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Associate Prof of International Relations, Johns Hopkins, SAIS Europe. IR, NGOs, IOs, advocacy, and climate change Recent bk: https://www.cambridge.org/it/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/climate-acti

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 12d

Thrilled to be co-hosting the "Sensing the Climate" festival next week in Bologna. Please join us!!

Wonderful line up of artists, musicians, performers, & films.
Hosted in glasshouses in public gardens: Giardini Margherita.

serramadre.art/produzioni/f...

Festival of Ecological Imagination

Dal 1 al 6 ottobre, serra madre, in collaborazione con Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe e Università di Bologna, inaugura Sensing the Climate, la prima edizione del nuovo Festival of Ecological…

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 4d

"If movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live"

- New Yorker article on cinema festival in Bologna.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful discussion this morning on how artists and academics listen to the living world. Joanne Yao & Mali Weil artist collective.

#Sensing the #Climate
@ Le Serre Bologna
Festival of Ecological Imagination
UniBo & @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social

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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 4d

Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 5d

Italy: National strike in solidarity w/ Palestine today. The second national strike in2 wks.

Thousands of Italians taking to the streets. Here's Bologna getting ready this morning.

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 7d

And it's happening!! #Sensing the #climate festival at Serramadre, Bologna.

First event: workshop on the floods which hit Bologna last year.

Full program here:
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 7d

You're on it as always!! 👏

ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 7d

In two wks I'll be Leiden University, speaking at the Hague campus Thurs Oct 16 (17.00 - 18.30). Please join!
@unileiden.bsky.social
@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

LUCIR Seminar: The Far Right and Global Environmental Politics

The electoral success of far-right parties appears to threaten many international environmental organizations. These parties question the legitimacy of international institutions and are more likely t...

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 7d

**Check out this report from Bristol University on
criminalisation of climate protest worldwide. Super useful work they're doing!

bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 7d

Today Sensing the Climate, Festival of Ecological Transition starts w/ a film 🌳 "Il codice del Bosco" 🌳
Join us!!
@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
@connect-unibo.bsky.social

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 9d

Salvini's big project is to build a bridge from mainland Italy to Messina, Sicilia.

Fascinating pamphlet arguing why: so domestic animals can more easily cross the straits!!

This bridge is problematic for many rsns (costs, environmental, earthquake).

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 12d

Ocean acidification Planetary boundary now breached :(

www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 12d

Wonderful interview w/ Robert MacFarlane on his latest book, "Is A River Alive?".

He visits rivers in Ecuador (which has recognised rights of nature in its constitution), Chennai, and Canada.

Powerful writing, and by the end rivers become a verb, not a noun.

open.spotify.com/episode/7kr4...

Is A River Alive? - Can a New Book Convince You?

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 12d

Festival of Ecological Imagination

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 14d

How did pulling out of the Paris Agreement become a mainstream idea?

Support a neat podcast research project in NZ. @ralph9.bsky.social

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe

Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 16d

Thousands on the streets of Bologna for Palestine solidarity march. Even the cinema is closed for national strike.

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 16d

National strike for Palestine today in Italy. Large demonstrations in Bologna. Schools closed, public transport reduced.

Italian govt has not (yet) officially recognised Palestine.

en.ilsole24ore.com/art/today-ge...

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 18d

Some good global governance news for once: international treaty for #biodiversity in "high seas" (areas beyond national jurisdiction) comes into force!

Morocco, 60th state, just ratified it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

a cartoon girl in a purple dress is jumping in the air with the words hooray behind her

ALT: a cartoon girl in a purple dress is jumping in the air with the words hooray behind her

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 19d

Bologna turns on its magic to welcome incoming class @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social 2025!

ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 19d

Excited for the new podcast "Power and Purpose" hosted by @nathalietocci.bsky.social & Amanda Sloat.
sais.jhu.edu/news-press/p...

Stokes to have Natalie as new colleague @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Bologna!

@christinecheng.bsky.social
@emilyjones.bsky.social
@claraweinhardt.bsky.social

Power & Purpose

Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe is proud to announce the launch of Power & Purpose, a new podcast that explores the human side of global leadership. Hosted by Dr. Amanda Sloat and Dr. Nathalie Tocci—both fo...

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 21d

Puzzling!

ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 21d

I have written on this "Copycat" behaviour: where (extreme) right copies models of organizing from the left which they see as successful (and therefore threatening).

See JITP article w/ Michael Vaughan and Annett Heft
doi.org/10.1080/1933...

Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?

In 1998 MoveOn pioneered a new and powerful form of digitally enabled, multi-issue, member-driven, rapid response, advocacy organization. This model quickly spread around the world as progressive a...

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 21d

In midst of Kirk commentary: am curious about claim that he set-up Turning Point USA as a conservative response to "MoveOn.org" See obituaries in Irish Times & Times

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 24d

This is a great idea! 🧪

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UCLA researchers host science fair to showcase work suspended by the Trump administration

On Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA to demonstrate the long-term impact of frozen grants.

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to be launching our festival "Sensing the Climate" in Bologna.

We have a great line up of artists, musicians, films & talks held in public gardens at Le Serre di Giardini Margherita!
#climate #nature #art

Join us Oct 1-6th, & ck out the program here:
serramadre.art/agenda/

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 28d

Chart a zone of peace in Pacific. Pacific is too often seen as theatre for great power competition (US & China). #PIF

@marcodejong.bsky.social on history of peace, nuclear free movement in region.
@tekuaka.bsky.social

www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/06/c...

Charting a Zone of Peace in a militarised Pacific

Decades after World War II and forty years since the Treaty of Rarotonga, the Pacific is again at a crossroads: peace on its own terms, or the ambitions of powerful nations?