Till Mostowlansky
@mostowlansky.bsky.social
Anthropology Prof at the Geneva Graduate Institute & Urban Studies Prof at the Kyiv School of Economics. Anything related to Infrastructure -- Construction / Humanitarianism / Critical Global Health mostowlansky.com
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New essay out co-authored with @mostowlansky.bsky.social on #AcademicFreedom, fear and the culture of silence in European universities. Published on @allegralab.bsky.social
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Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within - Allegra Lab
The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues with his wife back
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October 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
New essay out co-authored with @mostowlansky.bsky.social on #AcademicFreedom, fear and the culture of silence in European universities. Published on @allegralab.bsky.social
@easainfo.bsky.social
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@easainfo.bsky.social
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New PhD 👉 Digital technologies, mobility, and border violence in European borderlands | by 🎓 Nina Khamsy
@gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social
📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence?
👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ
@gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social
📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence?
👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ
September 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
New PhD 👉 Digital technologies, mobility, and border violence in European borderlands | by 🎓 Nina Khamsy
@gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social
📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence?
👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ
@gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social
📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence?
👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ
Commentary with @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social on how Chinese mining companies in Kyrgyzstan have worked to adapt to a state court system in which compliance as such is an impossibility. @gvagrad.bsky.social
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How Chinese Miners Adapt to Kyrgyzstan’s Legal Compliance
Negative public perception about Chinese expansion into Kyrgyzstan, along with an unpredictable regulatory environment, has profoundly shaped Chinese business practices inside Kyrgyzstan. Despite comm...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Commentary with @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social on how Chinese mining companies in Kyrgyzstan have worked to adapt to a state court system in which compliance as such is an impossibility. @gvagrad.bsky.social
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Should Switzerland pump development funds for digitalisation into an autocracy? Some of my thoughts here: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...
Promoting democracy in authoritarian Tajikistan – is Switzerland making a difference?
While the government of Tajikistan’s long-standing ruler grows more repressive, Switzerland continues to support human rights – a delicate balancing act.
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May 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Should Switzerland pump development funds for digitalisation into an autocracy? Some of my thoughts here: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...
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In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...
Academic Freedom Under Fire: Why It Matters and How to Protect It
Graduate Institute What Matters Today · Episode
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April 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...
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I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!
@juliebillaud.bsky.social is hiring a PhD researcher with an anthropology, sociology, STS or Political Sciences (with ethnographic fieldwork experience) background for her 4-year SNF funded project on Digital Humanitarianism (shorturl.at/SLzUC) at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
👉 shorturl.at/H7CGZ
👉 shorturl.at/H7CGZ
April 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!
Job alarm with the fabulous @juliebillaud.bsky.social in a project on “Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Technological Innovation”, hosted by @gvagrad.bsky.social
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Recrutement eRecruiting Graduate Institute - PHD RESEARCHER (F/M/D)
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April 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Job alarm with the fabulous @juliebillaud.bsky.social in a project on “Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Technological Innovation”, hosted by @gvagrad.bsky.social
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Great funding opportunity for scholarly - creative - transdisciplinary projects that relate to Asia in the broadest sense possible (and no, there is no fascist language code that you have to adhere to in order to get funded):
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Small Grants Scheme - Delta on the Move Foundation
Small Grants Scheme The Foundation’s Small Grants Scheme has been established to support creative scholarship and independent projects with an inter-disciplinary and inter-Asian nature that may not ha...
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April 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Great funding opportunity for scholarly - creative - transdisciplinary projects that relate to Asia in the broadest sense possible (and no, there is no fascist language code that you have to adhere to in order to get funded):
deltamove.org/small-grants...
deltamove.org/small-grants...
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
March 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
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This is a good summary.
Yes, this is definitely the first case in human history that a nation bleeding out under attack has a knife by its throat from yesterday’s biggest friend in need that went bonkers and switched to Al Capone-style racketeering amid war.
February 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is a good summary.
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February 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇
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Spotlight | Professors Mostowlansky and Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives | IHEID
Professors Till Mostowlansky and Julie Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives
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February 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇
www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
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Professor Billaud (@juliebillaud.bsky.social) and Professor Mostowlansky (@mostowlansky.bsky.social) discuss their Spring 2025 Course on Comparative Humanitarianisms. Read more about it here 👇
This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇
www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
Spotlight | Professors Mostowlansky and Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives | IHEID
Professors Till Mostowlansky and Julie Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives
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February 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Professor Billaud (@juliebillaud.bsky.social) and Professor Mostowlansky (@mostowlansky.bsky.social) discuss their Spring 2025 Course on Comparative Humanitarianisms. Read more about it here 👇
I have held a professorship in urban studies at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) sind the beginning of this year. If you would like to get some insights into what my students and I have been up to have a look at this short article based on our collaboration.
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Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine - Allegra Lab
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that citizens had to
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November 28, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I have held a professorship in urban studies at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) sind the beginning of this year. If you would like to get some insights into what my students and I have been up to have a look at this short article based on our collaboration.
allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-i...
allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-i...
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Plenty of heated debates around types of missiles and escalation outside Ukraine. Viewed from Kyiv it all seems fairly superficial and catering to rather abstract fears of people far away. What people disconnected from Ukraine often seem to miss are degrees of much more mundane, but grinding terror.
November 22, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Plenty of heated debates around types of missiles and escalation outside Ukraine. Viewed from Kyiv it all seems fairly superficial and catering to rather abstract fears of people far away. What people disconnected from Ukraine often seem to miss are degrees of much more mundane, but grinding terror.
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Tajik music in the 90s was absolutely incredible. Still my favorite recording from those days
youtu.be/sUSzgiGQDcM?...
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ДАЛЕР Н МУБОРАКШО М ДУНЁИ САВДО БИГЗАРАД
YouTube video by Sunnat Sanginov
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November 17, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Tajik music in the 90s was absolutely incredible. Still my favorite recording from those days
youtu.be/sUSzgiGQDcM?...
youtu.be/sUSzgiGQDcM?...