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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · May 30

Join us at our workshop on Minor Democracies and their infrastructures. Bring along your curiosity.

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Centre for the Studies of Law and the Humanities workshop: Minor Democracies and their infrastructures

Minor Democracies and their infrastructures

www.bbk.ac.uk

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Apr 2

Deadline for applications is April 11!

robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Feb 25

CfA

Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2025: Global Critical Theory

14-18 July 2025
w/ Gurminder K. Bhambra, Rocío Zambrana, Malte Ibsen, and myself

more info and how to apply:

cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/event...

Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2025 – Call for Applications – Praxis

cful.letras.ulisboa.pt

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Apr 2

I had to finish research related tasks yesterday. I closed my phone and everything on the daily list got done. It is lack of destruction.

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Apr 1

writing about Judith Butler and Marxism ( in my case more about anarcho-communism) was not easy, but the editors of this volume, Elliot C Mason and Valentina Moro, kept encouraging me so I kept writing. I am glad they kept pressing. Dedicated to the late Marxist theorist Marina Vishmidt.

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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Mar 1

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit

Stop Trump Coalition

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 28

Looking for something thought provoking, free to do next Friday? Join us at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities.

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism

Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · Feb 18

“A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/princet...

Princeton University implicated in Gaza and Sudan wars, report says

A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex

www.middleeasteye.net

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 19

Read this essay by Giroux if you can. It convincingly explains the nexus between neoliberalism, authoritarianism and fascism and the machinery of cruelty that characterises US politics now.

www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...

Trump’s Reign of Cruelty

Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and dismantle the foundations of democracy. It does not merely...

www.counterpunch.org

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 15

thank you Felicity this is helpful…

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 14

how was it? We are contemplating going…

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 14

Join us to discuss at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities with Federico Zappino, Leticia Sabsay and Esther Leslie Capitalism and Authoritarianism. Link with details of when and where the event is taking place and how to book👇🏼

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism

Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion

https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/48052/centre-for-the-study-of-law-and-the-humanities-capitalism-and-authoritarianism?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0S71VnKJimbzVGjTWVEnqMOXgHz-MA3JNII4tHALHN_zX1H-chMHKVKzs_aem_E6i5ys17M9_55Rm—WNN_g

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 7

Join us to our Annual Law Lecture,Birkbeck Law School
Speaker: Prof. Patricia J. Williams
📝Theater of the Upside-Down: Performative Chaos and the Law
🗓️16th May 2025
⏰18:00-21:00
📍Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS

This is the Law School's Annual Law Lecture which this year is being delivered by the distinguished legal scholar Prof. Patricia Williams

www.bbk.ac.uk

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Feb 6

Judith Butler on Trump‘s sadism and the fascist passions animating it

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler

Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

www.theguardian.com

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 6

Adriana Zaharijević explains how Serbian students claim political agency from the claws of a corrupt political regime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope | Adriana Zaharijević

An authoritarian regime has been rocked by an anti-corruption movement generating society-wide anger and indignation, says philosopher Adriana Zaharijević

www.theguardian.com

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Feb 5

an excellent essay on facticity @alexei Penzin

www.e-flux.com/notes/652418...

Facticity, Today - Notes - e-flux

Alexei Penzin explicates the history and renewed relevance of the philosophical concept of facticity.

www.e-flux.com

Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Jan 29

would you attend if we had an online link?

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Jan 29

In need of optimism? Join us at this joint seminar between the @BirkbeckLaw the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities

THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER

👦🏻Federico Zappino (University of Sassari).
🗓️26th of February.
⏰12-2
📍: BCB, room 207
👇🏼
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities and Law School Staff Seminar

FUNGORUM MORE: THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER Speaker: Professor Federico Zappino (University of Sassari)

www.bbk.ac.uk

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · Jan 22

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Jan 15

I have a group of actor friends how do they contact you if they have no bluesky account?

Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Jan 12

Reading this profoundly depressed me. Kathrine Franke is a great educator and Human Rights Activist, to have to leave Columbia because of her support of the Palestinian cause is just terrible.

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Jan 7

not to be missed - though I feel I will have to because I am teaching 🥲@law_humanities @Law_Cult_Huma @JStonePeters to register To register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Jan 7

I have been reading and meaning to write a blog piece about Luigi Mangione’s act but work admin got in the way. This piece analyses his act via the philosophy of violence. @ctiticallegalthinking.

criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/06/t...

The Vigilante and the ‘Great Criminal’: On Law, Violence, and Assassination

In December 2024, two events occurred which can help us to understand the relation between violence and law in line with the critique outlined

criticallegalthinking.com

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Jan 5

As I read a lot I decided to start a book impressions diary on instagram. It is still embryonic but you can follow me @ my_friends_the_books on instagram.

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · Dec 18

youtu.be/h7xewyFw5cw?...

Judith Butler: Trump & Harris | Israel & Palestine | Sex & Gender

YouTube video by Robinson Erhardt

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