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Silvia Posocco
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Professor of Social Anthropology | Violence, Conflict & Genocide | Gender & Sexuality | Biodata Worlds & Futures | Latin America & UK
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Congratulations to Kency Cornejo, whose book "Visual Disobedience" has won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize from @asapartsnow.bsky.social.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
September 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Support queer and trans community archiving for queer and trans futures, if you can 💗 - www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... - with @tvce.bsky.social
Help raise £400 to fund the cost of materials for TVCE film documentation – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to fund the cost of materials for TVCE film documentation. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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June 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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📚📚📚New Book Review!📚📚📚

Karen Waltorp reviews // An anthropology of crosslocations // By Sarah Green, Samuli Lähteenaho, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki, Carl Rommel, Joseph J. Viscomi, Laia Soto Bermant, and Patricia Scalco, @helsinkiupress.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Thrilled to announce the publication of my article,’State Violence and Queer Identities: Experiences from the Azerbaijani Military’, in Journal of Critical Military Studies! #QueerStudies #Azerbaijan #StateViolence
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23337486.2025.2516883
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June 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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For #PrideMonth, we're highlighting books with free introductions! Browse our site #GenderStudies & #SexualityStudies: bit.ly/3Fs37yw

Check out QUEER & TRANS LIFE by Posocco @silviaposocco.bsky.social, Gonzalez-Polledo @ej-gp.bsky.social, Aaberg, Altay @tunayaltay.bsky.social: bit.ly/40Rr228
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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For #TransDayOfVisibility, we want to highlight QUEER AND TRANS LIFE: Anthropological Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco (@silviaposocco.bsky.social), EJ Gonzalez-Polledo (@ej-gp.bsky.social), Lars Aaberg, and Tunay Altay (@tunayaltay.bsky.social), with a free to read introduction: bit.ly/40Rr228
March 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...
Deadline for submissions 28th April

#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is delighted to announced that on the 8th July, in collaboration with the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence [TVCE], the De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice an...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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QUEER AND TRANS LIFE: Anthropological Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco (@silviaposocco.bsky.social), EJ Gonzalez-Polledo (@ej-gp.bsky.social), Lars Aaberg, Tunay Altay (@tunayaltay.bsky.social) has now been published!

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/40Rr228

#Anthropology #GenderStudies
February 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Major congrats to Lance Greene on his retirement from Wright State!

If you still need to get your copy of his well-received latest book, THEIR DETERMINATION TO REMAIN, use this code for a 30% discount on the UAP website: SHUA2025.
See book info and praise here: www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736119...
January 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Good work @museumofthehome.bsky.social placing Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues on the bedside table in the new rooms just open to the public!
December 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Retomar o Futuro, August 2025, Salvador, Bahia www.ram2025.sinteseeventos.com.br
December 8, 2024 at 11:54 AM
December 5, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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If you find yourself thinking about genocide today, I recommend this stunningly well-researched and well-written article on Guatemala-Israel relations. #AnthroSky doi.org/10.1080/1071...
A Genocidal Special Relationship
Published in NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2024)
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November 28, 2024 at 8:04 PM
If you have done (or are now finishing) a PhD at an ESRC recognised university, you can apply now for a UBEL Doctoral Training Partnerships postdoc to work with social scientists at Birkbeck, UCL or UEL. Deadline is in March ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral...
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships - UBEL DTP
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 Entry The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP invites applications for four postdoctoral fellowships (PDFs) to be based within departments at the six partner institu...
ubel-dtp.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Russell Square this morning: cold and sunny.
November 20, 2024 at 11:34 AM