Nick Caddick
@nickcaddick.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof at Anglia Ruskin University: Narrative and conflict, international relations.
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They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days.
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days.
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
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Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social podcast, is recording at #BISA2025 🎙️
Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social @faloulah.bsky.social & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉
Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl
@bisasee.bsky.social
@ipegbisa.bsky.social
Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social @faloulah.bsky.social & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉
Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl
@bisasee.bsky.social
@ipegbisa.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social podcast, is recording at #BISA2025 🎙️
Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social @faloulah.bsky.social & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉
Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl
@bisasee.bsky.social
@ipegbisa.bsky.social
Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social @faloulah.bsky.social & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉
Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl
@bisasee.bsky.social
@ipegbisa.bsky.social
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Come join myself, @faloulah.bsky.social and Daniel Drury at the @e-international.bsky.social stand @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Come have a chat and record with us LIVE for the Thinking Global Podcast!
June 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Come join myself, @faloulah.bsky.social and Daniel Drury at the @e-international.bsky.social stand @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Come have a chat and record with us LIVE for the Thinking Global Podcast!
#BISA2025 conference delegates, remember to head to the exhibition hall and speak to @e-international.bsky.social who are podcasting live with Thinking Global - stop by for a quick chat about the work you’ve just presented!
June 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
#BISA2025 conference delegates, remember to head to the exhibition hall and speak to @e-international.bsky.social who are podcasting live with Thinking Global - stop by for a quick chat about the work you’ve just presented!
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In Belfast for the first time, looking forward to the start of @mybisa.bsky.social and meeting colleagues and friends and, especially, a panel tomorrow honoring Emma with several wonderful scholars she read and admired.
June 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In Belfast for the first time, looking forward to the start of @mybisa.bsky.social and meeting colleagues and friends and, especially, a panel tomorrow honoring Emma with several wonderful scholars she read and admired.
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Pay Attention
Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali face immediate risk as extreme hunger rises in 13 locations.
UN warns of starvation in ‘hunger hotspots’
Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali face immediate risk as extreme hunger rises in 13 locations.
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June 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Pay Attention
Flying out of Gatwick feels a bit weird on the day I learn that Javed Syed, a graduate of my university along with his wife and children, was on the Air India flight that never made it here. RIP @angliaruskin.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Flying out of Gatwick feels a bit weird on the day I learn that Javed Syed, a graduate of my university along with his wife and children, was on the Air India flight that never made it here. RIP @angliaruskin.bsky.social
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Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up at #BISA2025 TOMORROW 🎉
Come and join the Postgrad Network @ at The Sunflower Pub & meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs! 🌻
Find out more details now 👉 buff.ly/8t8P90k
@julietdryden.bsky.social
@nickcaddick.bsky.social
Come and join the Postgrad Network @ at The Sunflower Pub & meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs! 🌻
Find out more details now 👉 buff.ly/8t8P90k
@julietdryden.bsky.social
@nickcaddick.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up at #BISA2025 TOMORROW 🎉
Come and join the Postgrad Network @ at The Sunflower Pub & meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs! 🌻
Find out more details now 👉 buff.ly/8t8P90k
@julietdryden.bsky.social
@nickcaddick.bsky.social
Come and join the Postgrad Network @ at The Sunflower Pub & meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs! 🌻
Find out more details now 👉 buff.ly/8t8P90k
@julietdryden.bsky.social
@nickcaddick.bsky.social
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'The “war on woke” is the calling card of the global fascist right. Orbán’s attack on CEU for “gender ideology” began his destruction of 🇭🇺 democracy. Putin justified his full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦 by appealing to the supposed dangers 🇺🇦’s liberal democracy poses for traditional gender roles...'
Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
'The “war on woke” is the calling card of the global fascist right. Orbán’s attack on CEU for “gender ideology” began his destruction of 🇭🇺 democracy. Putin justified his full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦 by appealing to the supposed dangers 🇺🇦’s liberal democracy poses for traditional gender roles...'
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🎉 #BISA2025 featured roundtable! 🎉
19 June
'War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives' w/ Amnon Aran @andypayne.bsky.social Katerina Dalacoura & Sam Rose - director of @unrwa.org Gaza
Read more 👉 buff.ly/4eGQiHv
@bisawarstudies.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
19 June
'War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives' w/ Amnon Aran @andypayne.bsky.social Katerina Dalacoura & Sam Rose - director of @unrwa.org Gaza
Read more 👉 buff.ly/4eGQiHv
@bisawarstudies.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Featured events
All the featured events at the #BISA2025 conference, including our journals, special and satellite events.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 #BISA2025 featured roundtable! 🎉
19 June
'War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives' w/ Amnon Aran @andypayne.bsky.social Katerina Dalacoura & Sam Rose - director of @unrwa.org Gaza
Read more 👉 buff.ly/4eGQiHv
@bisawarstudies.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
19 June
'War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives' w/ Amnon Aran @andypayne.bsky.social Katerina Dalacoura & Sam Rose - director of @unrwa.org Gaza
Read more 👉 buff.ly/4eGQiHv
@bisawarstudies.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social colleagues today marching to protest against the savage job cuts at their institution! ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿
📢 National Demo Announced at Newcastle University
UCU members from across the UK will descend on Newcastle on Wednesday 11 June for a national demonstration against job cuts.
