Franca Kappes
@francakappes.bsky.social
PhDing @gvagrad.bsky.social || Co-convenor @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social || Resilience, Disaster Migration, Nomadology || IPS, Critical Security & Mobility Studies || Bibliophile Pacifist
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🧤 HAPPENING TOMORROW | 24 November 2025🧤
"Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality"
with @aesguerra.bsky.social
We are looking forward to seeing many of you either in person or online: lnkd.in/eiTY88kS
"Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality"
with @aesguerra.bsky.social
We are looking forward to seeing many of you either in person or online: lnkd.in/eiTY88kS
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🧤 HAPPENING TOMORROW | 24 November 2025🧤
"Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality"
with @aesguerra.bsky.social
We are looking forward to seeing many of you either in person or online: lnkd.in/eiTY88kS
"Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality"
with @aesguerra.bsky.social
We are looking forward to seeing many of you either in person or online: lnkd.in/eiTY88kS
Happening to TODAY!
🚨Do not miss our online round table discussion on #Solidarity across uneven terrains: Practising #Care and #Resistance in #Neoliberal Academia. ➡️This is happening tomorrow!
1/3 📢 Join us for the @europeanisa.bsky.social #ECD Group's online event:
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Happening to TODAY!
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Looking forward to co-chairing this discussion w/ @francakappes.bsky.social and above all to the important contributions of Aslı Vatansever, Jan Orbie, Agnieszka Marta Fal-Dutra Santos, Anahita Arian.
Register here: eisa-net.org/online-event...
Register here: eisa-net.org/online-event...
1/3 📢 Join us for the @europeanisa.bsky.social #ECD Group's online event:
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Looking forward to co-chairing this discussion w/ @francakappes.bsky.social and above all to the important contributions of Aslı Vatansever, Jan Orbie, Agnieszka Marta Fal-Dutra Santos, Anahita Arian.
Register here: eisa-net.org/online-event...
Register here: eisa-net.org/online-event...
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1/3 📢 Join us for the @europeanisa.bsky.social #ECD Group's online event:
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
1/3 📢 Join us for the @europeanisa.bsky.social #ECD Group's online event:
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.
🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
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Roundtable | 'Gaia’s Lifeboats & Its Stewards'
Speakers | @delfrothe.bsky.social , @jefhuysmans.bsky.social, Stephanie Wakefield
Moderated by | @francakappes.bsky.social
🗓 Tues, 24.11.25 | 14:15–15:30 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
Speakers | @delfrothe.bsky.social , @jefhuysmans.bsky.social, Stephanie Wakefield
Moderated by | @francakappes.bsky.social
🗓 Tues, 24.11.25 | 14:15–15:30 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Roundtable | 'Gaia’s Lifeboats & Its Stewards'
Speakers | @delfrothe.bsky.social , @jefhuysmans.bsky.social, Stephanie Wakefield
Moderated by | @francakappes.bsky.social
🗓 Tues, 24.11.25 | 14:15–15:30 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
Speakers | @delfrothe.bsky.social , @jefhuysmans.bsky.social, Stephanie Wakefield
Moderated by | @francakappes.bsky.social
🗓 Tues, 24.11.25 | 14:15–15:30 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
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As part of the #DoingIPSSwitzerlandSymposium, join us for “Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality” — a talk by @aesguerra.bsky.social, mod. by @mweitzel.bsky.social.
🗓 Mon, 24.11.25 | 15:30–17:00 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
🗓 Mon, 24.11.25 | 15:30–17:00 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As part of the #DoingIPSSwitzerlandSymposium, join us for “Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality” — a talk by @aesguerra.bsky.social, mod. by @mweitzel.bsky.social.
