Name: CANCELLED - BISA 2020 conference
Start: 2020-06-17T04:00:00+01:00
End: 2020-06-19T22:30:00+01:00
Location: Civic Centre

Wednesday, 17 June
- 10:30 → 12:00
  
  Roundtable / Abolish/ Defend/ Repair – Action from the local to the international on a warming fascist planet. Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Chair: Lisa Tilley (Birkbeck University of London)
  
  Participants: Lisa Tilley (Birkbeck University of London) , John Narayan (KCL) , Kerem Nişancıoğlu (SOAS) , Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London) , Leon Sealey-Huggins (Warwick)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  
  Roundtable / Author Meets Critics: Cloud Ethics Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Chair: Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam)
  
  Participants: Belcher Oliver (Durham University) , Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam) , Amoore Louise (Durham University) , Martin Coward (University of Manchester)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Dealing with Popular Discontent on Security and Migration Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: European Security Working Group
  
  Conveners: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University) , Arantza Gomez Arana (Birmingham City University) , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  
  Chair: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  - Critiquing the effectiveness of EU NAVFOR MED Sophia - an example of the Comprehensive Approach to security?
    
    Authors: Simon Sweeney (University of York) , Neil Winn (University of Leeds)
  - (In)securitising Homelessness, Legitimising Control: Agency, migration, and the policing of homeless people in central London
    
    Author: Bernardino Leon Reyes (Sciences Po Paris)
  - Yellow as a threat: criminalising urban protests as a political mechanism
    
    Authors: Daniel Pedersoli , Vinícius Armele dos Santos Leal (PUC-Rio)
  - The impact of European Union migration policies in southern European countries: the case of Spain
    
    Author: Arantza Gomez Arana (Birmingham City University)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  
  Roundtable / Decolonising Politics Curricula: Pedagogies, Strategies and Reflections Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group
  
  Chair: Juvaria Jafri (City, University of London)
  
  Participants: John Morris (University of Warwick) , Neema Begum (University of Manchester) , Sahra Taylor (City, University of London) , Rima Saini (Middlesex University London ) , Nadine Zwiener-Collins
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Europeanisation, nationalism and democracy in South East Europe Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
  
  Convener: Daniela Lai (London South Bank)
  
  Chair: Lydia Cole (University of Durham)
  
  Discussant: Lydia Cole (University of Durham)
  - The Sounds of Silence: Ambiguity and the Referendum on (FYRO)/(North) Macedonia
    
    Author: Liridona Veliu
  - Authoritarianism and the AKP: news media freedom in Turkey
    
    Author: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham)
  - From First and Other to a Hybrid Serbia: How the European Integration Process has Reshaped the Nationalist Politics in Serbia.
    
    Author: Koen Slootmaeckers (City, University of London)
  - Fair or foul? Attitudes towards loyalty, charity, and impartiality amongst Serbian judges
    
    Authors: Fagan Adam (King's College London)* , Indraneel Sircar (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Vanja Savic (King's College London)
  - To what extent has Europeanisation changed the political culture of corruption in Bulgaria?
    
    Author: Teodora Stoyanova (Durham University)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Explorations at the Intersection of the Official Record, the Rule of Law, National Security and Democracy Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: Peter Finn (Kingston University, London)
  
  Chair: Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick)
  - The Official Record, the Rule of Law, National Security and Democracy
    
    Author: Peter Finn (Kingston University, London)
  - The end of presumed innocence? What government ‘radicalization prevention’ film tells us about the law
    
    Author: Tom Pettinger (University of Warwick)
  - Targeted Killing: The Constitutionality of Killing American Citizens
    
    Author: Christine Sixta Rinehart (University of South Carolina Union)
  - ‘The Scarlet A of American politics’: assassination, the official record, and US foreign policy
    
    Author: Luca Trenta (Swansea University )
  - Leaks in the Official Record: WikiLeaks, Cablegate, and IR Research
    
    Author: Rubrick Biegon (University of Kent)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Hegel, Hegelianism and Ethics in International Relations: Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
  
  Conveners: David J. Karp (University of Sussex) , Seán Molloy (University of Kent)
  
  Chair: Susan Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
  - 'The Responsibility to 'Respect' Human Rights: Rethinking Virtue Ethics and the Self/Other Relationship.’
    
    Author: David J. Karp (University of Sussex)
  - ‘Absolute Freedom and Terror’: Notes Neoliberalism’s Globalised Authoritarian Legacy'
    
    Author: Tarik Kochi (University of Sussex)
  - , ‘G.W.F. Hegel, E.H. Carr and the Development of Realist Ethics.’
    
    Author: Seán Molloy (University of Kent)
  - ‘Precarity and ‘Hegelian’ Recognition.’
    
    Author: Ritu Vij (University of Aberdeen)
  - Hegel, Schmitt, and International Studies: Understanding State and Society of the Future through the Philosophical Pasts of Continental Thought.'
    
    Author: Zoi Vardanika (University of Reading)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Health Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
  
  Convener: Eva Hilberg
  
  Chair: Adele Langlois (University of Lincoln)
  
  Discussant: Adele Langlois (University of Lincoln)
  - Molecular Sovereignties – Patients, genomes, and the enduring biocoloniality of intellectual property
    
    Author: Eva Hilberg
  - The Everyday Politics of Mental Health in International Relations
    
    Author: Jana-Maria Fey (University of Sheffield)
  - Water security and gender based violence: health for all by 2030?
    
    Authors: Susan J Elliott (University of Waterloo) , Katrina Plamondon (University of British Columbia )*
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Philipp Schulz (University of Bremen)
  
  Chair: Heleen Touquet (University of Antwerp)
  
  Discussant: Brandon Hamber (Ulster University)
  - Military masculinities as points of identification in the digital public sphere: challenges for transitional justice
    
    Author: Catherine Baker (University of Hull)
  - Delineating Perpetratorhood: On race, masculinities and fighting impunity for sexual violence in DRC
    
    Author: Chloé Lewis (Oxford University)
  - Perspectives on Justice by Syrian LGBTI Persons in the Midst of Violent Conflict and Displacement
    
    Authors: Henri Myrttinen (Mosaic Beirut) , Charbel Maydaa (Mosaic)*
  - Butterflies for Democracy: An intersection of queer emancipation and democratization in post-war Sri Lanka
    
    Author: Waradas Thiyagaraja (University of Colombo & University of Bath)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Mobilities, Subjectivities, and Technologies Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: PPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Patrick Hughes (Queen's University Belfast)
  - CITIES AS AESTHETIC SUBJECTS
    
    Authors: Matt Davies (Newcastle University) , Delacey Tedesco (University of Exeter)
  - Temporalities of Home: Migration and Political Subjectivity
    
    Author: Maja Zehfuss (The University of Manchester)
  - Taking the Road to Paradise: Aesthetic Infrastructures and Economies of Circulation in Northeast Brazil
    
    Author: Harriet Cansino (Newcastle University)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Narratives, struggles and violence in Africa: perception, ritual, practice and memorialisation Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Laura Routley (Newcastle)
  
  Chair: Laura Routley (Newcastle)
  - Linking the mine and the museum: governed urban peripheries in South Africa’s migrant labour system
    
    Author: Stefanie Kappler (Durham University)
  - Mourning for Empire: Transnational security professionals in postcolonial East Africa
    
    Author: Jethro Norman (University of Leeds)
  - The humanitarian witness? Reading memoir as testimony in Sudan and South Sudan
    
    Author: Róisín Read (University of Manchester)
  - Terrorist recruitment and climate change in the Lake Chad region
    
    Author: Caroline Varin
  - Rethinking successful Deradicalisation and Reintegration: A qualitative study of Christian and Muslim perceptions of Boko Haram in Nigeria
    
    Author: Tarela Ike (Teesside University)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Power and Order in International History Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: British International History Working Group
  
  Convener: Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth University)
  
  Chair: Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth University)
  - A Pacifist Critique of the Red Poppy: contesting the increasingly hegemonic militarism of mundane British civil religion
    
    Author: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
  - History as a Feature of Language in the Articulation of Global Britain
    
    Author: Mark Ølholm Eaton (Aarhus University)
  - Beyond American Exceptionalism? Past, Present and Future
    
    Author: Yu Cheng Teng (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology)
  - Why states commit resiliently to international cooperation with other states with which they are in conflict: a neo-Durkheimian institutional explanation
    
    Authors: Perri 6 (Queen Mary University of London) , Eva Heims (University of York)*
  - How did international economic regulation survive the last period of deglobalisation?
    
    Authors: Perri 6 (Queen Mary University of London) , Eva Heims (University of York)* , Martha Prevezer (School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London)*
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / War care: Infrastructures of bodily destruction and regenesis History Room
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Conveners: Craig Jones (Newcastle University ) , Nisha Shah (University of Ottawa)
  
  Chair: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster)
  - War wounds, slow violence and access to healthcare in the Middle East
    
    Author: Craig Jones (Newcastle University )
  - Mapping Iraqis' Cancer Journeys During the ISIS Period: Spatial, Social, and Environmental Dimensions
    
    Author: Mac Skelton (The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani)
  - Traumatic Posthumanity: Managing TBI
    
    Author: Lena Moore (University of Cambridge)
  - Optimal design: Wound Ballistics and the Ethical Disposition of War
    
    Author: Nisha Shah (University of Ottawa)
  - Disarming Masculinity: Fantasies of Biomedical Control in Feminist Thought
    
    Author: Paul Kirby (Centre of Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / War, emotion and foreign policy Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: EPIR Working group
  
  Chair: Anupama Ranawana (Oxford Brookes University/University of Roehampton)
  - Blurring the Boundaries of War: PTSD, Psychosocial Governance and Conceptual Innovation in American Foreign Policy Discourse
    
    Author: Adam Lerner (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  - Rational Trust in Bayesian Realist Approach: The Case of Iranian Nuclear Deal
    
    Author: SELMA IMAMOGLU (Durham University)
  - Tragedy, Pride and Respect: How the Gallipoli Campaign Has Shaped Turkish Emotions toward the UK
    
    Author: Yaprak Gursoy (Aston University)
  - The role of emotions during the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt in light of repertoires
    
    Author: Efser Rana Coskun
  - Anger, Fear, and (Un)Certainty: Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Emotions in Decision Making
    
    Author: Manali Kumar (National University of Singapore)
- 10:30 → 12:00
  Panel / Water Security Across Scales: Intersections of the International Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Environment Working Group
  
  Conveners: Jeremy Schmidt (Durham University) , Ashok Swain (Uppsala University) , Cameron Harrington (Durham University)
  
  Chair: Cameron Harrington (Durham University)
  
  Discussant: Cat Button (Newcastle University)
  - Water diplomacy between desecuritisation and securitisation of water
    
    Author: Naho Mirumachi (Kings College London)
  - Water security, race, and ethnicity: a systematic assessment of the literature
    
    Authors: Jeremy Schmidt (Durham University) , Cameron Harrington (Durham University)* , Ashok Swain (Uppsala University)* , Thuli Montana (Durham University)*
  - Combatting Water Insecurities as the Best Path towards Water Security
    
    Author: Chad Staddon (UWE Bristol)
  - Transboundary Water Governance and Imperial Legacies: Cooperation on the Nile and Mekong Rivers
    
    Author: Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London)
- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Lunch Break 1h
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining identities through buildings - panel 1 Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Conveners: Julia Gallagher (SOAS, University of London) , Daniel Mulugeta (SOAS, University of London) , Joanne Tomkinson (SOAS, University of London)
  
  Chair: Joanne Tomkinson (SOAS, University of London)
  - Building Statehood in Côte d’Ivoire
    
    Author: Julia Gallagher (SOAS, University of London)
  - The Architecture of State Education: Ideology and Citizenship in West African Secondary Schools (1945 to 1965)
    
    Author: Kuukuwa Manful (SOAS, University of London)
  - University of Juba: a case study of ideology, identity, peace and nation-making in 1970s Sudan
    
    Author: Awut Atak (University of Kingston)
  - The politics and aesthetics of pan-African identity: the African Union and architectural representation
    
    Author: Daniel Mulugeta (SOAS, University of London)
  - Monuments of Fragmented Truths: Architecture’s Complicit Nature
    
    Author: Yusuf Patel (University of Johannesburg)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Challenging international legal norms and institutions Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh)
  
  Chair: Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh)
  - The International Criminal Court, Preliminary Examinations and the Security Council: Kill or Cure?
    
    Authors: Rachel Kerr (King's College London) , Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
  - Forgive Us (Not) Our Transgressions: America First and the Human Rights Regime
    
    Author: Kurt Mills (University of Dundee)
  - Torture in Spanish and British counterterrorism: from ‘reverse shaming’ to narrative contestation
    
    Author: Frank Foley (King's College London)
  - The War on International Courts: Narratives of Delegitimation, Counter-Shame, and the Politics of Noncompliance
    
    Author: Victor Peskin (Arizona State University)
  - Evolving Role of the United Nations in International Norm-Making: Abolition of Torture
    
    Author: Heena Makhija
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Roundtable / Future Challenges for International Political Economy Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
  
  Chair: Matt Davies (Newcastle University)
  
  Participants: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick) , Lena Rethel (University of Warwick) , Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Warwick) , Juvaria Jafri (City, University of London) , Matt Davies (Newcastle University)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Gender Approaches to International Politics: From the Micro to the Macro History Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  - The Struggle for Child Custody in Chechnya: NGO efforts across the local and the global to improve women’s rights
    
    Author: Katie Mitchell (Queen's University Belfast )
  - Responsibility to protect and Women in Armed Conflict
    
    Author: Niamkoi Lam Niamkoi (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Bodies, Boarders and Babies: Reproductive travel for egg freezing among China’s single women
    
    Authors: Kailing Xie (University of Warwick) , Alison Lamont (University of Roehampton)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Gender(ed) Knowledge through Art Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
  
  Chair: Kathryn Starnes (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  - The Arab Apocalypse: A Queer Feminist Critique of Masculinized Politics and Disaster
    
    Author: Andrew Delatolla (The American University in Cairo)
  - Superheroes, Masculinity, and Identity Crises: What do Ironman and Captain America Tell Us About US Foreign Policy Today?
    