✊ Join us and make your voice heard
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
UCU members from across the UK will descend on Newcastle on Wednesday 11 June for a national demonstration against job cuts.
✊ Join us and make your voice heard
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Newcastle University academics to strike for 30 more days
Industrial action among academics at Newcastle University has been extended again, alongside a national demonstration in Newcastle next week
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social colleagues today marching to protest against the savage job cuts at their institution! ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿
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“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BISA postgrad network and early-career development day 2025
🎉 17 June @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 🎉
Inc/ @therealisthom.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and more! 🌟
Sign up now 👉
🎉 17 June @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 🎉
Inc/ @therealisthom.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and more! 🌟
Sign up now 👉
Postgraduate and early-career development day 2025
Register for the PG/ECR workshops taking place in Belfast in June 2025.
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June 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
BISA postgrad network and early-career development day 2025
🎉 17 June @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 🎉
Inc/ @therealisthom.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and more! 🌟
Sign up now 👉
🎉 17 June @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 🎉
Inc/ @therealisthom.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and more! 🌟
Sign up now 👉
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'Racism without ‘#race’: colorblindness, blackness and everyday #racism in contemporary Germany'
From #Identities issue 32.2, by Daniel Williams:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities issue 32.2, by Daniel Williams:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'Racism without ‘#race’: colorblindness, blackness and everyday #racism in contemporary Germany'
From #Identities issue 32.2, by Daniel Williams:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities issue 32.2, by Daniel Williams:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Excited to be serving another term as a trustee at @mybisa.bsky.social and grateful to all the members for voting in the elections! 🙏🏻
🚨BISA trustee election results now announced! 🚨
Huge congratulations to all our winners:
@victoriambasham.bsky.social @jamiejhagen.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social Marianna Charountaki, Andrew Dorman @unamcgahern.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social 🎉
read more 👉 buff.ly/SK74lqo
Huge congratulations to all our winners:
@victoriambasham.bsky.social @jamiejhagen.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social Marianna Charountaki, Andrew Dorman @unamcgahern.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social 🎉
read more 👉 buff.ly/SK74lqo
Trustee election results 2025 announced
We are pleased to announce the newly elected members of our Executive Committee.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Excited to be serving another term as a trustee at @mybisa.bsky.social and grateful to all the members for voting in the elections! 🙏🏻
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🌟Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial WG Early-Career Researcher Prize 2025 winner:
🏆Asad Zaidi 🏆
“Pakistani contested worldmaking in international politics: The Afghan-Soviet War, Cold War counterinsurgency, and the struggles for decolonization”
More & runner-up 👉
🏆Asad Zaidi 🏆
“Pakistani contested worldmaking in international politics: The Afghan-Soviet War, Cold War counterinsurgency, and the struggles for decolonization”
More & runner-up 👉
Announcing the winners of the Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group Early-Career Researcher Paper Prize 2025- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA
- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group
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May 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🌟Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial WG Early-Career Researcher Prize 2025 winner:
🏆Asad Zaidi 🏆
“Pakistani contested worldmaking in international politics: The Afghan-Soviet War, Cold War counterinsurgency, and the struggles for decolonization”
More & runner-up 👉
🏆Asad Zaidi 🏆
“Pakistani contested worldmaking in international politics: The Afghan-Soviet War, Cold War counterinsurgency, and the struggles for decolonization”
More & runner-up 👉
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A friendly reminder to check out the #BISA2025 program and be sure to add our sponsored panels and events to your list!
It’s BISA’s 50th anniversary, so we want to know how this conference has impacted your career. Let us know with the hashtag #MyFirstBISA 
It’s BISA’s 50th anniversary, so we want to know how this conference has impacted your career. Let us know with the hashtag #MyFirstBISA 
📢The #BISA2025 programme has been released & registration is open!!
All submissions should have received an email notifying you about your status on the programme & details of registration/accommodation. Any queries email [email protected]
@julietdryden.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
All submissions should have received an email notifying you about your status on the programme & details of registration/accommodation. Any queries email [email protected]
@julietdryden.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A friendly reminder to check out the #BISA2025 program and be sure to add our sponsored panels and events to your list!
