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British International Studies Association - Engaging the global international studies community. We're known for our working groups, journals, postgraduate network, funding, conference and more! Website: www.bisa.ac.uk

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 16d

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉

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

Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3h

Upcoming Africa and International Studies WG event 📚

'Meet the editors: publishing webinar' with Review of International Studies - meet some of the editorial team and engage with getting a behind the scenes look at the processes of publication! 🎉

👉 https://ow.ly/YJvf50X9zNT

Meet the editors: publishing webinar with the Review of International Studies- Africa and International Studies | BISA

- Africa and International Studies Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 5h

Welcome! Our @isanet.bsky.social and BISA workshops have begun in Newcastle with a roundtable on transforming the international
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chrisfeathers.bsky.social @chrisfeathers.bsky.social · 5h

Great to be in Newcastle for the first day of the #BISAISA2025 conference. I'm convening the "AI Pedagogies: Practice, Prompts and Problems in Contemporary Higher Education" workshop with the brilliant Hillary Briffa. Can't wait to meet everyone!
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 6h

We are set up and ready to welcome you to the inaugural BISA-ISA workshops!!
Registration is open and at 1pm a roundtable on the workshop theme - Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities
#BISAISA2025
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BISA Gendering IR Working Group @girwgbisa.bsky.social · 8h

The @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 7h

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Jason Klocek @jaklocek.bsky.social · 7h

Heartening backdrop in Newcastle for the 2025 BISA-ISA Joint International Conference. Pleased to be co-convening, with @pehenne.bsky.social, critical discussions on opportunities & challenges to #religiouspeacebuilding.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 9h

'Public engagement in research: tools and reflections on reaching new audiences' w/ Peacekeeping Peacebuilding & Human Rights WG 🎉

Adrian Gallagher will be discussing his his A-Z series in International Politics & values of public engagement on 20 October 🌟

Sign up now: https://ow.ly/C4uV50X9zFT

Public engagement in research: tools and reflections on reaching new audiences- Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights | BISA

- Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

BISA Research directors’ forum: 'navigating changes to UoA19 and beyond' 📚

The first event in this year’s BISA research directors’ forum series exploring the REF landscape and implications for IR and Politics Departments 🌟

Sign up now 👉 https://ow.ly/vjtM50X9e5U

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

Last chance to submit for you to submit yourself for our new BISA and Shepherd.com call 🎉

Let us highlight you - sign up down below! 🌟

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1d

#BISA2026 bursaries 🚨

Both Postgrad bursaries & ECR bursaries available: up to 10 postgrad (PhD) for those based in UK & Ireland, up to 9 bursaries for postgrad (PhD) anywhere else globally & 10 for ECR's w University of Brighton 🎉

Apply now 👉 https://ow.ly/Mu3950X8ZUq
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 2d

Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics.
This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance:
1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised
2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples
Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself.
We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy.
Some papers which participants might engage with:
• Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018)
• Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025)
• ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010)
• Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024)
Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉

For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟

Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing our #BISA2026 conference keynote as leading scholar Professor Kimberly Hutchings @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social 🎉

The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Participant call 🚨

'Seas of (im)mobility, solidarity, and resistance' - a one-day conference funded by the Economic and Social Research Council at Aston University on 12 Feb 🌟

Find the application form here 👉 https://ow.ly/GEIA50X8jlb

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Poster with the information:
Seas of (im)mobility, solidarity, and resistance

Join us for a one-day conference bringing together scholars and activists, to discuss research and first-hand experiences in solidarity and resistance at sea and its shorelines.

To participate, complete the application form by October 24th. For questions and queries, contact us at seasof2026@gmail.com

February 12th 2026
Aston University Birmingham, UK
Abstract Deadline: October 24th 2025

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3d

Review of International Studies #freetoread articles for the UN's 80th anniversary! 🎉

Exploring all aspects of the UN from its creation to it's failures to measure up to its ideals and values 📚

Read here: https://ow.ly/P2FJ50X7NPZ
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3d

'Why do countries publish national security strategies? New insights from AI and global data' a new International Studies and Emerging Technologies working group event 💻

w/ Andrew W Neal on 22 October 🎉

find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/SvGk50X7FJw

Why do countries publish national security strategies? New insights from AI and global data- International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group (ISET) | BISA

- International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group (ISET) Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3d

Come and read about what all of our amazing working groups have been up to in the last academic year! 🌟

We hope this shows the strength, depth and hard work of each of the working groups 🎉

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 4d

#Ethics people - get your 250 abstracts to Natasha and/or I asap for our January #BISA Ethics and World Politics online event in “Teaching Ethics in Dark Times.”

Details below!

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 4d

🌟 Ethics and World Politics BISA call for papers 🌟

"Teaching ethics in dark times" exploring innovative approaches to ethics education 🎉

Deadline to submit - 15 October ⏰
Workshop date: 14 January

Find out more here 👉 https://ow.ly/7LOv50X6UGE

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Call for papers: Teaching ethics in dark times- Ethics and World Politics | BISA

- Ethics and World Politics Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 4d

📢We have kicked off todays #virtual event with our Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group!

👉We are joined by Dr John Karlsrud (Research Professor at @nupinytt) to discuss his recent research on "Ad hoc coalitions in international conflict management".