    Author: Benjamin Coulson
  - Why we fight: the connection between revenge politics and hypermasculinity in US post 9/11 cinema.
    
    Author: Anna Kotvalová (Charles University)
  - ‘To those who choose to follow in our footsteps’: gender equality, feminism and war-making in artistic reimagining of soldiering
    
    Authors: Emma Dolan (University of Aberdeen) , Nataliya Danilova (University of Aberdeen)*
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Innovation in Learning and Teaching: Theory and Practice Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Ross Bellaby (University of Sheffield)
  - Educating the military: using order templates to help students within the military succeed in academic study
    
    Author: Patrick Finnegan (University of St Andrews)
  - Rethinking teaching and the factors that impedes students’ engagement in the international studies discipline: A pedagogically oriented action research
    
    Author: Tarela Juliet Ike (Teesside University )
  - Continuing Professional Development, Chinese Government Officials and British Higher Education
    
    Author: Carolijn van Noort (University of the West of Scotland)
  - The Impact of ICT on Learners’ Motivation in Foreign Language Learning
    
    Author: Naveen Kumar Ranjan (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Interpretivist approaches to IR theory Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: IIRG Working group
  
  Chair: Xymena Kurowska
  
  Discussant: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University)
  - Tracing Process Tracing in Securitization
    
    Author: Chester Yacub (University of Nottingham)
  - Short-term Time Perspectives - Unpacking their Ubiquity and Dominance in Theories of International Politics
    
    Author: Christopher Wheeler (Newcastle University)
  - What Can Philosophy as a Way of Life Contribute to International Studies?
    
    Author: Michael Barr (Newcastle University)
  - The Logic of Prudence
    
    Author: Manali Kumar (National University of Singapore)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Perspectives of Security Threats Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: European Security Working Group
  
  Conveners: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University) , Arantza Gomez Arana (Birmingham City University) , Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
  
  Chair: Simon Sweeney (University of York)
  - Understanding Polish defence policy in a time of uncertainty: critical juncture or business as usual?
    
    Author: Laura Chappell
  - EU and US approaches to police reform in Ukraine: Complementary Local Ownership?
    
    Author: An Jacobs (Nottingham Trent University)
  - European Security: A Historical Institutionalist Perspective
    
    Author: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)
  - Diverging horizons?: How citizens tell stories about foreign policy differently in Ukraine to the Baltic states
    
    Authors: Alister Miskimmon (Queen's University Belfast) , Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway)
  - EU Energy Securitisation: Putin Didn't Start It
    
    Author: Andrew Judge (University of Glasgow)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Refusing Redemption: Failure, Endurance and Persistence Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: Maria-Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast)
  
  Chair: Katarina Kušić (Aberystwyth University)
  
  Discussant: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)
  - Exposure to extinction, irredeemable vulnerability and dwelling in the aftermath: the resolute anthropocentrism of anthropocene fictions
    
    Author: Martin Coward (University of Manchester )
  - From Urgency to Endurance: Contesting Failure’s maniacal pedagogy
    
    Author: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast )
  - Nationalism, Exhaustion and the affective politics of listening
    
    Author: Angharad Closs-Stephens (Swansea University )
  - Failure as art? Queer (im)possibilities and the limits of peace and security
    
    Author: Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Reprising the Relationship between War and Technology Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Alex Neads (University of Bath)
  
  Chair: Alex Neads (University of Bath)
  
  Discussant: Brett Edwards (University of Bath)
  - Time Keeps on Ticking: Land Warfare and Martial Expediency Through and Beyond the OODA Loop
    
    Author: David Galbreath (University of Bath)
  - Hackers, Hawks and Hawkers: Subcultures of Cyber Warfare
    
    Author: Joe Burton (University Libre de Bruxelles)
  - On Lethality and the Conduct of War in the 21st Century
    
    Author: Matthew Ford (University of Sussex)
  - Global Drone Diffusion: Legal and Strategic Consequences
    
    Authors: James Rogers (SDU) , Amelie Theussen (University of Southern Denmark)
  - Automation, Technology, and the Drivers of Strategic Innovation in Warfare
    
    Author: Andree-Anne (Andy) Melancon (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Shaping IR according to our values: a disciplinary asymetrical fantasy? Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
  
  Convener: IRSS Working group
  
  Chair: Alexander Hoseason (Aston University)
  - Studying AI in IR: standard trope or expanding intellectual horizons?
    
    Author: Yee-Kuang Heng (University of Tokyo)
  - Epistemic Hierarchies and Asymmetrical Dialogues in Global International Relations: The Case of Turkish IR Academia
    
    Authors: Eyup Ersoy (Ahi Evran University) , Gonca Biltekin (Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research)*
  - The Cult of Policy Relevance: For a More IR-reverent Discipline
    
    Authors: Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh) , Brent J. Steele (University of Utah)
  - Fears of Theoretical Hegemony, Paradigm Wars, and the End of Pluralism: How We Became What We Study
    
    Author: Thomas Walker (GVSU)
  - Towards Heterotopian Thinking in International Relations Theory
    
    Author: Ahlem Faraoun (University of Sussex)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Stability and power in interventions Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Convener: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding Working group (BISA)
  
  Chair: david curran (Coventry University)
  - Beyond the Democratic Peace? UN Intervention in the Era of Stabilization
    
    Author: Jennifer Russi
  - Non-partisanship and networked INGO power in the global governance of post-war states
    
    Author: Andrea Warnecke (Aberystwyth University)
  - Decolonising Security Sector Reform in Post-Conflict Countries in the Global South
    
    Author: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
  - Disengagement from active paramilitary groups: Evidence from Ukraine
    
    Author: Huseyn Aliyev (University of Glasgow)
  - The rule of law in UN stabilization missions
    
    Author: Alexander Gilder (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Technology in IR Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
  
  Convener: CRIPT Working group
  
  Chair: Christof Royer (University of St Andrews )
  - The concept of silence in international political theory
    
    Author: Sophia Dingli (University of Glasgow)
  - A theoretical understanding of artificial intelligence and the future of international politics
    
    Author: Raju Verma
  - The Politics of Lost Objects: Iconoclasm and Digital Restoration of Cultural Artefacts in Syria and Iraq
    
    Author: Belcher Oliver (Durham University)
  - Technology, the speech act: a securitisation theory approach to software design in Apple iPhone encryption
    
    Author: Vic Castro (Inalco (French National Institute for Eastern Languages and Civilisations))
  - The Anthropocene and Relational Thinking: Hannah Arendt and the Drone in the Age of Precarities
    
    Author: Toni Cerkez (Aberystwyth University)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Roundtable / The politics of comparison and relationality: colonial grammars, knowledge production & counter-politics - Part II Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Chair: Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
  
  Participants: Elian Weizman (London South Bank University) , Ananya Sharma (ASHOKA UNIVERSITY) , Kelly-Jo Bluen (London School of Economics) , Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) , Christopher Murray (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Katharine Hall (Queen Mary University of London)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  Panel / Visuality and Emotions in International Politics Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
  
  Conveners: Amya Agarwal (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg) , Christine Unrau (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen)
  
  Chair: Henri Myrttinen (Mosaic Beirut)
  
  Discussant: Chiara de Franco (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
  - Visual representations of Gender and Emotions in Conflict and Resistance
    
    Author: Amya Agarwal (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen)
  - Dressed for Power. Female Leaders, Fashion, and the Performativity of the Emotional
    
    Author: Katja Freistein (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen )
  - Seeing ‘bodies in pain’: images, emotions and the health-security nexus
    
    Author: Katharina Krause (Institut for Political Science, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
  - Crafting Compassion? Flight and Migration in Documentary Films
    
    Author: Christine Unrau (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen)
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  Coffee and Tea Break 30m
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / (Re)Production of Gendered Violence and Resistance Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
  
  Chair: Annick Wibben (Swedish Defence University)
  - “Disrupting peace at home”? Narrating relationships between sexual violence perpetrated by armed men and domestic violence in (post-)conflict settings.
    
    Authors: Harriet Gray (University of York) , Chris Dolan (Refugee Law Project, Makarere University)*
  - YouTube and Everyday Militarism? Gender, emotions and world politics
    
    Authors: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds) , Henna Tammi (University of Leeds)
  - Making sense of Gender and Peace Building Reconstruction by United Nations Development Programme in Afghanistan
    
    Author: Niamkoi Lam Niamkoi (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Placing Women in World Politics: Examining through Representation in War Memorials in Global South
    
    Author: Rittuporna Chatterjee
  - Gendered Remembrances: A Comparative study of Nada by Carmen Laforet and Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
    
    Author: Chandni Kumari (Jawaharlal Nehru Univesrity)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / Art and Activism: Seeing, making, doing politics through art in peace and conflict Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Chair: Róisín Read (University of Manchester)
  
  Participants: Christine Andrä (Aberystwyth University) , Lydia Cole (University of Durham) , Bathsheba Okwenje (Artists and fellow at FLCA, LSE. ) , Henry Redwood (Department of War Studies, King's College London)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Panel / BISA Professional Development Session I History Room
  
  Sponsor: BISA
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / Becoming Fugitives - Collaborating towards anti-colonial/decolonial praxis in academic spaces Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Chair: Olivia Rutazibwa (University of Portsmouth )
  
  Participants: Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol) , Sabrien Amrov (University of Toronto) , Lisa Tilley (Birkbeck University of London) , Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) , Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Chinese Hard and Soft Power in the 21st Century Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China in the Xi Jinping Era
    
    Author: Chien-peng (C.P.) Chung (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
  - China’s Buddhist Diplomacy
    
    Author: Chien-peng (C.P.) Chung (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
  - China’s approaches to soft power toward Japan and Russia: manifestations of the Chinese Dream in contemporary practices of media exchange
    
    Author: Lingmin Kong (University of York)
  - The Globalisation of the Belt and Road Initiative: Inquiring for Institutional Change in Latin American International Society
    
    Author: Simon F Taeuber (University of St Andrews)
  - India-China Competition in Indian Ocean: Generative and Degenerative Forces
    
    Author: Bhupendra Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Communicating the climate change: Narratives, images and affective imagination Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Environment Working Group
  
  Convener: Alister Miskimmon (Queen's University Belfast)
  
  Chair: Alister Miskimmon (Queen's University Belfast)
  
  Discussant: Alister Miskimmon (Queen's University Belfast)
  - Climate anxiety and youth: Powerful emotions in strategic narrative theorisation
    
    Authors: Natalia Chaban (University of Canterbury) , Babak Bahador (George Washington University)* , Pauline Heinrichs (Royal Holloway)* , Iana Sabatovych (University of Canterbury, NZ)*
  - Climate Change Perspectives of Entanglement and Objectivity: Images, Algorithms and Audiences on YouTube
    
    Authors: Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London) , Alister Miskimmon (Queen's University Belfast)* , Anastasiya Pschenychnykh (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)*
  - Coverups, conspiracies and the exploitation of frightened teens: RT´s narratives about Youth Strike for Climate
    
    Author: Mari-Liis Madisson (Tartu University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Comprehensive Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development on the Korean Peninsula Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: Asian Political and International Studies Association
  
  Convener: Howe Brendan (Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies)
  
  Chair: Howe Brendan (Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies)
  - Preparing for Sustainable Development on the Korean Peninsula: Utilizing the UN System for Development Cooperation in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    
    Author: Kim Eun Mee (Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies)
  - Health Security Challenges in the Korean Peninsula in the Era of SDGs
    
    Author: Bang Yoorim (Ewha Womans University)
  - Limitations on North Korean refugee policy in South Korea – based on Asia-Pacific Regional Convention on the qualifications in Higher Education
    
    Author: Lee Eunkoo (Ewha Womans University,)
  - Refugee Policy in South Korea: From the perspectives of human security and sustainable development
    
    Author: Lee Heeseo (Ewha Womans University)
  - The Social Construction of Peace on the Korean Peninsula
    
    Author: Howe Brendan (Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / Forced Migration in Theory and Practice Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
  
  Chair: Kelly Staples (University of Leicester)
  
  Participants: FOTEINI KALANTZI (University of Oxford) , Liz Hibberd (Manchester City of Sanctuary ) , Helen Dexter (University of Leicester) , Aleks Palanac (University of Leicester) , Jonathan Gilmore (University of Manchester) , Tendayi Bloom (University of Birmingham)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Health prioritisation in national and international institutions Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
  
  Convener: Adele Langlois (University of Lincoln)
  
  Chair: Stephen Roberts (LSE)
  
  Discussant: Eva Hilberg
  - Regulatory Bottlenecks in Global Health
    
    Author: Adele Langlois (University of Lincoln)
  - Brazilian Foreign and Health Ministries: different institutional cultures in the search for global health
    
    Authors: Leticia Pinheiro (IESP-UERJ) , Livia Avelhan (FGV-SP)
  - Mainstreaming Health in the European Semester? A Case of Constitutional and Discursive Asymmetries
    
    Author: Charlotte Godziewski (University of Sheffield)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Making and Unmaking International Law Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh)
  
  Chair: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)
  - Collaborative Conversations - (How) Can International Law and International Relations Theory help each other?
    
