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Karia Hartung

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PhD Candidate @RHUL researching drone violence from a feminist perspective she/her

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Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social · Jun 19

Morning #BISA2025, if you’re looking for some critical war studies and military technologies research, come to the 9:00 Critical Drone Scholarship after GWOT.
Stellar presentations on drones and gender & feminism, disability studies, and cultural urban studies. See you there!

TH 19 Panel / Critical Drone Scholarship beyond the War on Terror ¶
Grand 4, Europa Hotel
Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
Conveners: Emil Archambault (University of Durham) , Karia Hartung (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Chair: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)
Discussant: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)
Coercion from Afar: Exploring the Coercive Effects of Armed Drones from a Feminist Perspective
Author: Karia Hartung (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘They know my guys are good’: Physicality and Elitism in Canadian Drone Operator Identity
Author: Bibi Imre-Millei (Lund University, Sweden)
Drone Training: Normate Extinction in the Militarized University
Author: Amy Gaeta (University of Cambridge)
‘Hot Air in Shenzhen’: Experimental Attachments in Drone Leisure/Security
Author: Callum Smith (Queens University Belfast)

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Karia Hartung @kariahartung.bsky.social · May 21

An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to Julie Saunders, Vice Chancellor and Principal and Andrew Boggs, University Secretary, about the hosting of a talk on "Trans-scepticism"

Please note: Dr Gascoigne is an active member of teaching staff. We have therefore allowed the option for anonymous signatures. We would encourage initials for those who are comfortable, or otherwise ...

docs.google.com

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Lucia Frigo @luciafrigo.bsky.social · Feb 25

Some PhD joy from last week, when after 3+ years of campaigning, we got to inaugurate the new PhD office at @rhulpir.bsky.social.
We have windows!!!!

The whole school of Law and Social Sciences came together (the pizza helped) and this blue plaque was put on the wall.

PGR solidarity forever ✊🏼

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PIR at Royal Holloway @rhulpir.bsky.social · Jan 15

A few shots of our PhD students in action at the Gender Institute and HARI lightning talks yesterday. They were joined by MRes student Josephine Carr and Dr Lyn Johnstone from our department as well as fantastic scholars from across the college. A great start to the term!

A blonde woman in a brown jumper and navy trousers stands speaking in front of a screen that says "Being a female scholar in a hyper-masculinized field: my experience in intelligence studies"

A woman with short brown hair wearing a green jumper and light blue shirt stands looking at a screen that says "Aine Bennett PGR student in Politics and International Relations"

A woman with a high ponytail wearing a white long sleeve t shirt and grey trousers stands gesturing next to a screen that says "What's in an S? - NATO's Discursive Construction of Gender Perspective(s)"

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PIR at Royal Holloway @rhulpir.bsky.social · Jan 6

We're kicking off the new year with five members of our department presenting at the Gender Institute and HARI's lightning talks on 14th Jan at 12 in EWD-1-04!
Please join us to hear from them alongside networking and lunch 👩‍🏫🥪

A poster advertising the event which says:
The Gender Institute and
The Humanities and Arts Research Institute
present Lightning Talks
Tuesday 14th January at 12 Noon in EWD-1-04
Want to learn more about the gender research being conducted at RHUL?
Please join us as our own gender experts present their latest findings in 5-minute lightening talks
Lunch and networking opportunities included!
Professor Kate Cooper, Pious Maidens and Evil Queens: re-thinking the Jezebel paradox
Dr. Vera Hoelscher, Mother entrepreneurs and their use of Instagram algorithms
Dr Ana Jablonska, Women’s food choices in prison
Dr Lyn Johnstone, Queer futurity through dance in Mozambique
Dr. Maryam Mehrnezhad, Cybersecurity and Gender
Dr Niki Philips, Legal advocacy, space and emotion in the C18th Court of King’s Bench
Aine Bennett, Gender and Sexuality Slippages in Asylum Research
Lucia Frigo, being a female scholar in a hyper-masculine field: Intelligence Studies
Karia Hartung, NATO’s discursive construction of gender
Josephine Carr, Royal Holloway Piggeries
Moderated by Professors Jennifer Piscopo and Richard Alston, Directors of the Gender and HARI Institutes

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Thomas Stubbs @thomstubbs.bsky.social · Nov 22

Start pack of Royal Holloway Politics & International Relations academic staff and PhD students! go.bsky.app/EyuS68d

Royal Holloway Politics & International Relations

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · Nov 21

In what honestly feels like a huge victory for PhD student organising, after 3 years we finally just received an email saying that we'll be moving to an office with windows next month!!! 🌞😎☀️ being relentless pains in everyone's neck works!! 🪟🪟🪟🪟

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