Thank you Nicholas Hopton for visiting @uoe-sps.bsky.social - both events were packed and the audience highly engaged! Thanks to Dr Nida Alahmad and Dr Lucy Abbott for expertly chairing the discussions. Grateful to the Departments of African Studies and Sociology for co-sponsoring the events.

📌 Join us for an insightful discussion with Dr. Nida Alahmad & Nicholas Hopton on "Britain and the New Order in the Middle East"

🗓️Thursday 15 May 2025, 3pm - 4.30pm
📍Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal MacMillan Building
🔗https://edin.ac/4bYdA0m

Join us on March 4 for The Politics in Contested Times series!

📅 Event: The Conservatives in Opposition: Who are they and what do they want?
🎤 Speaker: @timbale.bsky.social
🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/4hk9YaT

Only a few days left to register! 🚨

Due to high demand, How Platforms Fail Democracy has moved to a new venue: Lecture Theatre A, 40 George Square.

📅 Date: 6 Feb
⏰ Time: 5:00–6:30 PM
🎤 Speaker: @dkreiss.bsky.social

Join us on 15 January for the book launch of Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America by Dr Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social

Book your space: edin.ac/3Zil8p2

Join us Nov 26 for The Politics in Contested Times Series to discuss Greg Power's book, Inside the Political Mind.
Book your space: edin.ac/4fCbzIq

Laura Cram will be giving this year’s Government & Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture on ‘A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government and Opposition’.
Find out more - cup.org/3A5HtNX
Reserve your place - cup.org/3YABbPy