    Author: Alexandra Bohm (University of Lincoln)
  - Taboo: Explaining the Legal Principles and Norms Behind Weapon Prohibitions
    
    Author: Carmen Chas (University of Kent)
  - Order through Law through Order in Law – Pasts, Presents and Futures of Interdisciplinary Scholarship in International Law and International Relations
    
    Authors: Sué González Hauck , Sebastian Plappert (University of St. Gallen)
  - Intersectionality in International Human Rights Governance
    
    Author: Anne Jenichen (Aston University)
  - Towards a Transnational Theory of Universal Jurisdiction
    
    Author: Yuna Han
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Militarism and emotion: feeling with and feeling for figures of war Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
  
  Chair: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
  - Strange Meetings: Feeling for/with the Enemy in the Long Nineteenth Century
    
    Author: Holly Furneaux (Cardiff University)
  - Feeling what for whom? COIN and the politics of empathy in Iraq and Afghanistan
    
    Author: Naomi Head
  - Honour, Emotion and Empathy in the War-On-Terror, a Cross-cultural Perspective.
    
    Author: Marcello Fantoni (University of Kent)
  - Feeling Militarism and Affected Bodies
    
    Author: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)
  - The code in the stones face fade: black bodies and Palestinian equipment in war
    
    Author: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / New Syngergies in IR Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
  
  Convener: CRIPT Working group
  
  Chair: Christof Royer (University of St Andrews )
  - Studying the Role of Justice in International Trade Negotiations: Feminist-Informed Ethnographic Insights
    
    Author: LISA SAMUEL (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)
  - Truth, History, and Radical Conservatism: Historical Revisionism in Post-War Japan
    
    Author: Karin Narita (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Non-Western powers and right-wing populism: fellow travellers in international politics?
    
    Author: Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
  - An Anarcho-Pacifist Theory of International Relations
    
    Author: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Political mobilisation, hegemony and new democratic politics in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia: inequality and the crisis of liberalism Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
  
  Convener: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
  
  Chair: Omer Tekdemir (University of Bolton)
  - The crisis of political representation in an illiberal populism and majoritarian democracy of Turkey
    
    Author: Omer Tekdemir (University of Bolton)
  - Hindu nationalism and the crisis of India’s liberal democracy: nationalism, antagonism and political frontiers
    
    Author: Dag Erik Berg (Molde University College)
  - The Algerian Hirak – Civil Society, Non-violence and the New Movement for Democracy
    
    Author: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
  - Urban Political Mobilisation and Activating the Urban Public Space in Amman for a Just City
    
    Author: Rana Aytug (Coventry University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / Security in an ice-free Arctic: interdisciplinary perspectives on Arctic geopolitics Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Chair: Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University)
  
  Participants: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University) , James Rogers (SDU) , Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London) , Ingrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Translation and narratives in international politics Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: IIRG Working group
  
  Chair: Katarzyna Kaczmarska (University of Edinburgh)
  
  Discussant: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University)
  - Conspiracy Theories, Right-Wing Populism and Foreign Policy: The Case of the Alternative for Germany
    
    Author: Thorsten Wojczewski
  - Provincializing the affect of liberalism: stories of local border guards
    
    Author: Xymena Kurowska
  - It’s not just Orwell: literature as interpretive methodology in International Relations
    
    Author: Mary Dodd (University of St Andrews)
  - ‘Are words not seeming bridges between the eternally different?’: Language, Poiesis and the Mercenary
    
    Author: Malte Riemann (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee and Tea Break 30m
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / American Militarization and Intervention: Strategies and Tactics in the 21st Century Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Ben Kienzle
  - US policy towards Venezuela under Obama and Trump: a critical approach
    
    Author: Livingstone Grace (University of Cambridge)
  - Conflict in the Virtual Battleground: Military Videogames and US Foreign Policy
    
    Author: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)
  - Israel and US alignment towards the Israeli Military Industry: Implications and Challenges
    
    Author: Vijay Gothwal (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - The Logic of U.S. Humanitarian Intervention Policy - A Two-Level Game
    
    Author: Josef Harrasser (University of Innsbruck)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Britain’s China-Factor: Sino-British Relations and the Economic-Security Interests Conundrum Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
  
  Convener: Zeno Leoni (King's College London)
  
  Chair: Zeno Leoni (King's College London)
  
  Discussant: Majed Akhter (King's College London)
  - British engagement with China in the age of capitalisation
    
    Author: Martin Thorley (University of Nottingham)
  - The reasons behind the securitisation of Chinese FDI in UK
    
    Author: Francesca Ghiretti (King's College London)
  - Between trade and geopolitics: Britain’s post-Brexit strategy towards China
    
    Author: Zeno Leoni (King's College London)
  - Britain at the Confluence of Clashing Visions for the Future
    
    Author: Axel Dessein (King's College London)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Changing the dynamics of conflict in the Middle East Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
  
  Convener: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
  
  Chair: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
  
  Discussant: Rana Aytug (Coventry University)
  - Sport and Politics. The case of Israel/Palestine
    
    Author: Francesco Belcastro (University of Derby)
  - Judeo-Christian civilizationism: a new challenge to common European policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena
    
    Author: Toby Greene (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Resistance, Cogitation, and Perseverance: Women in Palestine and Their Take on Challenging the Occupation
    
    Author: Meredith Howe (University of New Hampshire Manchester)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Roundtable / Curating Conflict: Political violence in Museums, Memorials, and Exhibitions History Room
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Chair: Shannon Brincat (University of the Sunshine Coast)
  
  Participants: Natasha Danilova (University of Aberdeen) , Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick) , Audrey Reeves (Virginia Tech) , Christine Sylvester (University of Connecticut) , Kandida Purnell (Richmond University, London) , Henrique Furtado (University of West England (UWE))
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Emerging from conflict, building peace: exploring micro and macro approaches to peace in Africa Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Laura Routley (Newcastle)
  
  Chair: Róisín Read (University of Manchester)
  - The Boko Haram Crisis and the Menacing Tactic of Kidnapping
    
    Author: Rauf Tunde Sakariyau (Nigeria Police Academy)
  - Micro-peace agreements in contexts of violence: the road to a more sustainable peacebuilding in Mozambique?
    
    Authors: Ricardo Raboco (University of Licungo) , Teresa Almeida Cravo (FEUC-CES, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  - From Liberal to Military Peace: The Rise of a New Paradigm for Peacebuilding
    
    Author: Marta Iñiguez de Heredia (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  - What determines Trust in Post-Conflict Police? Evidence from Latin American and African countries
    
    Authors: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent) , Ana Maria Lobos (University of Kent )*
  - The Effect of Regional Integration on Lasting Peace in the Horn of Africa
    
    Author: Aweis Ahmed Mohamed (Ankara yildirim beyazit university)
  - 20/20 VISION: REFORMING THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY
    
    Author: Collins Miruka (Catholic University of Eastern Africa)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Feminism and Foreign Policy Thinking and Practice Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
  
  Chair: Sorana Jude
  - Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy goes to the UNSC
    
    Author: Annick T.R. Wibben (Swedish Defence University)
  - From the Fields of Resistance: Does Foreign Policy IR care?
    
    Author: Khushi Singh Rathore (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Shamima Begum and (un)saveable Muslim Women: Islamophobia, Misogyny and Hyper-sexualisation in UK Counterterror Discourse and Practice
    
    Author: Rahima Siddique
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Glory/Trauma: Affective Investments in the National Past Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
  
  Conveners: Francesca Melhuish (University of Warwick) , Katie Dingley (University of Warwick)
  
  Chair: Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Warwick)
  - ‘Poppy War’: Military-masculine hierarchies, ontological insecurity and vicarious identification during the 2016 FIFA Poppy controversy
    
    Author: Joe Haigh (University of Warwick)
  - The Empire Strikes Back: Securing Ontological Security for ‘British Muslims’ in Post 7/7 Britain
    
    Author: Shahnaz Akhter (University of Warwick)
  - The End of Japan as They Know It (and the Conservatives Don't Feel Fine)
    
    Author: Katie Dingley (University of Warwick)
  - Critical States: Banal Nostalgia, Eurosceptic Britishness, and the NHS
    
    Author: Francesca Melhuish (University of Warwick)
  - Affective Entanglements: Towards a Typology of Women, Peace and Security Advocacy
    
    Author: Columba Achilleos-Sarll (University of Warwick)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Grand Questions in Contemporary IR Theory: Legitimation, Order, and Recognition Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  - Legitimation as non-state practice: multiplicity, mobility and making in Africa
    
    Authors: Kathy Dodworth (University of Edinburgh) , Jana Honke (University of Bayreuth)*
  - Whose Recognition Counts? A State-in-Society Approach to International Status
    
    Authors: Ce Liang (University of Cambridge) , Andrew Li (Central European University )*
  - Towards a New Westphalia? Disbelief, Miscalculation and Power Shifts in an Age of Liberal Crisis
    
    Author: Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham)
  - No Engagement without Recognition? Forms, Causal Mechanisms and Dilemmas of Transnational Recognition in the Libyan Civil War
    
    Author: Irene Fernandez-Molina (University of Exeter)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / How to rethink traditional topics? gathering methods and strategies Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
  
  Convener: IRSS Working group
  
  Chair: Alexander Stoffel (Queen Mary University of London)
  
  Discussant: Audrey Alejandro (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  - Strategies to decolonise global norms research: A political ethnography approach
    
    Author: Karmen Tornius (Roskilde University / Danish Institute for International Studies)
  - ‘Doing Sovereignty’: Minority Nationalisms and the Struggle for Political Hegemony
    
    Author: Daniela Morgan (Newcastle University)
  - Studying Problematizations: Introducing Carol Bacchi’s ´What´s the problem represented to be?´ approach to IR
    
    Author: Malte Riemann (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
  - Modernity without an “Other”: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Emirati Paradox
    
    Authors: Bernardino Leon Reyes (Sciences Po) , Javier Carbonell (University of Edinburgh)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / New Norms and Practices of Civilian Protection Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
  
  Convener: IR2P Working group
  
  Chair: Pinar Gozen Ercan (Hacettepe University)
  
  Discussant: Alex Leveringhaus (University of Surrey)
  - Gendered vulnerability and knowledge in UN interventions
    
    Author: Shannon Mathieu (University of Warwick)
  - Ethical considerations among the international society against mass atrocity crimes
    
    Author: Aslihan Turan Zara (University of Birmingham)
  - A Corporate Responsibility to Protect?
    
    Author: Bola Adediran (University of the West of England)
  - Zonation in International Conflict Management
    
    Author: Gustav Meibauer (London School of Economics)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Once More into the Breach: Reading, Writing, and Performing War Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: Cian O'Driscoll (University of Glasgow)
  
  Chair: Ty Solomon (University of Glasgow)
  
  Discussant: Rachel Woodward (Newcastle University)
  - Civil society perceptions of NATO in the context of Women, Peace and Security
    
    Author: Katharine A.M. Wright (Newcastle University)
  - From Subjects to Objects: Honor Flights and US ontological insecurity
    
    Author: Brent J. Steele (University of Utah)
  - Writing Writing just war(riors): war memoirs as a site of ethical reflection on war
    
    Author: Keith Smith (Kings College London)
  - Army/Artist Engagement and the Performance of War in Public: Army@Fringe and the Familialr/Familial Embodiment of the Military
    
    Authors: Kandida Purnell (Richmond, the American University in London) , Natasha Danilova (University of Aberdeen)* , Emma Dolan (University of Aberdeen)*
  - What a Joke! At War with Just War
    
    Authors: Cian O'Driscoll (Australia National University) , Liane Hartnett (University of Glasgow)*
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Provincializing Social Sciences from SEE: Theories, approaches, and methods for the future Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
  
  Convener: Katarina Kušić (Aberystwyth University)
  
  Chair: Lydia Cole (University of Durham)
  
  Discussant: Maria-Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast)
  - Scales of thinking: Decolonial methods and knowledge otherwise
    
    Author: Katarina Kušić (Aberystwyth University)
  - Reimagining comparisons in International Relations
    
    Authors: Lai Daniela (London South Bank University) , Roberto Roccu (King’s College London)*
  - Of Love and Frustration: Contradictions and Decoloniality in Knowledge Production and Cultivation by Post-Yugoslav Female Scholars
    
    Authors: Dženeta Karabegović (University of Salzburg)* , Sladjana Lazic (University of Tromso)* , Vjosa Musliu (University of Gent)* , Julija Sardelić (Victoria University of Wellington)* , Elena B. Stavrevska (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University )
  - Towards a history of knowledge of international politics: institutions, practices, relations and exclusions of knowledge about war-time violence in the work of the “Balkan Commission” (ca. 1912-14)
    
    Author: Christine Andrä (Aberystwyth University)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / The Future of Human Rights: New Challenges in a Changing World Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: Lorenza Fontana (Newcastle University)
  
  Chair: Jean Grugel (University of York)
  - Making Universal Health Coverage work for Women’s Human Rights: the case of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Southern Africa
    
    Authors: Lilian Chigona (University of York) , Peg Murray-Evans (University of York)* , Jean Grugel (University of York)
  - Human rights-based accountability in health: leaving no one (and no rights) behind
    
    Author: Pia Riggirozzi (University of Southampton )
  - Digitising Violence: Cyberviolence as a Challenge to Human Rights
    
    Author: Dina Mansour-Ille (ODI)
  - Brexiting Human Rights Diplomacy in the "Post-Human Rights Era"? Exploring the Challenges, Opportunities and Potential Responses
    
    Authors: Sean Molloy (Newcastle University) , Rhona Smith (Newcastle University ) , Conall Mallory (Newcastle University )
  - Free Prior and Informed Consultation (FPIC): New Human Rights for Participatory Governance
    
    Author: Lorenza Fontana (Newcastle University)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / The Revenge of Tocqueville. The resurgence of individual local politics and membership organising at the expense of apolitical and professional INGOs Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Non-Governmental Organisations Working Group
  
  Convener: Angela Crack
  
  Chair: Angela Crack
  
  Discussant: Angela Crack
  - Safeguarding foreign funded INGOs: a comparative case study of Hungary’s TOSA law and India’s FCRA law.
    
