Dr Margot Tudor
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lecturer in foreign policy & security. historian of UN peacekeeping, humanitarianism + war. author of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats . she/her
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Book cover finalised by
@cambridgeUP
this morning ❤️🔥getting very real now!!!
Launch on 30th June. Please encourage your librarians/rich distant relatives to preorder Blue Helmet Bureaucrats 🙏:
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its so sad that no women in the whole world have ever written about nations and nationalism :(
In my graduate seminar this week we focus on nations and national states.
In addition to rereading three great works from the 1980s (top row), I am engaging with three post-2000 books by the macrosociologist Andreas Wimmer (bottom row).
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Hugely excited to announce that my first book, 'Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1946-1971' is now under contract with Cambridge University Press for
@samuelmoyn
and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann's 'Human Rights in History' series!
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🚨Everyone stop right now and read this article about LSE's appalling response to abusive prof. This has been YEARS in the making:
'Women silenced across ranks: LSE’s mishandled sexual misconduct investigation into professor'
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✨v excited and surprised to find out that my book - Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971 (
@cambUP_History
) - has been shortlisted for the
@RoyalHistSoc
2024 Gladstone Book Prize✨
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Honestly the whole of my PhD has been worth it to discover the UN officials’ glee when they discovered that, for a couple of hours, the Katangan ministry of the interior was fucked over by a massive swarm of bees. Every archive I’ve seen mentions the Bee Incident at least once.
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My book 'Blue Helmet Bureaucrats' will be published by CUP in June 2023! I'll be organising a book launch in Bristol soon, but I would also love to travel/zoom to talk about it. Please get in touch if you run a seminar/talk series so we can make it happen!
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Can’t recommend this book enough. One of the few academic works that I’ve read cover to cover. Has prompted so many thoughts about global governance & race. Now to figure out how my own work builds on this timeline. Many thanks to
@DrDuncanBell
for such a wonderful contribution!
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some career news: in september I’ll be joining
@Cityintpolitics
as a Lecturer in Foreign Policy and Security!! i can’t wait to be part of such an exciting department - one that’s at the forefront of research on internationalism and global orders 🌎🌍🌏
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SPOT ON criticism from incredible scholar
@TaylorCSherman
:
'The complaint system [at LSE] seems to be set up to protect the faculty, and does not just let these abuses happen, but discriminates against the people who complain.'
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i start my first perm lecturer position next monday at City. super excited but want to put some sustainable aims in place to prevent burnout. what are some key tips/practices you wish you’d heard before you started your academic job?
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My article ‘Gatekeepers to Decolonisation’ with
@JContHist
is one hit away from 1000 views. Give it a read if you’re interested in decolonisation, international organisations, and the racial hierarchies in the field that shaped who ‘deserved’ self-determination in the 1960s ⚖️
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Shattered but this afternoon I passed my PhD viva!! Endless thanks to
@MTerretta
and
@TaitheModern
for examining my thesis and being so lovely. Couldn’t have done it without the wonderful
@Hist_HumbertLau
and
@RoisinRead
🥰
She’s a doctor.
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guess what was waiting on my doorstep !!
A v cool way to start the week: you can now read Blue Helmet Bureaucrats on Cambridge Core!!! Hard copies should start arriving on Thurs. Pls get in touch if you can’t access and would like pdfs. I’m so excited/nervous to hear what people think of it:
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I'm giddy to confirm that I will be joining the
@warning_archive
project at the
@UniExeCornwall
as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the new year 🎉
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i think... i think i just submitted my book manuscript?! can't wait for
#bluehelmetbureaucrats
to become a physical reality and not just a FINALFINALFINAL.doc for me to obsess over. desperately keen to see it out into the world and hear reactions after all this time!!!
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🎉 New article out with
@JContHist
: ‘Gatekeepers to Decolonisation: Recentring the UN Peacekeepers on the Frontline of West Papua’s Re-colonisation, 1962–3’. On peacekeepers’ role in human and civil rights violations against the Papuans.
#twitterstorians
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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats will be published (!!!!) on 27th April - available for order via all the usual places and online with Cambridge Core. I can't wait to hear what people think of it and celebrate the launch in Bristol on 30th June:
Book cover finalised by
@cambridgeUP
this morning ❤️🔥getting very real now!!!
