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ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note unpacking the UK government's latest White Paper on higher education. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
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ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
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This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
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This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces
States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
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@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
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States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
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November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
isrf.org/blog/states-...
@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
isrf.org/blog/states-...
COP30: Children and young people at climate talks: seen, photographed, but not allowed to decide anything
by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, Aoife Daly and Katie Reid
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by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, Aoife Daly and Katie Reid
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COP30: Children and young people at climate talks: seen, photographed, but not allowed to decide anything
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November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
COP30: Children and young people at climate talks: seen, photographed, but not allowed to decide anything
by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, Aoife Daly and Katie Reid
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by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, Aoife Daly and Katie Reid
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New Article: ISRF Early Career Fellow Arash Beidollahkhani, "From predicting dissent to programming power; analyzing AI-driven authoritarian governance in the Middle East through TRIAD framework" in
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From predicting dissent to programming power; analyzing AI-driven authoritarian governance in the Middle East through TRIAD framework
This paper examines the strategic adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by authoritarian leaning regimes in the Middle East, focusing on Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). B...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New Article: ISRF Early Career Fellow Arash Beidollahkhani, "From predicting dissent to programming power; analyzing AI-driven authoritarian governance in the Middle East through TRIAD framework" in
@democratization.bsky.social
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@democratization.bsky.social
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ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note unpacking the UK government's latest White Paper on higher education. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
ISRF Newsletter – November 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from
@cnewf.bsky.social addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
Why Is There So Much Research About Us Without Us?
@drhelenkara.bsky.social and @autgeek.bsky.social outline why #neurodivergent led research is essential to building trust in communities and affirming neurodivergent ways of being.
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@drhelenkara.bsky.social and @autgeek.bsky.social outline why #neurodivergent led research is essential to building trust in communities and affirming neurodivergent ways of being.
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Why Is There So Much Research About Us Without Us?
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November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Why Is There So Much Research About Us Without Us?
@drhelenkara.bsky.social and @autgeek.bsky.social outline why #neurodivergent led research is essential to building trust in communities and affirming neurodivergent ways of being.
isrf.org/blog/why-is-...
@drhelenkara.bsky.social and @autgeek.bsky.social outline why #neurodivergent led research is essential to building trust in communities and affirming neurodivergent ways of being.
isrf.org/blog/why-is-...
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Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
Against Improvement
As institutional leaders & politicians continue to pursue budget cuts, language becomes a tool to mask their harmful impacts. Lorna Finlayson explores the subtleties of 'improvements', a political euphemism that indicates a change for the worse.
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As institutional leaders & politicians continue to pursue budget cuts, language becomes a tool to mask their harmful impacts. Lorna Finlayson explores the subtleties of 'improvements', a political euphemism that indicates a change for the worse.
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Against Improvement
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October 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Against Improvement
As institutional leaders & politicians continue to pursue budget cuts, language becomes a tool to mask their harmful impacts. Lorna Finlayson explores the subtleties of 'improvements', a political euphemism that indicates a change for the worse.
isrf.org/blog/against...
As institutional leaders & politicians continue to pursue budget cuts, language becomes a tool to mask their harmful impacts. Lorna Finlayson explores the subtleties of 'improvements', a political euphemism that indicates a change for the worse.
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Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
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Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
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Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
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October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Latest blog post
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
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Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
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Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race by Lars Cornelissen shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking. #ReadUP
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October 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race by Lars Cornelissen shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking. #ReadUP
https://ow.ly/KQGr50XaO8e
https://ow.ly/KQGr50XaO8e
Reimagining Victims’ Reparations: Building a Global Network for Grassroots Justice
Sandra Ríos Oyola, Matt Snell & Camilo Tamayo Gómez on reimagining reparations from below, as processes rooted in the voices, agency, and creative energies of victims themselves.
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Sandra Ríos Oyola, Matt Snell & Camilo Tamayo Gómez on reimagining reparations from below, as processes rooted in the voices, agency, and creative energies of victims themselves.
