Martin Bayly
@mjbayly.bsky.social
Associate Professor, @LSEIRDept. Views my own. Interested in history, theory, empire, anti-imperialism, and South Asia. Author of 'Taming The Imperial Imagination' http://tinyurl.com/2fw6w8n8
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Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals
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January 21, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions.
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
careers.ceu.edu
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions.
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
On Wednesday evening we're hosting @jelenasubotic.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social to talk about her fantastic new book 'The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution'. It's free to attend, but registration is necessary. Please come along! Details below...
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
On Wednesday evening we're hosting @jelenasubotic.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social to talk about her fantastic new book 'The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution'. It's free to attend, but registration is necessary. Please come along! Details below...
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🎉I am very pleased to share the publication of our @millennjournal.bsky.social Vol. 53 Special Issue: Traversing Memories in Global Politics.
You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...
You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...
Traversing Memories in Global Politics - Kinti Orellana Matute, Woohyeok Seo, Pauline Zerla, 2025
doi.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🎉I am very pleased to share the publication of our @millennjournal.bsky.social Vol. 53 Special Issue: Traversing Memories in Global Politics.
You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...
You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...
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The new special issue of EJIR is a wonderful and diverse look at "History and Theory in International Relations". The issue includes my article with @caschulz.bsky.social on critical junctures in IR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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@ejir.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social
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@ejir.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social
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December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The new special issue of EJIR is a wonderful and diverse look at "History and Theory in International Relations". The issue includes my article with @caschulz.bsky.social on critical junctures in IR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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@ejir.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social
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@ejir.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social
In light of yesterday's news on the COVID inquiry in relation to political decision-making, I'm re-posting our recent ISQ article. We show how political elites in the UK, Italy, and Germany varied in the ways they communicated the inevitability of mass death during the onset of the pandemic. 🧵...
A new article in ISQ on the politics of inevitability with brilliant colleagues @dryunahan.bsky.social and @drkmillar.bsky.social.
New article! "Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic" with @drkmillar.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In light of yesterday's news on the COVID inquiry in relation to political decision-making, I'm re-posting our recent ISQ article. We show how political elites in the UK, Italy, and Germany varied in the ways they communicated the inevitability of mass death during the onset of the pandemic. 🧵...
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Exciting to see my recent article about #disinformation, whole-of-society resistance, and #Taiwan with @ejir.bsky.social was trending in IR according to OOIR.
👉The article: shorturl.at/0DCPz
👉OOIR's post: x.com/ObserveIR/st...
👉The article: shorturl.at/0DCPz
👉OOIR's post: x.com/ObserveIR/st...
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Exciting to see my recent article about #disinformation, whole-of-society resistance, and #Taiwan with @ejir.bsky.social was trending in IR according to OOIR.
👉The article: shorturl.at/0DCPz
👉OOIR's post: x.com/ObserveIR/st...
👉The article: shorturl.at/0DCPz
👉OOIR's post: x.com/ObserveIR/st...
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JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics
Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…
www.trin.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
Please join us this evening for an LSE guest lecture from Iver Neumann, with Federica Bicchi and Jennifer Jackson-Preece, on 'The Changing Geopolitics of Northern Europe'. Covering the Arctic, the Nordics, and the Baltics. Free to all. No registration necessary www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
The changing geopolitics of Northern Europe
6.30pm Thurs 30 Oct | Iver B Neumann, Federica Bicchi, Jennifer Jackson-Preece | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Please join us this evening for an LSE guest lecture from Iver Neumann, with Federica Bicchi and Jennifer Jackson-Preece, on 'The Changing Geopolitics of Northern Europe'. Covering the Arctic, the Nordics, and the Baltics. Free to all. No registration necessary www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Happening tonight, 6.30pm. Free entry. Join us!
Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
From Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality
6.30pm Weds 29 Oct | Kerry Goettlich, Eddie Keene, Joanne Yao, Ayşe Zarakol | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Happening tonight, 6.30pm. Free entry. Join us!
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🚨New First View Article🚨
"Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs" by Nikhil Kalyanpur is now available #OpenAccess!
Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/1rgOv0s
"Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs" by Nikhil Kalyanpur is now available #OpenAccess!
Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/1rgOv0s
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🚨New First View Article🚨
"Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs" by Nikhil Kalyanpur is now available #OpenAccess!
Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/1rgOv0s
"Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs" by Nikhil Kalyanpur is now available #OpenAccess!
Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/1rgOv0s
Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
From Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality
6.30pm Weds 29 Oct | Kerry Goettlich, Eddie Keene, Joanne Yao, Ayşe Zarakol | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies
In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th...
cais.cass.anu.edu.au
October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
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jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR845/lecturer-in-international-relations and jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR850/l...
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social Deadline is 13 October 2025
#InternationalRelations #PublicPolicy
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social Deadline is 13 October 2025
#InternationalRelations #PublicPolicy
Lecturer in International Relations at Queen's University Belfast
Apply now for the Lecturer in International Relations role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.
Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 | Toynbee Prize Foundation
toynbeeprize.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.
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Hey all, my article "The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line" is published in _Geopolitics_ today: it's OA, so please click and download, for free!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line
This article develops ‘the imperial gaze’ concept to explore how maps not only represent the world, but also do things in geopolitics, even provoking mass demonstrations. It examines China’s early-...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Hey all, my article "The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line" is published in _Geopolitics_ today: it's OA, so please click and download, for free!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What have we got in the bank?
1) Roundtables on the practice turn, ontological security, and historical international relation.
2) An unreleased recording of a "live taping" a few years back at the LSE.
3) An episode on @profptj.bsky.social's favorite "hate read," the Clash of Civilizations.
1) Roundtables on the practice turn, ontological security, and historical international relation.
2) An unreleased recording of a "live taping" a few years back at the LSE.
3) An episode on @profptj.bsky.social's favorite "hate read," the Clash of Civilizations.
Season 2 is coming @dhnexon.bsky.social @profptj.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What have we got in the bank?
1) Roundtables on the practice turn, ontological security, and historical international relation.
2) An unreleased recording of a "live taping" a few years back at the LSE.
3) An episode on @profptj.bsky.social's favorite "hate read," the Clash of Civilizations.
1) Roundtables on the practice turn, ontological security, and historical international relation.
2) An unreleased recording of a "live taping" a few years back at the LSE.
3) An episode on @profptj.bsky.social's favorite "hate read," the Clash of Civilizations.
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Was it just #US withdrawal & #Taliban capture that ended the #Republic in #Afghanistan in 2021? Basir Arian @ids.ac.uk @cheveningfcdo.bsky.social summarises the wider malaise & crisis of legitimacy.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
@lseir.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
@lseir.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Was it just #US withdrawal & #Taliban capture that ended the #Republic in #Afghanistan in 2021? Basir Arian @ids.ac.uk @cheveningfcdo.bsky.social summarises the wider malaise & crisis of legitimacy.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
@lseir.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
@lseir.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social
The Inter-National
Increase a band:
Six for Fighting
Six for Fighting
Increase a band:
Guns n’ Bouquets
Guns n’ Bouquets
August 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The Inter-National
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#OpenAccess from our new issue -
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#OpenAccess from our new issue -
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
Two permanent posts at the Assistant Professor grade going in the IR Department at LSE. One with specialism in International Security; one with specialism in International Political Economy (and climate change, or environment, and/or global business). Deadline 7 September. Details below!
August 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Two permanent posts at the Assistant Professor grade going in the IR Department at LSE. One with specialism in International Security; one with specialism in International Political Economy (and climate change, or environment, and/or global business). Deadline 7 September. Details below!
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Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
justsecurity.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
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🚨My new article, part of a @risjnl.bsky.social special issue on heritage I co-edited with the wonderful @elifkalay.bsky.social. I explore how the frenzy for acquiring antiquities in early 19th century (most famously, the Parthenon Marbles) was really international competition for cultural status.
The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status
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July 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🚨My new article, part of a @risjnl.bsky.social special issue on heritage I co-edited with the wonderful @elifkalay.bsky.social. I explore how the frenzy for acquiring antiquities in early 19th century (most famously, the Parthenon Marbles) was really international competition for cultural status.