📢 New publication! Thrilled to share my first article from my PhD, published in Globalizations🌏

"Decentring narratives of (de)globalization and crisis: @Uzbekistan’s ‘everyday’ political economy amidst Russia’s war in Ukraine" (open access) 🇺🇿 🇷🇺

🔗 t.co/XLNuTXPXKI

#Uzbekistan #warinUkraine #Russia

In her new EJIR article, @giuliasciorati.bsky.social discusses autocracy commercialisation, narrative theory, and China's responses to Central Asian protests.

It is available online- read it here: t1p.de/1eskb

Grateful to Lim Min Zhang for quoting me in @thestraitstimes.bsky.social on the #China–#CentralAsia summit!

We discussed forum diplomacy, public opinion, and elite–society divides.

Always a pleasure to be quoted with @tumarov.bsky.social.

www.straitstimes.com/opinion/chin...

Such a great experience to participate in the Indo-Pacific Conference 2025 at the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge!

Thank you @wjhurst.bsky.social, @jnilssonwright.bsky.social, and Alice Politi for organising such a thought-provoking and comprehensive event!

So great to be back at KIMEP, even just on Zoom! Heartfelt thank you to the #China-#CentralAsia centre for organising

A project close to my heart is finally out!

With Beatrice Gallelli, I co-edited a special issue on cultural borders for #Sinosfere.

It’s in Italian, but modern tools can help!

Read at sinosfere.com

So privileged to listen to Oyuna Baldakova's rich empirical work on digitalisation and informal work in #Kazakhstan today @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social

When it comes to assessing the risks of DeepSeek, are we asking the wrong questions? Governments, journalists, and coders need to know that it’s a much more sophisticated propaganda tool than we all thought.

Did you miss our event “One Picture, One Thousand Words: Pictorial Storytelling in China’s Foreign Policy” on Jan 22?
 
You can now listen to the event podcast featuring @billcallahan.bsky.social, Florian Schneide, and @giuliasciorati.bsky.social.

🎧 www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

#partoflse #China

Edited by Chi Zhang & Gulnara Dadabayeva, this volume centres regional voices, featuring primarily scholars from Kazakhstan and China.

Using fieldwork on museum exhibitions in Almaty, I show how Kazakhstan frames the Silk Road through transnationalism, hospitality, and Islamic modernity - often diverging from China’s vision. This study highlights how narratives are not just tools of statecraft but sites of negotiation.

🚨 New publication! 🚨

Historical narratives are processual - constantly reshaped through contestation and reinterpretation. My latest chapter examines China’s Silk Road narratives and their interaction with Kazakh historical memory.

📖 Read more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📣Join us for the event featuring @billcallahan.bsky.social, Florian Schneider, Carolijn van Noort, and @giuliasciorati.bsky.social, which dives into the visual strategies that influence #foreignpolicy and global perceptions, focusing on #China.

➡️Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

#LSEEvents

How do images shape power in global politics? 🎥

Join us @lseir.bsky.social for One Picture, One Thousand Words

📅 22 Jan 2025 | 6.30–8.00pm
📍 Old Theatre, LSE

Speakers: @billcallahan.bsky.social | F. Schneider | C. van Noort

Explore how visual strategies shape China’s foreign policy.

Venice, history, and connections!

Join the ASIAC XVIII Annual Conference (9–11 Dec) as we explore Central Asia & the Caucasus through culture, mobility, & narratives.

Thrilled to co-organise & present my work! 🎤✨ Details: en.asiac.net

#ASIAC2024 @frankmaracchione.bsky.social

🚨 Article Online!

👉 How were #China and the #US represented in the Italian Twitter community during the first wave of #Covid19?

👀 Read it now in #openaccess: www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl/doi/full/10.... 

✏️ @frankmaracchione.bsky.social @giuliasciorati.bsky.social @combei.bsky.social