I was invited to a Haiwaiin themed party the other weeked and was immediately very concerned about the potential for cultural appropriation. In the end, I decided to play it safe and just go as Barack Obama.

RT @dennismhogan: Many of the people attacking the newly minted Cambridge PhD simply don't believe in the existence of specialized humanist…

Joining me will be Dr Rachel Busbridge from the Australian Catholic University, Dr Teodora Todorova from the University of Warwick, and Dr Marcelo Svirsky, from the University of Wollongong

RT @jeremy_moses: Next Wednesday I'll be joining a panel discussion on "Atrocity Prevention and the Applicability of R2P to Occupied Palest…

@DougallAB Fantastic stuff, congrats!

DNA test arrived and think it might be getting ahead of itself a little

RT @emm_mateo: I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, larg…

RT @elgindy_: The claim that Hamas is responsible not only for its own atrocities but also every atrocity committed by Israel has to be one…

RT @Aaronsmith333: Never has a meme been more appropriate.

RT @ryangrim: The Israeli government is saying very clearly that if it is up to them, they will never, ever allow a Palestinian state, whic…

RT @bradleyrsimpson: The first Palestinian person I ever met was my junior year in Germany. He was a medical student named Nimr living on t…

@AdrianGregory20 @daniel_dsj2110 William Sewell makes a pretty good case that Anderson, in seeking to de-centre Europe, implausibly leaves it out of the narrative. In fact, elsewhere in IC, Anderson alludes to the creoles emulating certain ideas already in circulation - a telling slippage & ref to French Rev

RT @JonPiccini: Defend my PhD thesis? After all it did to me??

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RT @lionel_trolling: Not an Aquinas scholar, but find it highly dubious that Roman Catholicism's leading mind would not find legitimate aut…

@SouthAsianBuoy @LDBurnett 👏

@svpercy Thanks, Sarah. Couldn’t have done it without you!

@Rhys_Needham @OlufemiOTaiwo Yes, them too. Though I wouldn't quite have gone with the Guardian's "Why Genghis Khan was good for the planet" headline