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Great stuff, Birgan:)

SHAPE Conference 2026 The British Academy's annual SHAPE conference will be held in London on 4 March 2026.

The Arts and Humanities Alliance is proud to sponsor the 2026 @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE conference. Our session is Myth busting for the public with @ritagardner.bsky.social @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @sebgordon1.bsky.social
Chair @emmacayley.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/shape-conf...

Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

Such an incredible essay by Nazanin Shahrokni on what practising solidarity as relation really entails spectrejournal.com/who-speaks-f...

Research in postdigital pedagogies of space is these days getting a lot of attention! Link in first comment

Educating for humans in the lead Mark Peace posits that our anxiety about the threats of AI to standards risk blinding us to a deeper need to reassert the value of humanness in knowledge work

Last week on Wonkhe: Mark Peace posits that our anxiety about the threats of AI to standards risk blinding us to a deeper need to reassert the value of humanness in knowledge work

😍 arte

We discussed the case in our chapter. We were right.

Editorial for fothcoming special issue on Postdigital Feminism: Platformed-Lives, Labour, Intimacies, and Activism. The issue is in the oven - stay tuned, as we'll publish the whole collection any day now! LInk in first comment

Global (Dis)Order Evidence Hub In this hub you will find collections of discussion papers commissioned by the British Academy and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on topics and themes relevant to the programme’s workstrea...

Some projects are long in the making because the questions are complex, the process iterative, and the answers not simple. The first batch of interventions from @britishacademy.bsky.social 'Global Disorders' is here - feat. a paper by yours truly 👇: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...

3000 redundancies at my university in just 3 years

Women in Philosophy: Elisabetta Lalumera on pain and conceptual engineering As part of a series of talks dedicated to the work of women in philosophy, Dr Elisabetta Lalumera from the University of Bologna discusses conceptual choice in medicine. The lecture was supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Highlights from the Women in Philosophy lecture series: Elisabetta Lalumera on the definition of pain and conceptual engineering youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s... #philmed #philsky

I just adore this paper - written by a reknown scholar in immunology, it gives a hugely important angle on our rsearch in postdigitla viral modernity!

All good things come to an end It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

They're closing down the best bit of the university (for no reason other than the higher ups apparently thinking this model of collaboration and interdisciplinarity isn't STEMmy enough)

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Order of the Gong!

Wonderful, restorative writing retreat at Chapelgarth.

A Genealogy for the End of the World What does it mean to call our era the Anthropocene, an age defined by “humanity” as a geological force? This essay interrogates that name and the universal “we” it assumes. Tracing the entanglements o...

Sunday read:

"A Genealogy for the End of the World"

Drawing on de-colonial thought and philosophical genealogy, Travis Holloway asks if rethinking our past might open the possibility of a more just ecological future.

#Philosophy #ClimateChange www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/a-genea...

The Perec Case ‘Perec went into analysis because he suspected that the ludic bent of his writing was in fact blocking an approach to his life story.’ Paul Keegan on Georges Perec’s psychoanalytic sessions with Jean-...

Read Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood a few mnths ago. Had no idea it signalled end of his analysis with Pontalis (had no idea he was analysed by Pontalis). Paul Keegan’s essay on Perec & Pontalis adds many more layers to what I’d thought perec’s book might be doing
granta.com/the-perec-ca...

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Towards a critical approach to diaspora engagement in teaching and education development in conflict-affected contexts by Oudai Tozan and Ahmad Akkad. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Towards a critical approach to diaspora engagement in teaching and education development in conflict-affected contexts

Points of Departure piece by Oudai Tozan and Ahmad Akkad

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

#HigherEducation #Diaspora

Writing an introduction is mostly deciding which literatures you're brave enough to annoy

“no one who has witnessed over two years of genocide in Gaza is likely to disagree with either Hammad or Said that the intellectual class has utterly failed to fulfill its social function”

TODAY! Thurs. Feb. 5 ~ I pm ET / 6 pm UK
"Ask the Philosopher"

Have any burning philosophical questions you'd like discussed?? Share them with us at thephilosopher1923@gmail.com, then join Michael Bavidge, Michael Spicher, and Tara Emelye Needham

#Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

We've launched our new migration masters @uclgeography.bsky.social – Migration, Politics and Society
Full of creative and critical approaches, and taught by really good people. Please pass on to students who might be interested!

www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

UK Government review on sex and gender slammed by professionals for wrongly portraying trans identities Researchers have warned that the UK Government’s review on sex and gender risks harming studies relating to trans identities.

Wasn't necessarily expecting to get our research covered in Attitude Mag but I'm so glad @attitudemag.bsky.social has:

"We are calling upon researchers across the UK to reject the recommendations of the Sullivan Review," says Dr Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social"
www.attitude.co.uk/news/uk-gove...

In selecting Sullivan, the commissioners chose an advisory group member of Sex Matters, which understands sex as binary, ‘real, immutable and important’ (what it calls ‘objective reality’) and claims, in contrast, ‘gender identity’ as a determination of whether ‘someone is male or female (or both or neither)’ is merely a ‘strongly held and erroneous personal feeling’ (Sex Matters 2024). Prior to selection, Sullivan had made clear she disagreed with research not conceptualising sex as binary and immutable (e.g., Sullivan 2020). While SR1 does not use the phrase ‘gender critical’ to describe its framework, it is allied—through its lead author, terminologies and recommendations—with those self-identifying as ‘gender critical’ feminists. It includes, for example, terms such as ‘adult human female’ (SR1, 11, 43) which some scholars have recognised as an ‘anti-transgender dogwhistle’ (Duffy 2025). ‘Gender critical’ feminism has been analysed by other feminist and queer scholars as part of a broader anti-gender movement (Butler 2025), gender conservatism (S. Ahmed 2021) and a manifestation of ‘postfascist feminism’ (Bassi and LaFleur 2022).2 These scholars have demonstrated that this movement's arguments are, as in Bassi and LaFleur's (2022, 317) words, ‘genealogically coherent with multiple conservative moral panics and resilient fascist tropes’. Meanwhile, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (2025a, n.p.) has stated that ‘the beliefs held by the gender critical movement overlap significantly with those held by various authoritarian governments and fascist political parties the world over’.

Many university researchers (& many social scientists) have no idea that the 'Sullivan Review' (named after its lead author, sociologist Sullivan) exists nor of its potential potency.

@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I wanted to set the Review in context

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trans research ‘at risk’ if data collection guidance adopted Response to Sullivan Review argues recommendations could hit quality of findings and impinge on academic freedom Published on February 3, 2026 Last updated February 3, 2026 Patrick Jack Twitter: @paddywjack The recommendations of a review into how sex and gender data is collected could damage the quality of public research and is part of wider efforts to erase trans people from statistics, a new paper has argued.

I never post a link to the THE but the THE has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and my paper with the headline, 'Trans research "at risk" if data collection guidance adopted'

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feels a bit weird to promote a review of my own book... but the book is not just mine, and contributors deserve to get their work noticed! Link in first comment.

We recommend another seminar organised by Franek

On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form This essay advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour. Using a Hegelian-Marxist method centered on capital’s necessary appear...

Sunday read:

"On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form"

Tatiana Llaguno advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour.

#Philosophy #Marxism
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-bein...

DREAMS Trailer (2025) The Oslo Trilogy YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage

youtube.com/watch?v=y7aK... beautifully written and portrayed. A true gem 💫