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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez

@devoncantwell.bsky.social

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Postdoc @ University of Copenhagen. @uOttawa PhD. Global city climate gov, #FirstGen, she/her, Fulbright 🇻🇳 Alum. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · Aug 9

Shabbat Shalom! First Shabbat as DOCTOR Cantwell-Chavez and it feels AMAZING. This has been 8 years in the making and the combination of relief, gratitude, and happiness is overwhelming.

Devon and dissertation committee smiling

a binder with pink paper, drinks, and a timer on a conference table

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

submit your ideas for topics here: forms.gle/ZTJ4E6nWG6Ua...

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

Applications for both workshops are due November 10, 2025 @ 11:59 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, we do have a small fund to support the travel of scholars to the ISA-Canada meeting for workshops 2 and 8. Priority for allocation will go to grad students and other early career or contingent scholars. Please email [email protected] to inquire about funding!

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

For both workshops, many of the demonstrations, talks, and resources will be recorded or achived and made available through @isanet.bsky.social for members!

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

The afternoon sessions will be interactive design and co-creation activities. You'll leave the workshop with some new planned activities and resources!

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

The section workshop on "Teaching IR in the Age of Generative AI" will include a morning of teaching demonstrations where instructors will showcase assignments and pedagogical approaches related to IR with a lens around navigating AI.

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

The afternoon session will be invitation-only for students accepted into the workshop + selected mentors. You'll receive individualized feedback from all participants on your submitted writing and be expected to provide feedback to your other workshop particpants as well.

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

We are about to gather input for the morning dissertation topic sessions and will annouce these with the CPSA programme release. These will be open to all CPSA participants and does not require pre-registration.

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

First, the dissertation workshop is open to all graduate students. We will have a focus on IR projects, but are open to and will consider proposals from students in all subfields. We will match participants with mentors who have experience in their topic and/or methdologies.

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thrilled to announce that @isa-canada.bsky.social will have TWO workshops at @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social this year! A dissertation workshop (open to all in the AM and with an invite-only track for feedback in the afternoon) and a workshop on teaching IR in the age of generative AI. More info in 🧵

Visual version of plain text information available here: https://mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_callE#wrk2

Visual version of plain text information available here: https://mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_callE#wrk8

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 2d

Omg I finally just realized that I successfully got off the MPSA mailing list. I DID IT

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 4d

As @carlymclachlan.bsky.social is fond of saying, more zero, less net please. the evidence against carbon offsets keeps stacking up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 4d

The perfect faculty photo doesn't exis....

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 4d

Got an email from one of my old shuls about a pizza in the sukkah event and I really feel like they missed the opportunity to call the event Pizza Hut

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 4d

Finishing lecture prep on the role of institutions in security and G-d is it depressing to refer to USAID in past tense

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 4d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

truthout.org

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 7d

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 7d

Shabbat shalom! Honestly a bit of a crap week. In the positive side, I was successful in getting a good challah bake this week with my kitchen set up here (made four different smaller challahs to hedge bets) and a few new things I tried in class went pretty well thankfully

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 8d

OR Taylor was hegemon-in-waiting.

I used the Taylor Swift/Ariana Grande fandom competition to talk about bipolar system haha. And then said if you added in Kendrick v Drake and Nicki v Cardi B you have great examples of clusters of regional hegemony

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 8d

AM I WRONG

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 8d

Giving a talk about hegemony to an intro poltiical science course today and I'm so excited about this example of hegemonic stability theory I drew up

What happens when unipolar hegemonic power declines?
The system becomes unstable!

Will #MomTok Survive This?
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

pictures of Whitney, Taylor, and Demi and a picture that says "Will #momtok even survive this?"

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