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Reimagining Victims’ Reparations: Building a Global Network for Grassroots Justice
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October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reimagining Victims’ Reparations: Building a Global Network for Grassroots Justice
Sandra Ríos Oyola, Matt Snell & Camilo Tamayo Gómez on reimagining reparations from below, as processes rooted in the voices, agency, and creative energies of victims themselves.
isrf.org/blog/reimagi...
Sandra Ríos Oyola, Matt Snell & Camilo Tamayo Gómez on reimagining reparations from below, as processes rooted in the voices, agency, and creative energies of victims themselves.
isrf.org/blog/reimagi...
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ISRF Newsletter – October 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from @cnewf.bsky.social examining the stagnant political discourse on economics in the UK. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
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This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from @cnewf.bsky.social examining the stagnant political discourse on economics in the UK. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
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ISRF Newsletter – October 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note examining the stagnant political discourse on economics in the UK. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
ISRF Newsletter – October 2025
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from @cnewf.bsky.social examining the stagnant political discourse on economics in the UK. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from @cnewf.bsky.social examining the stagnant political discourse on economics in the UK. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts.
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Drawing on six years of research, Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson explore the impact of the migration condition, “no recourse to public funds", on marginalised families. @sriucl.bsky.social
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Opinion: Homelessness, fear of starvation and racism – destitute
Writing in The Conversation, Professor Rachel Rosen and Dr Eve Dickson (both UCL Social Research Institute) outline the findings of their study into the UK’s “no recourse to public funds” immigration
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October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Drawing on six years of research, Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson explore the impact of the migration condition, “no recourse to public funds", on marginalised families. @sriucl.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/sep/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/sep/...
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🌴 Call for Contributions 🌴
Repair, Resistance, Reworlding:
Coloniality and the European Union’s Relations with the Global Souths
With Rahel W. Sebhatu, we’re trying to pitch to the JCMS Autumn 2027 Special Issue Open Competition.
Deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
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Repair, Resistance, Reworlding:
Coloniality and the European Union’s Relations with the Global Souths
With Rahel W. Sebhatu, we’re trying to pitch to the JCMS Autumn 2027 Special Issue Open Competition.
Deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
www.southsouthmovement.org/repair-resis...
August 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🌴 Call for Contributions 🌴
Repair, Resistance, Reworlding:
Coloniality and the European Union’s Relations with the Global Souths
With Rahel W. Sebhatu, we’re trying to pitch to the JCMS Autumn 2027 Special Issue Open Competition.
Deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
www.southsouthmovement.org/repair-resis...
Repair, Resistance, Reworlding:
Coloniality and the European Union’s Relations with the Global Souths
With Rahel W. Sebhatu, we’re trying to pitch to the JCMS Autumn 2027 Special Issue Open Competition.
Deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
www.southsouthmovement.org/repair-resis...
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New paper with Kyla Tienhaara & Harro van Asselt in Global Policy exploring whether climate clubs might be able to resist ISDS measures being used to slow the energy transition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @suspol.bsky.social @sussexsrp.bsky.social
Radical Reform of the International Investment Treaty Regime: A Role for Climate Clubs?
There is growing concern that provisions in international investment treaties are being used to delay the critically needed transition away from fossil fuels. Although various procedural and substant...
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August 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
New paper with Kyla Tienhaara & Harro van Asselt in Global Policy exploring whether climate clubs might be able to resist ISDS measures being used to slow the energy transition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @suspol.bsky.social @sussexsrp.bsky.social
Congratulations Alex & Ruth - excellent news!
Delighted to reveal that Cambridge University Press will be publishing our book Constitutionalising Anarchy, coauthored with Ruth Kinna, in the fabulous LSE International Studies series!! The three reviewers were unanimously enthusiastic, the press syndicate too. I’m so bloomin’ chuffed
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September 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Congratulations Alex & Ruth - excellent news!
