Yuting Alina He

PhDing @usyd_ssps | MPhil cantab @Dept_of_POLIS | critical and unorthodox IR, digital tech, gender & China/EA. RT not endorsement. Co-host @overreactology

[Sydney CISS @sydneyciss]

The 2026 Michael Hintze Lecture 'Entanglements in World Politics: The Power of Uncertainty', featured Prof. Peter J. Katzenstein (@cornellgov), rethinking risk, uncertainty & global crises.
📖Event Recap: https://t.co/kD5l0JvKyA
🎞CISS Conversation: https://t.co/KCY7j6qyrI

[Sydney CISS @sydneyciss]

Thank you to everyone who joined the Sydney premiere of Project Q: War, Peace and Quantum Mechanics! 🎬An inspiring night of ideas on quantum technology, power, and peace with director James Der Derian and moderator Stan Grant.

[Sydney CISS @sydneyciss]

Join us for the Sydney premiere of 'Project Q: War, Peace and Quantum Mechanics'.
🗓️ Wed 29 October
📽️ 5:30pm (cash bar from 5pm). Post-film discussion with CISS Visiting Fellow Stan Grant and director James Der Derian
📍 Footbridge Theatre @Sydney_Uni
🎟️ https://t.co/ylK1tR9Onb

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

So fantastic to see such a diverse mix of undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD students and academics coming together for an afternoon that was anything but typical academic fare!

[Sydney CISS @sydneyciss]

First Sips & Security at @sydneyciss! Prof. James Der Derian shared how genocide, photojournalism & fieldwork shaped his career & quantum approach to IR. Screened 'Atoms for Peace' + Q&A. Exactly the kind of engaging conversation students need.

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Just wrapped up my first academic conference in Australia, and my first one as a PhD candidate, at #OCIS2025 last Friday! I had the pleasure to present part of my doctoral research on livestreaming and global security in our Quantum IR panel. Very organic academic exchange!

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Proud to bring more attention to the thoughts of Kollontai and Chizuko Ueno, and what’s happening in contemporary Chinese feminism into the Anglophone world! Happy IWD💕Freedom and Love to everyone!

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

♀️ #IWD25
💭 @YutingHeALINA & Ruairidh Brown consider the thought & contemporary relevance of Russian revolutionary & Soviet diplomat, Alexandra Kollontai, who became an early advocate of IWD 🙌 & the resonating ideas in contemporary East Asian societies. https://t.co/qtdfrW0jXz

[Overreactology @overreactology]

🎙️NEW TikTok Special episode out! As digital infrastructures become battlegrounds for geopolitical power, it’s crucial to go beyond TikTok in the US, to uncover the global power dynamics shaping digital politics. Join us with guest D1 (🇬🇧PhD researcher)：https://t.co/USfuG7m7z6

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Migrating to Bluesky:

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Pretty shocked when chatting with the guest talking about the ideal of ‘global village’ does not really exists in the US but have been so popular in China, esp as a Gen Z grew up in the 00-10s…

[Overreactology @overreactology]

📻First episode in English, now we’re back with the recent #tiktokrefugee episode: What Happened in the US?
Listen: https://t.co/3AeXcpJJDl

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Thank you editors✨New article out on livestreaming politics and 🇰🇷 martial law crisis. With the magic of the smartphone, the theatre of war, public protests, and robust parliamentary exchanges are now all only inches from our face. Read⬇️

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🇰🇷 South Korean democracy recently escaped martial law, helped by the livestreaming of events as they unfolded in #Seoul. 💻 Livestreaming has recently developed into a powerful instrument of political #mobilisation, writes @YutingHeALINA of @usyd_ssps.
https://t.co/MTzCrDk0Qf

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

@Projekt_A119 Oh yeah that’s definitely a good case thanks

[John Keane @jkeaneSDN]

tomorrow evening (29th) speaking @Sydney_Uni about 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐲 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 a book that ‘offers a totally new perspective on China; all previous commentaries on its rise have been made out of date’ (Jocelyn Chey) all welcome! @OUPAustraliaNZ

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

My co-authored chapter is now available: https://t.co/EMocVDCSbi. In this autoethnographic chapter, we compared our experiences of international(ised) education in Kurdistan & China, critically reflecting on key issues like postcolonialism, gender & identity in global politics.

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Arrived and finally settled in Sydney, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve started my PhD in Government and International Relations at @Usyd_ssps. I’ll continue my research on social media, emerging tech and IR, focusing on the quantum IR theory and critical security studies💕

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

First time trying Matters, a decentralized blockchain assisted platform to publish the transcripts😎

[Overreactology @overreactology]

📝English transcript [S01E02] Who Moved My Puzzle? Identity, Temporality, Spatiality and (Im)mobility is now available via @matterslab https://t.co/QQFjzephdj

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Very cool discussions! Relatable when Miss Zhang said ‘identity is like wearing a pair of glasses that you can’t take off’ & James said sometimes we only have an ‘imagined familiarity’ of the home country so we might miss research puzzles that others might be interested in.

[Overreactology @overreactology]

Knock knock! Ep. 02 [Who Moved My Puzzle? Identity, Temporiality, Spatialiy & (Im)mobility) is out📢Living abroad creates a direct encounter with global politics. We discussed how identity, (im)mobility & experiences abroad offered inspirations (or limits) for doing #IR research.

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Finally! A very thought-provoking discussion on 'IR as a gendered discipline', 'low-career-expectancy major', 'Beijing taxi drivers vs. IR experts', 'abstract concepts vs. real life' & most excitingly 'Is IR a gold-plated accessory for elites?' Let's overreact!!

[Overreactology @overreactology]

🎙️#podcast Our first ep. [Why #IR can't knock down people's doors] invited Xiaolei, who studies IR in Moscow after the war broke out, and Magna Toasta, now PhD in War Studies in a permanent neutral state. Episode Language: Chinese. 📝English transcript published on Matters.

[Overreactology @overreactology]

The inaugural season focuses on the bitterness and grievances (? 🥲), idealism and enthusiasm (🥰!) of young people in (who have left?) IR. (3/4)

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Thrilled to share that I’m running a new podcast on IR with Jasmine🥳welcome and join us! The first episode on ‘entering IR’ will be published tomorrow 🤩

[Overreactology @overreactology]

Welcome to the world of #Overreactology🎤A "made-in-China" #podcast on #EverydayIR for and by young people, hosted by @yexu_jasmine & @yutingheALINA. The name in Chinese 小题大做 means treating a very small issue as a big deal. We commit to ‘overreact’!💡Intro (trailer) now live:

[Yuting Alina He @YutingHeALINA]

Received over 58k views and 3.8k likes within 36 hours on Xiaohongshu (the Red Book) for writing about the desperate unemployment situations after graduation (with an IR degree), shockingly it has became the most popular post that I’ve ever written…