📺 Satellite images, geolocated videos, data dashboards — visibility has become a promise of justice. But is more evidence really leading to accountability?
Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the limits of “evidence revolutions.”
📅 Wed 18 March | 🕠 5.30pm | 📍 LSE | With @aycacu.bsky.social
🏙️ Join us tonight at #LSE for "Planning amid division: the politics of the public in Beirut" with Mona Fawaz and @davidjmadden.bsky.social.
🎫 Open to all and free to attend
🕡 6.30pm to 8pm
#Sociology #Cities #Beirut
🤳 Evidence everywhere—#justice nowhere?
What happens when the power to see violence outpaces the power to act on it? Join us at LSE for a talk on techno‑humanitarianism under pressure. Chaired by @aycacu.bsky.social.
🎫 Open to all and free to attend
#LSE #Sociology #HumanRights
In this interview, Professor Anthony Bogues expands on his recent lecture at LSE examining authoritarian resurgence, the unravelling of the postwar order, and the entanglements of liberalism and illiberalism.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/humanrights/...
Last night, we had the pleasure of being joined by Tareq Baconi to discuss his new book 'Fire in Every Direction'. In conversation with Mai Taha and @aycacu.bsky.social, they shared their thoughts on the themes of the memoir, including political consciousness, desire and displacement.
Join us tonight for 'Fire in every direction' with Tareq Baconi.
This talk will explore themes of political and queer awakening, drawing on personal experiences of displacement, belonging, and resistance.
🕡 6pm
📍 OLD.3.24, LSE Old Building
🔗 buff.ly/eJFXV1f
#Sociology #HumanRights
Next week, renowned Palestinian scholar Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his memoir of political and queer awakening, 'Fire in Every Direction'.
📅 16 Feb | 🕕 6pm | 📍 LSE
🔗https://buff.ly/eJFXV1f
#Sociology #HumanRights #memoir
🔍 Upcoming event | Evidence everywhere, justice nowhere? Techno-humanitarianism under pressure
In an age when violence is visible in real time, documentation is often assumed to lead to justice, what happens when the ability to see outpaces the ability to act?
📍 Wed 18 March | 5.30pm | LSE
🌍 From #Beirut’s 2020 Port explosion to #global planning debates: Prof. Mona Fawaz reflects on knowledge, politics, and representation in polarised contexts. Chaired by @davidjmadden.bsky.social.
📅 2 March | 6.30pm
🎟️ Open to all and free to attend
#LSE #Sociology #Cities
🌿 Can governing with nature drive real transformative change in our cities?
Join us next week to explore the politics, possibilities, and consequences of nature‑based solutions.
📅 11 Feb | 🕡 6.30pm | 📍 In person & online
#LSEEvents #Sociology #Cities
The poster show a melon in the background, and has "critical current;" written bold. Written and hilighted in red, there is "Every second Tuesday, 1PM-2PM, Online (Teams). The poster include names and theme titles for each session.
📆 🌍 We’re delighted to announce the programme for the Study Group’s research seminar series, Critical Currents! Join us for the first event next Tuesday at 1pm on Microsoft Teams.
⚡ Check out the programme here: tiny.cc/2ohy001
#race #ethnicity #AcademicSky #BSA #sociology #researchseminars
'Mrie demonstrates how authoritarianism and war are interwoven: violence, repression and concessions of conscience permeate everyday routines, shaping both identity and ethical decision-making.'
- Jenifer Vaughan (Fenton) for the MEC blog
Read the book review: https://ow.ly/97iB50Y5rjQ
🏙️ Upcoming event | Planning amid division: the politics of the public in Beirut
Join us as we explore what happens to democratic planning when the idea of a common good becomes contested.
📅 Mon 2 March
🕡 6.30pm
📍 LSE Campus
#Sociology #Cities #Beirut
Join us on Mon 16 Feb for a public conversation with Tareq Baconi on his new memoir, Fire in Every Direction. The book explores themes of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home.
🎫 Register to attend
🌲 Can nature reshape our cities?
Join us at LSE to explore new ways of governing with nature.
📅 11 Feb | 🕡 6.30pm | 📍 In person & online
#LSEEvents #ClimateChange #Sociology #Cities
I wrote this before the recent uprising in Iran, and the massacre of thousands that followed. On @versobooks.bsky.social blog, the talk I gave at @histmat.bsky.social-London conference in November 2025.
"Notes On Campist Internationalism"
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
🌏 What does it mean to return home?
Join us for a public conversation with author Tareq Baconi, Dr Mai Taha, and @aycacu.bsky.social on personal and political journeys, displacement and belonging, and identity.
📅 16 Feb | 🕕 6pm | 📍 LSE
🔗https://buff.ly/eJFXV1f
#Sociology #HumanRights #memoir
Join us tonight for Sociology of hope, a book talk with Adrián Scribano on hope, revolution, utopia & collective action.
⏰ 6.30pm
📍 Online
🎟️ Free to attend and open to all
#LSE #LSESociology
Thrilled to host Tareq Baconi at @lsesociology.bsky.social
& @lsehumanrights.bsky.social soon to discuss his powerful memoir of political and queer awakening, FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION.
Space is limited, please register here:
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...
📚 Upcoming LSE event
Join us for Fire in every direction: A public conversation with Tareq Baconi on identity, displacement, and resistance.
📅 16 Feb | 🕕 6 to 7.30pm | 📍 LSE
#Sociology #HumanRights
Read @margotsalomon.bsky.social from @lselaw.bsky.social's latest paper for the Melbourne Journal of International Law.
@aycacu.bsky.social co-convened the Historical Materialism conference's roundtable on the question of internationalism.
Watch the session 👉 www.youtube.com/live/qdlUYhI...
#HistoricalMaterialism #CriticalTheory #Marxism #Internationalism
We are delighted to welcome @nisrinelamin.bsky.social to LSE tonight as she gives our Annual Human Rights Day Lecture on the politics of hunger in Sudan. #LSEHumanRights #LSEEvents #Sudan
Join us tonight for 'The politics of hunger in Sudan' with @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social
🕔6.30pm - 8pm
📍LSE Hong Kong Theatre & online
#LSEEvents
What role does the issue of race play in understanding the question of Palestine?
Join @aycacu.bsky.social next month at this @LSELaw event, which will focus on the colonisation of Palestine as something which cannot be understood outside the grammar of race.
📆 Tuesday 2 December
Anarchism has had a more powerful impact on political life than most people realise. What are the roots of this radical tradition? How has it had this impact? And what is the contemporary case for embracing it?
Join the Ralph Miliband Programme at this event next week 👇
Millions face starvation in Sudan. @nisrinelamin.bsky.social joins us next week to speak on who profits from hunger and who sustains the ongoing war in Sudan.
🎟️ Open to all and free to attend | register now
buff.ly/Db9WO54
#LSEEvents #Sudan
Why is Sudan—rich in land, livestock, and gold—facing mass hunger?
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
Our CRICA PhD programme rethinks how inclusion is created, practiced, and experienced in the arts, and prepares new scholars to make the creative sector and academia more accessible.
Attend our Virtual Graduate Open Day to find out more 💻 buff.ly/JiKSJko
📅 21 Nov | 3pm
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
