SGIA Durham
@Durham_SGIA
Followers
3K
Following
4K
Media
160
Statuses
7K
Official Twitter account of Durham University’s School of Government and International Affairs. Ranked in the top 10 Complete University Guide 2024 .
Durham
Joined October 2013
Look closer at our School of Government and International Affairs https://t.co/XQCCBYCG4N via @YouTube
0
2
9
Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by Olga Demetriou (@Durham_SGIA). Be sure to give it a read! #CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus
https://t.co/fGtDehHDFr
0
4
5
🚨new open-access article!🚨 @GSQ_Journal what can drastically different representations of the Paris Olympic opening ceremony on Chinese social media tell us about competing narratives of civilization & digital reactionary politics? https://t.co/om2ibyyu07
2
6
18
Dr @Will_Plowright from @Durham_SGIA reflects on Ahmed al-Sharaa’s remarkable transformation from former jihadist to political leader welcomed at the White House. 👉Read more: https://t.co/q9heAoqttm
#DUresearch #Syria @ConversationUK
1
2
4
Nuffield College and DPIR are jointly hiring Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows in Politics (up to 3 posts). £41.7k · 3 years · start Sept 2026 · open to recent PhDs (within 3 yrs of viva). Apply by 4 Dec 2025 🔗 https://t.co/2nnCEqxJ42
0
32
80
🚨 Event Alert! One week to go!🚨 Join us for a roundtable on how PhD researchers and ECRs adapt & thrive amid funding cuts, precarity & shifting expectations. Registration available via member mailed newsletter. 🖥️ Where – Online 🕐 When - Thursday 20 November at 12.00 GMT
0
5
3
Many thanks to the examiners Prof Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Prof Chris Dolan (Warwick)!
0
0
0
Congratulations to Amanda Whitfield on passing her PhD viva! Thesis: The Construction of the Hostile Environment: A Temporal Analysis of the UK’s Asylum and Immigration Legislation from 1900 to 2023, supervised by Prof Olga Demetriou, Dr Kyriaki Nanou & Prof Catherine Turner
1
0
0
📚 Book of the Week 📚 In ‘Nations before the nation-state', Anna Marisa Schön disentangles the nation from the nation-state and offers a new history of this concept. Read @annie_m_hsu’s review: https://t.co/zoE8L5eT9P
0
48
135
ECN Community Update! We’re excited to introduce the new PSA Early Career Network Committee! https://t.co/Pgb6bXNAnW Stay tuned for our new activities, including our sessions at the next PSA Annual Conference. Connect with us on: E/X: ecn@psa.ac.uk BlueSky: @psaecn.bsky.social
0
2
3
NEW online exclusive by @CJFinlay on why U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats pose a profound threat to American freedom. Find the full piece here:
ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org
The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.
0
4
4
Read Professor Ilan Zvi Baron's @izbaron essay 'Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution' for @DuckofMinerva
https://t.co/U7veg4gYTC
0
0
1
Alumnus @theJeremyVine will speak at Durham Book Festival this Friday, 10 October. He'll speak on his murder mystery novel and his scholarship for Black heritage students in English Literature at Durham 👉 https://t.co/gZwMvbH8VT
@NewWritingNorth #DUinspire
0
2
7
Event reminder for today, Wednesday October 8th!
The @GPI_Durham is delighted to host Prof. Kirsten Schmalenbach for a talk on 'The #UN's tortious liability in #peacekeeping missions': how law lifts the veil of organizational secrecy' Wednesday 8 October from 3.30pm – 5.00pm, Room IM201 in the Al Qasimi Building.
0
0
2
Happy first day of term everybody! 🎉 How about starting your week with a new episode of Professor Patrick Kuhn's podcast? 🚨 Politics in the Rearview Mirror is Back! 🚨 📢 Brand New Episode: European Security in Crisis: Rearmament Challenges and the New Drone Threat
0
0
0
First SGIA staff - student of the year! Join us today, Monday, October 6, from 11-12 in the McEwan Lounge. Hope to see you there!
0
0
0
Delighted to announce I've been awarded a Visiting-Scholarship at @durham_uni, generously supported by @BISI1932 @NahreinNetwork. Grateful to @BISI1932, @mehiyar_ for his help, @Bahar_Baser, for providing advanced research, @Harrowelly, her collaboration & Anne-Marie. @halabjagcm
1
5
14
The @CPTDurham is delighted to host James Clark @UniOfYork for the first research seminar of the year. Dr Clark will give a talk on the Kantian legal and political theorist J. B. Erhard’s Revolutionary Natural Law Theory. Wed. Oct 8, 3-5pm, IM 222 Al Qasimi Building & online
0
1
1
The @GPI_Durham is delighted to host Prof. Kirsten Schmalenbach for a talk on 'The #UN's tortious liability in #peacekeeping missions': how law lifts the veil of organizational secrecy' Wednesday 8 October from 3.30pm – 5.00pm, Room IM201 in the Al Qasimi Building.
0
0
0
🌍 Our new Everyday Peace Indicators website is live! 🚀 Now you can: ✨ Explore countries & projects 📊 Discover examples of our indicators 🎓 Learn from past trainings & sign up for new ones 👥 Meet the EPI team Dive in: https://t.co/WKweDFNfdZ
#EverydayPeace #Peacebuilding
everydaypeaceindicators.org
Partnering with communities to define and measure peace through grassroots indicators that inform policy, programs, and peacebuilding glocally.
0
1
3