📗New article out now in JBS!

"Shipping the Color Line: Migration and Transport Policy in the British Empire, 1943–51" by @freddyfoks1

Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My department are hosting The Britain and the World conference, 25-27 June 2025. It ‘is concerned with interactions between Britain&the wider world, past&present,&will highlight the importance of transnational perspectives.’ Come to Liverpool #skyhistorians! britainandtheworld.org/2025 #BATW2025

Contested boundaries: migration and citizenship regimes in comparative perspective

Call for papers for the @mpc-eui.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social annual conference
May 8-9 2025
EUI, Florence, Italy

migrationpolicycentre.eu/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia.

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mo...

Today is the UN's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
3 years ago, I wrote this article highlighting digitised records on Palestine and Palestinians from the British Library's India Office Records, with invaluable help from Palestinian colleagues:
www.qdl.qa/en/finding-a...

Fascinating.

Before finding Jaakko, I remember Erik Ringmar discusses the nomad position in the international order too, in his work on non western İR.
Certainly is my next item in a reading bucket list.

Pleased to share this policy paper that I coauthored with Joana Varon from @codingrights.bsky.social & Timnit Gebru of dair-institute.org!

"Fostering a federated AI Commons ecosystem"

www.t20brasil.org/media/docume...

Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Mohamad Alamin said one of the two laws included areas in Malaysia's New Map of 1979, which was developed based on international law.

www.nst.com.my/news/nation/...

Looking forward to the conference on "The Problem of Eurocentrism in Global Diplomatic History," Stockholm Univ, 23-24 Jan 2025, a collaboration btw the Global Diplomacy Network & the Hans Blix Centre for the History of IR. Keynote speaker is @aysezarakol.bsky.social : www.su.se/english/rese...

Written years ago but continues to resonate with those from the Global South geographies www.e-ir.info/2018/06/19/e...

Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...

Amitav Ghosh on "Writing and imagining history: narrating the Indian Ocean world", 28th Nov 2024, 7pm 💜 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/writi...

We have a conference in Coventry on 5/6 February showcasing current scholarship around the theme of digital Islam. See here for provisional programme and (free) registration details:

digitalbritishislam.com/conference-p...

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

The RIS and BISAcpd Paper Prize for early career researchers is a fantastic opportunity for mentorship and to develop your work. The deadline is next week, so please consider applying!

⏱️ Deadline 18 November
📄 Apply here 👉 buff.ly/4fqsfSs

Looking forward to presenting at the Cambridge IR-History seminar in two weeks!

🗓️ Thursday 28 Nov, 1pm