Parvathi Menon

The brilliant Tshepo Madlingozi at SOAS's Centre for the Study of Colonialism Empire and International Law (@CCEILSOAS ) today w Catriona Drew/Danushka Medawatte/Vidya Kumar. He spoke eloquently on the TRC, reparations, social justice, HRs, TJ & the constitution. Lucky us!🙏🏾🥰

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'no no no you don't get it, I crossed the picket line specifically because I support the strike'

SOAS South Asia Institute is pleased to host the 2026 British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, taking place from 9–11 September 2026. The conference will showcase pioneering scholarship on South Asia from the Subcontinent and around the world.

@PalashSrvastva I know, and I wish that changes for you soon!

@pmenon Which looks like the hardest one to find at the moment

Neither. A funded position.

Vol. 25 of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law @BirzeitU is out in April. With contributions from: @RajiSourani, John Quigley, @pmpoc, Jinan Bastaki, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, Raef Zreik, Brenna Bhandar, Panagiotis Gkagkatsis, Michelle Kelsall, @pmenon, & Umut Özsu. 1/12

11. The Gentle Decolonial Civilizers of Nations: Umut Özsu’s Completing Humanity, @pmenon

accidentally was honest during a work meeting, the day is spoiled

Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialism than I could ever have hoped. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵

I'm frankly devastated over Asad Haider's death. He was a major force on the left. He lived and breathed theory. Asad was able to take the most baroque theory and make it speak to practical political tactics and strategy. Very few could do that as well as him. Every issue of his publication Viewpoint was remarkable and when a new issue dropped, you just had to read it. When the pandemic hit we hosted a study group on Lazarus's Anthropology of the Name and Asad was so articulate with this work that he made all the concepts come to life for us. Asad was actually the first scholar I reached out to when I started @emancipations_. More recently, we had plans to host a major debate in New York on Marxism and philosophy. Asad was a mentor to many of us. His book Mistaken Identity is still one of the best interventions on the pitfalls of identity politics and I'd recommend it. Condolences to his family and loved ones. May he rest in power and in peace.

📢 Our co-organised event @LSELaw is this *this Thursday*! Register 👇🏾 if you want to come! @CCEILSOAS #StateRecognition #Palestine @soasLAW

🚨 BREAKING - FIVE Lift The Ban key spokespeople arrested in dawn raids. Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared. Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.

@G_bansal95 It’s pm55@soas.ac.uk. Thank you!

@pmenon Thanks for your interest Parvathi, would love to share it with you. Please share your email id and I'll send it across🙏

1/ 🎓✨ #PhDdone 💯✅ Big news — I’m pleased to share that I officially passed my PhD last month! ✨🎓 A long and enriching journey, full of challenges & opportunities, has come to an end. I feel privileged to have completed a fully funded PhD at @developmentuea @uniofeastanglia

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.” ------------------------------------------------------- Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

Read my friend and comrade, @NikhilMathew_ write about the student struggles and the Palestinian freedom movement here studentstruggle.in/students-bring…

Join the Online lecture (19/06/25; 5:30PM) - Engendering a Race for Profit: Labour, Land, and Capital in International Law Speaker: Dr Parvathi Menon Watch the live stream on facebook and instagram: facebook.com/sficecofficial and instagram.com/sficec/ #SFI18thAllIndiaConference