Charles des Portes
chdesportes.bsky.social
Charles des Portes
@chdesportes.bsky.social
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I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan.
Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.
March 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan.
Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.
March 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Time for the ISA to take a stand against colonial genocide & scholasticide in Palestine 🍉
#BDSatISA
🍉On 13th February, the ISA Council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉 #BDSatISA
February 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Who’s going to the @histmat.bsky.social conference in Athens?
February 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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📝 My new article “Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts” is out in Energy Research & Social Science! Read and share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts
The study of policies limiting the production of fossil fuels must be appropriately historicised. Contextualising these policies within a longer-term …
www.sciencedirect.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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We're excited to share the programme of CCPT events this semester and hope to see you there!
February 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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The government’s overall Oh well that’s how it is now attitude when one of the main pillars of your economy crumbles right there for everyone to see is quite difficult to comprehend.
Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls
Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
“The guarantee of liberty, equality, and property implies that the visible fist of the State must complete the work of the invisible hand of the market”
- Samir Amin in Eurocentrism
January 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed

go.bsky.app/6hwHCnh
November 18, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Frankfurt Uni cancels a conference on "Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine“. Can't make it up.
January 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Excited to share that my latest research has been published in the Critical Studies on Terrorism Journal!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
French normalisation of exceptional powers as a response to terrorism post-Paris attacks
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www.tandfonline.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The CfP for Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26–28 June 2025) 'Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe' is now online. Please send in your abstracts by 15 February. Further details, in both French and English, below.
Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025) : Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe - Historical Materialism
Le dernier « Congrès Marx International » a eu lieu à Paris en 2010. Depuis lors, dans l’espace francophone, aucune conférence internationale s’inscrivant explicitement dans le cadre du marxisme, dura...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
December 20, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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Excellent opportunity for Black UK students to enrol in a PhD in any research area. 12 scholarships available at the University of Glasgow.
Our 4th round of applications for the JMS PhD Scholarships is live! 12 Scholarships are available for Black UK students in any research area in which the University can offer supervision! Register your interest at forms.office.com/e/WLa5FJWber .
December 4, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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Great many people show support to our colleague in Anglophone Studies, Dr Maboula Soumahoro, whose specialism in critical race analyses in France & US is well known. EU Parliament cancelled her intervention follwing sustained pressure from the far-right.
Collective✊🏾
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Madame la présidente du Parlement européen, reprogrammez la conférence de Maboula Soumahoro sur l’antiracisme !
Dans une lettre ouverte à Roberta Metsola, plusieurs centaines d’intellectuels et de personnalités dénoncent le report, sous la pression d’élus d’extrême droite, d’une intervention de la chercheuse Ma...
www.liberation.fr
November 26, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Preparing next week’s lecture ✍️🧑‍💻
November 25, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Umm Saeed, a mother of six, is living in the Deir al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza—one of the many families struggling to survive. Their home was bombed, their belongings destroyed, and their world turned upside down. Please donate and share.
chuffed.org/project/1167...
Help Umm Saeed and her family survive in Gaza
Umm Saeed, a mother of six, is living in the Deir al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza—one of the many families struggling to survive amidst the ongoing conflict and devastation. Her family, once ful...
chuffed.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
November 19, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated.

Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵
More than 61,000 dead in Khartoum state alone, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group finds: 26,000 of them killed as a direct result of the violence. Leading cause of death across Sudan is preventable disease and starvation.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudan war: Death toll far higher than previously reported - study
More than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state, where the fighting began last year, researchers say.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed

go.bsky.app/6hwHCnh
November 18, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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open.spotify.com/episode/0vu6...

For all you Adorno fans out there come learn about your free time under capitalism, Adornian autonomy, and why you shouldn’t have “hobbies” (I guess 🤷🏾)
101 | Free Time Under Capitalism
What's Left of Philosophy · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'.

The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Anyone working on racial capitalism, capitalism and imperialism (from a theoretical perspective) in the UK?
November 18, 2024 at 1:46 PM