🗓 Mon, 24.11.25 | 15:30–17:00 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
🗓 Mon, 24.11.25 | 15:30–17:00 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
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1/4 #EISAPEC25 was a blast! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! It also marked the end of @besteisleyen.bsky.social term as @europeanisa.bsky.social President and of #JoanaRicarte's role as ECD portfolio holder. Thank you both for your unwavering support of the #EISAECD community ✨🚀
September 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
1/4 #EISAPEC25 was a blast! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! It also marked the end of @besteisleyen.bsky.social term as @europeanisa.bsky.social President and of #JoanaRicarte's role as ECD portfolio holder. Thank you both for your unwavering support of the #EISAECD community ✨🚀
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3/4 We also warmly welcome #FrancescoRagazzi -new #ECD contact point of the @europeanisa.bsky.social board ➕our group's new members @mcianforlini.bsky.social @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social. A HUGE thanks to the departing @samarjit.bsky.social & #NeslihanDikmenAlsancak
September 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
3/4 We also warmly welcome #FrancescoRagazzi -new #ECD contact point of the @europeanisa.bsky.social board ➕our group's new members @mcianforlini.bsky.social @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social. A HUGE thanks to the departing @samarjit.bsky.social & #NeslihanDikmenAlsancak
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The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
“An unsettling Mad Max vibe coursed through the city. Pickup trucks with armed men of unclear authority cruised around ..
“.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead.
“Still there.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...
“.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead.
“Still there.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
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1/5
👩🎓👨🎓 Are you an Early Career Researcher attending #EISAPEC25?
Don't miss the @ecdeisa.bsky.social #SpecialSessions!💯
💥We’ve put together a dynamic program designed especially for ECRs. Check out this thread 🧵 to see what's happening ⬇️.
We look forward to meeting you!
👩🎓👨🎓 Are you an Early Career Researcher attending #EISAPEC25?
Don't miss the @ecdeisa.bsky.social #SpecialSessions!💯
💥We’ve put together a dynamic program designed especially for ECRs. Check out this thread 🧵 to see what's happening ⬇️.
We look forward to meeting you!
August 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
1/5
👩🎓👨🎓 Are you an Early Career Researcher attending #EISAPEC25?
Don't miss the @ecdeisa.bsky.social #SpecialSessions!💯
💥We’ve put together a dynamic program designed especially for ECRs. Check out this thread 🧵 to see what's happening ⬇️.
We look forward to meeting you!
👩🎓👨🎓 Are you an Early Career Researcher attending #EISAPEC25?
Don't miss the @ecdeisa.bsky.social #SpecialSessions!💯
💥We’ve put together a dynamic program designed especially for ECRs. Check out this thread 🧵 to see what's happening ⬇️.
We look forward to meeting you!
I will soon leave for #EISAPEC25 taking place in Bologna, where I will be presenting a paper on "The Nomad Century Revisited: Stratified Infrastructures of Neo-nomadic Mobility and the Unmaking of the Social Contract in the Anthropocene," which gives a glimpse into my ongoing dissertation research.
August 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I will soon leave for #EISAPEC25 taking place in Bologna, where I will be presenting a paper on "The Nomad Century Revisited: Stratified Infrastructures of Neo-nomadic Mobility and the Unmaking of the Social Contract in the Anthropocene," which gives a glimpse into my ongoing dissertation research.
🟡 Deadline Approaching Soon 🟡
November may not be the most picturesque season for a stroll along Lac Léman, but @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social, Victoria Motta and I would still be very happy to welcome you at the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025 .
More information 🔽
November may not be the most picturesque season for a stroll along Lac Léman, but @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social, Victoria Motta and I would still be very happy to welcome you at the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025 .
More information 🔽
#CfP ⚠️ Join us for the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025, from 24–25/11/25, @gvagrad.bsky.social for "Diffractive Conversations on the Present-Future of Global Governance Research" co-convened by @tempus-fugit17.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social
🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
August 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🟡 Deadline Approaching Soon 🟡
November may not be the most picturesque season for a stroll along Lac Léman, but @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social, Victoria Motta and I would still be very happy to welcome you at the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025 .
More information 🔽
November may not be the most picturesque season for a stroll along Lac Léman, but @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social, Victoria Motta and I would still be very happy to welcome you at the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025 .