Launch on 30th June. Please encourage your librarians/rich distant relatives to preorder Blue Helmet Bureaucrats 🙏:
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So delighted to have been awarded an honorable mention for the
@isanet
PEACE Best Female Scholar Book Award for 'Blue Helmet Bureaucrats'!! Paperback out next Spring 💫 check out the book here:
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I'm very relieved to be finally ticking this baby off the to-do list. Forcing myself to take a minute (or two) to reflect on the past three years and all the work that went into researching and writing my PhD thesis. See my acknowledgements for gushing and graditude:
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emerging from marking hell to let you all know that Lydia Walker's new monograph - States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization - is available OPEN ACCESS right now on CUP core. rubbing my hands together with glee and ready to dive in 🔥
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Thrilled (and very surprised!) to receive the
@OfficialUoM
Faculty of Humanities Award for Distinguished Achievement 🥳
Endlessly grateful to
@Hist_HumbertLau
and
@RoisinRead
for nominating me and for their brilliant supervision during my PhD.
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.
@EverydaySexism
is when men back off straight away once you say you have a bf because they respect the other guy more than your consent
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Excited to share with you all my first article! It’s on UN peacekeeping in Cyprus and expands on some dynamics that didn’t make it into my thesis.
It was a dream to publish with
@GlobalHistJnl
. Thanks to
@UniofExeter
for making my article open access 🎉
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the algorithm odds were in my favour & i have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme small grant for my 2nd book on post-Suez peacekeeping identities, military masculinities & field-based lives/interactions🇺🇳 can't wait to be back in the US to visit pals, UN archives, and
@SHAFRConference
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I've written a blog about my experience with burnout, precarity in UK academia, and finding joy in my work again. Have you gone through something similar? I'd love to hear from other PGRs/ECRs.
#twitterstorians
#AcademicTwitter
would anyone find it helpful if i wrote a short blog about my experience with burnout and being an ECR/postdoc this year? i’m just emerging from the other side and i’m trying to build some healthy habits so it doesn’t blindside me again anytime soon.
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a powerful work of scholarship that moves beyond the racist/antiracist binary and digs into the prejudices and white supremacy baked into UNESCO’s epistemological evolution.
@rianoseb
’s book is a must read!
my review soon for Diplomatica.
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I have a chapter on “Humanitarianism and the global Cold War, 1945-1991” in this new Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, alongside great chapters by friends & colleagues around the world! Edited by
@SilkeRoth
, Bandana Purkayastha, & Tobias Denskus:
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Very lucky to be working with this amazing team of historians on rethinking internationalism(s) - lots of exciting events and publications to come ✨
Thrilled to announce
@MargotTudor
,
@1_of_many_rias
, Daniel Laqua & I have been awarded an AHRC Curiosity Award for 'Rethinking Internationalism'. Here we were in the summer, excitedly taking to whiteboards & waiting patiently for the embargo to lift…
@centreintlhist
@BirkbeckHCA
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an exciting email from
@RoyalHistSoc
to end my first term as a lecturer ✨huge thanks to
@sulinlewis
for sponsoring me!!
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🇺🇳My book launch will be at 5.30pm on 30th June at the Central Bristol Library! It will include an introduction to the book & a roundtable discussion with the wonderful
@JessicaReinisch
,
@1_of_many_rias
&
@skinner_rob
. It would be great to see you there!
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what a week! ecstatic to see that my article on West Papua has jointly won the
@HistoricalInte1
Merze Tate Prize🥳 i was very angry whilst writing this article and remain very passionate about discussing the (re)colonisation of West Papua and the UN's role in that process.
Named in honor of a pioneering scholar, the Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations was established to recognise outstanding articles in Historical IR.
Our congratulations to the joint inaugural winners of the prize
@MargotTudor
and
@MalteRiemann
!
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BHB will be out in paperback later this year and I’d love to do some more talks/events to promote the - much more affordable - version, so please get in touch if you have a seminar series/podcast/etc and let’s make it happen 💙💙💙
Book cover finalised by
@cambridgeUP
this morning ❤️🔥getting very real now!!!
