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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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
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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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Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Faculty (UWOFA)
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
www.uwo.ca
July 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
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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.
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What are Trump's ICE raids really about?
To mark World Refugee Day, stephrschwartz.bsky.social reflects on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the extreme measures sparking nationwide protest. Is this restoring order or eroding democracy? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE
youtu.be/xQyUSGN4YY4?...
To mark World Refugee Day, stephrschwartz.bsky.social reflects on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the extreme measures sparking nationwide protest. Is this restoring order or eroding democracy? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE
youtu.be/xQyUSGN4YY4?...
What are Trump's ICE raids really about? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE
YouTube video by LSE
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June 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
What are Trump's ICE raids really about?
To mark World Refugee Day, stephrschwartz.bsky.social reflects on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the extreme measures sparking nationwide protest. Is this restoring order or eroding democracy? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE
youtu.be/xQyUSGN4YY4?...
To mark World Refugee Day, stephrschwartz.bsky.social reflects on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the extreme measures sparking nationwide protest. Is this restoring order or eroding democracy? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE
youtu.be/xQyUSGN4YY4?...
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This online workshop on academic publishing (July 9 at 15:00 GMT) from the Toynbee Prize Foundation and the Journal of Global History, hosted by @emleake.bsky.social @heiditworek.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity for early career #skystorians: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...
Call for registration: JGH x TPF Publishing Workshop II | Toynbee Prize Foundation
toynbeeprize.org
June 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This online workshop on academic publishing (July 9 at 15:00 GMT) from the Toynbee Prize Foundation and the Journal of Global History, hosted by @emleake.bsky.social @heiditworek.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity for early career #skystorians: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...
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👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
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I am very excited to be giving the opening remarks at the annual History of Political Thought Conference this Thursday at LSE.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces!
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
June 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I am very excited to be giving the opening remarks at the annual History of Political Thought Conference this Thursday at LSE.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
indiasworld.in/70-years-of-...
An interview with India's World Magazine on the significance of Sapru House, the home of the Indian Council of World Affairs, as it celebrates its 70th anniverary.
An interview with India's World Magazine on the significance of Sapru House, the home of the Indian Council of World Affairs, as it celebrates its 70th anniverary.
70 Years of Sapru House: Reimagining Global IR Through India’s Intellectual Legacy | Dr. Martin Bayly Speaks to India's World | India's World
As Sapru House marks its 70th anniversary in 2025, commemorating its founding in 1955 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the home of the Indian Council o ...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
indiasworld.in/70-years-of-...
An interview with India's World Magazine on the significance of Sapru House, the home of the Indian Council of World Affairs, as it celebrates its 70th anniverary.
An interview with India's World Magazine on the significance of Sapru House, the home of the Indian Council of World Affairs, as it celebrates its 70th anniverary.
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Come along tonight to what will be a great Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture.
Speaker: George Lawson
Discussant: Jasmine Gani
Chair: Toby Dodge
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
@lseir.bsky.social
Speaker: George Lawson
Discussant: Jasmine Gani
Chair: Toby Dodge
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
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Revolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'?
6.30pm Tues 27th May | Jasmine Gani, George Lawson | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Come along tonight to what will be a great Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture.
Speaker: George Lawson
Discussant: Jasmine Gani
Chair: Toby Dodge
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
@lseir.bsky.social
Speaker: George Lawson
Discussant: Jasmine Gani
Chair: Toby Dodge
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
@lseir.bsky.social
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My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is now out on @globalhistjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s
doi.org
May 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is now out on @globalhistjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam
May 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam