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Patricia Owens
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History, IR, Oxford, Somerville College, and Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two. Arsenal Women. She/her. Author of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)

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Patricia Owens is a British-Irish academic, author and professor. She is a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford and a professor of International Relations at University of Oxford. She is best known for her work on the history and theory of counterinsurgency warfare, women and the history of international thought, the history of social and political thought, and for her earlier work on war and international relations in the thought of the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt. .. more

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Dec 17
After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 1d
Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d
are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion?
Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d
Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d
Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 1d
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.

Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.

This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
www.ucu.org.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d
Kent, Essex and apparently Sussex all decline to be gouged by Elsevier Read & Publish deals. Others may well follow. 1/2
Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal
Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 2d
only partial, you say? 😜

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Edinburgh's International Relations Research Group @edinburghir.bsky.social · 4d
Welcome to the Edinburgh IR Research Group Bluesky! We have an exciting lineup of speakers this semester.

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 4d
‘What’s His Name?’, my reply!!!

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‘What’s His Name?’
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 4d
"Exclusion and Erasure in Disciplinary Histories" by Tarak Barkawi
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Exclusion and Erasure in Disciplinary Histories
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 4d
"Twelve Erased Women: Experiments in Excavating (the Better Half of) British International Thought" by Immi Tallgren @itallgren.bsky.social
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Twelve Erased Women: Experiments in Excavating (the Better Half of) British International Thought
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 4d
"Reading Anglophone Women’s International Thought with Patricia Owens" by Joseph Mackay @lefteleven.bsky.social

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Reading Anglophone Women’s International Thought with Patricia Owens
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 4d
"Erased, Subdued, and Recovered: Women of British IR" by Christine Sylvester
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Erased, Subdued, and Recovered: Women of British IR
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 4d
"Portia’s Provocations/Feminist Fury" by Helen M. Kinsella @hmkinsella.bsky.social

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 4d
Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 10d
Congratulations Helen! 🥂

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 10d
Congratulations Sam!

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 10d
🤔

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 10d
💥New: Why is research led by women retracted less frequently?

✍️ @curtrice.bsky.social

#ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #AcademicSky
Why is research led by women retracted less frequently? - Impact of Social Sciences
A recent study found research by women had fewer retractions. Are women betters researchers, or does the finding reflect wider structural issues?
blogs.lse.ac.uk

Reposted by Patricia Owens, Naomi Sykes

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 11d
From the contribution of the Global South to the development of human rights to making history: writing Scotland’s post-reformation, the Trust Board awards twenty-seven fellowships for research in the humanities and social sciences. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/major-r...
Black background with gold swirls. Twenty-seven fellowships awarded to researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news.

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Emily ✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 11d
Wake up babe, new A League of Our Own is about to drop www.them.us/story/slo-pi...
An screenshot of an instagram post by queer media site Them about Slo Pitch, a lesbian softball show

Reposted by Patricia Owens, Juanita Elias, Jack Holland

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 11d
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!!
Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Participant registration deadline: 2 March
See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️
@simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 11d
My Mabel

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 12d
Matt Walsh calling international law 'fake and gay' is concerning, hilarious and more interesting than he realises at the same time.

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 16d
The list of SIXTY-SIX UN and other International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties from which the United Stated is about to withdraw...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov

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Iona Craig @ionacraig.com · 16d
In >15 yrs of living and breathing Yemen, the last two weeks’ events have been off the scale in their rapidity and upheaval - internal and external - even by Yemen standards. Since 2010 I don’t think I’ve witnessed a fortnight like it. And I lived in Sana’a through revolution (2011) and coup (2014).

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17d
They were actually mostly careerists.
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17d
IR people who decry gender studies or arguments are fish refusing to believe the study of water is important.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17d
Tickner: "The dismantling of women’s studies departments and the hostility to diversity and inclusion in the broader political landscape do not bode well for learning about those figures pushed to the margins—or the critical problems and questions they explored".
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - Volume 23 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17d
Kristensen: "While Erased is not designed as a sociological study of how erasure operates—and can hardly be blamed for not doing that diagnostic work—the book does lay the groundwork for further work on how masculinity structured an emerging field like IR".
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - Volume 23 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17d
Sjoberg: "Erased is a tour de force: an extraordinary, careful, comprehensive, and intellectually and methodologically strong... singular contribution to the field".
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - Volume 23 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17d
Marshall (more critical) but "Owens’ contribution is particularly significant in its empirical precision... Decolonial scholars, in turn, may demand that we extend this exercise further still to displace the exclusions built into the scholastic episteme".
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - Volume 23 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org