What role do universities play in contributing to socially just cities?
Join us and guest speaker Dr Stephanie Butcher for this on-campus event on 26 March to explore the challenges and responsibilities of the university to the city in which it is embedded.
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I published my first academic paper outside of the field of IR. See my 2026 article in Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, titled "Trying Transformative Internationalization". It is based on my research for my PGCAP with the US-UK Fulbright Commission: www.peterlang.com/document/170...
Our guest speaker: Dr Stephanie Butcher (University of Sheffield) . Butcher will be explaining the origins, challenges, lessons learned, and impact of the 2019 study titled 'University-led community partnerships and social justice'
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sit...
For anyone at
@liverpooluni.bsky.social, registration is now open for our 2nd Anticolonial Education Working Group (AEWG) event of 2026: 'Understanding the role of UoL in a socially just city'
School of Law & Social Justice Event space
26/03/26, 10:00 to 13:00
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
A special thank you to the guest speakers, Dr
@malikalnasir.bsky.social and Rhiannon Jones, for their presentation on "Lifting The Barriers to Black Academia": blackacademia.co.uk/wp-content/u...
A belated thank you to everyone who attended our event
'The University Belongs to Us:A Forum re-imagining Higher Education'.It was a great day of conversation around higher education,social justice,and community-led learning.We appreciated the Tiber Community and Greenhouse Project for hosting us!
missiles are reported to have hit in Iran, Doha, and Dubai in the last hour. In residential and public areas. Sending love and power to everyone and their families watching in horror during this difficult time.
Join community representatives and University colleagues at this public event on 22 February to discuss issues of equitable education access in Merseyside, presented by our Anticolonial Education Working Group and @nawalabu72.bsky.social
Special shoutout to my hardworking stellar cousin, Hanan Haliru VP (International Students) of Cardiff University Students' Union for coordinating this talk!
I am excited to be making my way to Cardiff tomorrow to speak as part of Cardiff University's 2026 Race Equality Week. This will be my first visit to @prifysgolcdydd.bsky.social C. Looking forward to meeting with the Student Union and discussing our experiences in acadmia
This workshop will also include a presentation by Dr Malik Al Nasir and Rhiannon Llystyn Jones, editor and author of the ‘Lifting The Barriers To Black Academia Through Decolonisation and Positive Action — Policy Roundtable Report’. @malikalnasir.bsky.social : blackacademia.co.uk/wp-content/u...
This three-hour workshop will bring together the public, prospective university students, representatives of community organisations, and staff based at the University of Liverpool. This event aims to create a space for dialogue concerning issues of equitable education access in Merseyside.
For anyone in Merseyside, registration is now open for our first Anticolonial Education Working Group (AEWG) event of 2026:
The University Belongs to Us: A Forum re-imagining Higher Education
February 22nd, 2026, 12:00 to 15:00
Location: Tiber Football Centre
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-univer...
Thanks guys! I hope all is well!
Really proud to be here participating in and cheering on my amazing friends @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social @benjaminklasche.bsky.social as they launch the @securityhub.ee first conference at Tallinn University 🇪🇪
Greetings! My first book chapter is out with @academic.oup.com in Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: A Handbook! It features poetry from the inspiring Dean Atta and centers Black feminist scholarship. Congratulations to the editors, my former colleagues at @interpolaber.bsky.social
Promotional page for “Connecting Abolition(s),” a two-day workshop taking place 12–13 May 2026 at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. The page announces a call for contributions focused on abolition in theory and practice, including border abolition, prison and police abolition, climate justice, settler colonialism, mutual aid, and international solidarity. The event includes panels, roundtables, and creative workshops, with plenary speakers Ajay Parasram and Amal Abu-Bakare. A submission deadline of 26 January 2026 and contact email cmfd@aston.ac.uk are listed, along with a note that limited funding is available, prioritising PhD students and early career researchers.
Aston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟
Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉
👉 More info on sheet attached below!
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
Yah!!!
Excited to be returning to Birmingham as a plenary speaker alongside the brilliant @aparasram.bsky.social of @dalhistory.bsky.social ! This will be my first time at @astonuniversity.bsky.social ! Looking forward to it!
Rest in power Renee Nicole Good, but for those posting today, please remember that this isn’t the first death by #ICE . We will hear Good’s name because the empowered white nationalism the US government is backing does not allow for the death of a white victim of white nationalism to go unnoticed.
The death of a legal observer in Minnesota by ICE is a warning to the UK in so many ways. We’re tying ourselves to a violent, corrupt, racist nation which does not care about its citizens. Reform believes in its model, Labour is appeasing it. It is the public who will suffer.
What does it do to faith in a government when everyone can see for themselves, on video, that its Homeland Security Secretary is blatantly lying to them?
US immigration agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
Minneapolis.
NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning.
“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”
I haven’t heard anyone say hard power and soft power so much since my first year undergraduate politics class. This is unbelievable.
The UK pension secretary is currently using Joseph Nyes argument of hard power and soft power. They are explaining it to a BBC reporter to explain why it will let the USA decide whether it broke international law rather than to a commit to a stance @bbcsounds.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
We Are Still Here: A testimony by Gaza's students about surviving genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/we-are-still-here-our-testimony-surviving-gazas-genocide
Symposium presentation
Group picture with symposium participants
Keynote speaker, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
Throwback to our 2025 Symposium: Grateful to all speakers who presented their drafts and sparked thought-provoking discussions. Special thanks to our keynote, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the special issue featuring the completed articles!
For those who don’t know, on November 3rd I gave my first conference/symposium keynote for @millennjournal.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social. My keynote was based on my 2022 reflection piece,‘Your Work is Not International Relations’.Thank you to everyone who attended and the editors for inviting me
Dr Marine Guéguin , Kamran Khan, Carl Gibson, and Amal posing by a Proud Leeds Sign
Just wanted to give a shout to @marinegueguin.bsky.social @kamrank.bsky.social , and @carlgibson.bsky.social for the great conversation we had on 'Rethinking the Pedagogies and Politics of “Terrorism”' at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social ! I had a great time and 1st visit to Leeds!