Launch on 30th June. Please encourage your librarians/rich distant relatives to preorder Blue Helmet Bureaucrats 🙏:
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academic bingo as have just had a reviewer tell me to cite M. Tudor’s work on UN peacekeeping
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In the middle of a tough month, finding out I've been elected as an Early Career Member of the
@RoyalHistSoc
has really made my day.
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Still grinning from last night - what a dream book launch! It felt so perfect to discuss & celebrate the book with a room full of friends and family. Community-building is essential. Huge thanks to
@1_of_many_rias
,
@JessicaReinisch
and
@skinner_rob
, &
@BristolLibrary
for the room
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A v cool way to start the week: you can now read Blue Helmet Bureaucrats on Cambridge Core!!! Hard copies should start arriving on Thurs. Pls get in touch if you can’t access and would like pdfs. I’m so excited/nervous to hear what people think of it:
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Surprised and very grateful to receive the
@MYBISA
Michael Nicholson Thesis Award 2021. Can’t thank my supervisors (
@Hist_HumbertLau
@RoisinRead
@EleanorDavey
and Steven Pierce) and examiners (
@MTerretta
@TaitheModern
) enough for supporting me through this project 💓
At 12.45-1.45pm, Webinar room, we have our Chair's address and PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENTS! Come along to find out who the 2021 winners are and what we've been up to over the past 12 months
#BISA2021
If you're not attending the conference you'll be able to get more info here later on!
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Students at Manc have been emailed a survey on what to do with striking lecturers' wages that will benefit students. Plz use it to recc that the SU sets up a hardship fund for striking lecturers; the best way to benefit students is to support our lecturers!
#WeAreTheUniversity
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🚨
@BrianDrohan
and I are putting together an edited volume on 'military humanitarianism' (broadly conceived!) w/ a focus on field-based practices. Esp. welcome = ECRs & non-english authors! Pls get in touch if you have Qs. Deadline for abstracts: 22nd Feb.
More details below ⬇️
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Very grateful to have received this snazzy plaque all the way from Nashville
@HistoricalInte1
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rejected from a job today BUT i also had a heavenly experience at hairdressers (turns out i have legit curls??? not just weird frizz??? who knew???)
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Delighted to find out that I’m runner up for the
@BIHGroup
Michael Dockrill Thesis Prize 2021! Thanks to the jury for considering my work and for their v kind words ✨
Huge congratulations to
@ElinevanOmmen
for the award - can’t wait to read her book!! 🎉
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In a little over a week, I'll be giving a paper at the
@ihr_history
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop detailing my research on UN peacekeeper relief efforts during the Cyprus conflict in 1964-66🌍
Open to all & I'd love to see you there:
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🚨 Roundtable panel on 'Military Humanitarianism' at 4.30pm at
@HistoryatCity
on Mon 15th January! Wonderful
@BrianDrohan
,
@JessicaReinisch
,
@elisabeth_leake
,
@SilkeRoth
, will be discussing their work & recent historians' attention to MH. Pls sign up here:
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We’re off!!
@BrianDrohan
introducing our workshop on military humanitarianism at
@HistoryatCity
today!
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brb printing this x 1000 and handing it out to everyone who works on the UN
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My book launch is on 30th June at the Bristol Central Library in the beautiful Holden Foyer 🌟 Please come along for and introduction to the book, as well as a roundtable discussion on internationalism, peacekeeping, and decolonisation:
Book cover finalised by
@cambridgeUP
this morning ❤️🔥getting very real now!!!
Launch on 30th June. Please encourage your librarians/rich distant relatives to preorder Blue Helmet Bureaucrats 🙏:
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it’s not every evening that I get to spend a couple of hours in a crypt with one of my favourite authors ✨ congratulations to
@LaEnriquez1973
and
@GrantaBooks
for the book and to
@StorysmithBooks
for a great event!
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✨to celebrate my birthday, I’m giving away a copy of my book Blue Helmet Bureaucrats
@cambUP_History
✨
to enter, you must have a UK delivery address, be following me, and RT this tweet! i’ll contact the random winner on saturday 🌞
#twitterstorians
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💫 Our new article ‘Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology’ in
@BritJPIR
is out now! It developed from endless drafts, paper presentations, & debates within the
@warning_archive
team. Super proud:
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That’s a wrap on our workshop & roundtable on military humanitarianism! Thank you so much to all our speakers, chairs, discussants, & attendees over the last 1.5 days at
@HistoryatCity
💫 Now onto the edited volume! Generously funded by a
@PastPresentSoc
grant &
@Cityintpolitics
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My review of
@ewa_2m
's book 'Building states: the United Nations, development, and decolonization, 1945–1965' (
@ColumbiaUP
, 2022) has just been published by
@IAJournal_CH
. A really important book for all scholars of the UN and packed full of research!
