Seb Kaempf
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
A/Prof in Peace and Conflict Studies at UQ: https://polsis.uq.edu.au/profile/1237/sebastian-kaempf
Lover of good conversations, coffee, music, art, and seeing where life will take me.
Lover of good conversations, coffee, music, art, and seeing where life will take me.
Hello fellow educators and listeners,
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello fellow educators and listeners,
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
Dear friends of the UQ Rotary Peace Centre,
We would like to invite you to our Rotary Peace Fellows’ seminar, taking place on 28 March 2026. Registration is required via the QR on the attached flyer.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We would like to invite you to our Rotary Peace Fellows’ seminar, taking place on 28 March 2026. Registration is required via the QR on the attached flyer.
We look forward to seeing you there!
August 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Dear friends of the UQ Rotary Peace Centre,
We would like to invite you to our Rotary Peace Fellows’ seminar, taking place on 28 March 2026. Registration is required via the QR on the attached flyer.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We would like to invite you to our Rotary Peace Fellows’ seminar, taking place on 28 March 2026. Registration is required via the QR on the attached flyer.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Excellent discussion about my colleague @minranliu.bsky.social's new research in our seminar series today, albeit on zoom as we were not allowed into our building today. Masterful chairing by @mattuq.bsky.social (drawing on his covid-zoom-chairing experiences):
August 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Excellent discussion about my colleague @minranliu.bsky.social's new research in our seminar series today, albeit on zoom as we were not allowed into our building today. Masterful chairing by @mattuq.bsky.social (drawing on his covid-zoom-chairing experiences):
And they strike again www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...
Relax, Guy
YouTube video by South Park Studios
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July 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
And they strike again www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...
Please mark the date and join us later this year for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
With comments by Prof Bina D'Costa (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (formerly ICRC): www.rolandbleiker.com/news/hutchis...
With comments by Prof Bina D'Costa (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (formerly ICRC): www.rolandbleiker.com/news/hutchis...
First Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture: Prof Michael Barnett on Mobilising Compassion — Roland Bleiker
Please mark the date and join us later this year - on 4 December at the University of Queensland - for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with Professor Michael Barnett from George Washi...
www.rolandbleiker.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Please mark the date and join us later this year for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
With comments by Prof Bina D'Costa (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (formerly ICRC): www.rolandbleiker.com/news/hutchis...
With comments by Prof Bina D'Costa (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (formerly ICRC): www.rolandbleiker.com/news/hutchis...
Reposted by Seb Kaempf
🌟Ep 4 of the @risjnl.bsky.social podcast! 🌟
Hosted by @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Maria Mälksoo & her selection of articles conceptualising & applying ritual dynamics in the context of IR 🌎
Inc: @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social @simonkoschut.bsky.social
listen 👉
Hosted by @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Maria Mälksoo & her selection of articles conceptualising & applying ritual dynamics in the context of IR 🌎
Inc: @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social @simonkoschut.bsky.social
listen 👉
Review of International Studies podcast - episode four
In the fourth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses rethinking ritual dynamics with Maria Mälksoo.
buff.ly
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🌟Ep 4 of the @risjnl.bsky.social podcast! 🌟
Hosted by @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Maria Mälksoo & her selection of articles conceptualising & applying ritual dynamics in the context of IR 🌎
Inc: @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social @simonkoschut.bsky.social
listen 👉
Hosted by @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Maria Mälksoo & her selection of articles conceptualising & applying ritual dynamics in the context of IR 🌎
Inc: @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social @simonkoschut.bsky.social
listen 👉
Quite relevant to my life in a number of ways: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/ja...
The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
The long read: From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Quite relevant to my life in a number of ways: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/ja...
Wim Wenders in 10 minutes: youtu.be/PKdw9OJfYmU?...
Wim Wenders in 10 Minuten | Blow up | ARTE
YouTube video by Irgendwas mit ARTE und Kultur
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July 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Wim Wenders in 10 minutes: youtu.be/PKdw9OJfYmU?...
International politics is not short of the ceremonial and the performative. Here, Prof Maria Mälksoo talks to Dr Seb Kaempf about her selection of key articles published in @risjnl.bsky.social on the theme of 'Rituals and International Relations': www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
July 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
International politics is not short of the ceremonial and the performative. Here, Prof Maria Mälksoo talks to Dr Seb Kaempf about her selection of key articles published in @risjnl.bsky.social on the theme of 'Rituals and International Relations': www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
Reposted by Seb Kaempf
🎉 Great News 🎉
The RIS 2024 Journal Impact Factor has increased from 3.2 to 3.7! We owe this to our fantastic authors and reviewers, who continue to improve our journal with their submissions and service.
@mybisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
The RIS 2024 Journal Impact Factor has increased from 3.2 to 3.7! We owe this to our fantastic authors and reviewers, who continue to improve our journal with their submissions and service.
@mybisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🎉 Great News 🎉
The RIS 2024 Journal Impact Factor has increased from 3.2 to 3.7! We owe this to our fantastic authors and reviewers, who continue to improve our journal with their submissions and service.
@mybisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
The RIS 2024 Journal Impact Factor has increased from 3.2 to 3.7! We owe this to our fantastic authors and reviewers, who continue to improve our journal with their submissions and service.
@mybisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Reposted by Seb Kaempf
Ep 3 of @risjnl.bsky.social podcast! 🌟
Host - @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Professor Dahlia Simangan about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of PeaceBuilding🌎
Inc: @rolandparis.bsky.social @audralmitchell.bsky.social
listen 👉 shorturl.at/PDrhN
Host - @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Professor Dahlia Simangan about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of PeaceBuilding🌎
Inc: @rolandparis.bsky.social @audralmitchell.bsky.social
listen 👉 shorturl.at/PDrhN
Review of International Studies podcast - episode three
In the third episode of the podcast, Seb Kaempf discusses peacebuilding with Dahlia Simangan.
www.bisa.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ep 3 of @risjnl.bsky.social podcast! 🌟
Host - @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Professor Dahlia Simangan about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of PeaceBuilding🌎
Inc: @rolandparis.bsky.social @audralmitchell.bsky.social
listen 👉 shorturl.at/PDrhN
Host - @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Professor Dahlia Simangan about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of PeaceBuilding🌎
Inc: @rolandparis.bsky.social @audralmitchell.bsky.social
listen 👉 shorturl.at/PDrhN
Really love their new album 'Like Love', here is the title song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAaM...
Ball Park Music - Like Love (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Ball Park Music
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June 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Really love their new album 'Like Love', here is the title song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAaM...
New @risjnl.bsky.social podcast episode is out. Here, Dahlia Simangan talks to Seb Kaempf about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of peacebuilding. Please tune in here: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis... @mybisa.bsky.social @therealisthom.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
New @risjnl.bsky.social podcast episode is out. Here, Dahlia Simangan talks to Seb Kaempf about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of peacebuilding. Please tune in here: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis... @mybisa.bsky.social @therealisthom.bsky.social
Interested in the connection between IR Theory and Ideology? Then tune into this pod episode in which Benjamin Martill talks about his editor's selection for @risjnl.bsky.social: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
May 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Interested in the connection between IR Theory and Ideology? Then tune into this pod episode in which Benjamin Martill talks about his editor's selection for @risjnl.bsky.social: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
Reposted by Seb Kaempf
Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill:
www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcast
Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill, o...
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May 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill:
www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
Genuinely adore his work - adding a different lens to photography of humans and our planet. Thanks for how you opened my eyes to your work: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81
Brazilian photographer’s work highlighted injustice and introduced rainforest to the world
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Genuinely adore his work - adding a different lens to photography of humans and our planet. Thanks for how you opened my eyes to your work: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Meet our new (Adjunct Prof) colleague: www.uq.edu.au/news/article...
Full circle: Former Premier and UQ alum appointed Adjunct Professor
Former Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s long association with UQ – including as a distinguished alum – has extended with her appointment as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Political Science and I...
www.uq.edu.au
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Meet our new (Adjunct Prof) colleague: www.uq.edu.au/news/article...
New episode: Developing critical thinking skills and breaking down stereotypes by taking students to the court rooms.
Al Stark and Kate Lee Koo talk to Dr Richard Murray (UQ). Richard teaches social justice storytelling by taking his students to the court rooms: www.buzzsprout.com/813707/episo...
Al Stark and Kate Lee Koo talk to Dr Richard Murray (UQ). Richard teaches social justice storytelling by taking his students to the court rooms: www.buzzsprout.com/813707/episo...
May 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
New episode: Developing critical thinking skills and breaking down stereotypes by taking students to the court rooms.
Al Stark and Kate Lee Koo talk to Dr Richard Murray (UQ). Richard teaches social justice storytelling by taking his students to the court rooms: www.buzzsprout.com/813707/episo...
Al Stark and Kate Lee Koo talk to Dr Richard Murray (UQ). Richard teaches social justice storytelling by taking his students to the court rooms: www.buzzsprout.com/813707/episo...
‘Using storytelling and classical literature to help problem solving’ Al & Lynda talk to Prof Kate O’Brien (Chemical Engineering, UQ) about how classical literature & storytelling are enabling understanding and problem solving in her engineering classes: www.buzzsprout.com/813707/episo...
May 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
‘Using storytelling and classical literature to help problem solving’ Al & Lynda talk to Prof Kate O’Brien (Chemical Engineering, UQ) about how classical literature & storytelling are enabling understanding and problem solving in her engineering classes: www.buzzsprout.com/813707/episo...
After Canada just a week ago, Australia also voted in a new parliament which stems the rise of ultra conservative or extremist right wing movements we've seen elsewhere. That's really important. Shame though that the greens have lost many of their seats: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Australia federal election 2025 results - in charts
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won a historic second term - here's some of the results visualised.
www.bbc.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
After Canada just a week ago, Australia also voted in a new parliament which stems the rise of ultra conservative or extremist right wing movements we've seen elsewhere. That's really important. Shame though that the greens have lost many of their seats: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sobering read about what's at stake for us working in academia... www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Cost of Defunding Harvard
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...
www.newyorker.com
April 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Sobering read about what's at stake for us working in academia... www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...