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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 1h

We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉

For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟

Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 1d

Spheres of Knowledge is written for curious readers who want to understand the forces shaping our world.

It’s not an academic journal – it’s a space where complex global issues are unpacked in clear, straightforward language.

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Spheres of Knowledge | King's Global Affairs | Substack

Latest news and views from the School of Global Affairs, King's College London. Click to read Spheres of Knowledge, by King's Global Affairs, a Substack publication.

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Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @barnabyjdye.bsky.social · 1d

New Article.
The World Bank withdrew from dams in the 1990s but the technology returned over the last 20 years. This begs the question: does the World Bank approach dams differently today? Did past protests and policy reforms have a longer-lasting effect? theconversation.com/dams-for-dev...
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Dams for development? Unpacking tensions in the World Bank’s hydropower policies

After a hiatus, the World Bank returned to dam building, but has anything changed?

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 1d

What has happened to inequality between and within countries over the last decade?

Convergence, divergence, flatlining or plateau asks Andy Sumner from @kings-sga.bsky.social on the @eadi.bsky.social blog.

All Kings International Development news, here: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/09/12/k...

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 2d

📚 The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies
🗓️ 10 Oct | 🕔 5–6:30PM BST
📍 King’s College London
🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology...
How do Big Tech monopolies really work, and what are they selling?
Join authors Paško Bilić & Toni Prug for a deep dive into platform capitalism.

Technology and Development Seminar: Political Economy of Digital Monopolies

Book Discussion, "The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies" with Paško Bilić and Toni Prug

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 6d

Listen to our Prof Naho Mirumachi on BBC World Service programme The Inquiry, as to why an 80-year-old water treaty between Mexico and the US is in jeopardy...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC World Service - The Inquiry, Why does Mexico owe the US water?

Why are Mexico and the US in dispute over water?

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 6d

🏠 In Dakar, gardiens live in and protect homes under construction, often for the cities diaspora building from abroad.
They’re vital to the city’s rhythm, yet invisible in policy.
🔍 Fraser Curry explores this hidden infrastructure in our latest blog
👉 kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/living-in-...

Living in the In-Between: How Dakar’s Property Guardians Make a City Work

What do half-built houses, global migration, and everyday hustle have in common?

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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · 8d

How can mental health research can contribute meaningfully in the era of lived experience?

Join our seminar with Dr Cristian Montenegro to hear how sociology can enrich patient and public involvement agendas.

Sign up here: bit.ly/3VIinMg

📆 Wednesday 29 October 4-5pm

#PPIE #mentalhealth

Proximity and Incongruence: The social sciences in the era of lived experience | King's College London

An online seminar on how sociology can enrich participatory research agendas.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 15d

Call for #climatesim expressions of interest open NOW! 🌟

We are looking for institutions to take part in our annual climate negotiation simulation event - once again partnering with @chathamhouse.org 🎉

Deadline to apply is 19 October #climatesim 🌳

Info 👉 buff.ly/zPti35m
@julietdryden.bsky.social

Students discussing at the 2024 climate summit simulation

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 13d

What has happened to inequality between and within countries over the last decade?

Convergence, divergence, flatlining or plateau asks Andy Sumner from @kings-sga.bsky.social on the @eadi.bsky.social blog.

All Kings International Development news, here: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/09/12/k...

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 15d

🎬Don't miss our screening of 'Made in Ethiopia' + Q&A w/ Director Maxim Duncan, Wing-Fai Leung, Charlotte Goodburn and chair Linda Calabrese.

🗓️6pm, 22 Oct
@thegardencinema.bsky.social

Tickets kcl.ac.uk/events/film-...

@kings-sga.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #China #Ethiopia #film

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 16d

🌏 New pod: “Dust Storm Diplomacy”

When weather becomes a diplomatic storm—exploring how East Asia’s dust storms fuel cross-border tensions and environmental politics.

🎙️ With Dr Thomas White & Prof Andreas Baas
Listen now: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/dust-storm-diplomacy

Podcast - Dust Storm Diplomacy

Storms don’t respect borders, and neither do the politics they stir up. So will China’s green soft power bring genuine cooperation - or just export its authoritarian model?