More information 🔽
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#CfP ⚠️ Join us for the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025, from 24–25/11/25, @gvagrad.bsky.social for "Diffractive Conversations on the Present-Future of Global Governance Research" co-convened by @tempus-fugit17.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social
🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
July 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#CfP ⚠️ Join us for the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025, from 24–25/11/25, @gvagrad.bsky.social for "Diffractive Conversations on the Present-Future of Global Governance Research" co-convened by @tempus-fugit17.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social
🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
I'm looking forward to contributing my little share to @europeanisa.bsky.social's excellent work as a new member of its Early Career Development Group @ecdeisa.bsky.social & to hopefully meeting many of you at #EISAPECE2026 in Bologna next month! Feel free to reach out, if you'll be around too ☕ 🇮🇹🍝
We’re excited to welcome our new members 🎉: @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social,& #MatteoCianforlini!
We look forward to working with you 🤝
Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
We look forward to working with you 🤝
Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm looking forward to contributing my little share to @europeanisa.bsky.social's excellent work as a new member of its Early Career Development Group @ecdeisa.bsky.social & to hopefully meeting many of you at #EISAPECE2026 in Bologna next month! Feel free to reach out, if you'll be around too ☕ 🇮🇹🍝
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We’re excited to welcome our new members 🎉: @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social,& #MatteoCianforlini!
We look forward to working with you 🤝
Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
We look forward to working with you 🤝
Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We’re excited to welcome our new members 🎉: @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social,& #MatteoCianforlini!
We look forward to working with you 🤝
Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
We look forward to working with you 🤝
Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
It's been a super enriching discussion!
We were present at #EWIS2025 in enchanting Kraków, where we gathered at Poland’s oldest university, Jagiellonian, for the WS "How Matters Come to Matter: Thinking/Practising In-Betweenness Through Posthuman Method Configurations," convened by @lucasperezfl.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social.
July 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It's been a super enriching discussion!
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"Any idea that Islamism is a monolithic ideology is defeated by the data. And of course the bottom line on that is the lack of a central authority and institutions in Islam."
fivebooks.com/best-books/i...
fivebooks.com/best-books/i...
Islamism
The best books on Islamism, as recommended by author and academic Malise Ruthven
fivebooks.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"Any idea that Islamism is a monolithic ideology is defeated by the data. And of course the bottom line on that is the lack of a central authority and institutions in Islam."
fivebooks.com/best-books/i...
fivebooks.com/best-books/i...
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The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis:
mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...
mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...
The Politics of Feeling
The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period ha...
mitpress.mit.edu
July 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis:
mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...
mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...
Excited to be debating 'Posthuman Method Configurations' in our workshop co-convened with @lucasperezfl.bsky.social
at #EWIS2025. Reach out if you're around and would like to meet for ☕️ @europeanisa.bsky.social
at #EWIS2025. Reach out if you're around and would like to meet for ☕️ @europeanisa.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Excited to be debating 'Posthuman Method Configurations' in our workshop co-convened with @lucasperezfl.bsky.social
at #EWIS2025. Reach out if you're around and would like to meet for ☕️ @europeanisa.bsky.social
at #EWIS2025. Reach out if you're around and would like to meet for ☕️ @europeanisa.bsky.social
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It simply is no longer viable for us to hold the 2026 World Humanist Congress in Washington DC as planned, with the US in the state it is. Delighted to announce that we will instead be hosted by the wonderful people of Ottawa, Canada!
June 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It simply is no longer viable for us to hold the 2026 World Humanist Congress in Washington DC as planned, with the US in the state it is. Delighted to announce that we will instead be hosted by the wonderful people of Ottawa, Canada!
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Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
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Maybe if we said it caused “learning loss” more people would care
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
June 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Maybe if we said it caused “learning loss” more people would care
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Puerto Rico is staring down a dirtier, and potentially darker, future — with little say over what happens.
Puerto Rico’s power struggles
The island is staring down a dirtier, and potentially darker, future — with little say over what happens.
www.technologyreview.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Puerto Rico is staring down a dirtier, and potentially darker, future — with little say over what happens.