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Research Office @gvagrad-research.bsky.social · Sep 2

New PhD 👉 Digital technologies, mobility, and border violence in European borderlands | by 🎓 Nina Khamsy
@gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social

📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence?

👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Jul 24

Commentary with @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social on how Chinese mining companies in Kyrgyzstan have worked to adapt to a state court system in which compliance as such is an impossibility. @gvagrad.bsky.social

carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

How Chinese Miners Adapt to Kyrgyzstan’s Legal Compliance

Negative public perception about Chinese expansion into Kyrgyzstan, along with an unpredictable regulatory environment, has profoundly shaped Chinese business practices inside Kyrgyzstan. Despite comm...

carnegieendowment.org

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · May 6

Agreed, these decisions are often opaque. My impression of these engagements over the past two decades: sector trends, “fashions” and ambitions in Bern blend with priorities and desires in Dushanbe. It’s not very coherent for a reason.

Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · May 5

Should Switzerland pump development funds for digitalisation into an autocracy? Some of my thoughts here: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...

Promoting democracy in authoritarian Tajikistan – is Switzerland making a difference?

While the government of Tajikistan’s long-standing ruler grows more repressive, Switzerland continues to support human rights – a delicate balancing act.

www.swissinfo.ch

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Apr 26

Congrats! Looking forward to reading this 💫

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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · Apr 23

In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...

Academic Freedom Under Fire: Why It Matters and How to Protect It

Graduate Institute What Matters Today · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · Apr 17

I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!

Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social · Apr 17

@juliebillaud.bsky.social is hiring a PhD researcher with an anthropology, sociology, STS or Political Sciences (with ethnographic fieldwork experience) background for her 4-year SNF funded project on Digital Humanitarianism (shorturl.at/SLzUC) at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

👉 shorturl.at/H7CGZ

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Apr 17

Job alarm with the fabulous @juliebillaud.bsky.social in a project on “Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Technological Innovation”, hosted by @gvagrad.bsky.social

erecruit.graduateinstitute.ch/recrutement/...

Recrutement eRecruiting Graduate Institute - PHD RESEARCHER (F/M/D)

erecruit.graduateinstitute.ch

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Apr 7

Great funding opportunity for scholarly - creative - transdisciplinary projects that relate to Asia in the broadest sense possible (and no, there is no fascist language code that you have to adhere to in order to get funded):

deltamove.org/small-grants...

Small Grants Scheme - Delta on the Move Foundation

Small Grants Scheme The Foundation’s Small Grants Scheme has been established to support creative scholarship and independent projects with an inter-disciplinary and inter-Asian nature that may not ha...

deltamove.org

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Mar 28

“On the advice of a friendly tattoo studio owner in Baghdad Pete finally decided to go for a short but beautiful Arab calligraphy from the studio’s booklet.”

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

www.nytimes.com

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Mar 14

Oh gosh these absolute morons. My commiserations

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · Mar 6

republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory

democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Feb 27

No space in history books for all these twists and lies.

kyivindependent.com/trump-says-h...

Trump says he 'can't believe' he called Zelensky 'dictator'

"Did I say that? I can't believe I would say that," U.S. President Donald Trump responded when asked whether he still considers President Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator."

kyivindependent.com

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Michael Gentile @michaelgentile.bsky.social · Feb 23

This is a good summary.

Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · Feb 22

Yes, this is definitely the first case in human history that a nation bleeding out under attack has a knife by its throat from yesterday’s biggest friend in need that went bonkers and switched to Al Capone-style racketeering amid war.

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MariaNafoFella with a nicest hammer 🔨 🇸🇪 🇺🇦 @marianafofella.bsky.social · Feb 22

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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · Feb 17

This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇

www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Spotlight | Professors Mostowlansky and Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives | IHEID

Professors Till Mostowlansky and Julie Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives

www.graduateinstitute.ch

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MINT | Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social · Feb 17

Professor Billaud (@juliebillaud.bsky.social) and Professor Mostowlansky (@mostowlansky.bsky.social) discuss their Spring 2025 Course on Comparative Humanitarianisms. Read more about it here 👇

Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · Feb 17

This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇

www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Spotlight | Professors Mostowlansky and Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives | IHEID

Professors Till Mostowlansky and Julie Billaud Discuss the Course Comparative Humanitarianisms: Anthropological Perspectives

www.graduateinstitute.ch

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Nov 28

It's testimony to a materially, politically and socially highly complex country in which an existential war is top of the agenda but in which people's lives are defined by many more fine-grained aspects of mundane existence and far-reaching histories. Have a read!

Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Nov 28

I have held a professorship in urban studies at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) sind the beginning of this year. If you would like to get some insights into what my students and I have been up to have a look at this short article based on our collaboration.

allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-i...

Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine - Allegra Lab

In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that citizens had to

allegralaboratory.net

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Nov 21

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Nov 22

Friends and colleagues here have spent months sleeping in hallways and shelters because of incoming Shahed drones. They hover around and eventually get shot down over urban areas. It's often air defenders using machine guns on residential building rooftops. In Kyiv, a privileged place in comparison.

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Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky.bsky.social · Nov 22

Plenty of heated debates around types of missiles and escalation outside Ukraine. Viewed from Kyiv it all seems fairly superficial and catering to rather abstract fears of people far away. What people disconnected from Ukraine often seem to miss are degrees of much more mundane, but grinding terror.

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · Nov 17

Tajik music in the 90s was absolutely incredible. Still my favorite recording from those days

youtu.be/sUSzgiGQDcM?...

ДАЛЕР Н МУБОРАКШО М ДУНЁИ САВДО БИГЗАРАД

YouTube video by Sunnat Sanginov

youtu.be

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