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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
1 Aug 2023
Look closer at our School of Government and International Affairs youtu.be/hVwdn5BID2U via @YouTube
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Global Society@GloblSociety
24 Nov 2025
Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by Olga Demetriou (@Durham_SGIA). Be sure to give it a read!

#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
This article critically examines counter-conduct as an analytical tool for understanding minority subjectivity. It revisits the concept within its Collège lecture context and alongside alternative descriptions of opposing governmental power. Its affinities with the anthropological notion of the “everyday” are explored in depth. The anthropological everyday, it is argued, points to nuances that enrich our understanding of the political. Heidegger's notions of “everyday” and “they” are discussed alongside ethnographic insights from Greece and Cyprus. This anthropological-philosophical encounter yields a more meaningful understanding of counter-conduct, as embedded in the everyday, that addresses both its broad scope and its analytic specificity.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️@chenchenzh
24 Nov 2025
🚨new open-access article!🚨 @GSQ_Journal
what can drastically different representations of the Paris Olympic opening ceremony on Chinese social media tell us about competing narratives of civilization & digital reactionary politics?
academic.oup.com/isagsq/article…
Scholarship on “non-Western” civilizational discourse in international relations remains largely limited to the versions crafted or endorsed by the state. This paper takes the representation of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Chinese social media as an entry point to exploring vernacular and competing narratives of civilization in global cultural politics. Drawing on data from multiple platforms, I scrutinize visions of civilizational progress, decay, and betrayal, interlaced with contested imaginaries of “China”, “France”, and “the West”, in celebratory and demonizing discourses on the spectacle. First, I argue that ideas of “civilizational standards” have always been co-produced, appropriated, and negotiated by actors from the peripheries, rather than monopolized by the centre. A nuanced and situational reading of the celebratory discourse shows how users employ civilizational and universalist vocabularies to contest locally hegemonic structures, which may simultaneously repro
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Durham University@durham_uni
14 Nov 2025
Dr @Will_Plowright from @Durham_SGIA reflects on Ahmed al-Sharaa’s remarkable transformation from former jihadist to political leader welcomed at the White House.

👉Read more: brnw.ch/21wXulJ

#DUresearch #Syria @ConversationUK
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Oxford Politics and IR@Politics_Oxford
12 Nov 2025
Nuffield College and DPIR are jointly hiring Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows in Politics (up to 3 posts).

£41.7k · 3 years · start Sept 2026 · open to recent PhDs (within 3 yrs of viva).

Apply by 4 Dec 2025 🔗 ow.ly/JJOc50XptuQ
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PSA Early Career Network@psa_ecn
13 Nov 2025
🚨 Event Alert! One week to go!🚨
Join us for a roundtable on how PhD researchers and ECRs adapt & thrive amid funding cuts, precarity & shifting expectations. Registration available via member mailed newsletter.
🖥️ Where – Online
🕐 When - Thursday 20 November at 12.00 GMT
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
11 Nov 2025
Congratulations to Amanda Whitfield on passing her PhD viva!
Thesis: The Construction of the Hostile Environment: A Temporal Analysis of the UK’s Asylum and Immigration Legislation from 1900 to 2023, supervised by Prof Olga Demetriou, Dr Kyriaki Nanou & Prof Catherine Turner
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
11 Nov 2025
Replying to @Durham_SGIA
Many thanks to the examiners Prof Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Prof Chris Dolan (Warwick)!
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Bahar Baser@Bahar_Baser
9 Nov 2025
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International Affairs
@IAJournal_CH
27 Oct 2025
📚 Book of the Week 📚

In ‘Nations before the nation-state', Anna Marisa Schön disentangles the nation from the nation-state and offers a new history of this concept.

Read @annie_m_hsu’s review: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…
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PSA Early Career Network@psa_ecn
26 Oct 2025
ECN Community Update!
We’re excited to introduce the new PSA Early Career Network Committee! psa.ac.uk/specialist-gro…
Stay tuned for our new activities, including our sessions at the next PSA Annual Conference.
Connect with us on:
E/X: ecn@psa.ac.uk
BlueSky: @psaecn.bsky.social
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Ethics&IntlAffairs@EIAJournal
24 Oct 2025
NEW online exclusive by @CJFinlay on why U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats pose a profound threat to American freedom. Find the full piece here: ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclusi…
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
9 Oct 2025
Read Professor Ilan Zvi Baron's @izbaron essay 'Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution' for @DuckofMinerva
duckofminerva.substack.com/p/antisemitism…
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Durham University@durham_uni
9 Oct 2025
Alumnus @theJeremyVine will speak at Durham Book Festival this Friday, 10 October.

He'll speak on his murder mystery novel and his scholarship for Black heritage students in English Literature at Durham 👉brnw.ch/21wWtoi

@NewWritingNorth #DUinspire
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
8 Oct 2025
Event reminder for today, Wednesday October 8th!
SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
30 Sep 2025
The @GPI_Durham is delighted to host Prof. Kirsten Schmalenbach for a talk on 'The #UN's tortious liability in #peacekeeping missions': how law lifts the veil of organizational secrecy'

Wednesday 8 October from 3.30pm – 5.00pm, Room IM201 in the Al Qasimi Building.
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
6 Oct 2025
Happy first day of term everybody! 🎉

How about starting your week with a new episode of Professor Patrick Kuhn's podcast?

🚨 Politics in the Rearview Mirror is Back! 🚨

📢 Brand New Episode: European Security in Crisis: Rearmament Challenges and the New Drone Threat
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
6 Oct 2025
First SGIA staff - student of the year! Join us today, Monday, October 6, from 11-12 in the McEwan Lounge.

Hope to see you there!
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Hawraman Karim, PhD@hawramanfariq1
1 Oct 2025
Delighted to announce I've been awarded a Visiting-Scholarship at @durham_uni, generously supported by @BISI1932 @NahreinNetwork. Grateful to @BISI1932, @mehiyar_ for his help, @Bahar_Baser, for providing advanced research, @Harrowelly, her collaboration & Anne-Marie.
@halabjagcm
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
3 Oct 2025
The @CPTDurham is delighted to host James Clark @UniOfYork for the first research seminar of the year. 

Dr Clark will give a talk on the Kantian legal and political theorist J. B. Erhard’s Revolutionary Natural Law Theory.

Wed. Oct 8, 3-5pm, IM 222 Al Qasimi Building & online
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SGIA Durham@Durham_SGIA
30 Sep 2025
The @GPI_Durham is delighted to host Prof. Kirsten Schmalenbach for a talk on 'The #UN's tortious liability in #peacekeeping missions': how law lifts the veil of organizational secrecy'

Wednesday 8 October from 3.30pm – 5.00pm, Room IM201 in the Al Qasimi Building.
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Everyday Peace Indicators@everydaypeace
24 Sep 2025
🌍 Our new Everyday Peace Indicators website is live! 🚀
Now you can:
✨ Explore countries & projects
📊 Discover examples of our indicators
🎓 Learn from past trainings & sign up for new ones
👥 Meet the EPI team
Dive in: everydaypeaceindicators.org
#EverydayPeace #Peacebuilding
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