Lukas Schemper
@lukasschemper.bsky.social
History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | Research fellow @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social in the project "Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security"
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Lukas Schemper
@lukasschemper.bsky.social
· Feb 20
📖 A new special issue of @journalmaritime.bsky.social 🌊 , which I co-edited w/ H. Trüper, explores how maritime rescue 🛟 has historically been bound up with questions of sovereignty. If you’re interested in the history of saving lives at sea, have a look at our introduction shorturl.at/nBZM2 (1/7)
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This much for academia being somehow above or outside the war: this is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and these are our colleagues, engaged in the same work we do. This is also late punishment for the instrumental role the Academy played in the late 1980s in the struggle for independence.
🚨 UPD: A woman was killed and at least three others were injured after Russian forces struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv.
September 28, 2026 at 12:20 PM
This much for academia being somehow above or outside the war: this is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and these are our colleagues, engaged in the same work we do. This is also late punishment for the instrumental role the Academy played in the late 1980s in the struggle for independence.
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I’ve shared several versions of this before but I just love historical demographic data too much. Nice version by @civixplorer.
September 27, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I’ve shared several versions of this before but I just love historical demographic data too much. Nice version by @civixplorer.
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My new article examining the ICRC's visits to political prisoners in 1960s Apartheid South Africa, including its encounters with Mandela and Sobukwe, is out now in the Journal of Global History.
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Humanitarianism, race, and the late colonial global order: Red Cross prison inspections in Apartheid South Africa | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Humanitarianism, race, and the late colonial global order: Red Cross prison inspections in Apartheid South Africa
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September 24, 2026 at 10:31 AM
My new article examining the ICRC's visits to political prisoners in 1960s Apartheid South Africa, including its encounters with Mandela and Sobukwe, is out now in the Journal of Global History.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Heute vor 40 Jahren erschien Ulrich Becks „Risikogesellschaft“. Veit Braun und Vicky Kluzik lesen den zeitdiagnostischen Klassiker neu: Was macht die anhaltende Aktualität des Buches aus und warum ist es nichtsdestotrotz von den Lehrplänen verschwunden?
www.soziopolis.de/beck-to-the-...
www.soziopolis.de/beck-to-the-...
September 25, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Heute vor 40 Jahren erschien Ulrich Becks „Risikogesellschaft“. Veit Braun und Vicky Kluzik lesen den zeitdiagnostischen Klassiker neu: Was macht die anhaltende Aktualität des Buches aus und warum ist es nichtsdestotrotz von den Lehrplänen verschwunden?
www.soziopolis.de/beck-to-the-...
www.soziopolis.de/beck-to-the-...
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Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
September 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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New open-access book by former ESEH President Marco Armiero!
New open-access book: Marco Armiero's Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster. This is a translation of Armiero's 2023 book in Italian, finally available in English. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! Courtesy of MIT Press.
#envhist #envhum
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#envhist #envhum
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Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster
Full open-access volume Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster (2026) by Marco Armiero.
www.environmentandsociety.org
September 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
New open-access book by former ESEH President Marco Armiero!
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The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊
And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥
Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !
And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥
Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !
September 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM
The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊
And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥
Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !
And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥
Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !
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In case you missed it: In just TWO WEEKS, U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran produced roughly as much carbon pollution as Iceland does in a year. Militarism is torching our planet! buff.ly/spP7EzF
Ecocide in Iran
The U.S.–Israeli war on Iran has caused massive environmental devastation, adding to the long history of American wars with toxic legacies.
theintercept.com
September 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In case you missed it: In just TWO WEEKS, U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran produced roughly as much carbon pollution as Iceland does in a year. Militarism is torching our planet! buff.ly/spP7EzF
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Natural disasters are set to cost the world almost half a trillion dollars a year, according to a new forecast. More than 60 per cent of those losses are uninsured — or uninsurable.
Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/aX8LTSO
Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/aX8LTSO
September 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Natural disasters are set to cost the world almost half a trillion dollars a year, according to a new forecast. More than 60 per cent of those losses are uninsured — or uninsurable.
Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/aX8LTSO
Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/aX8LTSO
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New poll. In every one of four possible runoff scenarios, Marine Le Pen wins the 🇫🇷 2027 presidential election
Le Pen 69.5% v Mélenchon
Le Pen 57% v Glucksmann
Le Pen 57% v Attal
Le Pen 52.5% v Philippe
The centre has its work cut out
Source: Elabe
Le Pen 69.5% v Mélenchon
Le Pen 57% v Glucksmann
Le Pen 57% v Attal
Le Pen 52.5% v Philippe
The centre has its work cut out
Source: Elabe
August 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM
New poll. In every one of four possible runoff scenarios, Marine Le Pen wins the 🇫🇷 2027 presidential election
Le Pen 69.5% v Mélenchon
Le Pen 57% v Glucksmann
Le Pen 57% v Attal
Le Pen 52.5% v Philippe
The centre has its work cut out
Source: Elabe
Le Pen 69.5% v Mélenchon
Le Pen 57% v Glucksmann
Le Pen 57% v Attal
Le Pen 52.5% v Philippe
The centre has its work cut out
Source: Elabe
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NEW PAPER
Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026)
Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature
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Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026)
Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature
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Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain
Draft chapter - a version of this essay is forthcoming in Duncan Bell and Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature.