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🚨CFP "Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms"
@NorthumbriaUni
, 20/21 March 2025. Pls send abstracts by 20 Nov to Daniel Laqua. This is the 1st of our
@ahrcpress
'Rethinking Internationalism' events - we're looking forward to your proposals and esp. encourage PGRs/ECRs submissions!
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FRONT ROW, BABY 💅💅💅
It’s a beautiful day in Toronto and we’re all set up and ready for business at
#SHAFR2024
@cambUP_History
@SHAFRhistorians
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🤔Still hunting for a xmas present for an UN nerd? Trouble finding the perfect gift for someone with a google alert on 'guterres'? 💡Check out my recent book 'Blue Helmet Bureaucrats' to learn all about the origins of the organisation & it's PKO missions!
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Just putting out a notice that I'm very happy to pop into any classes or seminars to discuss my work on the history of peacekeeping, decolonisation, & the UN, esp if you are referring to my articles (which is a long shot but please let me know!)
#twitterstorians
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I'm seriously considering starting up a side-project where I work on
#uncomfortablepeacekeepers
using UN photos and memoirs. Endlessly entertaining and so painfully awkward.
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I'll be talking about my book/new research with (lovely)
@P_Karagkounis
at my alma mater
@HCRInstitute
on 18th April - looking forward to catching up with manchester pals and feeling sick with nostalgia 💜 Drinks after and it's hybrid, so reg for tickets:
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✨ New article, 'Reckoning with Responsibility: The Mesopotamia Commission into British Military Failings during a Moment of Imperial Transformation, 1916–19' just published with
@MBHJournal
. From my time as Postdoc Fellow on
@warning_archive
@UniofExeter
-
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Delighted to have been shortlisted for the
@RoyalHistSoc
Alexander Prize for my article ‘Gatekeepers to Decolonisation: Recentring the UN Peacekeepers on the Frontline of West Papua’s Re-colonisation, 1962–3’
.
@RoyalHistSoc
's annual Alexander Prize is awarded to a recent article written by an
#ECR
historian. The 2022 Alexander Shortlist of 10 articles is released today
This year's winner will be announced on 22 July.
#RHSAlexander22
#twitterstorians
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Two brilliant new books from
@BloomsburyHist
that I missed at the end of 2023 from Rob Skinner and Stacey Hynd. Both are wonderful historians based in the SW (& deserve the world having put up with a v young Margot back in the day...) so can't wait to get my hands on these 😊😊😊
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🤔Why are inquiries so popular in Britain?
How do they influence how we think about Britain in war? Focusing on inquiry processes, our article identifies their methodology, showing how they (re)affirm societal norms & archive data into hierarchies, ∴ elevating elite/state voices
📝New BJPIR Article out now
'Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology' by
@owendavidthomas
,
@MargotTudor
&
@teachlearnwar
🔓In
#OpenAccess
here:
@PolStudiesAssoc
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if only someone had recently published a whole book on CW & decol era peacekeeping missions and all their non-“straightforward” activities 🤷🏻♀️🫠
“Most peace operations during the Cold War…undertook relatively straightforward monitoring tasks, such as observing ceasefire lines.”
Thoughtful critique of pragmatic peacebuilding to imagine the future of UN operations by
@rolandparis
@IAJournal_CH
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Endlessly grateful for the supportive, thoughtful, & generative discussion at LSE yesterday, & especially for
@JasmineKGani
’s invaluable comments. I felt v vulnerable about presenting such new work, but I was so lucky to receive tailored feedback from this community, IRL & online
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solidarity for everyone receiving leverhulme emails today. i withdrew my application in february after the stress of completing the app whilst doing my postdoc and revising my book caused legit medical burnout. the system is broken. you are more than your work.
