Franca Kappes
@francakappes.bsky.social
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PhDing @gvagrad.bsky.social || Co-convenor @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social || Resilience, Disaster Migration, Nomadology || IPS, Critical Security & Mobility Studies || Bibliophile Pacifist
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ecdeisa.bsky.social
1/4 #EISAPEC25 was a blast! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! It also marked the end of @besteisleyen.bsky.social term as @europeanisa.bsky.social President and of #JoanaRicarte's role as ECD portfolio holder. Thank you both for your unwavering support of the #EISAECD community ✨🚀
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ecdeisa.bsky.social
3/4 We also warmly welcome #FrancescoRagazzi -new #ECD contact point of the @europeanisa.bsky.social board ➕our group's new members @mcianforlini.bsky.social @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social. A HUGE thanks to the departing @samarjit.bsky.social & #NeslihanDikmenAlsancak
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“An unsettling Mad Max vibe coursed through the city. Pickup trucks with armed men of unclear authority cruised around ..

“.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead.

“Still there.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...
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ecdeisa.bsky.social
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👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 Are you an Early Career Researcher attending #EISAPEC25?

Don't miss the @ecdeisa.bsky.social #SpecialSessions!💯

💥We’ve put together a dynamic program designed especially for ECRs. Check out this thread 🧵 to see what's happening ⬇️.

We look forward to meeting you!
francakappes.bsky.social
This will also be my first PEC as a part of the @ecdeisa.bsky.social. It would be great to see some of you at the great events last year’s group has put together!
francakappes.bsky.social
If you're interested in matters of Anthropocene governance and the ontologies it bears, climate displacement, mobility inequalities, disaster capitalism in the Caribbean, please join me for what promises to be a very interesting panel discussion on Friday, 29 August (Belmeloro, Filopanti 5).
francakappes.bsky.social
I will soon leave for #EISAPEC25 taking place in Bologna, where I will be presenting a paper on "The Nomad Century Revisited: Stratified Infrastructures of Neo-nomadic Mobility and the Unmaking of the Social Contract in the Anthropocene," which gives a glimpse into my ongoing dissertation research.
francakappes.bsky.social
🟡 Deadline Approaching Soon 🟡

November may not be the most picturesque season for a stroll along Lac Léman, but @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social, Victoria Motta and I would still be very happy to welcome you at the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025 .

More information 🔽
ipsswitzerland.bsky.social
#CfP ⚠️ Join us for the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025, from 24–25/11/25, @gvagrad.bsky.social for "Diffractive Conversations on the Present-Future of Global Governance Research" co-convened by @tempus-fugit17.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social

🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
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ipsswitzerland.bsky.social
#CfP ⚠️ Join us for the #DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 2025, from 24–25/11/25, @gvagrad.bsky.social for "Diffractive Conversations on the Present-Future of Global Governance Research" co-convened by @tempus-fugit17.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social

🟡 Abstracts due 20/08/25
🔵 Detailed Call ⬇️
francakappes.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to contributing my little share to @europeanisa.bsky.social's excellent work as a new member of its Early Career Development Group @ecdeisa.bsky.social & to hopefully meeting many of you at #EISAPECE2026 in Bologna next month! Feel free to reach out, if you'll be around too ☕ 🇮🇹🍝
ecdeisa.bsky.social
We’re excited to welcome our new members 🎉: @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social,& #MatteoCianforlini!

We look forward to working with you 🤝

Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
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ecdeisa.bsky.social
We’re excited to welcome our new members 🎉: @francakappes.bsky.social @marionfoster.bsky.social,& #MatteoCianforlini!

We look forward to working with you 🤝

Meet them at our #EISAPEC2026 events in person 📍 and
watch this space for all @europeanisa.bsky.social #EarlyCareer updates! ✨
francakappes.bsky.social
It's been a super enriching discussion!
ipsswitzerland.bsky.social
We were present at #EWIS2025 in enchanting Kraków, where we gathered at Poland’s oldest university, Jagiellonian, for the WS "How Matters Come to Matter: Thinking/Practising In-Betweenness Through Posthuman Method Configurations," convened by @lucasperezfl.bsky.social & @francakappes.bsky.social.
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fivebooks.com
"Any idea that Islamism is a monolithic ideology is defeated by the data. And of course the bottom line on that is the lack of a central authority and institutions in Islam."
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Islamism
The best books on Islamism, as recommended by author and academic Malise Ruthven
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benandersongeog.bsky.social
The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis:

mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...
The Politics of Feeling
The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period ha...
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francakappes.bsky.social
Excited to be debating 'Posthuman Method Configurations' in our workshop co-convened with @lucasperezfl.bsky.social
at #EWIS2025. Reach out if you're around and would like to meet for ☕️ @europeanisa.bsky.social
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andrewcopson.bsky.social
It simply is no longer viable for us to hold the 2026 World Humanist Congress in Washington DC as planned, with the US in the state it is. Delighted to announce that we will instead be hosted by the wonderful people of Ottawa, Canada!
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wzb.bsky.social
Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
Das WZB von oben. Foto: Nadim Bazze
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andytobo.bsky.social
Maybe if we said it caused “learning loss” more people would care
roxanegay.bsky.social
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
katearonoff.bsky.social
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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ecpr.bsky.social
Registration now open!

🎓 Methods School at the General Conference #ecprgc25
📆 26 – 29 August 2025, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Browse courses on #quantitative, #qualitative, creative, or #mixedmethods

🔐 Secure your space buff.ly/KN2oD4U

#AcademicSky #PoliSky
Courses - ECPR Methods School at General Conference
European Consortium for Political Research
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wanderinggaia.bsky.social
Sure it’s just a blip and not what scientists have been warning about for decades. Carry on as usual
eciu.net
ECIU @eciu.net · Jun 17
Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events

Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says.
Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events
Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says
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stefanmueller.bsky.social
📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.

PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
Everyone agrees that this issue is really important. But we do not know much about this specific question, although it matters a great deal, for these reasons. We approach the problem from this perspective. Our research design focuses on these cases and relies on these data, which we analyze using this method. Results show what we have learned about the question. They have these broader implications.