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If you're interested in the crossing points between crip theory, anti-eugenics, environment, global health and global ethics, check out @octoqueenphd.bsky.social 's new podcast #UnwellToBeginWith. It was a blast to be the first guest, & a fantastic episode with @stressedbranch.bsky.social is now up
For our 1st episode, I spoke with @audralmitchell.bsky.social about why crip knowledge systems belong in fields like IR & environmental studies; how policing gets normalized in classrooms; & why crip politics is about a lot more than just disability
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Episode 1: Autistic Knowledge Ecologies with Audra Mitchell | Unwell to Begin With
"These shared resonances which are often infantilized and dismissed as 'special interests' or 'infodumping' are actually intensities of knowledge and knowledge creation that we can sort of... refract ...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If you're interested in the crossing points between crip theory, anti-eugenics, environment, global health and global ethics, check out @octoqueenphd.bsky.social 's new podcast #UnwellToBeginWith. It was a blast to be the first guest, & a fantastic episode with @stressedbranch.bsky.social is now up
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I've written a piece for the 50th Anniversary edition of @bostonreview.bsky.social. It's about the courageous people who have been standing up to condemn the genocide in Gaza, and about the morally corrupted politicians who have tried to silence those protests.
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On the Responsibility of Citizens - Boston Review
Ordinary resistance and ordinary responsibility falls on all of us, whatever our jobs, positions, or roles in society.
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September 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I've written a piece for the 50th Anniversary edition of @bostonreview.bsky.social. It's about the courageous people who have been standing up to condemn the genocide in Gaza, and about the morally corrupted politicians who have tried to silence those protests.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
A belated congratulations to you both - well deserved!
So happy that mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social ESRC grant application for a 4 year comparative project on disability and political parties was successful!! @sotonpolitics.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A belated congratulations to you both - well deserved!
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This story w/ @lolahierro.bsky.social & @balkanizator.bsky.social builds on our investigation into large-scale - and unlawful - transfers of personal data between Frontex and Europol, drawing thousands of people into criminal databases:
This story w/ @lolahierro.bsky.social & @balkanizator.bsky.social builds on our investigation into large-scale - and unlawful - transfers of personal data between Frontex and Europol, drawing thousands of people into criminal databases:
For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
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With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
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Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol
Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This story w/ @lolahierro.bsky.social & @balkanizator.bsky.social builds on our investigation into large-scale - and unlawful - transfers of personal data between Frontex and Europol, drawing thousands of people into criminal databases:
This story w/ @lolahierro.bsky.social & @balkanizator.bsky.social builds on our investigation into large-scale - and unlawful - transfers of personal data between Frontex and Europol, drawing thousands of people into criminal databases:
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So looking forward to chatting with @tricksterprince.bsky.social in October about his wonderful new book, which (among so many other things) reminds us that it is difference and diversity that builds a community.
The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.
Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance
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Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance
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September 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
So looking forward to chatting with @tricksterprince.bsky.social in October about his wonderful new book, which (among so many other things) reminds us that it is difference and diversity that builds a community.
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Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
This week, in person at @greshamcollege.bsky.social & online, Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson discuss their new book #BorderingSocialReproduction, with Gargi Bhattacharyya & Shirin Rai. Hosted by @cnewf.bsky.social.
Thursday 25th September, 6pm BST
More info & registration at isrf.org/events/borde...
Thursday 25th September, 6pm BST
More info & registration at isrf.org/events/borde...
Bordering Social Reproduction | 25th September 2025 | Barnard's Inn Hall, London & Online
An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Professor Rachel Rosen & Dr Eve Dickson, authors of 'Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows'.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This week, in person at @greshamcollege.bsky.social & online, Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson discuss their new book #BorderingSocialReproduction, with Gargi Bhattacharyya & Shirin Rai. Hosted by @cnewf.bsky.social.
Thursday 25th September, 6pm BST
More info & registration at isrf.org/events/borde...
Thursday 25th September, 6pm BST
More info & registration at isrf.org/events/borde...
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Students from Keio University (Japan) visited IFDT as part of their study trip on post-war memory transmission.
They discussed the project “Fiction as Memory Work” with IFDT researchers.
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They discussed the project “Fiction as Memory Work” with IFDT researchers.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Students from Keio University (Japan) visited IFDT as part of their study trip on post-war memory transmission.
They discussed the project “Fiction as Memory Work” with IFDT researchers.
🔗 ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/09/visi...
They discussed the project “Fiction as Memory Work” with IFDT researchers.
🔗 ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/09/visi...