    Authors: Erla Thrandardottir (University of Manchester ) , Antal Berkes (University of Pretoria, South Africa )* , Susanna Mitra (Ramaiah Public Policy Centre, Bangalore, India )*
  - Aid Too: Sexual Exploitation, the NGO Sector and Accountability
    
    Authors: Dhanani Alpa (Cardiff University) , Nina Sharma (Cardiff University)*
  - Return of the amateurs? Grassroots aid in a world of professionals
    
    Author: Denis Kennedy (College of the Holy Cross)
  - Responsibility through authenticity. The outline of individual responsibility in international non-governmental organisations.
    
    Author: Marija Antanaviciute (Queen Mary University of London )
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Roundtable / The politics of comparison and relationality: colonial grammars, knowledge production & counter-politics - PART I Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
  
  Participants: James Eastwood (Queen Mary University of London) , Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster) , Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) , Sai Englert (University of Leiden) , Francine Rossone de Paula (Queens University Belfast) , Ida Roland Birkvad (Queen Mary University of London)
- 19:00 → 21:00
  
  Reception 2h
Thursday, 18 June
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Ambitious Development and Development Ambitions: shifting goals and actors in African Development Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Laura Routley (Newcastle)
  
  Chair: Danielle Beswick (University of Birmingham)
  - From Food Insecurity to Diabetes? Disruption in Africa's Indigenous Food Systems and the Cost to Public Health Care
    
    Author: Martha Bridgman (South African Institute of International Affairs)
  - Double Down: The multiple disciplining of dissent in Tanzania
    
    Author: Kathy Dodworth (University of Edinburgh)
  - The role of critical consciousness in poverty reduction.
    
    Authors: Angela R. Pashayan (Howard University, PhD Program)* , Richard Seltzer (Howard University, Full Professor)
  - Reshaping development cooperation in a time of crisis
    
    Author: Nikolai Hegertun (University of Oslo)
  - Privatising democratisation: Development consultants as political actors in Zimbabwe
    
    Author: Farai Chipato (Queen Mary University of London)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  
  Panel / BISA Professional Development II Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: BISA
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Challenging Gendered Knowledge in IR’ Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
  
  Chair: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)
  - The Queer State in the Middle East: Using Queer Theory to Understand Post-Colonial Statehood
    
    Author: Andrew Delatolla (The American University in Cairo)
  - Opening up IR writing: politics and narrative, trauma and writing
    
    Author: Muriel Bruttin (University of Lausanne)
  - Absent Mothers: A folklorist reading of the racialised and sexualised writing out of women’s work in IR
    
    Author: Kathryn Starnes (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  - Can feminist International Relations (IR) research be reconciled with quantitative research methods?
    
    Author: Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics)
  - Transnational queer solidarity: Pleonasm or Paradox?
    
    Author: Alexander Stoffel (Queen Mary University of London)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Conceptual revisioning from the Global South Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Convener: CPD Working group
  
  Chair: Kerem Nişancıoğlu (SOAS)
  - Before the and of the world: violence, counter-sovereignty, and the politics of language and translation
    
    Author: Roberto Yamato (PUC-Rio)
  - Speculative Writing with a Purpose: Re-Telling the Drone
    
    Author: Sabiha Allouche (University of Exeter)
  - ‘The Dictator or the Emperor?’ Syrian Intellectuals’ Protest Dilemma and the Aborted 2013 Western intervention
    
    Author: Adélie Chevée (SOAS)
  - Post-colonial political organisation beyond nation and state: Somali pluralism and the historic emergence of non-hegemonic, transborder forms of governance and social relationality
    
    Author: Matthew Gordon (SOAS, University of London)
  - The Future of Statehood: Self-determination and the Rise of New Nations in International Politics
    
    Author: Ravi Kumar Varma (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Conflict management and security in Eurasia Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
  
  Convener: RESG Working group
  
  Chair: Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
  
  Discussant: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
  - Transnational Coalition: Foreign Fighters in the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia
    
    Author: Aleksandre Kvakhadze (Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GIFSIS))
  - Understanding Pipeline Politics in Eurasia: Turkey’s Transit Security in Natural Gas
    
    Author: Kerem Oge (University of Nottingham)
  - SECURITY AS A RIGHT: UKRAINIAN IDENTITY TRANSFORMATION IN DISCOURSE ON EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION
    
    Author: Iryna Zhyrun (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
  - CSTO's Stance towards Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
    
    Author: Zeynep Selin Balcı
  - Secession, Territorial Control, and Irredentism across Eurasia
    
    Author: Nino Kemoklidze
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Critical Methods and Methodologies for IR Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Conveners: Shannon Brincat (University of the Sunshine Coast) , David Duriesmith (Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Shannon Brincat (University of the Sunshine Coast)
  - Worlding Dialectics in IR Theory
    
    Author: Shannon Brincat (University of the Sunshine Coast)
  - Reading a life: Feminist methodologies and the use of life histories in International Relations
    
    Author: David Duriesmith (Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Sheffield)
  - Researching Army@Fringe through affective engagements: a case-study of InValid Voices (Dir. Helen-Marie O’Malley)
    
    Authors: Kandida Purnell (Richmond University, London) , Natasha Danilova (University of Aberdeen)* , Emma Dolan (University of Aberdeen)*
  - The Imagination and World Politics
    
    Authors: Tim Aistrope (The University of Kent) , Shannon Brincat (University of the Sunshine Coast) , Caitlin Sparks (UNESCO)*
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Critiquing IR Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
  
  Convener: CRIPT Working group
  
  Chair: Flaminia Incecchi (University of St Andrews )
  - Critical International Theory, Realism, and the End of History
    
    Author: Samuel Dixon (London School of Economics)
  - ‘Collective memory’ and Ontological Security’s ‘Identity’: New meaning for existing IR concepts.
    
    Author: Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
  - Critiquing critique in ‘critical IR’： Knowledge claims, ideology, and the problem of normativity
    
    Authors: Hartmut Behr (Newcastle University) , Giorgio Shani (International Christian University)
  - Theorizing Unpredictability in International Politics
    
    Author: Adam Lerner (Royal Holloway)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Environmental Harm and Justice Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Environment Working Group
  
  Convener: Duncan Weaver (Easton College)
  
  Chair: Hugh Dyer (University of Leeds)
  - Understanding climate change in Samoa.
    
    Authors: Rev Latu Herbert Latai (Malua Theological College (Samoa)) , Sarina Theys (Newcastle University)*
  - Rising Power Identities and Role Performance: Brazil and India in Global Environmental Governance
    
    Authors: Manali Kumar (National University of Singapore)* , Isabella Franchini (National University of Singapore/King's College London)* , Simon Herr (University of St. Gallen)
  - Attacks on the Forest Rights Act (FRA): Dilution of an Indigenous Promise
    
    Author: Devika Misra (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.)
  - Climate Justice and Policymaking in and from the Global South: The Case of South Africa
    
    Author: Neil James Crawford (Centre for Climate Justice)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Foreign policy, politics and hegemony in a changing global order Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
  
  Convener: Omer Tekdemir (University of Bolton)
  
  Chair: Omer Tekdemir (University of Bolton)
  
  Discussant: Dag Erik Berg (Molde University College)
  - NEW TRENDS IN PAKISTAN-RUSSIA RELATIONS IN A CHANGING REGIONAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AT THE TURN OF 21ST CENTURY
    
    Author: Bilal Bin Liaqat (Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan)
  - The Transformation of Indonesia's Defence Diplomacy: Examination of the Post New Order Period
    
    Author: Frega Wenas Inkiriwang (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  - Against the Paradigm of Neorealism? U.S. military withdrawal from Syria and its implications for American-Russian rivalry in the Middle East
    
    Author: Rafał Ożarowski (E. Kwiatkowski University of Administration and Business in Gdynia)
  - Politics of identity construction: Normative contestations between China and the American hegemonic order
    
    Author: Juntao He (University of Bristol )
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Global Political Economies of Trade and Development Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
  
  Convener: IPEG Working group
  
  Chair: Rowan Lubbock (Queen Mary, University of London)
  
  Discussant: Sophia Price (Leeds Beckett University)
  - The Rise and Fall of Politics as an Operative Concern in the International Development Regime
    
    Author: Ali Burak Guven (Birkbeck, University of London)
  - Who gets the goodies? Overlapping interests and the geography of Aid for Trade allocation in Bangladesh.
    
    Authors: Arya Pillai (University College Dublin) , Minhaj Mahmud (Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies)* , Samuel Brazys (University College Dublin)
  - Global shifts in a globalized world: the role of international institutions and global governance towards development processes.
    
    Author: Gabriel Rached (Federal Fluminense University & Università degli Studi di Padova)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Old Wars, New Technologies? – Challenging and Tracing the Changing Character of War Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: James Rogers (Yale University)
  
  Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
  
  Discussant: James Rogers (Yale University)
  - The Real Cyber War
    
    Author: Gavin Hall (University of Birmingham)
  - How remote is remote warfare?
    
    Author: Emil Archambault (School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham)
  - The Art of Falling: Producing Aerial Space at Ringway Aerodrome Manchester, 1940-1945
    
    Author: Charlotte Veal (Newcastle University)
  - A Market for Military Assistance? Principals, Agents and the Diffusion of Warfare in Historical Perspective
    
    Author: Alex Neads (University of Bath)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Politics of Migration in the Global South and the Postcommunist Space Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
  
  Convener: Maria Koinova (University of Warwick)
  
  Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
  
  Discussant: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
  - Diaspora Identity and a New Generation: Armenian Diaspora Youth on the Genocide and the Karabakh War
    
    Authors: Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield) , Leila Wilmers (Loughborough University)*
  - Logistical lives, humanitarian borders: managing populations in South-South circulations
    
    Author: Carolina Moulin (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)
  - The “migrant other” as threat: Analysing the role of the Law and Justice Party in the securitisation of migration in Poland
    
    Authors: Monika Kabata (Nottignham Trent University) , Christopher Baker-Beall (Bournemouth University)*
  - Politics of the In-Between: Acts of Resistance Within and Beyond Spaces of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom and Australia
    
    Author: Lucy Kneebone (Queen Mary University of London)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Processes of peace agreements and state building History Room
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Convener: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding Working group (BISA)
  
  Chair: Georgina Holmes (University of Reading)
  - Setting the Stage: Embedding Perennial Peace in Peace Agreements through Long-term Historical Time Perspectives
    
    Author: Christopher Wheeler (Newcastle University)
  - International Statebuilding and Recognition
    
    Author: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)
  - Self-determination Referendums as Part of Peacebuilding Processes: Serving Peace and Democracy?
    
    Author: Kentaro Fujikawa (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  - Articulating and transforming identities within international conflict mediation: the cases of the Syrian and Yemeni crises
    
    Author: Sarah Clowry (Durham University)
  - The “Rules of the Game” in war-to-peace transitions
    
    Author: Christine Cheng (War Studies, King's College London)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / The Global Politics of Cyberspace: Mapping the Emergence of Communities of Practice Council Chambe
  
  Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
  
  Conveners: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath) , Louise Marie Hurel (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  
  Chair: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  
  Discussant: Madeline Carr (UCL)
  - Who gets to be an expert? Towards alternative epistemologies in the making-of-cybersecurity.
    
