
Coming up Mon. Jan. 26 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"Love in Time"

Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi will explore a view of love that embraces the vagaries of life with a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time.

#Philosophy
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
Select tickets – "Love In Time": Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi – Zoom
"Love In Time": Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi – Zoom, Mon 26 Jan 2026 - What does it mean to love as ever-changing beings in an ever-changing world? We live in time, and so we ...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:36 PM