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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge
@campolis.bsky.social
The Department of POLIS at the University of Cambridge - teaching and researching the world's most complex and pressing issues in politics around the world.

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How could political theory become more accessible to fellow citizens? @campolis.bsky.social 'The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens' | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens - Volume 1
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November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles

🗓️Monday 01 December
🕒3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
📍SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DT

Registration required: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/

The event is free and open to all! @crasshlive.bsky.social
Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s ep in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social looks at the life & legacy of Margaret Thatcher 100 years on from her birth. What made Thatcher such a distinctive politician?

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November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Rebuilding Ukraine: A Conversation with Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Alyona Shkrum

📅Wednesday, 26 November
🕧6pm
📍Church Hall, Downing Place United Reformed Church, 4 Downing Pl, CB2 3EL

Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
Rebuilding Ukraine: A Conversation with Ukrainian Deputy Minister
A Conversation with Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Alyona Shkrum, Cambridge Alumna
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November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social
Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In Conversation with Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs)

The delegation from ERRs will be in conversation with
Professor Sharath Srinivasan from @cghrcambridge.bsky.social

📍King's College Chapel
🗓️Wednesday 26th November 2025
⏲️3pm-4pm

Register here: sudan-errs-cambridge.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Public Lecture: 'The French Revolution and the Magic of Transformation' with Camil Francisc Roman, author of 'The French Revolution and Its Legacy: Leaping Democracy Into the Unlimited'.

📆 Mon 1 December
🕔 5pm - 6pm
📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College

All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
@camgeopolitics.bsky.social is very pleased to announce their upcoming event:

“The Cambridge day of geopolitics: The state of geopolitics 2025”

🗓️ Nov 21st
🕚 11am until 7pm (several sessions and panels)
📍 William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, CB2 3HU

Register: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/the-c...
The Cambridge day of geopolitics: The state of geopolitics 2025 - Centre for Geopolitics
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November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Join us for Vincent Guermond's @vincentguermond.bsky.social talk on the “green finance” agenda and the ways in which it exacerbates climate precarity and harm.

Tuesday, 19th at 5pm at the Centre of Development studies in the @campolis.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🏆POLIS would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Dr. Alami and his co-author, Professor Adam Dixon, on this achievement.
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In their new paper published in @theelrr.bsky.social Ashwin Varghese (@cghrcambridge.bsky.social) and Aishwarya Rajeev argue that the gendering of emergent technology is underpinned by the sexual division of labour.

Read the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gender, work, and the anthropomorphisation of technology | The Economic and Labour Relations Review | Cambridge Core
Gender, work, and the anthropomorphisation of technology
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November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📙 Book Talk: 'The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West' with author Professor Amitav Acharya.

📆 Thurs 13 Nov
🕔 5pm-6.30pm
📍 SG2 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP

More information: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/inter...
International Relations Seminar Series | Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
Everyone is welcome and there is no need to register.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Join Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge, for our final seminar of the series on #AlgorithmicGovernance.

🗓️ Wednesday 12th November 2025
🕔 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 SG2, Alison Richard Building

Get tickets here: cghr-12nov25.eventbrite.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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New event! Britain and the Balkans – 30 years after the Dayton Agreement

Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans.

🗓️20th Nov, 17:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard.

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November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Please join us for a talk with Professor Amitav Acharya on his new book 'The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West'.

🗓️Thurs, 13 Nov 2025
🕔5pm-6.30pm
📍SG2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge

All welcome.
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Join us this afternoon for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Day session for the:

MPhil in Politics and International Studies: 15:00 - 15:45
Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies (PhD + MPhil): 17:00 - 17:45

Register and find out more on the postgraduate website: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
Postgraduate Open Days | Postgraduate Study
Virtual Postgraduate Open Days, 3-14 November 2025 Join us for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Days and discover if Cambridge is the right place for you. The event takes place entirely online and featur...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📰Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written an article titled 'Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances'.

Read the article now: doi.org/10.17863/CAM...
Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances
This article is about the relationship between environment and desire, focusing on male combatants in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Most LRA fighters were forcibly conscripted as teenage...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Don't miss! Controlled Freedom: The Allied Forces in Vienna from 1945

Prof Oliver Rathkolb joins CfG & the Modern European History Seminar to discuss Vienna post-1945.

🗓️Next Wed 5th Nov, 17:30-19:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
🖋️More info: bit.ly/471fjkT
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?

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October 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨

Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉

Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0

VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Year 12 UK students considering applying to Cambridge: if you're from an underrepresented group, this free programme from @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social aims to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented at Cambridge.

Check out their page on insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DQWzHn8...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM