Absolutely delighted - and excited - to welcome Class 21 of our Rotary Peace Fellows to our Peace Centre at The University of Queensland. Good luck to all of you: have a great start in our Program.
Roland Bleiker
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I write about the politics of images & emotions across conflict, resistance, ethics, humanitarianism. I am Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, where I direct the Rotary Peace Centre and coordinate a Visual Politics Research Program.
Thanks to Roberto Filippello (UBC) for joining us in the UQ Visual Polics Program to discuss his fascinating forthcoming book on
Queer Threads: Fashion and Textile Activism in Palestine.
Here the video of the interview part, co-hosted with Jamal Nabulsi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaKauczRPBY
Queer Threads: Fashion and Textile Activism in Palestine.
Here the video of the interview part, co-hosted with Jamal Nabulsi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaKauczRPBY
Interview with Dr Roberto Filippello about his forthcoming book on Fashion and Activism in Palestine
Here a video of our recent Visual Politics Research Program interview with Mónica Degen (Brunel) and Prof Gillian Rose (Oxford) about their book The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change. Co-hosted with Shreya Singh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-jTm37_1PFw&fbclid=IwAR1UXZwKRnQ3VimtHdTkA88rsIGRfWkqRNuL1Y7-jIZ3q8Pm4Zvjvx8FaVA
Interview with Profs Mónica Degen and Gillian Rose about their book The New Urban Aesthetic
Please join us for our next hybrid Visual Politics Research Program event:
Prof Mónica Montserrat Degen (Brunel) and Prof Gillian Rose (Oxford) discuss their exciting new Bloomsbury Book on The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change.
Thu 10 Nov 18:00 / UTC+10. More infor and registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-politics-seminar-dr-monica-montserrat-degen-prof-gillian-rose-tickets-391446064717?aff=erelexpmlt
Huge thanks to Roberto Filippello (UBC) for an absolutely fascianting talk in our UQ Visual Politics Program about fashion as queer politics and resistance. Look out for his forthcoming book on Queer Threads: Fashion and Textile Activism in Palestine. Here Roberto’s website: https://www.robertofilippello.com
Please join us for our next Visual Politics event at the University of Queensland: Dr Roberto Filippello (UBC) will discuss The Queer Visual Politics of Palestinian Fashion. Thu 24 Nov 4-5pm (39a/501). In-person but if you like to zoom-join send me an e-mail @[email protected].
New open-access book on Religion and World Politics by one of the most innovative and authoritative scholars on the topic: Prof Erin Wilson from the University of Groningen. Written accedssibly and touching on anything from early modern Europe to contemporary Iraq and Ukraine, this book shows that understanding religion entails unlearning what we know and think about what religion is and does. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003037057/religion-world-politics-erin-wilson
Here a video of our recent Visual Politics Research Program event with UQ alumni Dr Nilanjana Premaratna from Newcastle University (UK) about her amazing book Theatre for Peacebuilding: The Role of Arts in Conflict Transformation in South Asia. Thanks Nilanjana for a great session and Terrell Carver for co-interviewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7513SuFYYI
Interview with Dr Nilanjana Premaratna about her book on the Arts and Peacebuilding
Please join us for our next Visual Politics event: our amazing UQ alumni Dr Nilanjana Premaratna discusses her book and ongong work on the arts and peacebuilding. I co-host with Terrell Carver. Online and on-campus at UQ on Thu 10 Nov UTC+10. All welcome. Details and registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-politics-seminar-dr-nilanjana-premaratna-tickets-391443276377?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Huge congrats to Marcelle Trotte Martins for defending a brilliant Ph.D. thesis at the University of Manchester on how images of human rights violations were mobilized in Timor-Leste’s independence struggle. Great supervision by Jenny Edkins & Andreja Zevnik. Very honored to serve as examiner with Martin Coward.
