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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 15h

@aycacu.bsky.social was quoted in @WSJ.com: “It’s in the tradition of this country to protest for justice, to engage in acts of civil disobedience.” buff.ly/l50tQky

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 1d

Polarisation has long shaped human life, but today’s divisions feel deeper and more widespread – driven by globalisation, technology, politics, and wider change.

This academic year, Larry Kramer will host an event series for students and staff exploring these themes.

Universities in the age of polarisation

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 2d

🗺️ How can we better understand how borders are connected to inequalities? Should we re-evaluate how we think about borders altogether? And what will the future of borders look like?

Join @afsee-lse.bsky.social this Thursday to discuss borders in a changing world.

⏰ 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Old Theatre

Not just lines on a map | Borders to belonging

6.30pm Thurs 9 Oct | Tarsis Brito, Maya Goodfellow, Luke de Noronha | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

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

How can those who oppose neoliberal capitalism, colonialism, and neofascism overcome divisions to build for fundamental social transformation?

Join Professor John Chalcraft on 15 October for the launch of his new book, which aims to offer an answer to this vexing question.

This event launches Professor John Chalcraft's new book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization.

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 8d

In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present.

Read the full article here ⬇️

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Don’t miss Professor Anthony Bogues at LSE!

Drawing on radical anti-colonial thought, he’ll unpack how liberalism’s history shapes today’s authoritarian turn.

🗓️ Wed 22 Oct | 🕔 5pm to 6.30pm | 📍 OLD.3.24

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#LSEHumanRights #LSESociology

Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture

Anthony Bogues at this free LSE even to discuss a history of liberalism and its deep relationship to illiberalism.

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 14d

🗞️ Dr Mai Taha's research traces the role of Palestinian women in sustaining the 1930's Arab Revolt. She argues that during wartime their homes were revolutionary spaces, but the domestic nature means it is overlooked by traditional accounts.

Read more in LSE Research for the World👇

How Palestinian women fought empire at home | LSE Research

Mai Taha explores unexpected and often unnoticed political resistance by focusing on the home, uncovering the vital roles played by women in conflict under the guise of simple domestic life.

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 16d

📣Upcoming event: Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture

This talk will posit a history of liberalism's deep relationship to illiberalism, raising questions of the figure of the human and of life itself.

📅 Wed 22 Oct, 5pm
📍LSE

More info➡️

Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture

Anthony Bogues at this free LSE even to discuss a history of liberalism and its deep relationship to illiberalism.

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies..

Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 19d

Professor Francesca Klug was quoted in an article by @theobserveruk.bsky.social on how 'the war over human rights' is being used as a political scapegoat in UK immigration debates. Read the article here:

Misinformation and myth: the UK’s phoney war over human r...

The debate over the future of the European Convention on Human Rights will shape conference season and beyond

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Sep 4

This lecture draws on five years of ethnographic and archival research into South Asian migration to the UK, interrogating the whitewashing of British queer history and the heteronormative framing of migrant histories.

📆 24 September, 5.30pm to 7.00pm

Queer South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production: Resistance, Mobility and Aesthetics in Britain

Welcome Lecture 2025 of the Depatment of Gender Studies

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Aug 27

Discover cutting-edge LSE research transforming our world. 🌍

Sign up for our online magazine, Research for the World, and explore insights shaping our future.

Subscribe here: buff.ly/tjdKiTc

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 Save the date for The British Journal of Sociology Conference 2026 🚨

We're delighted to confirm that the @bjsociology.bsky.social conference will return next year at LSE. More details, including how to submit a paper for consideration, will be announced soon.

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Before the policy, social housing made up 31% of overall housing tenure in England. Today it is 16%, causing council housing waiting lists and homelessness to surge."

📰 Read @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the enduring impact of Thatcher's Right to Buy policy.

Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden

A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Jul 31

What does it mean to access housing under a hostile environment? What do the structural and systemic barriers look like on the ground, and how are communities resisting them?

Read PhD researcher rémy-paulin twahirwa's article on a recent LSE Homelessness Initiative event ⬇️

Guest Blog: Why Housing Matters When it Comes to Migrant Justice - LSE Volunteer Centre

In this blog, you can read about the LSE Homelessness Initiative's panel event with the Hackney Migrant Centre, Hackney Night Shelter, and Refugee Action on the barriers migrants might face to access…

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Jul 29

📖New publication: @aycacu.bsky.social's chapter "David Graeber's Contributions to Anthropology: The Anthropology of Human Possibilities" is out now in French.

🔗https://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9782729714734/penser-et-agir-avec-david-graeber

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Jul 21

Read MSc student Agit Karatas's article for @lsehumanrights.bsky.social, which reflects on the Kurdish movement’s cautious optimism in the face of evolving Turkey–Öcalan talks and historic pan-Kurdish dialogue.

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Jul 22

Read MSc student Agit Karatas's article for @lsehumanrights.bsky.social, which reflects on the Kurdish movement’s cautious optimism in the face of evolving Turkey–Öcalan talks and historic pan-Kurdish dialogue.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/humanrights/...

The Kurdish question and the quest for peace: emerging dynamics in the 21st century Middle East - LSE Human Rights

Amid fragile hopes for peace and unity, Agit Karatas reflects on the Kurdish movement’s cautious optimism in the face of evolving Turkey–Öcalan talks and historic pan-Kurdish dialogue. The enduring…

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Jul 28

Out now in French, with a chapter from me on #DavidGraeber's Anthrology of Human Possibilities.

@lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Jul 24

📣 Student Volunteering Opportunity: Post Pals 📝 Help ‘post a smile on a child’s face’ by sending a card or letter to seriously ill children and their siblings.

📆 28 July, 12pm to 2pm

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Jul 17

Initiatives to redress the impacts of colonialism operate in varied social and political contexts. This @lseimpactblog.bsky.social article presents a new project which aims to utilise machine learning tools to create resources and networks for movements across Europe.
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How movements to redress colonial harms can work better together - Impact of Social Sciences

Initiatives to redress the lasting impacts of colonialism, operate in many and varied social and political contexts. Cira Palli Aspero, Elke Evrard and Tine Destrooper present a new project,…

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