Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
Writes about the politics of images & emotions across conflict, security, resistance, humanitarianism. Prof of International Relations UQ. Runs @visualpolitics.bsky.social. https://www.rolandbleiker.com
Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with
Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion
4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion
4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with
Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion
4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion
4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
The last evening with the love of my life was a year ago today. It’s been a blur since: time lived without its flow (Denise Riley). So here one of my favorite photos, the url to my Emma tribute and big thanks to those who so kindly supported us during & after. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The last evening with the love of my life was a year ago today. It’s been a blur since: time lived without its flow (Denise Riley). So here one of my favorite photos, the url to my Emma tribute and big thanks to those who so kindly supported us during & after. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Huge congratulations to Haneol Mun on a fantastic Ph.D. project presentation (SOI) today for a great thesis on The Political Power of Cinema in East Asia. Thanks to readers Nicole George, @minranliu.bsky.social and Anais Hull and chair Andrew Phillips.
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Huge congratulations to Haneol Mun on a fantastic Ph.D. project presentation (SOI) today for a great thesis on The Political Power of Cinema in East Asia. Thanks to readers Nicole George, @minranliu.bsky.social and Anais Hull and chair Andrew Phillips.
Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program event with Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy at UQ, who discusses her new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP 2024). Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
October 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program event with Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy at UQ, who discusses her new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP 2024). Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
Please join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Marguerite La Caze (Philosophy UQ) discusses her book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP). Wed 8 Oct, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Please join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Marguerite La Caze (Philosophy UQ) discusses her book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP). Wed 8 Oct, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
First talk of my trip - at the Université de Montréal - out of the way. Thanks to Vincent Pouliot for the invitation and to everyone who came along. If there are colleagues in town who would like to meet up, pease get in touch. I am here for a couple more days.
September 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
First talk of my trip - at the Université de Montréal - out of the way. Thanks to Vincent Pouliot for the invitation and to everyone who came along. If there are colleagues in town who would like to meet up, pease get in touch. I am here for a couple more days.
Honoured to discuss “The Seductive Power of Grand Narratives” as part of this forum on Oliver Richmond’s ambitious and important @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book on The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Open-access in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Honoured to discuss “The Seductive Power of Grand Narratives” as part of this forum on Oliver Richmond’s ambitious and important @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book on The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Open-access in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Available to watch: yesterday’s @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with Simon Philpott and William Clapton discussing their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics (including Will’s new @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
September 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Available to watch: yesterday’s @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with Simon Philpott and William Clapton discussing their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics (including Will’s new @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event:
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
September 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event:
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Drawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wong’s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to “what aesthetics do or could do.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Drawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wong’s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to “what aesthetics do or could do.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Please join us in person or online for our first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester:
Prof Gillian Whitlock and Dr Zhila Gholami discuss their archival research on refugees.
Wed 6 Aug, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Prof Gillian Whitlock and Dr Zhila Gholami discuss their archival research on refugees.
Wed 6 Aug, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
August 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Please join us in person or online for our first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester:
Prof Gillian Whitlock and Dr Zhila Gholami discuss their archival research on refugees.
Wed 6 Aug, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Prof Gillian Whitlock and Dr Zhila Gholami discuss their archival research on refugees.
Wed 6 Aug, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Portrait of the artist with old hat. Longest trip - away from hospitals - in many years. Excitingly disorienting. Glad to head home. Thanks to colleagues & friends I was lucky to encounter & apologies to those I failed to meet. It’s the best I could do at this stage. ⒸFH
July 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Portrait of the artist with old hat. Longest trip - away from hospitals - in many years. Excitingly disorienting. Glad to head home. Thanks to colleagues & friends I was lucky to encounter & apologies to those I failed to meet. It’s the best I could do at this stage. ⒸFH
Our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. Join us to hear from amazing scholars, inc Gillian Whitlock, Zhila Gholami, William Clapton, Simon Philpott, Eliza Garnsey, Caitlin Hamilton, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Barnett, Bina D’Costa, Fiona Terry. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...
