This kid deserves a medal.
So proud of this generation 👏

SOAS Professor Philippe Cullet has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) fund for his project on water conflicts & security in South Asia.

Philippe will be looking at how climate change is threatening the human right to water and the conflicts this entails.

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LIVE: A reminder to my colleagues about a document called the U.S. Constitution and, specifically, the First Amendment. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Map of places where cops are arresting students for protesting a US-enabled genocide.

And people wonder why Biden is struggling in the polls.

I am on my way to this amazing conference on Sovereign Debt and Climate Finance at UMass Amherst, running from Friday to Sunday. Sponsored by PERI and IDEAs, the event will explore what I see as one of today’s most pressing issues: the ways in which debt…

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'Peaceful protest, non-violent, can have a big effect in changing society, even if there's a certain element of civil disobedience.'

Professor Joseph Stiglitz, from Columbia University, says police arresting protesters across US campuses including his own is 'very upsetting'.

#DSA2024 Early Bird registration is open!

📅 Join us on 26–28 June 2024
📌 Hybrid: Online and at SOAS University of London University of London

The topic is: Social justice and development in a polarising world.

For more info and to register, visit our website ⤵️
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📢📢 Call for abstracts still open for the 4th Young Scholars Conference on #StructuralChange & #IndustrialPolicy in Africa hosted by the DSI/NRF SARChI in Industrial Development at University of Johannesburg, in conjunction with Young Scholars Initiative. To submit click here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We are delighted to announce that Yuen Yuen Ang will deliver SOAS DLD's first Annual Lecture on 'Adaptive Political Economy'.

This in-person event will be at held SOAS, London at 5pm on 11th June 2024.

All welcome. Please share widely and register here: bit.ly/3QpXyD0

📌 Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy.

Read the new paper of our SOAS University of London Lecturer Surbhi Kesar Surbhi Kesar ⬇️

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Happy 1 May to ALL WORKERS, including those who strive to organise work and make working safe, meaningful, respectful, purpose driven.

Special thanks to all workers I have been talking and learning from, over 10 years of visits to production sites.

Love these posters btw 😍!

Summers deplores the Palestinian flag as in itself an anti-semitic symbol.
Biden condemns use of a standard Arabic phrase ...
And what triggers this derangement are campus protests not events in Palestine.
Dem establishment are completely losing their minds.

Preview of essay at World Politics

An answer to my own puzzle of why political economy exhausts so much effort on artificial debates & theories… and dreads big, intriguing questions

It boils down to a mechanical ⚙️ view 🥽 of social worlds

« Lotus - flower of peace and harmony - at Xi/Blinken meeting in 2023. In April 2024 it's kroton - used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat (inter alia) diarrhea »

Chinese friend sent me this and it really cracked me up… 😄

Today marks a historic occasion. By seizing control of Hamilton Hall, students at Columbia University have anchored in historical memory the nexus between the horrors inflicted in Vietnam that was the hallmark of my generation with the horrors inflicted in Gaza that is the…

This letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik by Robin D.G. Kelly goes in hard 🔥🔥🔥 bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

Today locked out of offices. Not just a place of work but the place we define by our teaching and research without which it is literally nothing more than a bunch of badly managed assets and a hospital.

One doesn't need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this:

1. In public, Biden appears “tough” on Netanyahu, urging him not to “invade” Rafah and pressuring him to allow more “humanitarian aid” into Gaza.

2. But already…