    Author: Louise Marie Hurel (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  - ‘We are pioneers’! The emergence of the international practice of cyber-diplomacy
    
    Author: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)
  - Towards a Ledgered Sovereignty?Distributed Cybersecurity and the Demise of National Cyberspace(s)
    
    Author: Fabio Cristiano (Leiden University)
  - Is Cybersecurity Finally Sexy? The Economics of Design, Desire and Digital In-Security Production
    
    Authors: Myriam Dunn Cavelty (Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich ) , Matthias Leese (Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich)*
  - Counting chicks doesn’t count: gendering cybersecurity in theory and practice
    
    Authors: James Shires (Leiden University ) , Katharine Millar (LSE)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / The colonial making of contemporary international discourse Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Convener: CPD Working group
  
  Chair: Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Maybe it's providence: Race at the intersection of climate and cross
    
    Author: Anupama Ranawana (Oxford Brookes/Roehampton)
  - The Temporalities of Victory: Decentring Western Military Cosmologies
    
    Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary, University of London)
  - Mapping the ‘new global security environment’: the implicit geographies of network thinking
    
    Author: Casey McNeill (Fordham University)
  - Emerging Powers and Multilateral Institutions as Gatekeepers of Coloniality
    
    Author: Francine Rossone de Paula (Queen's University Belfast)
- 11:30 → 12:00
  
  Coffee and Tea Break 30m
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining identities through buildings - panel 2 Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Conveners: Joanne Tomkinson (SOAS, University of London) , Daniel Mulugeta (SOAS, University of London) , Julia Gallagher (SOAS, University of London)
  
  Chair: Daniel Mulugeta (SOAS, University of London)
  - Gatekeeping or gatemaking? Theorising Africa’s international relations through airport infrastructures in Ethiopia and Ghana
    
    Author: Joanne Tomkinson (SOAS, University of London)
  - Compromised Tradition: Destruction, Negotiation and the Imaginary Reconstruction of an African Palace
    
    Author: Tony Yeboah (Yale University)
  - From Prison to Freedom
    
    Author: Routley Laura (Newcastle University)
  - Understanding the phenomenon Chinese Funded Parliament buildings in Africa
    
    Author: Innocent Batsani Ncube (SOAS, University of London)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Bringing War Studies into the 21st Century Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Vincent Keating (University of Southern Denmark)
  
  Chair: Katharine Wright (Newcastle University)
  - Closing the European Drone Gap: Advanced Drones and European Technological Dependence
    
    Author: Dominika Kunertova (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
  - Bombing Gently? Civilian Casualties and the Changing Character of Western Military Power
    
    Authors: Amelie Theussen (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark) , Sten Rynning (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
  - The Limits of the Emotional Turn in War Studies: the cases of revenge and trust
    
    Authors: Vincent Charles Keating (University of Southern Denmark) , Marie Robin (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
  - Mix and Match: on the practice of navigating human protection norms in the EU
    
    Author: Chiara de Franco (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
  - 21st Century Soldiers: Innovation and the Military Profession in the AI Era
    
    Author: Vicky Karyoti (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Foreign Policy and Political Communication Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: FPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Graeme Davies (University of York)
  - Representing Chinese Strategic Narratives in Western Media: Security, Development and the Belt and Road Initiative
    
    Authors: Kingsley Edney (University of Leeds) , Graeme Davies (University of York)
  - Exploring Domestic Digital Diplomacy: The Case of Brexit
    
    Author: Ilan Manor (The University of Oxford)
  - Wrestlemania! Metaphor, Myth and Foreign Policy Performance in the Age of Donald Trump
    
    Authors: Alister Wedderburn (Australian National University/University of Glasgow) , Benjamin Day (Australian National University)*
  - Examining foreign policy agenda through country’s international broadcasting: a study of RT (Russia Today) and Russian foreign policy documents
    
    Author: Aleksandra Raspopina (City, University of London)
  - Aspects of Brazilian cultural diplomacy in Lula's governments (2003-2010): uses and meanings of the symbolic dimension of the strategic partnership between Brazil and the United Kingdom.
    
    Author: Marcello de Souza Freitas (Aberystwyth University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Identity, Performativity and Representation Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: PPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Ciara McHugh (Queen's University Belfast)
  - Between identity and difference: Western citizens, ISIS fighters, and the Ambiguities of Constructing Difference
    
    Author: Xavier Mathieu (University of Liverpool)
  - Performative security discourse: The construction of identity, foreign policy, security, and the ‘international’ by ‘isolationism’ during US involvement in Vietnam
    
    Author: Daniel Mobley (University of Edinburgh)
  - The endless quest for authenticity: populism, political performances and transgression as a performative strategy
    
    Author: Theo Aiolfi (University of Warwick)
  - Traces of Red, Spectres of Yellow: Catalan and Spanish Identities through a Deconstructive Look
    
    Author: Daniel Pedersoli
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Internationalisation and the challenge to academic freedom: between authoritarian control and the logic of the market History Room
  
  Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
  
  Chair: Lee Jones (QMUL)
  
  Participants: Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız (Goldsmiths, University of London) , Lee Jones (QMUL) , Catherine Owen (University of Exeter) , Katarzyna Kaczmarska (University of Edinburgh) , Bahar Baser (Coventry University) , John Heathershaw (University of Exeter)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Localisation and narrowing of civil spaces: moral and practical implications Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: Non-Governmental Organisations Working Group
  
  Convener: Angela Crack
  
  Chair: Angela Crack
  - A Swift and Trendy Response? Securitizing Civil Society Space in the aftermath of Kenya’s Terror Attacks
    
    Author: Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen (Technical University of Mombasa)
  - The Value of Pragmatism in Rediscovering the Moral Quality of International NGOs
    
    Author: Amandine Hostein (University of Portsmouth)
  - Voices from the civil conflict in Cameroon: Resilience, trust and remoteness
    
    Authors: Willis Roxana (University of Oxford)* , Algar-Faria Gilberto (University of Oxford)
  - The International Opportunity Structure and Increasing Authoritarianism in Venezuela
    
    Author: Begum Zorlu (PhD Student)
  - Norm Internalization and Democratization in the European Union, and the Role of Civil Society in Hungary and the Czech Republic
    
    Author: Michael Toomey (University of Reading)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Materiality of Power and Gender Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
  
  Chair: Alice Cree (Newcastle University)
  
  Discussant: Alice Cree (Newcastle University)
  - Safe Cities for Women and Girls: Gender and urban transformation in Medellín, Colombia
    
    Author: Alexandra Young
  - Interrogating violent extremism in Kenya from a feminist perspective using body mapping
    
    Author: sahla sahla aroussi (Coventry University)
  - Choreopolitics at the Border: Dancing Security, Performing Insecurity on the US-Mexico Border
    
    Author: Charlotte Veal (Newcastle University)
  - Bodies, Positions and the Trap of Visibility
    
    Author: Francine Rossone de Paula (Queen's University Belfast)
  - A Tale of Two Cities: ‘Pacification’ and the Marginalisation of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro
    
    Author: Sergio Catignani (University of Exeter)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Micro-level resolution in peace and conflict Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Convener: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding Working group (BISA)
  
  Chair: Jennifer Giblin (University of Nottingham)
  
  Discussant: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding Working group (BISA)
  - Peace from below: The Everyday Narratives of Peace for a Sustainable Conflict Resolution in Post-Amnesty Niger Delta, Nigeria
    
    Author: Harrison Chukwuma Ajebon (Durham University)
  - ‘Imagined Conflicts’: The role of education in conflict resolution. A case study of the Caucasus.
    
    Authors: Norma Rossi (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) , An Jacobs (Nottingham Trent University)
  - The Workplace as a Neglected Micro Level in International Relations’ Debates on Peace
    
    Author: Jasmin Ramovic (University of Manchester)
  - A Spatialised Understanding of Everyday Peace: Youth Experiences from Nicosia
    
    Author: Cihan Dizdaroglu (Coventry University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Migration Management from a Regional Perspective Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
  
  Convener: Maria Koinova (University of Warwick)
  
  Chair: FOTEINI KALANTZI (University of Oxford)
  
  Discussant: FOTEINI KALANTZI (University of Oxford)
  - Embedded Realism? Critical Examination of EU’s Development Aid in the ‘Age of Migration’
    
    Author: Tesfalem H. Yemane (University of Leeds)
  - The Evolution of the Gulf Arab “Migration Diplomacy”: A comparative study of the Gulf States’ policy engagement in forced migration governance, before and after 2011
    
    Author: Hirotaka Fujibayashi (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
  - Polycentric Governance of Transit Migration: A Regional Perspective from the Balkans and the Middle East
    
    Author: Maria Koinova (University of Warwick)
  - The Carceral Potential of the Sea in Maritime in Migration Management
    
    Author: Andonea Dickson (Queen Mary University of London)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Policing’s contested relationalities Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Conveners: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster) , Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
  
  Chair: Craig Jones (Newcastle University )
  - Racial Capitalism, Policing and the Politics of Borders
    
    Authors: Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London) , Rossdale Chris (University of Bristol)
  - Military and Police Violence From Above: Drones, Air Power, and the 1985 Bombing of MOVE
    
    Author: Katharine Hall (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Homeland Security Worldings: locating the geopolitics of encounter
    
    Author: Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
  - Insidious: How the policing of Britain’s Muslims anticipated the ‘Hostile Environment’
    
    Author: Nadya Ali (University of Sussex )
  - Dispossession through racialised criminality: The case of policing in Occupied Palestine
    
    Author: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Reflections on collaborations between creative arts practice and social science in military research Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: #FutureIR @NclPolitics
  
  Chair: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
  
  Participants: Michael Mulvihill (Newcastle University) , Alice Cree (Newcastle University) , Rachel Woodward (Newcastle University) , Sandra Johnston (Northumbria University) , Chloe Barker (Newcastle University) , Alison Williams (Newcastle University )
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Reviewing the NPT at 50: Actors, issues and next steps Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
  
  Chair: Ignacio Cartagena Núñez (Consul General, Spanish Consulate, Edinburgh)
  
  Participants: Clara Portela (EU Institute for Security Studies) , Nick Ritchie (University of York) , Megan Dee (University of Stirling) , Ben Kienzle , Laura Considine (University of Leeds) , Hassan Elbahtimy (King's College London)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Screening Violence: a transnational approach to the local imaginaries of post-conflict transition Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: #FutureIR @NclPolitics
  
  Chair: Simon Philpott (Newcastle University)
  
  Participants: Diah Kusumaningrum (Gadjah Mada University) , Nicholas Morgan (Newcastle University) , Brandon Hamber (Ulster University) , Roddy Brett (Bristol University) , Philippa Page (Newcastle University) , Guy Austin (Newcastle University) , Simon Philpott (Newcastle University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Sustaining the Outer Space Environment: Now and in the Future Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Environment Working Group
  
  Chair: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)
  
  Participants: Scott Steele (Open University) , Lauren Napier (Northumbria University) , Thomas Cheney (Open University) , Mert Evirgen (Northumbria University) , Harriet Brettle (Astroscale)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / What role for the academy and independent 'experts' in the post-truth era? Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
  
  Chair: Ilan Baron (Durham University)
  
  Participants: Tony Lang (University of St. Andrews) , C Cheng , Roger Mac Guinty (Durham University) , Karin Fierke (University of St Andrews) , Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham) , Hesham Hassan Shafick Abdeldary (Queen Mary University of London)
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch Break 1h 30m
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / After Brexit: Navigating Britain’s Security, Defence, and Foreign Policy Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: European Security Working Group
  
  Chair: C Cheng
  
  Participants: Julie Smith (University of Cambridge) , Sara Dorman (University of Edinburgh) , Catarina Thomson (University of Exeter) , Philip Cunliffe (University of Kent) , Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University) , Ben Kienzle
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / Book roundtable: 'Global Justice and Social Conflict: The Foundations of Liberal Order and International Law' by Tarik Kochi Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics/International Law and Politics
  
  Chair: David J. Karp (University of Sussex)
  
  Participants: Tarik Kochi (University of Sussex) , Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh) , Tony Lang (University of St. Andrews) , Maïa Pal (Oxford Brooks University) , Lara Montesinos Coleman (University of Sussex)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Borders, Populism and nationalist politics in Asia Carilol
  
  Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
  
  Convener: Dag Erik Berg (Molde University College)
  
  Chair: Dag Erik Berg (Molde University College)
  
  Discussant: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
  - Chinese Nationalism, cyber-populism, and cross-strait relations
    
    Authors: Michael Toomey (University of Reading) , Weili Ye (Unaffiliated)*
  - Fragile Border, Changing Communities: Communal Relations in Bangladesh-Myanmar Borderland in the Shadow of the Rohingya Crisis
    
    Author: Ishrat Hossain (University of Oxford)
  - Fight Hard, Play Hard: Revolutionary Sociability in Myanmar
    
    Author: David Brenner (Goldsmiths)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Evolving Protection Architectures at the United Nations Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
  
  Convener: IR2P Working group
  
  Chair: Dr Chloe M Gilgan (York Law School)
  - United Nations and Open Government: the necessity to Open the Security Council or risking for the renaissance of the unilateralism
    
    Author: María Fernanda Arreguín Gámez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
  - Everyday atrocity vs Responsibility to Protect: why efforts to expand the purview of R2P will be counterproductive
    
    Author: Stathopoulos Athanasios (Leiden University)
  - Progress & International Order: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
    
    Author: Sebastian Plappert (University of St. Gallen)
  - Locating Agency in the UN Human Protection Norm Complexity: Reconsidering UK Entrepreneurship
    
    Authors: Cristina Stefan (University of Leeds ) , Blake Lawrinson (University of Leeds)
  - What does the Future Hold for the Responsibility to Protect: From UN General Assembly Debates to Security Council Practice?
    
    Authors: Pinar Gozen Ercan (Hacettepe University) , Menent Savas Cazala (Galatasaray University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Foreign Policy Theories in Practice Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: FPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Klaus Brummer (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
  - Governing Sexual Violence at the Foreign Office
    
    Author: Paul Kirby (Centre of Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics)
  - New Perspectives on Comparative Foreign Policy
    
    Authors: Klaus Brummer (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) , Chris Alden (LSE)*
  - Rethinking Appeasement: Exploring the History, Strategy and Ethics of an Unpopular Idea
    
    Author: Benjamin Zala (Australian National University)
  - The Collapse of the Post-Liberal Integration Regime: What Remains?
    
