Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
Writes about the politics of images & emotions across conflict, security, resistance, humanitarianism. Prof of International Relations UQ. Runs @visualpolitics.bsky.social. https://www.rolandbleiker.com
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Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Nov 23
The last evening with the love of my life was a year ago today. It’s been a blur since: time lived without its flow (Denise Riley). So here one of my favorite photos, the url to my Emma tribute and big thanks to those who so kindly supported us during & after. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
Big thanks to the Swedish Research Council and, for the invite, sponsorship and work on the application to @linushagstrom.bsky.social, Simon Hollis and Olov Wenell. I look forward to collaborating with them and many other wonderful colleagues at Försvarshögskolan and elsewhere in Sweden.
Olof Palme visiting professorship
The Swedish Research Council has decided that Roland Bleiker, professor in international relations at University of Queensland, Australia, will be the holder of the 2026 Olof Palme visiting professors...
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We did not share this when announced because saying yes was only possible by having to assume - impossibly - that Emma will no longer be here: I am grateful to spend most of this year as Olof Palme Visiting Professor at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. www.vr.se/english/appl...
Emma Hutchison co-initiated this ARC project, so we were particularly lucky to be in the room that was just re-named in her memory. There will be a separate and proper thanks to our Head, Katrina Lee-Koo and everyone who so kindly supported this wonderful way of honouring Emma.
Thanks to all in-person and online participants in our Visualising Humanitarianism ARC Linkage workshop & esp to co-organisers Anita Schenk, @adarshbadri.bsky.social, Subodha Dilhari and Haneol Mun. Photo-credit and thus absent from the picture: Michael Aird. rolandbleiker.com/visualising-hu…
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Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Here a video of Michael Barnett’s amazing Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture on Mobilising Compassion. Comments by Bina D’Costa and Fiona Terry. Chaired by Katrina Lee Koo. Introduced by Heather Zwicker and myself. Thanks so much to everyone who came along. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/michael...
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Calibri has for long been our default font, but even more so after reading this NYT article today on the US State Department’s new “typeface policy.” 🙂. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Dec 8
Can you mobilise compassion? - ABC listen
It feels like compassion is dwindling in the current political climate. Can compassion be mobilised again? Or is the age of humanitarianism over? Michael Barnett is in Australia for the Annual Emma Hu...
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ABC Radio National offers a fascinating interview with Michael Barnett about mobilizing compassion and his first Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture, held last week at UQ. Lecture video still to come. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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“Having seen the incredible talent of young BISA scholars, and knowing the difficult situation they face at the beginning of their career, the AspIRing Scholars Fund is a cause well worth supporting.” - Roland Bleiker 🎉
“Having seen the incredible talent of young BISA scholars, and knowing the difficult situation they face at the beginning of their career, the AspIRing Scholars Fund is a cause well worth supporting.” - Roland Bleiker 🎉
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with
Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion
4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion
4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Available to Watch: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker
Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).
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Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton discuss their fascinating and unusual new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Nov 11
The Icon, Distributed: The Spectral Visual Politics of News Photography - Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson, 2025
Photographic icons provide broad audiences with a stable resource for public discourse and a sense of continuity. However, changes to our media landscape, most ...
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On the role of icons in news media: Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson’s insightful new essay open access in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1
Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Aesthetic Imagination and Security Policy — Roland Bleiker
By Roland Bleiker
www.rolandbleiker.com
Here a blog that summarises my chapter in Andrew Carrr’s book in memory of Brendan Sargeant, one of Australia’s leading strategic thinkers. I use my previous visual autoethnography of Korean security to engage Sargeant’s concept of the strategic imagination. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/aesthet...
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Looks excellent, Ben. Congratulations. I look forward to reading more carefully.
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Benjamin Moffitt
@benmoffitt.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots
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🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...