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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 6h

Lovely atmosphere at day 2 of our BISA and @isanet.bsky.social joint workshops in Newcastle!
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BISA Gendering IR Working Group @girwgbisa.bsky.social · 7h

Our first event of the new academic year is coming up on Tuesday! 🥳 Make sure to sign up using the link below. 📚

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 26d

🎉 'Queering Governance and International Law' by Dr Caitlin Biddolph w commentators Prof Gina Heathcote, @sritholtz.bsky.social and moderated by Dr Laura Sjoberg:

A Gendering International Relations WG Book Talk on 14 October! 📚

Sign up is free and open to all 👉

Book talk: Queering Governance and International Law- Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) | BISA

- Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Working Group

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Dr Eszter Simon @dresztersimon.bsky.social · 11h

Hi #populism folks! Please, get in touch if you are putting a panel together on #populistforeignpoicy for #BISA2026 and need one more paper.
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 1d

Attending inaugural BISA-ISA Joint Workshops in Newcastle, UK - welcome session with useful exchanges on topics including responses to authoritarian populism, AI & need for more accessible conferencing, inc. virtual conferencing. @isanet.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

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MJ Bosia ExDir @isanetexdir.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to gather with BISA and @isanet.bsky.social for our first joint conference

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome! Our @isanet.bsky.social and BISA workshops have begun in Newcastle with a roundtable on transforming the international
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 1d

📆 Mark your calendars! 📆

Be sure to join us for this event and hear from our editors Maria Mälksoo, Soumita Basu, and Priya Dixit.

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

Upcoming Africa and International Studies WG event 📚

'Meet the editors: publishing webinar' with Review of International Studies - meet some of the editorial team and engage with getting a behind the scenes look at the processes of publication! 🎉

👉 https://ow.ly/YJvf50X9zNT

Meet the editors: publishing webinar with the Review of International Studies- Africa and International Studies | BISA

- Africa and International Studies Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

Upcoming Africa and International Studies WG event 📚

'Meet the editors: publishing webinar' with Review of International Studies - meet some of the editorial team and engage with getting a behind the scenes look at the processes of publication! 🎉

👉 https://ow.ly/YJvf50X9zNT

Meet the editors: publishing webinar with the Review of International Studies- Africa and International Studies | BISA

- Africa and International Studies Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome! Our @isanet.bsky.social and BISA workshops have begun in Newcastle with a roundtable on transforming the international
@isanetexdir.bsky.social @skylerehawkins.bsky.social @audieklotz.bsky.social
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chrisfeathers.bsky.social @chrisfeathers.bsky.social · 1d

Great to be in Newcastle for the first day of the #BISAISA2025 conference. I'm convening the "AI Pedagogies: Practice, Prompts and Problems in Contemporary Higher Education" workshop with the brilliant Hillary Briffa. Can't wait to meet everyone!
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

We are set up and ready to welcome you to the inaugural BISA-ISA workshops!!
Registration is open and at 1pm a roundtable on the workshop theme - Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities
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BISA Gendering IR Working Group @girwgbisa.bsky.social · 1d

The @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

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Jason Klocek @jaklocek.bsky.social · 1d

Heartening backdrop in Newcastle for the 2025 BISA-ISA Joint International Conference. Pleased to be co-convening, with @pehenne.bsky.social, critical discussions on opportunities & challenges to #religiouspeacebuilding.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

'Public engagement in research: tools and reflections on reaching new audiences' w/ Peacekeeping Peacebuilding & Human Rights WG 🎉

Adrian Gallagher will be discussing his his A-Z series in International Politics & values of public engagement on 20 October 🌟

Sign up now: https://ow.ly/C4uV50X9zFT

Public engagement in research: tools and reflections on reaching new audiences- Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights | BISA

- Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

BISA Research directors’ forum: 'navigating changes to UoA19 and beyond' 📚

The first event in this year’s BISA research directors’ forum series exploring the REF landscape and implications for IR and Politics Departments 🌟

Sign up now 👉 https://ow.ly/vjtM50X9e5U

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

Last chance to submit for you to submit yourself for our new BISA and Shepherd.com call 🎉

Let us highlight you - sign up down below! 🌟

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

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#BISA2026 bursaries 🚨

Both Postgrad bursaries & ECR bursaries available: up to 10 postgrad (PhD) for those based in UK & Ireland, up to 9 bursaries for postgrad (PhD) anywhere else globally & 10 for ECR's w University of Brighton 🎉

Apply now 👉 https://ow.ly/Mu3950X8ZUq
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 3d

Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 2d

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics.
This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance:
1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised
2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples
Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself.
We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy.
Some papers which participants might engage with:
• Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018)
• Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025)
• ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010)
• Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024)
Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3d

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3d

We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉

For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟

Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3d

Announcing our #BISA2026 conference keynote as leading scholar Professor Kimberly Hutchings @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social 🎉

The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp

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