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The first reviews of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats are in! So grateful to
@timothynunan
@EcointEui
and
@MTerretta
☺️
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☺️ I’ll be presenting some (very!) new research in LSE in a few weeks - huge thanks to
@lizingleson
@elisabeth_leake
and
@mjbayly
for including me on this packed lineup! The wonderful
@JasmineKGani
will be acting as my discussant - can’t wait ✨
Alongside
@elisabeth_leake
and
@mjbayly
I'm pleased to share this year's line-up for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History!
We meet Wednesdays in London, Boston & on Zoom. All welcome: email me for registration and to join our mailing list
Looking forward!
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Delighted to find out that our panel on Military Humanitarianism has been accepted to
@MYBISA
on 14th June - looking forward to it!
@BrianDrohan
@FabianMKlose
@oldtimeybikes
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One of my closest friends has been leading the charge to fight sexual misconduct in a large UK university following their own assault. I have been in awe of their tenacity and simultaneously furious that they have had to fight so hard. Please donate here:
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my friend made me a tiny Lego UN peacekeeper for my new office (complete with flag)
Still grinning from last night - what a dream book launch! It felt so perfect to discuss & celebrate the book with a room full of friends and family. Community-building is essential. Huge thanks to
@1_of_many_rias
,
@JessicaReinisch
and
@skinner_rob
, &
@BristolLibrary
for the room
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i've been very ill for a month or so and am signed off work until the end of march - apologies to all who are waiting for an email. feeling very lucky to be able to take sick leave and to have institutional/managerial support. *all* workers should have access to full sick pay.
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[she's] coming home, babyyyy
📢 Free Talk at UoM! Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: UN Peacekeeping & Colonialism (1945–1971)
🗓 9 Oct 2024
⏰ 1:00 PM
🔗Register:
Join
@MargotTudor
as she explores how colonial legacies shaped UN peacekeeping in the post-war era.
#UN
#Colonialism
#Peacekeeping
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This case is part of a trend in recent years to silence those seeking to protect EDI in our unis. Instead of strengthening our reporting systems and trusting complainants, unis are closing ranks around those who hold the most power and benefit from structures of inequality
🚨Everyone stop right now and read this article about LSE's appalling response to abusive prof. This has been YEARS in the making:
'Women silenced across ranks: LSE’s mishandled sexual misconduct investigation into professor'
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would anyone find it helpful if i wrote a short blog about my experience with burnout and being an ECR/postdoc this year? i’m just emerging from the other side and i’m trying to build some healthy habits so it doesn’t blindside me again anytime soon.
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Not long now till my book launch in Bristol - looking forward to celebrating on 30th June 🎉
🇺🇳My book launch will be at 5.30pm on 30th June at the Central Bristol Library! It will include an introduction to the book & a roundtable discussion with the wonderful
@JessicaReinisch
,
@1_of_many_rias
&
@skinner_rob
. It would be great to see you there!
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Our recent workshop on military humanitarianism from January has been brilliantly reviewed by
@matilda_greig
in a new blog post published with
@PastPresentSoc
💫
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My review of
@ErikLinstrum
's important new book, Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire, is now available with War in History:
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Still emotional about how wonderful our PhD graduation was yesterday 💓 So many HCRI friends in one place after so long apart. Feeling very grateful to have shared this experience with all these inspiring people 🎓 my heart is so full!!!!
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was finally able to get my ‘phd’ tattoo today. blackberry brambles. always been a fan but especially meaningful after blackberrying last year after my thesis submission.
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I reassert my belief that there is a fascinating project to be written on the secretaries-general wives and their diplomatic role during 20th century United Nations. See below [A/PV.423]:
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thisssss! i don’t wanna be a dick but I literally finished my PhD when I was 25. my best mate got married. fuck off with this infantilising bs
The idea that someone cannot make autonomous decisions about their own life below the age of 25 is a direct threat to the autonomy of all young people. What separates gender from access to abortion or the right to vote?
This is a very dangerous and harmful proposal.
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Having the best time in Sweden this week. Thinking about IR and ‘protection’ in
@UU_University
with the most intelligent and fun group of women 💓 thanks to
@Louise_Ridden
,
@h_k_richards
,
@emcliff19
and
@BendfeldtLuise
for organising ✨⭐️💫
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