Nicolai Gellwitzki
@ngellwitzki.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of York. Researching public moods, emotions, and ontological security in International Relations
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The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management | International Theory | Cambridge Core
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management
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What exactly is ontological (in)security? And what is ontological security's ethical, reparative, and transformative potential? In my new article in
@internatltheory.bsky.social, I suggest drawing on Melanie Klein rather than Giddens to conceptualise these questions
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
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@internatltheory.bsky.social, I suggest drawing on Melanie Klein rather than Giddens to conceptualise these questions
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
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Consider this call for a BISA panel on state personhood ✨ - and share widely!🙏
📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Consider this call for a BISA panel on state personhood ✨ - and share widely!🙏
Reposted by Nicolai Gellwitzki
📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
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New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨
I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.
Time for a short thread! 🧵👇
I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.
Time for a short thread! 🧵👇
September 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨
I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.
Time for a short thread! 🧵👇
I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.
Time for a short thread! 🧵👇
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NEW ARTICLE OUT IN OPEN ACCESS
How do small and peripheral states respond to big EU initiatives? In a new article by Daniel Šitera and myself, we look at Czechia's reluctant and gradual warming to the idea of "EU digital sovereignty". 1/2
How do small and peripheral states respond to big EU initiatives? In a new article by Daniel Šitera and myself, we look at Czechia's reluctant and gradual warming to the idea of "EU digital sovereignty". 1/2
August 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
NEW ARTICLE OUT IN OPEN ACCESS
How do small and peripheral states respond to big EU initiatives? In a new article by Daniel Šitera and myself, we look at Czechia's reluctant and gradual warming to the idea of "EU digital sovereignty". 1/2
How do small and peripheral states respond to big EU initiatives? In a new article by Daniel Šitera and myself, we look at Czechia's reluctant and gradual warming to the idea of "EU digital sovereignty". 1/2
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Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
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Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations
Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o
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July 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ✍️
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ✍️
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A very neat piece.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
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July 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A very neat piece.
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
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Find mine and @ngellwitzki.bsky.social’s new article on EU-UK relations and the emotional (de)politicisation of the Covid-19 vaccine in International Affairs' new issue 📄
With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️
🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews
Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4
🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews
Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4
July 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Find mine and @ngellwitzki.bsky.social’s new article on EU-UK relations and the emotional (de)politicisation of the Covid-19 vaccine in International Affairs' new issue 📄
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✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.
Looking to publish your research on the #EuropeanUnion and comparative regionalism? 🌍
Join leading scholars from around the world in contributing to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 📚
Learn more about how to submit your next article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Join leading scholars from around the world in contributing to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 📚
Learn more about how to submit your next article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
June 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.
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New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social ai and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine
To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the
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June 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social ai and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here tinyurl.com/484vn386
EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine
To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the
tinyurl.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here tinyurl.com/484vn386
Outstanding work by exceptional scholars and truly admirable people. Huge congratulations @annemhoude.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social ! 🤓⭐🥳🙌
Our 11th joint winners were Anne-Marie Houde and Ugyar Baspehhlivan of the Emotions Working Group Prize – best PhD thesis in Emotions and Politics and IR 🎉
#BISA2025
#BISA2025
June 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Outstanding work by exceptional scholars and truly admirable people. Huge congratulations @annemhoude.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social ! 🤓⭐🥳🙌
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Luke and I wrote a paper!
Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature.
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature.
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
June 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Luke and I wrote a paper!
Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature.
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature.
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
Today is the deadline — last chance to apply if you have not done so yet 🤓👇
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
June 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Today is the deadline — last chance to apply if you have not done so yet 🤓👇
Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look!
🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look!
🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
🧵👇
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Final Version:
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Final Version:
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
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I am really excited to share my new article at @jisb.bsky.social
"Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace"
I argue that economic policy for peacebuilding needs to escape the ever same prescriptions and instead become an inventory of emancipatory possibilities.
"Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace"
I argue that economic policy for peacebuilding needs to escape the ever same prescriptions and instead become an inventory of emancipatory possibilities.
Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace
Extensive research shows how neoliberal economic policies, enforced through international peacebuilding interventions, exacerbate inequality and undermine their intended goal of fostering peace. Ye...
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April 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am really excited to share my new article at @jisb.bsky.social
"Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace"
I argue that economic policy for peacebuilding needs to escape the ever same prescriptions and instead become an inventory of emancipatory possibilities.
"Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace"
I argue that economic policy for peacebuilding needs to escape the ever same prescriptions and instead become an inventory of emancipatory possibilities.
Reposted by Nicolai Gellwitzki
🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
academic.oup.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
May 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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📢Publication alert!📢
I have a small part in this forum on Charlotte Epstein's excellent book 'The Birth of the State'.✨
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
I was invited to reflect on the link between her argument and ontological security - not an easy task and probably the hardest 2,000 words of my life. 1/2
I have a small part in this forum on Charlotte Epstein's excellent book 'The Birth of the State'.✨
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
I was invited to reflect on the link between her argument and ontological security - not an easy task and probably the hardest 2,000 words of my life. 1/2
Forum on Charlotte Epstein’s Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics - Jens Bartelson, Nina C Krickel-Choi, R B J Walker, Lauren Wilcox, 2025
In this forum, four authors discuss Charlotte Epstein’s book Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics published in 2021. After havi...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
📢Publication alert!📢
I have a small part in this forum on Charlotte Epstein's excellent book 'The Birth of the State'.✨
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
I was invited to reflect on the link between her argument and ontological security - not an easy task and probably the hardest 2,000 words of my life. 1/2
I have a small part in this forum on Charlotte Epstein's excellent book 'The Birth of the State'.✨
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
I was invited to reflect on the link between her argument and ontological security - not an easy task and probably the hardest 2,000 words of my life. 1/2
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
May 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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Call for papers: @annemhoude.bsky.social & I are convening a workshop on "The global politics of hope" for the inaugural
@mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year.
Pl share & consider applying!
DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025
More details 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
@mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year.
Pl share & consider applying!
DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025
More details 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
May 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Call for papers: @annemhoude.bsky.social & I are convening a workshop on "The global politics of hope" for the inaugural
@mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year.
Pl share & consider applying!
DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025
More details 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
@mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year.
Pl share & consider applying!
DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025
More details 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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Please share - registration is open until June🌞
We have a very exciting lineup of speakers and facilitators this year! You can sign up here - store.york.ac.uk/product-cata... - and find out more about our programme here - sites.google.com/view/raceand...
We have a very exciting lineup of speakers and facilitators this year! You can sign up here - store.york.ac.uk/product-cata... - and find out more about our programme here - sites.google.com/view/raceand...
May 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Please share - registration is open until June🌞
We have a very exciting lineup of speakers and facilitators this year! You can sign up here - store.york.ac.uk/product-cata... - and find out more about our programme here - sites.google.com/view/raceand...
We have a very exciting lineup of speakers and facilitators this year! You can sign up here - store.york.ac.uk/product-cata... - and find out more about our programme here - sites.google.com/view/raceand...