Wolfgang Minatti
@wolfgangminatti.com
Postdoc @leuphana.bsky.social | Research on Legitimacy, Civil War, Colombia | Previously @EUI_EU, @UniAndes, @LeidenHum & @PolSciUIBK | he/him | @wolfgangMinatti
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🚨 Call for Special Issue Papers for Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, please share widely! @ginavale.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the call for papers for our upcoming special issue on insurgent-run education.
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🚨 Call for Special Issue Papers for Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, please share widely! @ginavale.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the call for papers for our upcoming special issue on insurgent-run education.
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
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📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩
tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩
The Politics of Human Rights | Cambridge Aspire website
Discover The Politics of Human Rights, 2nd Edition, Sabine C. Carey, HB ISBN: 9781009537919 on Cambridge Aspire website
www.cambridge.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩
tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
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⏰ Only 7️⃣ days left to apply for the #PreDoc and #PostDoc positions in the VARICRIS project❗
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
➡️ Predoctoral Research Fellow / PhD Candidate
👉 75%, 3 years, @wzb.bsky.social
👉 Focus: Quantitative text analysis ( #NLP | #CSS | #TextAsData ) on global crisis perceptions and dissertation research
👉 Full job call: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/pred...
👉 75%, 3 years, @wzb.bsky.social
👉 Focus: Quantitative text analysis ( #NLP | #CSS | #TextAsData ) on global crisis perceptions and dissertation research
👉 Full job call: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/pred...
Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) (ID 364)
For its VARICRIS project at the research department Global Governance, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center is looking for A Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) to be employed...
www.wzb.eu
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
⏰ Only 7️⃣ days left to apply for the #PreDoc and #PostDoc positions in the VARICRIS project❗
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
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„Die Begriffe „Krieg“ und „Genozid“ sollten nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden“ - @amenzel.bsky.social und ich haben als Friedens- und Konfliktforscherinnen ein Plädoyer für diskursive Mehrgleisigkeit geschrieben
debatte.krisol-wissenschaft.org/die-begriffe...
debatte.krisol-wissenschaft.org/die-begriffe...
Die Begriffe „Krieg“ und „Genozid“ sollten nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden – Debatte
debatte.krisol-wissenschaft.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
„Die Begriffe „Krieg“ und „Genozid“ sollten nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden“ - @amenzel.bsky.social und ich haben als Friedens- und Konfliktforscherinnen ein Plädoyer für diskursive Mehrgleisigkeit geschrieben
debatte.krisol-wissenschaft.org/die-begriffe...
debatte.krisol-wissenschaft.org/die-begriffe...
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Tobias Lenz & Fredrik Söderbaum's article in our latest issue demonstrates the significant changes in comparative realism over the past decade. It's free to read now!
📘 👉 buff.ly/XREtDrU
📘 👉 buff.ly/XREtDrU
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Tobias Lenz & Fredrik Söderbaum's article in our latest issue demonstrates the significant changes in comparative realism over the past decade. It's free to read now!
📘 👉 buff.ly/XREtDrU
📘 👉 buff.ly/XREtDrU
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What a fantastic talk this morning by @enzonussio.bsky.social for our second seminar of the 2025-2026 Civil War Paths Seminar Series, discussing violence against ex-combatants in Colombia!
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What a fantastic talk this morning by @enzonussio.bsky.social for our second seminar of the 2025-2026 Civil War Paths Seminar Series, discussing violence against ex-combatants in Colombia!
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3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
WARSHARE PhD Scholarships | School of Social and Political Science
Applications for the 3 PhD scholarships close at 23:59 GMT on Thursday 11th December 2025. Late applications cannot be accepted.Following a European Advanced Grant Award funded by UKRI to Professor An...
edin.ac
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
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🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
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That’s it from us. Happy weekend!
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
That’s it from us. Happy weekend!
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Sari Shrayteh‘s talk deals with predictions as part of popular culture in unstable situations, eg coffee readings, palmistry, or astrology in the news during wartime
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sari Shrayteh‘s talk deals with predictions as part of popular culture in unstable situations, eg coffee readings, palmistry, or astrology in the news during wartime
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The second panel today starts with @roykaradag.bsky.social on "Death by Historical Analogy: The Illegitimate Victimhood of Palestinians in Germany" #RethinkingViolenceDVPW
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The second panel today starts with @roykaradag.bsky.social on "Death by Historical Analogy: The Illegitimate Victimhood of Palestinians in Germany" #RethinkingViolenceDVPW
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We start our workshop with the first panel on “Legacies of war and Violence“ with Jan Busse, recounting the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict as a history of political violence
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We start our workshop with the first panel on “Legacies of war and Violence“ with Jan Busse, recounting the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict as a history of political violence
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Next is Wolfgang Minatti, with a presentation on legitimacy through violence, drawing on fieldwork in Colombia
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Next is Wolfgang Minatti, with a presentation on legitimacy through violence, drawing on fieldwork in Colombia
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Now, @amenzel.bsky.social is offering comments, encouraging as to go back to the “classics“, linking the presentations with work by Ferguson and Kalyvas, and bring out clearer the questions and puzzles that we seek to address in our research. Whom are we writing for? Whom are we writing against?
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Now, @amenzel.bsky.social is offering comments, encouraging as to go back to the “classics“, linking the presentations with work by Ferguson and Kalyvas, and bring out clearer the questions and puzzles that we seek to address in our research. Whom are we writing for? Whom are we writing against?
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We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
October 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
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📢 Exciting news from EAFIT University in Medellín 🇨🇴!
The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School.
👇 More details in the next posts.
The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School.
👇 More details in the next posts.
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
📢 Exciting news from EAFIT University in Medellín 🇨🇴!
The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School.
👇 More details in the next posts.
The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School.
👇 More details in the next posts.
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Imitating the results of human creative labour while blackboxing the processes behind (which largely consist of acts of appropriation, extraction, exploitation & waste of energy) is what genAI is all about. Presenting it is a neutral guide means depoliticizing a highly political technology
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October 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Imitating the results of human creative labour while blackboxing the processes behind (which largely consist of acts of appropriation, extraction, exploitation & waste of energy) is what genAI is all about. Presenting it is a neutral guide means depoliticizing a highly political technology
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@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
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⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.
Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment - Frederik Carl Windfeld, 2025
Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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I had the privilege this week of being awarded the title of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences from the @eui-eu.bsky.social after successfully defending my thesis on the EU sanctions policy.
September 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I had the privilege this week of being awarded the title of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences from the @eui-eu.bsky.social after successfully defending my thesis on the EU sanctions policy.