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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · 18d

The last couple of days at #BorderCrim2025 have been wonderful. Saw old faces, met new people, heard about some exciting work. The theme of resistance recharged my activist battery a bit which has been in overuse for the last couple of years

Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 19d

It’s day two of #BorderCrim2025 annual workshop! We’re at Clare College @cambridgelaw.bsky.social starting the day with a panel on Gender, Violence and Exploitation.

Find out more in the programme: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to see our latest work together published in Millenium. After disaster a return to the status quo isn't inevitable. It can be an opportunity to resist journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Always a joy to work with
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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · Sep 5

Really saddened to see this. Volunteers work so hard to provide a place where people can remember the loved ones they lost to covid-19 💔

UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · Sep 5

This morning, we were devastated to find the children's section of the wall defaced and desecrated. The mindless cruelty, the utter lack of respect for those precious lives lost... 💔

Ugly big black graffiti spraypainted over the red hearts on the children's section of the wall.

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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · Sep 2

I made decision to withdraw from #eurocrim2025 this year after asking myself 'How would the brave women who shared their experiences with me feel about sharing their stories in this forum?'

I'm in Athens for the next week and up for some of the below and chatting #resistance & #borders over coffee

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Sep 1

BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."

(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)

"Therefore, the International Association of Genocide Scholars:
Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948);
Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court;

Calls upon the government of Israel to immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid,
water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population;"

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · Aug 30

Fantastic news!

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yesterday Panteion University of Social and Political Science withdrew its patronage from the Eurocrim2025 conference in Athens
#eurocrim #criminology #crimsky

via @brunildapali.bsky.social

www.panteion.gr/wp-content/u...

https://www.panteion.gr/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ΣΥΓΚΛΗΤΟΣ_ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ_ΑΠΟΦΑΣΗ29.08.2025.pdf

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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · Aug 24

ESC colleagues: petition & important vote at the General Assembly. If not boycotting, vote. Or a 3rd option: use presentation time to discuss complicity and promote attendance at the GE?

I'm scheduled to present on asylum seekers & everyday resistance. It would be unethical if I didn't resist too

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 24

... and if you still intend to attend, get behind the motion to be discussed and voted on at the General Assembly of the 25th Eurocrim Annual Conference, on 05.09.2025 at 13:00

criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com

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Fran Hall @franfd.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is such a cool idea - this book is an incredible, powerful chronology of thoughts, reflections & poetry about an extraordinary time, fast receding into the public’s collective memories.

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@lucygobag.bsky.social
@jennyedkins.bsky.social
@kandidapurnell.bsky.social

UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · Jul 30

We would like to #BuyAStrangerABook - "When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic," which has a section on the Wall, including a contribution from one of our trustees, @franfd.bsky.social. ❤️

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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · May 8

This was a wonderful event tonight. Thank you🫶 🇵🇸

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 8

THIS EVENING: 🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸, the second in our Conversations series of online events.

🍉 Thursday 8 May 18.30-20.00 BST/UTC+1 online
🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell and Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · Apr 25

I got creative and wrote a poem based on my research with people seeking safety. I'll be performing it here next week 🎭

Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · Feb 26

Today's challenge: editing a paper while Gomez does his best to stop me. Luckily for him, he's cute

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · Feb 10

@oxfordcrim.bsky.social has a three-year departmental lectureship while @ianloader.bsky.social is on leave. Please do consider applying. It's a great dept with wonderful students and a good balance of teaching and research time. Info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...

Departmental Lecturer in Criminology | Faculty of

Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law Grade 7: £38-674 - £46,913 per annum The Centre for

www.law.ox.ac.uk

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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · Feb 7

At Loughborough University we have a fully funded PhD studentship available for a UK/Home student for a project on Gaming/Gambling Harms and Inequalities: The Experiences of Diverse and Marginalised Communities.

Deadline 28 Feb 2025. bit.ly/3Et2ILq

Gaming/Gambling Harms and Inequalities: The Experiences of Diverse and Marginalised Communities | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University

This research seeks to i) examine the experiences of individuals from these groups with gaming/gambling; ii) identify underlying inequalities and potential early risk factors; iii) explore other barri...

www.lboro.ac.uk

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