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August 29, 2026 at 9:29 PM
NEW PAPER
Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026)
Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026)
Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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JOB vacancies in International Relations at LSE:
Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics.
Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇
Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics.
Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇
🚨 We're #hiring at LSE! Join our Department of International Relations:
🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Geoeconomics)
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🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Global Environmental Politics)
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📆 Deadline: 7 September 2026.
#AcademicJob #AcademicSky #PoliSky
🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Geoeconomics)
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🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Global Environmental Politics)
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📆 Deadline: 7 September 2026.
#AcademicJob #AcademicSky #PoliSky
August 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
JOB vacancies in International Relations at LSE:
Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics.
Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇
Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics.
Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇
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New Cambridge Element, Rhetoric and Reality, by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Edward D. Mansfield and Jon C. W. Pevehouse, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/3RGxYgP
https://cup.org/3RGxYgP
July 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
New Cambridge Element, Rhetoric and Reality, by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Edward D. Mansfield and Jon C. W. Pevehouse, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/3RGxYgP
https://cup.org/3RGxYgP
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JOB: Postdoctoral researcher [ERC Consolidator Grant Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project] (Maynooth: National University of Ireland Maynooth, DEADLINE 11 OCT 2026).
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JOB: Postdoctoral researcher [ERC Consolidator Grant Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project] (Maynooth: National University of Ireland Maynooth, DEADLINE 11 OCT 2026)
(image source: jobs ac uk ) Postdoctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract) Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Mayno...
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August 26, 2026 at 9:27 AM
JOB: Postdoctoral researcher [ERC Consolidator Grant Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project] (Maynooth: National University of Ireland Maynooth, DEADLINE 11 OCT 2026).
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New on the GHIL Podcast! 🎧 The twentieth century is normally considered the century of the refugee, beginning with the mass flight and expulsion of civilian populations in the First World War, and reaching its sad climax with millions of displaced people in the Second World War and
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August 25, 2026 at 9:00 AM
New on the GHIL Podcast! 🎧 The twentieth century is normally considered the century of the refugee, beginning with the mass flight and expulsion of civilian populations in the First World War, and reaching its sad climax with millions of displaced people in the Second World War and
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To whom it may concern.
www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536096...
@wallsteinverlag.bsky.social @annaeick.bsky.social
www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536096...
@wallsteinverlag.bsky.social @annaeick.bsky.social
August 25, 2026 at 9:31 AM
To whom it may concern.
www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536096...
@wallsteinverlag.bsky.social @annaeick.bsky.social
www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536096...
@wallsteinverlag.bsky.social @annaeick.bsky.social
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Now full special issue that I and Dr. Burak Sayim co-edited is out! "#ColdWar internationalisms of/in the #decolonizing world." Most of articles are #openaccess
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsix21/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsix21/1...
The Global Sixties
Volume 19, Issue 1 of The Global Sixties
www.tandfonline.com
August 24, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Now full special issue that I and Dr. Burak Sayim co-edited is out! "#ColdWar internationalisms of/in the #decolonizing world." Most of articles are #openaccess
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsix21/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsix21/1...
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This is the funniest shit.
Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines.
Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines.
Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions
The Bishops: separation of church & state
Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines.
Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines.
Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions
The Bishops: separation of church & state
Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
www.miamiherald.com
August 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
This is the funniest shit.
Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines.
Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines.
Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions
The Bishops: separation of church & state
Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines.
Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines.
Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions
The Bishops: separation of church & state
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#Postdoc Opportunity: Complex Hazard Decision Making at University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability. Learn more at
WFFI - Opportunities
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Opportunity: Risk Perception and Adaptation Behavior
wffi.seas.umich.edu
August 20, 2026 at 7:01 PM
#Postdoc Opportunity: Complex Hazard Decision Making at University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability. Learn more at
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La sécheresse, la catastrophe silencieuse qui coûte désormais plus cher que les autres aléas climatiques
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/p...
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/p...
La sécheresse, la catastrophe silencieuse qui coûte désormais plus cher que les autres aléas climatiques
En 2025, la sécheresse a représenté à elle seule la moitié des dégâts liés aux catastrophes naturelles en France. Une facture appelée à s'alourdir, avec des conséquences sur les bâtiments, les assuran...
www.radiofrance.fr
August 18, 2026 at 8:01 AM
La sécheresse, la catastrophe silencieuse qui coûte désormais plus cher que les autres aléas climatiques
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/p...
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/p...
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On advance access: "Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans"
by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans*
Abstract. This article examines what happened to the ‘abandoned land’ of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in
doi.org
August 17, 2026 at 6:58 AM
On advance access: "Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans"
by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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"The total toll of this summer’s heat is likely to be much more — as high as €180bn, according to one bank."
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@climatesollab.bsky.social
The economics of Europe’s drought
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The economics of Europe’s drought
The economics of Europe’s drought
Rivers are at all-time lows and water is scarce. Transport, energy and big tech are affected
www.ft.com
August 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM
"The total toll of this summer’s heat is likely to be much more — as high as €180bn, according to one bank."
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@climatesollab.bsky.social
The economics of Europe’s drought
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@climatesollab.bsky.social
The economics of Europe’s drought