It’s BISA’s 50th anniversary, so we want to know how this conference has impacted your career. Let us know with the hashtag #MyFirstBISA 
It’s BISA’s 50th anniversary, so we want to know how this conference has impacted your career. Let us know with the hashtag #MyFirstBISA 
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Labour cabinet meetings be like
May 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Labour cabinet meetings be like
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🌟Africa and International Studies WG and @chathamhouse.org event 🌟
The workshops focus is sharing experience and knowledge-based perspectives on the future of the UK-Africa relationships!
Inc/ @drstephenhurt.bsky.social @ruthbookbinder.bsky.social and more
16 May 👉https://buff.ly/YaxT5Lw
The workshops focus is sharing experience and knowledge-based perspectives on the future of the UK-Africa relationships!
Inc/ @drstephenhurt.bsky.social @ruthbookbinder.bsky.social and more
16 May 👉https://buff.ly/YaxT5Lw
The future of UK-Africa relations- Africa and International Studies | BISA
- Africa and International Studies Working Group
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May 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌟Africa and International Studies WG and @chathamhouse.org event 🌟
The workshops focus is sharing experience and knowledge-based perspectives on the future of the UK-Africa relationships!
Inc/ @drstephenhurt.bsky.social @ruthbookbinder.bsky.social and more
16 May 👉https://buff.ly/YaxT5Lw
The workshops focus is sharing experience and knowledge-based perspectives on the future of the UK-Africa relationships!
Inc/ @drstephenhurt.bsky.social @ruthbookbinder.bsky.social and more
16 May 👉https://buff.ly/YaxT5Lw
@mybisa.bsky.social colleagues! After serving as your conference chair for Birmingham and Belfast, I’m standing for election for two more years as trustee. I’d love the opportunity to keep working for our members and would really appreciate your vote! Vote by 12th May! www.bisa.ac.uk/news/executi...
Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now!
Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.
www.bisa.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
@mybisa.bsky.social colleagues! After serving as your conference chair for Birmingham and Belfast, I’m standing for election for two more years as trustee. I’d love the opportunity to keep working for our members and would really appreciate your vote! Vote by 12th May! www.bisa.ac.uk/news/executi...
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The @mybisa.bsky.social Executive Committee 2025 candidates are now live. I'm running for EDI officer & would appreciate your vote! Eligible voters received an email with their ballot yesterday. Full details, about all the candidates, including my personal statement, available here: bit.ly/4lZWd40
Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now!
Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.
bisa.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The @mybisa.bsky.social Executive Committee 2025 candidates are now live. I'm running for EDI officer & would appreciate your vote! Eligible voters received an email with their ballot yesterday. Full details, about all the candidates, including my personal statement, available here: bit.ly/4lZWd40
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🎉Sign up now for Cynthia Enloe's #BISA2025 public lecture!🎉
Titled - 'What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’'
Bound to be very popular so don't miss out 👉 buff.ly/mcqIxmK
@clarkuniversity.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Titled - 'What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’'
Bound to be very popular so don't miss out 👉 buff.ly/mcqIxmK
@clarkuniversity.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Public lecture: What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’
Cynthia Enloe delivers public lecture at Queen's University Belfast to open #BISA2025.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🎉Sign up now for Cynthia Enloe's #BISA2025 public lecture!🎉
Titled - 'What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’'
Bound to be very popular so don't miss out 👉 buff.ly/mcqIxmK
@clarkuniversity.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
Titled - 'What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’'
Bound to be very popular so don't miss out 👉 buff.ly/mcqIxmK
@clarkuniversity.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social
🚨 Publication alert! Great to see ‘Film, Narrative Agency, and the Politics of Care in Veteran Britain’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social: In it, we explore how co-produced filmmaking practice can offer creative means for empowering communities as storytellers in global politics. A short summary 🧵:
April 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🚨 Publication alert! Great to see ‘Film, Narrative Agency, and the Politics of Care in Veteran Britain’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social: In it, we explore how co-produced filmmaking practice can offer creative means for empowering communities as storytellers in global politics. A short summary 🧵:
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Registration is open for a @isanet.bsky.social webinar on Theorizing Emotions in World Politics in memory of Emma Hutchison. 5 June 2025 14:00h GMT. Thanks to chair/participants: @aslifc.bsky.social
@freyberg-inan.bsky.social
Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@freyberg-inan.bsky.social
Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: In Memory of Emma Hutchison: Theorizing Emotions in World Politics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Despite its centrality to world politics, emotions were rarely acknowledged as a significant point of engagement and theorization in the discipline of International Relations. That begin to change wit...
isanet-org.zoom.us
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Registration is open for a @isanet.bsky.social webinar on Theorizing Emotions in World Politics in memory of Emma Hutchison. 5 June 2025 14:00h GMT. Thanks to chair/participants: @aslifc.bsky.social
@freyberg-inan.bsky.social
Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@freyberg-inan.bsky.social
Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...