Ayça Çubukçu
@aycacu.bsky.social
Author / Associate Professor at LSE Human Rights & LSE Sociology / Co-Editor, Humanity Journal & LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press / Own Views / Rep: DGA Literary Agents
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/ayca-cubukcu
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/ayca-cubukcu
Friends and colleagues in Berlin, this is happening next month (I hope) at FU-Berlin. Please register soon if you would like to attend as space is limited.
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Friends and colleagues in Berlin, this is happening next month (I hope) at FU-Berlin. Please register soon if you would like to attend as space is limited.
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@robin-c.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Join us 2 December, 6 pm at @lselaw.bsky.social to launch Race and the Question of Palestine with Lana Tatour.
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
RACE AND THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE - LSE Law School Events
What role does the issue of race play in understanding the question of Palestine? Drawing on a book of that title edited by the main speaker Lana Tatour (with Ronit Lentin), this event focuses on the ...
lselaw.events
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Join us 2 December, 6 pm at @lselaw.bsky.social to launch Race and the Question of Palestine with Lana Tatour.
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
Ralph Wilde, Neve Gordon, Andrew Murray and I will be in conversation with Lana.
In memory of our Conor Gearty who had planned this panel.
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
11 November at London School of Economics
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
11 November at London School of Economics
@lsesociology.bsky.social is now recruiting: Assistant Professor in Cultural Sociology. Please apply!
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jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Assistant Professor in Sociology,
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October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@lsesociology.bsky.social is now recruiting: Assistant Professor in Cultural Sociology. Please apply!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Please join us Sunday, Nov 9, 12 pm at SOAS for this roundtable on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at @histmat.bsky.social-London conference.
@leninology.bsky.social
@leninology.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Please join us Sunday, Nov 9, 12 pm at SOAS for this roundtable on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at @histmat.bsky.social-London conference.
@leninology.bsky.social
@leninology.bsky.social
Honoured to endorse Francesca Albanese's book, out now with @plutopress.bsky.social
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
Free to download, with the option to donate to @unrwa.org.
.
@franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
Free to download, with the option to donate to @unrwa.org.
.
@franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press
A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine
www.plutobooks.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Honoured to endorse Francesca Albanese's book, out now with @plutopress.bsky.social
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
Free to download, with the option to donate to @unrwa.org.
.
@franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
Free to download, with the option to donate to @unrwa.org.
.
@franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
Reposted by Ayça Çubukçu
@aycacu.bsky.social was quoted in @WSJ.com: “It’s in the tradition of this country to protest for justice, to engage in acts of civil disobedience.” buff.ly/l50tQky
www.wsj.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@aycacu.bsky.social was quoted in @WSJ.com: “It’s in the tradition of this country to protest for justice, to engage in acts of civil disobedience.” buff.ly/l50tQky
'Watching on was a LSE professor Ayça Çubukçu, who said that it wasn’t all “un-British” to demonstrate ... “It’s in the tradition of this country to protest for justice, to engage in acts of civil disobedience,” she said.'
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
U.K. Government Asked Pro-Palestinian Supporters Not to March on Oct. 7. They Did Anyway.
After a terrorist attack on a synagogue, the government is caught between defending free speech and trying to reassure its Jewish population.
www.wsj.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
'Watching on was a LSE professor Ayça Çubukçu, who said that it wasn’t all “un-British” to demonstrate ... “It’s in the tradition of this country to protest for justice, to engage in acts of civil disobedience,” she said.'
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Reposted by Ayça Çubukçu
Amazing victory. "A federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment."
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
www.aaup.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Amazing victory. "A federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment."
Applications for the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences are now open.
Please help spread the word.
www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...
Please help spread the word.
www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...
Fellowships: Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships | PARC
The Palestinian American Research Center announces the 4th competition for PARC Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the
www.parc-us-pal.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Applications for the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences are now open.
Please help spread the word.
www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...
Please help spread the word.
www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...
Reposted by Ayça Çubukçu
In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present.
Read the full article here ⬇️
Read the full article here ⬇️
A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present.
Read the full article here ⬇️
Read the full article here ⬇️
Reposted by Ayça Çubukçu
[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]
@aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.”
🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #Fiction
@aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.”
🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #Fiction
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]
@aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.”
🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #Fiction
@aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.”
🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #Fiction
I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies..
Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies..
Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
NYC, this is happening today, 5 pm. No registration required.
Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NYC, this is happening today, 5 pm. No registration required.
“The law is ridiculous.”
What will be the lasting legacy of Starmerism? Probably going to be inoring genocide in Gaza, and arresting those who dare to stand against Israel’s war machine.
Arrests made at rally against Palestine Action ban in London
Hundreds of people have gathered in Parliament Square to oppose the group's ban under anti-terrorism legislation.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“The law is ridiculous.”
My short story, "The Intersection," is now published by the one and only @markaz-review.bsky.social.
The entire issue, OUT OF OUR MINDS, looks fascinating.
themarkaz.org/the-intersec...
The entire issue, OUT OF OUR MINDS, looks fascinating.
themarkaz.org/the-intersec...
The Intersection—an encounter
A drink at a pub, a conversation about psychoanalysis, then an accident — a short story.
themarkaz.org
September 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
My short story, "The Intersection," is now published by the one and only @markaz-review.bsky.social.
The entire issue, OUT OF OUR MINDS, looks fascinating.
themarkaz.org/the-intersec...
The entire issue, OUT OF OUR MINDS, looks fascinating.
themarkaz.org/the-intersec...
Reposted by Ayça Çubukçu
🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.
September 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.
Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social
I'll be delivering the 2025 Social Sciences Annual Lecture at @uniwestminster.bsky.social on Sept 15. If you would like to attend but are not affiliated with the university, please kindly drop me a note and I'll see what I can do.
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-manifest...
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-manifest...
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice
Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science
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September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'll be delivering the 2025 Social Sciences Annual Lecture at @uniwestminster.bsky.social on Sept 15. If you would like to attend but are not affiliated with the university, please kindly drop me a note and I'll see what I can do.
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-manifest...
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-manifest...
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Reposted by Ayça Çubukçu
My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A must-read by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social, on David Graeber for the @lrb.co.uk
Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A must-read by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social, on David Graeber for the @lrb.co.uk
Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Ayça Çubukçu
📖New publication: @aycacu.bsky.social's chapter "David Graeber's Contributions to Anthropology: The Anthropology of Human Possibilities" is out now in French.
🔗https://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9782729714734/penser-et-agir-avec-david-graeber
🔗https://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9782729714734/penser-et-agir-avec-david-graeber
July 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
📖New publication: @aycacu.bsky.social's chapter "David Graeber's Contributions to Anthropology: The Anthropology of Human Possibilities" is out now in French.
🔗https://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9782729714734/penser-et-agir-avec-david-graeber
🔗https://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9782729714734/penser-et-agir-avec-david-graeber
Out now in French, with a chapter from me on #DavidGraeber's Anthrology of Human Possibilities.
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Out now in French, with a chapter from me on #DavidGraeber's Anthrology of Human Possibilities.
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social