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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 5d

Call for abstracts:
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 12d

*PSA26 Annual Conference* - taking place 30 March - 1 April 2026, Oxford.
📍 Call for papers, registration fees, and FAQs information online.
📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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PSA26 FAQs and Additional Information | The Political Studies Association (PSA)

How can I stay up to date with announcements about PSA26? The dedicated webpage for PSA26 will include all the latest information, deadline dates and related links. PSA Members will also receive…

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 15d

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 16d

Thrilled to have been a part of the British Academy/Leverhulme podcast series!

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16d

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher: A new podcast by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust

A new podcast for early-career researchers has been launched by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16d

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher: A new podcast by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust

A new podcast for early-career researchers has been launched by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 20d

Please follow my excellent colleague @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social! She is new to B-Sky but writes very many interesting (& methodologically innovative) things, including her new piece in @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social

Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration - Volume 119 Issue 3

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 22d

...So, please follow the account above, please SHARE this post, & please do also get in touch if you're keen 2 help out or take part in Rome: @biapt.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @apaphilosophy.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 22d

...It's really important that pol-phi has a substantial & growing place in the only pol-sci organisation devoted primarily to scholars working outside of the 'global north', but to do so we need help & followers, as well as those interested in coming to the beautiful city of Rome in July 2027...

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 22d

Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · Jun 11

Modernity after Alasdair MacIntyre

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Genealogies of Modernity — Modernity after Alasdair MacIntyre

Genealogies of Modernity remembers Alasdair MacIntyre

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Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory @theoriasa.bsky.social · Apr 11

We held our first special issue seminar yesterday, hosted by Chris Allsobrook (guest editor) and featuring contributors: Abraham Olivier, Dimpho Maponya, Olerato Mogomotsi, Pedro Tabensky, Jane Gordon, and Andrea Hurst. The recording is available now: youtu.be/89dRcKNB4EY #politicaltheory #theoria

Special issue seminar: 'On the Politics of Recognition' (TH181)

YouTube video by Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory

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Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory @theoriasa.bsky.social · Mar 17

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Feb 14

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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Islam

Podcast Episode · Past Present Future · 26/01/2025 · 1h 3m

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Jan 28

Delighted that a book project I was working on will soon be out in print with CUP elements.

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Jan 6

Please do not follow the account below, it is a fake/ impersonation account. I have reported it.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Dec 17

The trouble with electronic student evaluation questionnaires is that they eliminate creativity. For example I once saw a hand written questionnaire in which the student objected to the lecturer’s paisley body warmer he always lectured in and drew a helpful illustration to support his complaint.

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Dec 10

Advocate Tembeka Ngucakaitobi at the #LSE human rights lecture tonight.

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Dec 10

Tonight at the London School of Economics Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi delivers a tour de force lecture on the South African tradition of human rights with its distinct revolutionary genealogy and on South Africa’s ICJ case on the genocide in Gaza. #LSEhumanrights

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Dec 6

Next week join Dr Mahvish Ahmad at SOAS! Her talk will build on over a decade of political and intellectual engagement with the Baloch movement against enforced disappearances and state violence by Pakistan.

Techniques of disappearance: Unmaking Baloch worlds in Pakistan

This talk builds on over a decade of political and intellectual engagement with the Baloch movement against enforced disappearances and state violence by Pakistan.

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Dec 3

Look forward to speaking at the University of Coimbra this Friday.

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Memory, Reconciliation, and Resistance: Anti-Colonial Politics and the Mandela Legacy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Seminário | 6 de dezembro de 2024, 10h00, Sala 1, CES | Alta

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Dec 3

A wonderful experience guest lecturing African intellectual history for the Mphil in African Studies core course at the University of Cambridge today. @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Dec 1

Arabic Calligraphy. Joys of a new leisure pursuit . The qalam ( reed pen) might sometime be dipped in ink mid-way of completing a letter and requires a degree like precision. Still a novice but very therapeutic!

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York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy @ycpt.bsky.social · Nov 29

Reminder -- York Centre for Political Theory 2025 Book Manuscript Workshop Award (Deadline, 19 December 2024) -- Note that the deadline is in 2024, not 2025 as previously advertised

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Apply for the book manuscript workshop

The York Centre for Political Theory organises a Book Manuscript Workshop to provide a supportive environment to authors that have manuscripts close to completion but still open to revision.

www.york.ac.uk

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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social · Nov 21

🔔From the Blog Archive | Fitzroy Morrissey (Pembroke) | The Venture of the Islamicate: The History of a Key Concept in Islamic Intellectual History

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The Venture of the Islamicate: The History of a Key Concept in Islamic Intellectual History

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