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New book available! How can we understand the geographies of commemoration in a digital world? I'm glad you asked! Through an embodied and affective approach to people's experiences across more and less digital realms. A dream to write this with @DanielleDroz Emma Waterton🦄🌈

Boris Johnson's leadership troubles relate to Brexit in three ways: the perception of weakening support in the 'Red Wall'; his 'technopopulist' leadership style; and the half-baked nature of Brexit: theconversation.com/boris-johnson-… Monash Politics & IR Monash Arts Monash Policy Matters MIRSA

Boris Johnson's involvement in 'Partygate' is not about his continued career prospects or otherwise, it is about the damage to trust in politics that his actions create: abc.net.au/news/2022-01-2… Monash Politics & IR Monash Policy Matters Monash Arts

As the results of election in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland come in, Ben Wellings explains why we are witnessing the death of Conservatism as we know it in the UK - a predictable, if lamentable, consequence of Boris Johnson's leadership. internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote today after months of anger over lockdown parties. But has Australia's recent election result inspired change in the U.K.? Anthony Albanese quoted Billy Bragg during the election, and he joins us. #TheProjectTV

As the new UK government led by Liz Truss heads down an ideological rabbit hole, Ben Wellings and Zareh Ghazarian explain why the British Conservatives should be worried about meeting the same fate as the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2022 election: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

In another slow news day in British politics, Ben Wellings argues that the Conservative party's troubles are all self-inflicted and the party is behaving as if it is already in opposition: theconversation.com/theres-somethi…

Ben Wellings covers more routine stuff from the alternative reality that is the Conservative Party: theconversation.com/do-not-adjust-…

Big thanks to Monash Arts students in my 'Nationalism and the EU' units in during lockdowns in 2020 and '21. The article based on the class came out this week in Nations & Nationalism: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… ...and it's open access!

Ben Wellings Monash Arts analyses the political forces that #rishisunak, the new UK Prime Minister, will face as he attempts to address economic crises at the helm of a dysfunctional party and with policy levers that are no longer fit-for-purpose: theconversation.com/who-is-rishi-s…

Fellowships for PhD, Postdocs and full-time staff at based at Australian universities to research at the European University Institute are available for the EUI's 2023-24 academic year. Applications close Monday 6 March 2023. To apply, please visit esaanz.org.au/aeuifai/

If you would like to conduct research in Law, Economics, History or Social Sciences at the EUI in Florence for your PhD, postdoc or as a Visiting Scholar apply here: esaanz.org.au/aeuifai/ Applications close 26 March 2023 Contact [email protected] Monash Politics & IR Monash University

🗨️ "The public debate about introducing this sort of nuclear technology into Australia and the region... has barely begun." 🚨 NEW from Ben Wellings & Richard Hayton on AUKUS & the nuclear-powered submarines announcement from an Australian perspective. ukandeu.ac.uk/aukus-an-austr…

Something for the weekend? Sunday 10am Ben Wellings Monash Arts joins hosts of ABC Radio National Minefield to discuss whether rebooting Fawlty Towers in a time of anti-woke culture wars would detract from the period-specific brilliance of the original: 🫤 abc.net.au/radionational/…

Don't mention the culture wars! Ben Wellings from Monash University on why a Fawlty Towers reboot for the 2020s is likely to become a political football in the culture wars: abc.net.au/religion/fawlt…

My article 'Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021' (w/ Ben Wellings, Maria Rost Rublee & Steven Zech Steven T. Zech) just published OA in British Politics! Monash Politics & IR Springer Nature link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Great opportunity for PhDs, postdocs and staff members based at Australian universities to spend time researching at the European University Institute near Florence (someone's got to do it). Drop me an email via the website to set up a time to discuss any aspect of the scheme and application process