    Author: Devika Misra (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. )
  - Turkish Foreign Policy in the Libyan Uprising through the lens of Neoclassical Realism
    
    Author: Cangul Altundas- Akcay (Durham University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / New directions in IR Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
  
  Convener: CRIPT Working group
  
  Chair: Flaminia Incecchi (University of St Andrews )
  - Living History or Leaving History? Temporality and Identity (Trans)formation in International Politics
    
    Author: Ce Liang (University of Cambridge)
  - Understanding Securitisation Success: An Analytical Framework
    
    Authors: Georgios Karyotis (University of Glasgow) , Andrew Judge (University of Glasgow)*
  - Political Modernization: Understanding the Differences between Developed Democracies and Developing Semi-democracies
    
    Author: Wei See Chan (Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen)
  - Recognition and social freedom beyond borders: A cosmopolitan interpretation of Honneth’s social theory
    
    Author: Simon Pistor (University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science)
  - Euroscepticism and renationalisation efforts in the European Union
    
    Author: Caroline Kalkreuth (Kiel University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Problematising migration and diaspora governance: From racialised migration control to 'minority' participation Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Convener: CPD Working group
  
  Chair: Kerem Nişancıoğlu (SOAS)
  
  Discussant: Kerem Nişancıoğlu (SOAS)
  - Immigrants in Yiwu: A Case of South- South Cooperation
    
    Author: Yingliang Zhang (University of Vienna )
  - The necropolitical mechanisms of the European Union’s readmission agreements with non-EU countries: an analysis of the Joint Way Forward Declaration between the EU and Afghanistan
    
    Author: Manuela da Rosa Jorge (Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD), International Politics of Migration, Refugees, and Diasporas)
  - THE SIKH VOTE: EXAMINING THE POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS OF THE SIKH DIASPORA IN CANADA
    
    Author: Rupinder Liddar (McMaster University)
  - The Role of the Public Intellectual in the Securitization of Brown and Black Immigrant Women’s Bodies
    
    Author: Shahnaz Shahnaz Akhter (university of Warwick)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Silence, Contestation and Denial in Post-Societies in Central, South, and South Eastern Europe Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
  
  Conveners: Lydia Cole (University of Durham) , Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of Oxford)
  
  Chair: Katarina Kušić (Aberystwyth University)
  
  Discussant: Maria-Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast)
  - 2. A game of memories: spontaneous memorials and political contestation in Brussels, Malta and Banja Luka
    
    Authors: Ana Milošević (Institute for Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven) , Alfredo Sasso (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT))* , Davide Denti (Independent researcher)*
  - 3. Lies, damned lies, and fictitious statistics: documenting denial-seeking efforts of Republika Srpska
    
    Author: Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of Oxford)
  - 4. Commemorating genocide from the bottom up: civil society, the ICTY and the case of Prijedor (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
    
    Author: Johanna Paul (Bielefeld University)
  - 1. Curating Community at Vraca Memorial Park: Ruin, Repair, and the Art of Peacebuilding
    
    Author: Lydia Cole (University of Durham)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / Smugglers, Maps and Saviours: International relations, migration and the potential to ‘other’: Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
  
  Convener: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)
  
  Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
  - Governing (Im-)Mobilities': from EU Violent Border Protections to Smuggling
    
    Authors: Helena Farrand-Carrapico (Northumbria University) , Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University )* , Karolina Augustova (Aston University)*
  - Migration and historical legacies: the politics of continuity and instability
    
    Author: Sarah Elmammeri (University of Liverpool)
  - The 'Refugee Crisis' in Ten Maps
    
    Author: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University)
  - Gazing in Museums: Creative Methods as Critical Emotions
    
    Author: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
  - Reflections from the field: academia, activism and ‘othering’
    
    Authors: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool) , Liska Bernet (Glocal Roots)*
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / The Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd century Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Nicholas Kiersey (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley )
  
  Chair: Nicholas Kiersey (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley )
  - New Medievalism, Public Authority and Political Order in the Perspective of the Past, Present and Future; A Research Agenda for the 22nd Century
    
    Author: Aleksandra Spalinska (University of Warsaw)
  - The Evolution of Global Society Theory
    
    Author: Barry Buzan (LSE)
  - Not Yet a Global Health Ethical Paradigm: a scenario-based analysis of Global Health
    
    Author: Maria Ferreira (Technical University of Lisbon, IR department)
  - Artificial Intelligence and the right to de-optimization
    
    Author: Isabella Herrmann (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  - Resisting the Digital Pale - 200 Years of Irish Socialist Struggle
    
    Author: Nicholas Kiersey (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley )
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / The Women, Peace and Security Resolutions and the politics of gender expertise and feminist knowledge in post-conflict settings Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Conveners: Laura McLeod (University of Manchester) , Marion Greziller
  
  Chair: Georgina Holmes (University of Reading)
  
  Discussant: Katharine Wright (Newcastle University)
  - Implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda through gender expertise: observations from EU CSDP missions
    
    Author: Marion Greziller
  - Practices for effective Women Peace and Security NAPs: coordinating, measuring and implementing gender in neoliberal peacebuilding policy
    
    Author: Minna Lyytikäinen (University of Helsinki)
  - Who has Authority Over Gender Expertise?: The United Nations System and the Women, Peace and Security Indicators.
    
    Author: Laura McLeod (University of Manchester)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / The future of international studies in a digital world: which relations for which nations ? Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Christopher ISIKE (University of Pretoria)
  
  Chair: Apoli Bertrand KAMENI (Sciences Po Lyon (France) / Université Omar Bongo (Gabon))
  
  Discussant: Sylvie LEMBE
  - Fragile States in the Sahel: an argument in the debate on the decline of nation state in the analysis of the future of International Studies?
    
    Author: Sylvie LEMBE
  - The digitazation of the world, a threat to Nations-States, The case of Cameroon
    
    Author: Apoli Bertrand KAMENI (Sciences Po Lyon (France) / Université Omar Bongo (Gabon))
  - From analogue past to a digital future: teaching and researching International Studies in Africa
    
    Author: Christopher ISIKE (University of Pretoria)
  - African diaspora : a new paradigm of African States’s international relations
    
    Author: Christel Dior Tamegui (Université de Rennes 1)
  - Digital Transformation in Africa: disruptive technologies and the issue of trust
    
    Author: Odilile Ayodele
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / The Security of Life in the Anthropocene Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Conveners: Tom Lundborg (Swedish Defence University) , Dan Bulley (Oxford Brookes University)
  
  Chair: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast)
  
  Discussant: Martin Coward (University of Manchester)
  - Care of the Self / Care for the world: the security of life in the Anthropocene
    
    Author: Cameron Harrington (Durham University)
  - Parasitopolitics: relational ethics of life in the Anthropocene
    
    Author: Dan Bulley (Oxford Brookes University)
  - This international life: Horizons of the Anthropocene and the ends of man
    
    Author: Tom Lundborg (Swedish Defence University)
  - Sustainable war: Ecologies of purity and killing
    
    Author: Gitte du Plessis (Tampere University)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / Towards a critical security politics Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
  
  Chair: Thomas Martin (University of Sussex)
  
  Participants: Nick Ritchie (University of York) , Elisabeth Schweiger (University of York) , Paul Rogers (University of Bradford) , Harmonie Toros (University of Kent) , Thomas Martin (University of Sussex) , Ruth Blakeley (University of Sheffield)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Panel / ‘Outside Voices, Informed Insight' – Intellectual Analysis on Military Relations’ History Room
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Patrick Bury (University of Bath)
  
  Chair: Patrick Bury (University of Bath)
  
  Discussant: Patrick Bury (University of Bath)
  - Circulation of Knowledge in International Relations, Assessing the Interactions between Think Tanks and Practioners.
    
    Author: Cindy Regnier (University of Liège)
  - War, Memory and the Equivocations of Bernard Fall
    
    Author: Michael Innes (SOAS University of London)
  - Responding to a the same crisis differently: Irish and British responses to crisis in military forces
    
    Author: Patrick Finnegan (University of St Andrews)
  - Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) as a New Emerging Trend and its Implications at the Global Politics
    
    Author: Anuradha Oinam (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee and Tea Break 30m
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Civil Wars, Proxy Wars, and Insurgencies Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: James Rogers (SDU)
  
  Chair: James Rogers (SDU)
  
  Discussant: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University)
  - Beyond Death and Destruction: Insurgent Use of Non-lethal Violence in Civil War
    
    Authors: Kaisa Hinkkainen Elliott (University of York) , Joakim Kreutz (Uppsala University)*
  - Lost Causes? Evaluating Causal Explanations of Proxy Wars
    
    Authors: adam humphreys (university of reading) , Vladimir Rauta (University of Reading)
  - Global Hawk Down: On the Downing of an American Surveillance Drone over the Strait of Hormuz
    
    Author: Emil Archambault (School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham)
  - An inter-disciplinary post-war recovery strategy to counter the ISIS insurgency in Iraq
    
    Author: Jacob Eriksson (University of York)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Debating the American Empire post-Bush Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)
  
  Chair: Biegon Rubrick (University of Kent )
  
  Discussant: Biegon Rubrick (University of Kent )
  - Empire’s female soldiers: gender, war and “faces of domination"
    
    Author: Rachel (Ruixuan) Zhou (LSE)
  - In Defence of Empire: Re-examining the role of Military Assistance in US Foreign and Counterterrorism Policy
    
    Author: Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)
  - Imperial “blowback”: strategic continuity and tactical change in US foreign economic policy towards China after Bush
    
    Author: Zeno Leoni (Kings College London)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Decentring Western Narratives of International Relations in Research and Teaching: Problems, Progress and Prospects Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
  
  Convener: Catherine Owen (University of Exeter)
  
  Chair: Bernardino Leon Reyes (Sciences Po)
  
  Discussant: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham)
  - Poles apart? The conceptions of polarity in American and Russian realisms
    
    Authors: Iain Ferguson (National Research University - Higher School of Economics) , Andrej Krickovic (National Research University - Higher School of Economics)*
  - Studying IR from a sociology of knowledge perspective: A framework for researching the context of IR knowledge-making
    
    Author: Katarzyna Kaczmarska (University of Edinburgh)
  - Global IR Beyond the West: Between Co-optation, Emulation and Emancipation
    
    Authors: Beverley Loke (University of Exeter)* , Catherine Owen (University of Exeter)
  - Accounting for Non-Western Agency in World Politics: Challenges and Perspectives
    
    Authors: Audrey Alejandro (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Anahita Arian (University of Erfurt)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Defence Industries and Technology in Europe Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: European Security Working Group
  
  Conveners: Arantza Gomez Arana (Birmingham City University) , Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University) , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  
  Chair: Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters
  - Admiring the Problem: NATO, the space domain and deterrence
    
    Author: Simon J. Smith (Staffordshire University)
  - The Socio-technical Imaginaries of the EU Defence Research Programme
    
    Authors: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University) , Bruno Oliveira Martins (PRIO)*
  - Small states’ defence industries and PESCO: Role of private actors in shaping national policy to defence integration in Europe
    
    Authors: Tomas Weiss (Charles University) , Licínia Simão (University of Coimbra)* , Miroslava Pěčková (Charles University)*
  - Cybersecurity in the EU: the future of international legal studies
    
    Author: Eva Saeva (Newcastle Law School)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Discourses of Counter-Radicalisation and Counter-Terrorism: Critical Approaches Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
  
  Conveners: Raquel de Silva (University of Birmingham) , Alice Martini , Tom Pettinger (University of Warwick)
  
  Chair: Tom Pettinger (University of Warwick)
  
  Discussant: Raquel de Silva (University of Birmingham)
  - Countering right-wing extremism: A comparative study of US and EU counter-extremism initiatives
    
    Author: Chin-Kuei Tsui (Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan (R.O.C.))
  - Terrorism in the United Kingdom: Securitizing Narrative, Surveillance Practices and the Right to Privacy
    
    Author: Romana Pinhal (PhD candidate University of Minho)
  - Gender and the (in)visibility of terrorists
    
    Author: Antonia Niehuss (University of St Andrews)
  - The hegemony of Prevent: Turning counter-terrorism policing into common sense
    
    Author: Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield)
  - The Axis of Prevent Strategy: British Elites’ Perceptions of Threat, Security, and Integration
    
    Author: Evren Altay (University of York)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Dystopian Futures? Ontological Security in an Age of Anxiety Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: Christopher Browning (University of Warwick)
  
  Chair: Christopher Browning (University of Warwick)
  - Managing Geopolitical Anxiety by Remaking ‘the West’ through ‘Hybrid Warfare’
    
    Authors: Jakub Eberle (Institute of International Relations, Prague) , Jan Daniel (Institute of International Relations, Prague)*
  - Pure Fantasy? Populist Dystopian Narratives and Ontological (In)Security
    
    Author: Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick)
  - Ontological Security and Cyber Technology
    
    Author: Amir Lupovici (Tel Aviv University)
  - Anxiety, Ontological Insecurity and the Demise of Symbolic Efficiency
    
    Author: John Cash (University of Melbourne)
  - Coping with Species Anxiety: Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Threat of Human Erasure
    
    Author: Christopher Browning (University of Warwick)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Foreign Policy Decision-Making Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: FPWG Working group
  
  Chair: David Houghton (US Naval War College)
  - Australia’s Brexit: the Anglosphere and the Logic of Appropriateness in Australia-UK Relations
    
    Author: Ben Wellings (Monash University)
  - Brazilian Diplomatic Capacities and Foreign Policy Aims – On Transient Means and Ends
    
    Authors: Leticia Pinheiro , Leandro Santos (IESP/UERJ)*
  - Trump's Alternative Interagency Process
    
    Author: David Houghton (US Naval War College)
  - Who is the Desired Thinker? :an Economic Framework for Foreign Policy Analysis
    
    Author: JINTAO ZHU (London School of Economics)
  - Theorising receptivity to inconvenient or surprising intelligence in European foreign policy: When do decision-makers listen?
    
