I över två års tid försökte svensk höger få oss att tro att dödstalen inte stämde, att de inte gick att lita på.
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I över två års tid försökte svensk höger få oss att tro att dödstalen inte stämde, att de inte gick att lita på.
"Lunds universitet och LTH samarbetar fortfarande med företag som tjänar stora pengar på det pågående folkmordet."
Läs @ninya2025.bsky.social, @kzackari.bsky.social, @annalundberg.bsky.social, @daliaabdelhady.bsky.social, @maxkoch.bsky.social, @lenahalldenius.bsky.social mfl i @skanesfolkblad.se
“The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear” — powerful and brave personal essay by my NYU colleague Lihi Ben Shitrit for @forward.com
The field has lost a giant, but those of us who were lucky enough to learn from him will keep carrying forward not just his ideas, but his way of being a scholar and a human being.
I’m heartbroken to hear that Richard Alba passed away. I’ve been so fortunate to have him as a mentor. Beyond his many accolades, what made Richard special was how he mentored people. He showed me how to be generous with your knowledge and genuinely invested in others’ success.
Some 1,300 Israeli academics have issued an open letter recognising the complicity of their academic institutions in the "horrifying litany" of crimes committed against Palestinians, and calling on academic leaders "to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza”.
Pictures of watchtowers, walls and checkpoints. Over the images, the text reads RUBBLE, CHECKPOINT, BARRIERS AND ID CARDS Israeli Apartheid Preventing Palestinian Life 4 March 2025 16:00-17:30 Pangea, Geocentrum II, Sölvegatan 12, Lund Panelists LINA EKLUND (Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) & NINA GREN (Div. of Social Anthropology) with moderator DALIA ABDELHADY (Dept. of Sociology).
Rubble, checkpoint, barriers and ID cards - Israeli Apartheid Preventing Palestinian Life
4 March at 16-17.30
Pangea, Geocentrum II, Sölvegatan 12, Lund
Panelists Lina Eklund (Dept. of Physical Geography) & Nina Gren (Div. of Social Anthropology) with moderator Dalia Abdelhady (Dept. of Sociology)
Sweden’s brain waste problem: how the social welfare state locks migrant professionals out of the workforce unbiasthenews.org/brain-waste-...
(Swarthmore logo - a building with some trees in front of it & the word Swarthmore - at the top) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Initiative Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Supervisor: Daniel Laurison, Associate Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College Position Length: 3 years Salary starts at: $65,000/year To Apply: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025 Position Summary The post-doctoral research fellow will work with Daniel Laurison, Associate Professor of Sociology, to manage Swarthmore College’s Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Initiative. The mission of the Healthy Equitable and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Initiative is to: 1. Connect faculty within and beyond Swarthmore whose research has the potential to improve the health, equity, and responsiveness of US democracy. 2. Support student-faculty research collaborations and student research on topics related to US democracy. 3. Communicate the results of HEARD-affiliated research to broader publics.
JOB!
Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US.
Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025
Butler on Trump: "To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance. We are in some ways in its thrall when it captures and paralyzes us. While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Application deadline: January 15, 2025
Special Call:
The MPIfG is offering a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in economic sociology or political economy, intended for researchers (f/m/d) from Palestine and Lebanon
career.mpifg.de/jobposting/e...
Would love to be added. TIA
📢I am looking for 2 PostDocs and 1 PhD researcher for my
ERC-funded project POLMIG on migrants in Africa: the positions will be for four years, based in Freiburg, Germany - Job ads available here arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call... Deadline 27th December
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Condemning genocidal killing and ethnic cleansing should be a matter of course for an engaged and critical academy defending human rights and fundamental democratic values.
”I framtiden kommer det att framstå som lika pinsamt att ha agerat mot en bojkott av Israel som det är att ha varit emot bojkott av Sydafrikas apartheidregim, skriver Nina Gren i debatten om bojkott hotar den akademiska friheten.”
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More than 1300 academics in Israeli higher education institutions call to stop the war.
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Statement of solidarity with Lund University Students encampment
Read full statement at 👉 www.luap.se
#FreePalestine #Palestine #LundUniversity
”The government representatives dismiss those protesting as undemocratic, uncivilized and destructive. It is a move that many historians and political scientists recognize as a step in the development towards fascism, write fifty researchers at Lund University.”
”Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan.”
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Gaza and the Rights to Have Rights. Editorial for the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
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Appropriate first post... looking for people to join the editorial team at the Nordic Journal of Migration Research. Come hangout with me in our quarterly digital meetings and be on the know of what migration researchers all over the world are up to.
