It is alarming that Canada, who played an essential role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court—the first president was Canadian!—did not see fit to sign on to this very straightforward defence of the Court's judicial independence. norway.no/en/missions/wto-un…

Our teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Gaza, today, after another disastrous food distribution resulted in people getting shot by Israeli forces. Hear from patients: msf.org/dozens-palestinians-…

Divestment victory! Yesterday, with a record turnout for the vote, UofT faculty and librarians passed an historic divestment motion. The membership of the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) called on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from the manufacture of weapons used to commit or facilitate war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Sudan, and all other contexts of crimes against humanity, illegal occupation, and other serious violations of international law. The UTFA is the 20th faculty or academic association to endorse boycotting or divesting from Israeli war crimes in Palestine over the last two years. BDS works! cjpme.org/who_supports_bds

the olfactory ethics english lit dissertation sounds cool and you’re all stupid

Langston Hughes, “Kids Who Die” (1938)

Today (Tuesday 20th February) management ordered @QMUL security to break into the Queen Mary UCU office behind the Queens Building in order to remove posters expressing solidarity with Palestine.

🚨 State unaccountability in the UK: a case update On 30/01/24, a High Court judge publicly “rebuked” the UK Home Secretary’s 'grave' & 'shockingly poor' conduct in handling the visa challenge of a Palestinian student. judiciary.uk/judgments/el-as… /1

This looks like an interesting opportunity for a socially engaged historian jobs.theguardian.com/job/887… @HistoricEngland

**Big Hiring News**: SMU is hiring for a *tenure-track* position in Political Theory to begin in Fall 2024. 2-2 teaching load, which includes an Intro to Political Theory course as well as an upper-level HPT sequence. I can attest firsthand that this is an excellent position.

not a good year by any means but a clarifying one. love to everyone everywhere who sees the world for what it is and has the sense to demand things be otherwise

a beautiful obituary for dawn here, without euphemism and full of real comradely love jacobinmag.com/2021/07/we-wi…

The US is used by the UK to pretend that slavery was somehow something done elsewhere, with no connection to it. When slavery was abolished in the British Empire, slave-owners were paid huge compensation. This compensation was still being paid in 2015.

Revolution is not a one-time event Join Saidiya Hartman, Ru Kaur, @lolaolufemi_, @AmritWilson & chair @AkwugoEmejulu for a discussion about state violence and abolition feminism. Tuesday 9 June, 19.00 BST; 14.00 EDT; 11.00 PDT. silverpress.org/store/revolu…

Today BCA dedicates its timeline to just some of the Black people who have died as a result of police brutality in the UK. This must stop. No more injustice. No more murders. No more racism #georgefloyd #blackbritish #blacklivesmatter #blackculturalarchives

We have set up a Go Fund Me so that people can support and donate for resources to help administer the legal support for the upcoming BLM marches: gofundme.com/f/black-protest…

This week @DrSJFine is joining us from across the road, and will present on ‘Knowing My Place’. We’ll be in at 32L.LG.18 at 4pm Thursday 13 Feb. Everyone welcome!

"Lecturer in Global Race Studies" at QMUL - what a great post! webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/…

This Wednesday I‘ll talk @ihr_history about some themes from my new book „Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth“, investigating the myth of the non-political woman. history.ac.uk/events/soverei…

This week's LSE political theory seminar is with Nadia Urbinati (Columbia), who will present some of the arguments from her new book 'Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy'. We'll be in room 32L.LG.18 Thursday 16:00-18:00 lse.ac.uk/government/researc…