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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · 21d

This might be of interest - @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @annieirvine.bsky.social @moneyandmentalhealth.org @rickburgess.bsky.social

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 21d

Discover what it's like to study at the Lau China Institute - Europe's largest #China research centre.📚

Hear from academics & former students to learn more about our MSc China and Globalisation @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.

Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/study...

@kings-sga.bsky.social #study

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 22d

📢King's Brazil Institute Opening lecture by Professor Matias Spektor, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo.

"How is Brazil coping: Sovereignty on Trial in the Age of Electoral Interference."

🗓️10 Oct 18:30

📍Bush House, Strand Campus, London

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...

King’s Brazil Institute opening lecture: “How is Brazil coping: Sovereignty on Trial in the Age of Electoral Interference” | King's College London

Join us for the King's Brazil Institute Opening lecture by Professor Matias Spektor : "How is Brazil coping: Sovereignty on Trial in the Age of Electoral Interference."

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 23d

In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...

Listening to Landscape: Tuning-in to the Ghosts of England

Contemporary electronic and experimental musicians are using sound to summon landscapes, memories, and ghosts of a disappearing England.

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 23d

Featuring insights from Prof. Phil Hubbard’s new book - Listening to Landscape:
Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion 🔗https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/listening-to-landscape-9798765112922/

King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 23d

🎧 What is the hauntological music scene?
Away from the Top 40 and set against the backdrop of a post-Brexit Britain and ongoing environmental crisis, these sonic experiments offer more than nostalgia, they reimagine England’s place in the world.
🔗 kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...

Spheres of Knowledge. Listening to Landscape. Using sound to summon landscapes, memories and ghosts of a disappearing England.

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 26d

Join us for a public lecture by H.E. Arif Havas Oegroseno, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Rep. of Indonesia, on the country’s sustainability agenda and response to global geopolitical trends.

📅17 Sept 13:30–14:30 I 📍King's College London

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec...

Public Lecture by the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Rep. of Indonesia

Join us for a captivating public lecture by H.E. Arif Havas Oegroseno, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 26d

📅13 September: Free open seminar
Understand & resist intersectional gendered violence across a continuum of different types of violence, from sexual harassment to intimate partner violence, state and institutional violence, war and genocide.
@kings-sga.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vemin...

Veminism Symposium | King's College London

Explore Visual and Embodied Methodologies against Gendered Violence at our one-day symposium featuring art, activism and debate

www.kcl.ac.uk

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 28d

🌍 Interested in global justice, climate change & development?

Discover the Environment, Politics and Development MSc at King’s College London — an interdisciplinary programme tackling today’s biggest challenges.

🎓 Learn more: youtu.be/eYgemI1dUzk

#StudyAtKings #GlobalChallenges

Introducing: Environment, Politics and Development MSc

YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 29d

🛂 Millions are denied short-stay visas to Europe every year. In 2024 alone, rejected applicants lost €145M in fees – 90% from Africa & Asia.

On 13 Sept, exhibition by LAGO Collective & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will explore visa inequality through data, sound and design ⬇️

All Other Passports: shapes and sounds of visa inequality | King's College London

Mark the beginning of LDF25 with an exhibition by LAGO Collective & King’s College London in the historic Bush House.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dust storms don't respect borders.

From Seoul’s yellow haze to China’s Great Green Wall, these storms stir up more than sand - old tensions, new alliances & questions of power.

kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/foul-weath...

@lauchinainstitute.bsky.social

Foul Weather Friends

How dust storms became a test of China–Mongolia relations

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · Sep 5

Denis Burkitt’s famous lymphoma maps didn’t just chart disease - they built a whole field of cancer research.

But behind the pins and paper lies a story of empire, infrastructure, and inequality.

Maps don’t just show the world. They shape it.

kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/the-maps-b...

The Maps Behind the Maps

How colonial “tumour safaris” led to viral oncology

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · Aug 19

🐗 Wild boar populations are rising across parts of England and Scotland, thanks to a mix of accidental and illegal rewilding. But what does this mean for the environment? 🌱

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @zslofficial.bsky.social
researcher Connor Lovell has been digging into the details!

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