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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 4d

Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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The BEYOND project @non-signatory.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Papers 📣

Next June, BEYOND will host a forward-looking conference in Oslo on the lasting significance and evolving challenges of refugee protection under international law.

We invite scholars, practitioners and advocates to submit their proposals by December 15. For more information:

Call for Papers: The Refugee Convention at 75: Perspectives Within and Beyond - Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS)

As the BEYOND project concludes in 2026—coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention—we are pleased to invite scholars, practitioners, and advocates to a forward-looking conference i...

www.jus.uio.no

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 12d

Hallvard is in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social !!! Feasibility, Sandven argues, is superfluous or moralised in normative discourse 🤔🤔 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 8d

NEW ISSUE -

Ethics & International Affairs - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - https://cup.org/4pNRSCI

Includes a Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times

cc @carnegiecouncil.org

Promotional image for "Ethics & International Affairs" featuring text that announces a new issue. The background is a simple geometric pattern in shades of blue and white.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 23d

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

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Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 9d

I talked to @afp.com about Germany being under increasing pressure for its Israel policy. German responsibility "could be seen as the responsibility towards international law, the international rules-based order, the promise that genocide must never happen again."

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Pressure grows on Germany over rigid support for Israel

Pressure is building on Germany to join steps to sanction Israel over the Gaza war, sparking heated debate in a country that has long been at pains to atone for the Holocaust.

www.france24.com

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 9d

I've just uploaded a preprint of our forthcoming study:

Hierarchies in Death: Coverage of Palestinian and Israeli Victims in the Context of October 7 and the War on Gaza

(co-authored by me, @mariamsalehi.bsky.social and Justus Könneker)

Check it out!

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Hierarchies in Death: Coverage of Palestinian and Israeli Victims in the Context of October 7 and the War on Gaza

PDF | This study examines the framing of Israeli and Palestinian deaths in German media, focusing on the construction of grievability within public... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

www.researchgate.net

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Anna Fruhstorfer @annakfruhstorfer.bsky.social · 16d

Something I have been working on is starting to feel real, the proofs of Constitutional Change under Autocracy have arrived. I could not be more excited! Publication is expected in early 2026.

Book Cover with title (constitutional change under autocracy), author (Anna Fruhstorfer), and publisher (Oxford University Press).

First page of proof with book title, author, and publisher

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 19d

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023!

An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

New INTERACT study: German Academia after October 7

interact.fu-berlin.de

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 17d

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: a book forum from New Perspectives pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfil...

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Alejandro Esguerra @aesguerra.bsky.social · 17d

🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Here comes a thread

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Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 21d

🪃We have a new article out in @millennjournal.bsky.social: “Imperial Boomerangs: Transnational and Transtemporal Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict Configurations“

I am very happy, because this has been a proper team effort! @laurakotzur.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22d

“Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This finding is based on investigations and extensive evidence,” writes Navi Pillay, the head of a U.N. commission. “It has been corroborated by multiple sources.”

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza.

nyti.ms

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 23d

Seit heute ist unsere @interactfu.bsky.social Studie zu Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Selbstzensur unter Nahostforschenden online.

Für @tagesspiegel.de hat @jmwiarda.bsky.social die Ergebnisse zusammengefasst:
share.google/PwlicDCFD2o4...

Zur Studie: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/Grimm-D...

Diskussion über Nahostkonflikt an Hochschulen: Drei Viertel der Forschenden berichten von Selbstzensur

Seit dem Hamas-Angriff auf Israel hat sich die Diskussionskultur an deutschen Hochschulen massiv verändert. In einer Umfrage berichten Forschende von Selbstzensur, Anfeindung und einer bedrohten Wisse...

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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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Thomas Sommerer @tsommerer.bsky.social · Sep 4

How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social
with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition.

Are non-democracies taking over?

➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social · Sep 4

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV).

It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.

#ERCStG

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science

Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

www.sv.uio.no

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Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨Congratulations @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John for turning an #ISA2024 roundtable into an E&IA roundtable✨

Read my essay and all other contributions #OpenAccess - cup.org/4ms4D3N

Join us for the launch in two weeks (info below):
📅 Monday, 15 September, 18-19.30 (Oslo)

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Matthew D. Stephen @mstephen.bsky.social · Aug 27

New, somewhat bleak, piece from me on the decline of global governance:

doi.org/10.1017/S089...

Part of a Roundtable on Global Governance in Hard Times with @benjaminfaude.bsky.social, @ninareiners.bsky.social, @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, @stephofmann.bsky.social, John Karlsrud, & Julia Morse

The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core

The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance

doi.org

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 22

#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs -

Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests - https://cup.org/4ms4D3N

- @ninareiners.bsky.social

#FirstView #HumanRights

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Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social · Aug 26

#eisapec25

Tareq @teraqerat.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Carelessly executed reparation politics can lead to more harm than good"

@mariamsalehi.bsky.social during her brilliant contribution to the Semi-Plenary at EISA-PEC 2025 in Bologna.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 22

#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs -

The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline? - https://cup.org/3JvyR7r

- @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John Karlsrud

#FirstView

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Chr. Michelsen Institute @cmi.no · Aug 18

Follow the Bergen Exchanges here - vimeo.com/event/531010...

BeEx2025 – Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation 18-22 August

Join scholars, activists, legal professionals, and artists from around the world at the 2025 Bergen Exchanges, a five-day international conference exploring the…

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