    Author: Christoph Meyer (King's College London)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Foreign Policy, the State and the Responsibility to Protect Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
  
  Convener: IR2P Working group
  
  Chair: Pinar Gozen Ercan (Hacettepe University)
  - ‘Promoting Britain’s national interest’: Global Britain, human protection and the national interest in UK foreign policy
    
    Author: Blake Lawrinson (University of Leeds)
  - China and Norm Entrepreneur in R2P Debates
    
    Authors: Zeynep Selin Balcı (Ege University) , Altuğ Günal (Ege University)*
  - The Responsibility to Protect: Pillar III and the Problem of Internal Justification
    
    Author: maria jellinek
  - The UK as Norm Taker not Maker: The UK’s Responsibility to Protect as Regime Change and Political Transition in Syria
    
    Author: Chloë Gilgan (York Law School)
  - Locating Global Harm in Crimes Against Humanity: A Dual Approach to the Conception of Humanity
    
    Author: Samuel Jarvis (York St John University)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / International Political Economy, Rising Powers and Globalisation Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
  
  Convener: IPEG Working group
  
  Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)
  
  Discussant: Joanne Tomkinson (SOAS, University of London)
  - BRICS Financial Cooperation: Endeavors, Motivations and Effects
    
    Author: Jia Luo (Jiangxi Normal University)
  - China’s new regionalism: A grand strategy or a coordination nightmare?
    
    Author: Olivia Cheung (The University of Warwick)
  - Neoliberalism and the rise of an ‘anti-global’ atavistic nationalism in contemporary global politics
    
    Author: AKASH BHAGAT (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Marshalling On : India and the developing world in the Global Trade Order
    
    Author: Abhishank Mishra (Jawaharlal Nehru University )
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / New Avenues for Securitization of Migration Politics History Room
  
  Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
  
  Convener: Maria Koinova (University of Warwick)
  
  Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
  
  Discussant: Andonea Dickson (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Analyzing Refugee Studies through a different lens in International Relations: A case study of European Response to the Afghan Refugee crisis
    
    Author: RAJARSHI CHAKRABORTY (PHD SCHOLAR)
  - Beyond closed doors: the desecuritisation of Colombian asylum seekers in Ecuador
    
    Author: Gabriela Patricia Garcia Garcia (University of Aberdeen)
  - Algerian Institutionalisation of Racial Immigration Policies
    
    Author: kheira Arrouche (University of Leeds)
  - EU’s migration management in the Mediterranean: Burden-sharing and externalisation
    
    Author: FOTEINI KALANTZI (University of Oxford)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Populism in South East Europe Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
  
  Convener: Caglar Ezikoglu (Cankiri Karatekin University)
  
  Chair: Caglar Ezikoglu (Cankiri Karatekin University)
  
  Discussant: Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of Oxford)
  - Kemalist Populism in Istanbul
    
    Author: Svenja Huck (Humboldt University )
  - The New Populism in Turkey: The Marriage of Islamism and Nationalism under AKP Rule
    
    Author: Caglar Ezikoglu (Cankiri Karatekin University)
  - From Right to Left and from Left to Right: Economic Incompetence meets Political Populism in Greece
    
    Author: Zafiris Tzannatos (Lebanese Center for Policy Studies)
  - Populism in the Western Balkans: Analysing the Impact of the European Union (EU) in Case of Serbia
    
    Author: Hatice Yazgan (Cankiri Karatekin University)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Panel / Review of International Studies Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Review of International Studies
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Security, Coloniality and the Policing of Mobility I: Migration, Citizenship and Race Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Conveners: Joe Turner (University of York) , Terri-Anne Teo (Nanyang Technological University)
  
  Chair: Terri-Anne Teo (Nanyang Technological University)
  - ‘No Pass Laws Here!’: Internal passport controls and the global hostile environment
    
    Author: Kathryn Medien (University of Cambridge)
  - The Policing of Colonial Mobilities: Race, Operation Nexus and the Expulsion of Foreign National Criminals
    
    Author: Joe Turner (University of York)
  - Viewing Peru’s Migration and Citizenship Governance through a post-colonial Lens: From the Promotion of Migrants’ Rights to their Criminalization
    
    Authors: Luisa Feline Freier (Universidad del Pacífico ) , Ayesha Siddiqi (University of Cambridge)
  - The Politics of Removal: Policing “Foreignness” in Singapore
    
    Author: Terri-Anne Teo (Nanyang Technological University)
  - Noncitizen Power and the Reclamation of Trust in Global Migration Governance
    
    Author: Tendayi Bloom (University of Birmingham)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Security, Resistance and Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
  
  Convener: Omer Tekdemir (University of Bolton)
  
  Chair: Omer Tekdemir (University of Bolton)
  - Between Anarchy and Arms Race: A Security Dilemma in the Persian Gulf
    
    Author: Islam Hassan (Durham University )
  - The Logic of Tribal Survival and the Strategy of Co-optation: The Case of the Syrian Civil War and the Manbij Tribes
    
    Author: murat Yeşiltaş (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
  - The political geography of conflict economies in the MENA region
    
    Authors: Christine Cheng (War Studies, King's College London) , Tim Eaton (Chatham House)
  - Bringing the Shias Further in: Representation, Veto and Resistance in Confessional Lebanon
    
    Author: Natalia Nahas Calfat (Universidade de São Paulo)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Roundtable / Teaching and Learning Post Conflict Afterlives Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Chair: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham)
  
  Participants: Aishling McMorrow (University of Portsmouth ) , Maria-Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast) , Jamie Hagen (Queen's University Belfast ) , Philipp Schulz (University of Bremen) , Daniela Lai (London South Bank)
Friday, 19 June
- 10:00 → 11:30
  
  Roundtable / 20 Years on and 10 Resolutions in: Wither Women, Peace and Security? Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Chair: Katharine Wright (Newcastle University)
  
  Participants: Rachel Grimes (Independent) , Clare Hutchinson (NATO ) , Toni Haastrup (University of Stirling) , Hannah Bond (Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS)) , Laura Davis (European Peacebuilding Liaison Office)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  
  Panel / BISA Professional Development III History Room
  
  Sponsor: BISA
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Conceptual Progress in International Environmental Politics Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Environment Working Group
  
  Convener: Duncan Weaver (Easton College)
  
  Chair: Hugh Dyer (University of Leeds)
  - OIl as an International Assemblage
    
    Author: Roland Dannreuther
  - Constructing Agency in Climate Governance: IPCC Scientific Reporting and Reframing the Climate as a Local Governance Problem
    
    Author: Emma Lecavalier (University of Toronto)
  - SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE: CONCEPTUALIZING CHALLENGES TO STATE-CENTRISM IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
    
    Author: Isha Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Contesting theoretical accounts: historiographies of emotions and IR Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: EPIR Working group
  
  Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
  - When Words Lose Their Meaning: Hobbes and Thucydides on the Cause of War
    
    Author: Jimmy Lim (McGill University)
  - The Aesthetics of Conditionality: Classical Realism and Art History
    
    Author: Felix Roesch (Coventry University)
  - Why I went to the woods in the first place: The emotional liberation of the Therigatha
    
    Author: Anupama Ranawana (Oxford Brookes/Roehampton)
  - Filmmaking as Research Practice: "Great Walls: Journeys from Ideology to Experience""
    
    Author: William Callahan (LSE)
  - ‘Welcome Home Sisters’: Acknowledging Violence through a Politics of Shame
    
    Author: Emma Dolan (University of Aberdeen)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  
  Roundtable / Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
  
  Chair: Audrey Reeves (Virginia Tech)
  
  Participants: Katharine Millar (LSE) , Christine Sylvester (University of Connecticut) , Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University London) , Audrey Reeves (Virginia Tech) , Cami Rowe (Lancaster University )
- 10:00 → 11:30
  
  Roundtable / Facing Human Interconnections 2020-2120 Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
  
  Chair: Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth University)
  
  Participants: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds) , Madeline Carr (UCL) , Vicki Squire (Warwick University) , Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Aberystwyth University)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Foreign Policy in a Populist Age Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: FPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Toby Greene (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Conceptualizing Populist Foreign Policy as Folk Realism: Trumpism and US Foreign Policy
    
    Author: Thorsten Wojczewski
  - Contemporary authoritarian populism and the geography of borders
    
    Author: AKASH BHAGAT (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Out and into the World: Imperial and Colonial Nostalgias in Vote Leave’s ‘Forward-Looking’ Approach
    
    Author: Francesca Melhuish (University of Warwick)
  - The Politicization of ‘Anti-nationalism’ and Cosmopolitanism: How are Responses to the Rise of Nationalism Being Articulated?
    
    Author: Javier Carbonell (University of Edinburgh)
  - The Foreign Policy of the European Populist Radical Right
    
    Author: Toby Greene (Queen Mary University of London)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  
  Roundtable / Law, Security and the State of Perpetual Emergency Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
  
  Chair: Linda Bishai (George Washington University)
  
  Participants: Uzair Kayani (University of Lahore School of Management) , Norma Rossi (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) , Andreas Behnke (University of Reading) , Brittany Benowitz (American Bar Association) , Virginia Anderson (American Bar Association) , Georgia Holmer (OSCE) , Pål Wrange (University of Stockholm)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Media, politics and influence of Russia and Eurasian states Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
  
  Convener: RESG Working group
  
  Chair: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
  - Digital Diplomacy in Times of Upheaval: How Foreign Ministries Used Twitter During the Crimean Crisis
    
    Author: Ilan Manor (The University of Oxford)
  - International positioning through media: how RT defines and explains Russia’s role in world politics
    
    Author: Aleksandra Raspopina (City, University of London)
  - Strategic Narratives of Roads in China’s Broadcasting of the Belt and Road Initiative
    
    Author: Carolijn van Noort (University of the West of Scotland)
  - Russian strategic narratives of the democratic process: people versus power and process
    
    Author: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Poststructural Borders: Crossing the Line Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Conveners: Patrick Hughes (Queen's University Belfast) , Ayushman Bhagat (Durham University) , Keysha Jaime Orona (Queen's University Belfast)
  
  Chair: Patrick Pinkerton (Queen Mary University of London)
  
  Discussant: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast)
  - A Queer State of Affairs: the Irish border after Brexit
    
    Author: Patrick Hughes (Queen's University Belfast)
  - Borders of 'Trafficking'
    
    Author: Ayushman Bhagat (Durham University)
  - Climate Change and Human Mobility: The Power of Language
    
    Author: Keysha Jaime Orona (Queen's University Belfast)
  - Mobile and Immobile Fingerprint Scanners: Establishing Virtual Borders
    
    Author: Carys Coleman (University of Manchester)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Re-imagining Nuclear History & Politics Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
  
  Convener: GNO Working group
  
  Chair: Hassan Elbahtimy (King's College London)
  - Leaders, Military Experience and the Demand for Nuclear Weapons: Australia, 1969-1974
    
    Author: Michael Cohen (ANU)
  - Exploring popular nuclear imaginings through interpretive content analysis
    
    Author: Rebekah Pullen (McMaster University)
  - Nuclear Proliferation, India and the New World Order: A Study in Nuclear Transitions
    
    Author: Shounak Set (King's College London)
  - The Manhattan Project as origin myth in global nuclear politics
    
    Author: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
  - Distrust and Domestic Contestations in India’s Sea-Based Nuclear Deterrence Development
    
    Author: Shayesta Nishat Ahmed (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Security, Coloniality and the Policing of Mobility II: Borders, Violences and Contestations Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Conveners: Terri-Anne Teo (Nanyang Technological University) , Joe Turner (University of York)
  
  Chair: Joe Turner (University of York)
  - Home as the Front-line: Everyday Realities and Gendered Constructs of Militarized Violence in Kashmir
    
    Author: Ananya Sharma (ASHOKA UNIVERSITY)
  - Returning the Gaze: Critical Interventions into Police-Protestor (Counter-)surveillance
    
    Author: Ciara McHugh (Queen's University Belfast)
  - Bordering Subjecthood and Citizenship: Jurisdiction, Territory, Allegiance and Security
    
    Author: Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol )
  - Illegalised Migrants at Frontiers of Immobility: European Coloniality Performed and Normalised
    
    Author: Benedetta Zocchi (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Who is the non-belonger?: imperial practices and citizenship revocation
    
    Author: Deirdre Troy (Queen Mary University of London)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / State, gender, & materialism in international historical sociology Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: HSIR Working group
  
  Chair: Clemens Hoffmann (University of Stirling)
  - China, the commodity boom and the rise and fall of extractive post-neoliberalism in the global south
    
    Author: Nicholas Jepson (Global Development Institute, University of Manchester)
  - Gendering International Historical Sociology: Women, Sovereignty and the State in Morocco
    
    Author: Meriam Mabrouk (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  - Natural resources in the age of colonization and decolonization: Oil’s unique role in the creation of new states
    
    Author: Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Oxford)
  - The Modern Totem-Inquiry of the Role of National Animals in Modern Nationalism
    
    Author: JINTAO ZHU (London School of Economics)
  - Alexander-Helphand Parvus’s International Thought, the Standard of "Civilisation" and the Origins of Uneven and Combined Development (UCD)
    
    Author: Marc Sinan Winrow (LSE)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and State Terrorism in the Global South Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
  
  Conveners: Alice Martini , Tom Pettinger (University of Warwick) , Raquel de Silva (University of Birmingham)
  
  Chair: Raquel de Silva (University of Birmingham)
  
  Discussant: Alice Martini
  - Constructing the counter-terrorist state: Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Policy
    
    Author: Kodili Chukwuma (University of East Anglia )
  - Fatalist Attractions: A Critical Analysis of Scholarship on Women’s Involvement in the Islamic State
    
    Authors: Terrin Calder Rosen (University of Glasgow) , Christopher Mayhew (Goucher College)*
  - Local Meaning Making Processes on Defining Violent Extremism in the Coastal Region of Kenya
    
    Authors: Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen (Technical University of Mombasa) , Fathima Azmiya Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen (Technical University of Mombasa)*
  - The Act of Terror: paradigms of exception and state violence of Brazil
    
    Author: Vinícius Armele dos Santos Leal (PUC-Rio)
- 10:00 → 11:30
  Panel / Theoretical approaches to peace and conflict Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Convener: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding Working group (BISA)
  
  Chair: C Cheng
  - Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies: Between Critical Theory and Problem-Solving?
    
