Roland Bleiker

This was Emma’s last project. She gave it her everything, working out of hospitals in very difficult circumstances. In the end she ran out of time and life. I then spent the next 18 months doing my best to complete the project as Emma had envisaged it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social

The Emma Hutchison Book Prize for Emotions in World Politics! Super thrilled and grateful to @mybisa.bsky.social and its Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group. Details below and more to follow on the BISA website.

Available to watch: Prof @jelenasubotic.bsky.social discusses her amazing new OUP book The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution. Interview with Alexandra Brankova at our second event at Försvarshögskolan. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Join us online or in person in Stockholm for our next Visual Politics event: @jelenasubotic.bsky.social discusses - via video-link - her new OUP book on the politics of looted art. Wed 7 Oct 2026, 4-5pm CEST (GMT+2h). Further Info and Zoom link here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

New blog based on the Foreword I wrote for Tiffany Fairey’s insightful new book Imaging Peace: Transforming Conflict, Resisting Violence and Building Community through Photography (Edinburgh UP). Skip the blog, but do read Tiffany’s amazing book 😀. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/visual-...

Now available: video of our recent Visual Politics event in Stockholm: @linushagstrom.bsky.social, @chrisagius13.bsky.social and Alexandra Brankova from Försvarshögskolan discuss their collaborative project on Narrative Power Politics. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Join us in person or online for a Visual Politics event at Försvarshögskolan. @linushagstrom.bsky.social, @chrisagius13.bsky.social & Alexandra Brankova discuss their project Narrative Power Politics. 23 Sept 2026, 4-5pm Stockholm time (GMT+2h). Details/rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Check out this impressive new book by Tiffany Fairey: a comprehensive and insightful engagement with peace photography. I was honoured to write a forword, but found it hard to find words that do not completely fade in comparison to the ones that follow. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-imaging...

It has been a great pleasure to work with the amazing Haneol Mun on this new updated version of the “Aesthetic Turn” entry for the Oxford Bibliography in International Relations. If of interest, here is the text: static1.squarespace.com/static/660f3...

#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - https://cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social #FirstView

#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - https://cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social #FirstView

Here are our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social program, held online and in person in Stockholm next semester. We welcome great scholars, incl Lene Hansen for the 2nd Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture. Here more info and rego details: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

One of Emma’s absolute favorites (we have an entire shelf devoted to her); an interesting Guardian article; and an item to add to my Stockholm book-order list. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

If you are in Stockholm next week and up for this and, especially, for a chat over drinks, then please come along to my little ‘installation’ gig at the Swedish Defence University. Details here (all welcome but registration required): www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Here a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith) discussing their collaboration about images of childhood as technologies in the governance of political violence. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Please join us in person or online to hear @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social and @hmberents.bsky.social discuss their research collaboration about images of childhood as technologies of governance. Wed 22 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Check it out: following her amazing book on Affective Imagery, which we recently discussed in our @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program, here is @mtrotem.bsky.social’s new article in IPS.

Here a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Saffron O’Neill from the University of Exeter discussing her fascinating new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol University Press 2025) with Matt McDonald from UQ. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Saffron O’Neill (Exeter) discusses her new book The Visual Life of Climate Change (Bristol UP) with Matt McDonald (UQ). Wed 1 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Please find here a video of @mtrotem.bsky.social’s recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event during which we discussed her interesting new book Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste. Thanks so much for joining us, Marcelle. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Please join us in person or online for the first @visualpolitics.bsky.social event of the semester: @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester) discusses The Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies. Wed 11 March, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Join us in person or online for our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social events to hear about new research from @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester), Saffron O'Neill (Exeter), @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

🎧 New Podcast Episode! 🎧 Spend your morning commute listening to the latest RIS podcast episode! Our editor Seb chats to Roland Bleiker about his 2025 BISA keynote address ⤵️

Fascinating article by Francesco Ragazzi on “multimodal” research - and an invitation to submit corresponding articles on aesthetics experiences and collaborations to Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences brill.com/view/journal...

Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.

In this @risjnl.bsky.social podcast, @bleiker.bsky.social talk to @sebkaempf.bsky.social about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of his keynote address delivered at #BISA2025. https://cup.org/4pPo9II

Here a video of Michael Barnett’s amazing Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture on Mobilising Compassion. Comments by Bina D’Costa and Fiona Terry. Chaired by Katrina Lee Koo. Introduced by Heather Zwicker and myself. Thanks so much to everyone who came along. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/michael...

Calibri has for long been our default font, but even more so after reading this NYT article today on the US State Department’s new “typeface policy.” 🙂. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Help us make a difference today! 👉 https://www.bisa.ac.uk/give/donate “Having seen the incredible talent of young BISA scholars, and knowing the difficult situation they face at the beginning of their career, the AspIRing Scholars Fund is a cause well worth supporting.” - Roland Bleiker 🎉

ABC Radio National offers a fascinating interview with Michael Barnett about mobilizing compassion and his first Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture, held last week at UQ. Lecture video still to come. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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...

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...

Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton discuss their fascinating and unusual new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social - Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1

On the role of icons in news media: Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson’s insightful new essay open access in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Here a blog that summarises my chapter in Andrew Carrr’s book in memory of Brendan Sargeant, one of Australia’s leading strategic thinkers.  I use my previous visual autoethnography of Korean security to engage Sargeant’s concept of the strategic imagination. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/aesthet...