July 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. Join us to hear from amazing scholars, inc Gillian Whitlock, Zhila Gholami, William Clapton, Simon Philpott, Eliza Garnsey, Caitlin Hamilton, Marguerite La Caze, Michael Barnett, Bina D’Costa, Fiona Terry. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...
Please mark the date and join us later this year at UQ / @visualpolitics.bsky.social for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with
Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).
Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).
July 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Please mark the date and join us later this year at UQ / @visualpolitics.bsky.social for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with
Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).
Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).
Thanks to all who came to our #BISA2025 keynote, co-authored with Emma Hutchison. I am more writer than speaker, so this was rather challenging, but I am now glad I did it for ‘e’ and hope that together we made it worth your while.
June 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thanks to all who came to our #BISA2025 keynote, co-authored with Emma Hutchison. I am more writer than speaker, so this was rather challenging, but I am now glad I did it for ‘e’ and hope that together we made it worth your while.
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.
Here the video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography. Big thanks Juliet for joining us. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...
June 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Here the video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography. Big thanks Juliet for joining us. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...
Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event
Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography
Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography
Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
May 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event
Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography
Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography
Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
For the past decade Emma Hutchison kept a blog - Dialysis Days - to chronicle her life with end-stage renal failure. She held back her last entry - which hints at her physical demise - but asked me to publish it after her passing. Here it is. www.rolandbleiker.com/finger-by-fi...
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
For the past decade Emma Hutchison kept a blog - Dialysis Days - to chronicle her life with end-stage renal failure. She held back her last entry - which hints at her physical demise - but asked me to publish it after her passing. Here it is. www.rolandbleiker.com/finger-by-fi...
Emma & I had the pleasure of working with @cassandrachapman.bsky.social, our lead-author, & Matthew Hornsey, on this article on ethical tensions in nonprofit fundraising. Part of a joint ARC Linkage Project it involved cross-disciplinary learning & adjusting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Emma & I had the pleasure of working with @cassandrachapman.bsky.social, our lead-author, & Matthew Hornsey, on this article on ethical tensions in nonprofit fundraising. Part of a joint ARC Linkage Project it involved cross-disciplinary learning & adjusting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Big thanks to @binadcosta & Michelle Godwin for organising a remarkable workshop on forced migration @anubellschool.bsky.social. Interesting debates between scholars & practitioners on difficult issues & great keynote by @gesanchez.bsky.social on everyday politics at the US-Mexican border.
March 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Big thanks to @binadcosta & Michelle Godwin for organising a remarkable workshop on forced migration @anubellschool.bsky.social. Interesting debates between scholars & practitioners on difficult issues & great keynote by @gesanchez.bsky.social on everyday politics at the US-Mexican border.
Just arrived in Canberra. For locals: pease join us on Wednesday for the opening of this exhibition on Alternative Humanitarian Visuals - held in honour of Emma Hutchison - and involving an ICRC-ANU-UQ collaboration. Wed 26 March 5pm. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
March 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Just arrived in Canberra. For locals: pease join us on Wednesday for the opening of this exhibition on Alternative Humanitarian Visuals - held in honour of Emma Hutchison - and involving an ICRC-ANU-UQ collaboration. Wed 26 March 5pm. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
Please join us for a Visual Politics event:
The visual artist-scholar Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox (Curtin and UQ) discusses her work on Painting the Politics of Drones.
Wed 12 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
The visual artist-scholar Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox (Curtin and UQ) discusses her work on Painting the Politics of Drones.
Wed 12 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
March 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Please join us for a Visual Politics event:
The visual artist-scholar Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox (Curtin and UQ) discusses her work on Painting the Politics of Drones.
Wed 12 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
The visual artist-scholar Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox (Curtin and UQ) discusses her work on Painting the Politics of Drones.
Wed 12 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...