ISRF Newsletter – October 2024
Watch out! The ISRF Newsletter's out! Read on for a Director's Note, details for our First Book Grant competition, events, posts, and news.
Contents
Director’s Note
Warsaw in Our Age of War
Christopher Newfield
We are heading to Warsaw next week for our third ISRF annual conference, called “Migration and Democracy in a Time of Climate Crisis.” As the name suggests, it will focus on three core issues – Migration, Democracy and the Climate Crisis.
So how are those issues doing in 2024?…
2nd First Book Grant (FBG2)
Deadline: 5pm GMT (6pm CET), Friday 1st November 2024
Newly qualified post-docs (within three years of PhD award) are eligible to apply for support to convert their PhD thesis into a book.
Researchers may apply from across the social sciences and the humanities. The awards are intended to provide a research stipend (to cover living costs) for a period of up to twelve months, plus appropriate research expenses.
Conference: Migration and Democracy in a Time of Climate Crisis
7-9 October, Warsaw, Poland.
Our three topics for this year’s ISRF Conference have become trapped in a vicious cycle. Climate crisis increases migration, which has triggered anti-democratic backlash, which reduces international cooperation on climate, which allows the climate crisis to intensify. Each of these relationships is real, and each is rooted in myth. The ISRF invites papers on any of these three topics, or any combination of them. How can we interrupt this cycle and even reverse it? How can we treat underlying causes rather than addressing symptoms?
For inquiries, contact lars.cornelissen@isrf.org
Book Launch: The Duty to Secure, by Professor Rita Floyd
Thursday 24 October, 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST). In person and online.
“Securitization” names the use of threat-specific, often liberty defying, rigorously enforced and sometimes forcible emergency measures.In her new book, The Duty to Secure: From Just to Mandatory Securitization (Cambridge 2024), Professor Rita Floyd explores how and when such measures can be morally permissible, articulating a range of criteria that includes just cause, right intention and proportionality. She will be joined by Professor Mary Kaldor and Professor Jamie Shea.
Cambridge Social Ontology: Summer School and Workshop
Nuno Martins reports on a summer school on Social Ontology held at Cambridge in August.
A Different Portrait of the Rohingya: An Interview with Greg Constantine
Lars Cornelissen sits down with two-time ISRF Fellow Greg Constantine to talk about his recent research on the untold history of the Rohingya.
How to Apply for ISRF Funding to Turn Your PhD Thesis into a Book
The ISRF’s First Book Grant Competition is open for applications from recent PhD graduates who want to produce a publishable work.
The Coming University Crunch: Chronicle of Closures Foretold
Lars Cornelissen shows that the prospect of university closures was always baked into the defence of student-funded higher education.
New Publication: Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid (Repeater Books)
Dr Joy White (ISRF Independent Scholar Fellow 2015-16 and Academic Advisor) explores how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
New Publication: Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books)
Professor Adam Hanieh (ISRF Political Economy Fellow 2023-24) sets out the expansive history of the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis.
New Publication: Ek Khaale – Once Upon a Time
On this website, divided into nine chapters, ISRF Fellow Dr Greg Constantine offers a visual restoration of the history of the Rohingya. At present, seven chapters have been published. The other two will be published over the course of September.
New Publication: The sound of difference: Race, class and the politics of 'diversity' in classical music (2024, Manchester University Press)
Dr Kristina Kolbe (ISRF Early Career Fellow 2023) critically examines how discourses of ‘diversity’ in the classical music, a sector that is notably implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.
2nd First Book Grant (FBG2)
Now live—deadline: Friday 1st November 2024
Newly qualified post-docs (within three years of PhD award) are eligible to apply for support to convert their PhD thesis into a book.
11th Flexible Grants for Small Groups Competition (FG11)
Launching autumn 2024 (date to be confirmed)
Funding support for small groups (2-10 scholars) to complete a piece of research or undertake face-to-face joint group work.
7th Mid-Career Fellowship (MCF7)
Closed on 28th March 2024
Scholars more than ten years post-PhD were eligible to apply for support to complete a one-year piece of original research. Award announcements are expected in the summer.