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After a brief writing retreat (mapping out all Emma-Roland research projects that I want to - need to - complete over the next few years) it is back to ‘the city’ now.

A must read. Is the representation of refugees affected by stigmatization based on race & gender Gaetano Giancaspro & Flavia Lucenti use text-analysis to explore the discursive—representations of Syrian & Ukrainian refugees in the European Parliament #OpenAccess 🔓➡️cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Please join us for our next Visual Politics UQ event: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki Lilie Chouliaraki from LSE discusses her new Columbia University Press book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. Wed 7 May, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: rolandbleiker.com/news/upcoming-…

CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, Sara de Jong, Harriet Gray & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop. Deadline: 30 May 2025 All details below 👇 isanet.org/Conferences/BI…

Video of our latest Visual Politics UQ event: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki (Lilie Chouliaraki / LSE) takes us on an amazing tour of her latest book: the remarkable Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press). Big thanks Lilie. & co-host Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson. rolandbleiker.com/past-events/li…

Congratulations to Subodha Dilhari for successfully passing the first progress review - statement of intent - of her thesis on Visualising Sri Lanka’s Humanitarian Crisis. Thanks to readers Katrina Lee-Koo, DB Subedi & review chair Andrew Philipps.

🚨 Roundtable Alert at #BISA2025 in Belfast! Join us for a special roundtable celebrating the work of Prof Emma Hutchison 📍 Dublin Room, Europa Hotel 🗓️ Hosted by BISAWG Emotions in Politics and IR and BISA - British International Studies Association #Belfast2025 #BISAConference

Calling all my colleagues working on the visuality of populism, this is going to be an exciting event which I am proud to co-organise with Jessica Wax-Edwards @waxwards.bsky.social. The event will be free and online, and we cannot wait to read your abstracts by the 31st of July: tinyurl.com/VisualisingPop…

Please join us in person or online for our next Visual Politics UQ event: Prof Juliet Fall discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10) In person 501/39a. Zoom rego: rolandbleiker.com/news/upcoming-…

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Please join us tomorrow for this ISA Theory Section online event in honour and memory of Emma Hutchison and her research contributions. Open to all, but registration required. isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Video of our latest Visual Politics UQ event: Prof Juliet Fall (UNIGE_en) discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography. Big thanks Juliet for joining us and Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson for co-hosting. rolandbleiker.com/news/https/www…

🚨New Publication🚨I'm thrilled to share my latest article on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ covid vaccine and EU-UK relations, available on International Affairs's website🇬🇧🇪🇺 As always, it was a joy to work with Nicolai Gellwitzki on this project. academic.oup.com/ia/advance-art…

Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant. rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanitar…

In Belfast for the first time, looking forward to the start of BISA and meeting colleagues and friends and, especially, a panel tomorrow honoring Emma with several wonderful scholars she read and admired.

I was very honoured to chair and help organise this special roundtable in honour of Prof Emma Hutchison at #BISA2025 - a moving tribute to her work on emotions and politics. Deep thanks to Roland Bleiker for his generous support, and to all the speakers who made it so meaningful 🌟

It has been a pleasure to talk to Marianna Karakoulaki from E-International Relations e-ir at the recent BISA - British International Studies Association conference in Belfast. Thanks, Marianna and team.