    Author: Teresa Almeida Cravo (FEUC-CES, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  - Hybridity as Travelling Theory
    
    Author: Aiko Holvikivi (LSE)
  - Inter-regional Organisational Relations in Peacekeeping: An English School Perspective
    
    Author: Takamitsu Hadano (University of Tsukuba)
  - The a-historicity of Peace and Conflict Studies
    
    Author: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)
  - Planetary politics and International Interventions: Time, Scale and Peace in the Anthropocene
    
    Author: Farai Chipato (Queen Mary University of London)
- 11:30 → 12:00
  
  Coffee and Tea Room 30m
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Agency, silence and voice in feminist international politics research History Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Conveners: Aliya Khalid (University of Cambridge) , Georgina Holmes (University of Reading)
  
  Chair: Georgina Holmes (University of Reading)
  
  Discussant: Aliya Khalid (University of Cambridge)
  - The subaltern as security actor: Refugees and Europe’s agenda for Women, Peace and Security
    
    Authors: Holvikivi Aiko (LSE) , Audrey Reeves (Virginia Tech)
  - The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace
    
    Author: Anna-Karin Eriksson (Linnaeus University)
  - Exploring the Agency of Male Sexual Violence Survivors Across Contexts: Reflections on Gender and Silence
    
    Authors: Philipp Schulz (University of Bremen) , Heleen Touquet (University of Antwerp)
  - Rethinking Cold War Peacekeeping: Insecurity, Gender and Silence in the Gaza Strip, 1957-1967
    
    Author: Martin Ottovay Jørgensen (Aalborg University)
  - Transforming masculinities in Fiji and strategic silence
    
    Author: David Duriesmith (University of Queensland)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Creating the State in South-East Europe: Sovereignty, Recognition, and (Il)legality? Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
  
  Conveners: George Kyris (University of Birmingham) , Lucas Knotter (University of Groningen)
  
  Chair: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)
  
  Discussant: Lucas Knotter (University of Groningen)
  - Framing and Contesting 'Europe' in Contested States: Narratives in North Cyprus and Kosovo
    
    Author: Başak Alpan (Middle Eastern Technical University)
  - Kosovo's Border Fixity: Territorial Security, Institutional Weakness?
    
    Author: Lucas Knotter (University of Groningen)
  - State Recognition and International Organisations
    
    Author: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)
  - Silence, Publicity and Authority Formation
    
    Author: Norma Rossi (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Dealing with Far-Right Extremism Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
  
  Conveners: Alice Martini , Tom Pettinger (University of Warwick) , Raquel de Silva (University of Birmingham)
  
  Chair: Harmonie Toros (University of Kent)
  
  Discussant: Chin-Kuei Tsui (Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan (R.O.C.))
  - Terrorism Studies, Histories of Terrorism and the Far-Right: An Uncomfortable Silence
    
    Author: Thomas Martin (University of Sussex)
  - 'Extremism' is what we make of it!: the normalized and banal extremism of Spanish Far Right
    
    Authors: Alice Martini (UAM Madrid) , Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín (UDIMA)
  - How has extreme right violence been countered in contemporary Portugal? The cases of the Movement of National Action (MAN) and the Portugal Hammer Skin (PHS)
    
    Author: Raquel de Silva (University of Birmingham)
  - Countering violent extremism: Analysing Norway’s CVE approach
    
    Author: Sondre Lindahl (Østfold University College)
  - "Unlikely Allies: Far-Right attempted mobilisation of the LGBTQ+ community" ?
    
    Authors: Russell Foster (King's College London) , Xander Kirke (Glasgow Caledonian University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Diplomacy & imperialism in international historical sociology Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: HSIR Working group
  
  Chair: Brieg Powel (Exeter)
  - Transporting and transplanting jurisdictional accumulation: revisiting the importance of consuls for early modern European empires
    
    Author: Maia Pal (Oxford Brookes University)
  - Then and Now: Atmosphere between Japan and Thailand in geopolitics, diplomacy and, soft power influences
    
    Author: PREECHAYA PREECHAYA KITTIPAISALSILPA (International University of Japan)
  - Adoption or Adaption? Globalising International Society in the Nineteenth Century and Diplomatic Practices at the Rokumeikan
    
    Author: Felix Roesch (Coventry University)
  - The Time of Neo-Ottomanism: An exploration on the international roots of the rise of an imperial desire
    
    Author: sara sara kermanian (University of Sussex, Department of International Relations)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Discussing Doing Fieldwork In Areas of International Intervention: A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts (Bristol: Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2020), edited by Morten Bøås and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Chair: John Heathershaw (University of Exeter)
  
  Participants: Katarzyna Kaczmarska (University of Edinburgh) , Daniela Lai (London South Bank) , Katarina Kusic (Aberystwyth University) , Morten Bøås (NUPI) , Catherine Owen (University of Exeter) , Casey McNeill (Fordham University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Ethics in Conflict Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: EWPG Working group
  
  Chair: Cian O'Driscoll (University of Glasgow)
  
  Discussant: Cian O'Driscoll (University of Glasgow)
  - Just Limited Strikes? Revisitng the Ethics of Force Short of War
    
    Author: Daniel Brunstetter (UC Irvine)
  - The Dog That Didn't Bark: An Inquiry Into the Notion of Preventability
    
    Author: Johanna Rodehau-Noack (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  - Resisting Unjust Aggression: The case for the targeting of security forces during occupations
    
    Author: Alex Crockett (Durham University)
  - The Ethics and Law of Surrender in Orthodox Just War Theory and Regular War Theory
    
    Author: Henry Padden (Durham University)
  - The Responsibility to Protect and Already Existing Intervention
    
    Authors: Robin Dunford (University of Brighton) , Michael Neu (University of Brighton)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Foreign Policy in and toward Asia Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: FPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Sarina Theys
  - US policy responses to China’s Belt & Road Initiative
    
    Author: Edward Ashbee (Copenhagen Business School)
  - Domestic Politics, Nuclear Proliferation and the New World Order: Mapping Indian Foreign Policy 1998-2008
    
    Author: Shounak Set (King's College London)
  - China Threatened: Perceptions of Peripheral States
    
    Authors: Nicholas Thomas (Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong) , Pang Qin (School of International Relations, Sun Yat-sen University, PRC)*
  - The Geopolitics of Small States: Explaining Bhutanese and Nepalese Security and Foreign Policies through Role Theory.
    
    Authors: Sarina Theys (Newcastle University) , Bibek Chand (University of North Georgia)*
  - Facing Variegated European Winds: The Belt and Road Initiative’s Challenges to and from EU Foreign Policy and Cohesion
    
    Author: Simon F Taeuber (University of St Andrews)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Militarisation in the Sahel: old security practices in a new war theatre Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Chair: Olayinka Ajala (University of York)
  
  Participants: Marie Sandnes (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)) , Delina Goxho (Open Society Foundations & PAX Netherlands) , Inioluwa Dele-Adedeji (University of York) , Frowd Philippe (University of Ottawa) , Abigail Watson (Oxford Research Group) , James Rogers (Yale University) , Eva Magdalena Stambøl (Aalborg University Denmark)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Order, Agency & Complexity in Global Nuclear Politics Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
  
  Convener: GNO Working group
  
  Chair: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
  - Locating the ‘local’ and dissecting the ‘global’: reimagining the workings of global nuclear order
    
    Author: Tom Vaughan (Aberystywth University)
  - Post-Deterrence, Beyond Norms: The Symbolism of Nuclear Weapons
    
    Author: Orion Noda (King's College London)
  - Nuclear order and hegemonic change
    
    Author: Nick Ritchie (University of York)
  - In Search of Agency: Egypt, non-nuclear weapons states and the origins of the NPT
    
    Author: Hassan Elbahtimy (King's College London)
  - More than the Sum of Its Parts? Examining the Implications of Complexity in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
    
    Author: Ben Kienzle
  - Essential Attributes of Future of International Studies in the Realm of Global Governance: A Case Study of Emerging Global Nuclear Governance
    
    Author: Silky Kaur (JNU)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Permissive Violence: The Legality and Legitimacy of Armed Drone Use Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
  
  Chair: David H. Dunn (Birmingham)
  
  Participants: Zeenat Sabur , David H Dunn (BISA member) , Nick Wheeler (Birmingham) , Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University) , Maja Zehfuss (The University of Manchester)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Perspectives on and challenges to regionalism Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
  
  Convener: IPEG Working group
  
  Chair: Sophia Price (Leeds Beckett University)
  
  Discussant: John Morris (University of Warwick)
  - European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime
    
    Authors: Rowan Lubbock (Queen Mary, University of London) , Kieran Andrieu (Birkbeck, University of London)*
  - Taking Back Control: Parliamentary Sovereignty and Post-Brexit Trade Policy
    
    Author: Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Warwick)
  - Theorising European Integration in an age of global disorder
    
    Authors: Davide Schmid (Manchester Metropolitan University) , Scott Lavery (University of Sheffield)*
  - Pulp Friction in the La Plata Basin: The importance of Natural Resource Governance for the Study of Comparative Regionalism
    
    Author: Karen Siegel (University of Glasgow)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Power, Populism and Popular Culture Carilol
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: PPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Martin Coward (University of Manchester)
  - Is global populism possible? Applying Ernesto Laclau’s concept of populism to the ‘Fridays for Future’ movement
    
    Author: Caroline Caroline Maria Kalkreuth (Kiel University)
  - The Cultural Anthropocene: The representations, affects, and encounters of climate change in popular Hollywood cinema
    
    Author: Cahir O'Doherty (Swansea University)
  - Neglected Times: Laclau, Affect, and Temporality
    
    Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)
  - Damned by Democracy : the Symbiotic relationship between Populism and Illiberalism
    
    Author: Abhishank Mishra (Jawaharlal Nehru University )
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Russian foreign/security policy and discourse Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
  
  Convener: RESG Working group
  
  Chair: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
  - Russia's search for status: historical narratives of triumph and disaster
    
    Authors: Valentina Feklyunina (Newcastle University ) , James Bilsland (Newcastle University )*
  - Russian foreign policy and Eurasian Meta-geographies
    
    Authors: Aglaya Snetkov , Stephen Aris (University of Geneva)*
  - Fearing the West, Conquering the East: Contemporary Russian Security Discourses in a Post-Imperial Age
    
    Author: Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham)
  - The Western Balkans and Russia: a Study of Soft Power
    
    Authors: Adriana Cuppuleri (University of Trento) , Liridona Veliu (Dublin City University)
  - Change and Continuity in Russia's Defence Policy and Military Posture
    
    Author: Nicolo Fasola (University of Birmingham)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Roundtable / Taking Ontological Insecurity (More) Seriously: The Future of Ontological Security Studies in International Relations Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
  
  Chair: Christopher Browning (University of Warwick)
  
  Participants: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham) , Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield) , Jakub Eberle (Institute of International Relations, Prague) , Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh) , Sarah A. Son (University of Sheffield) , John Cash (University of Melbourne) , Shahnaz Akhter (University of Warwick)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / The ‘Brexit Moment’ in EU External Action Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: European Security Working Group
  
  Conveners: Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh) , Nicholas Wright (University College London)
  
  Chair: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)
  
  Discussant: Nicola Chelotti ( Loughborough University)
  - EU Development Policy post Brexit
    
    Author: Amelia Hadfield (University of Surrey)
  - Great expectations: the Brexit moment in EU security and defence and the return of the capabilities–expectations gap
    
    Authors: Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh) , Monika Sus (Hertie School)*
  - Managing the ‘Great Unmooring’: Re-shaping Britain’s foreign policy for the era of Brexit
    
    Author: Nicholas Wright (University College London)
  - From the Core to the Neighbourhood: Brexit Governance and the evolving nature of the external dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
    
    Author: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  - Brexit and the contingent rescaling of crisis governance
    
    Authors: Andrew Judge (University of Glasgow) , John Connolly (University of the West of Scotland)*
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Lunch Break 1h
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / Changing markets and social development in Africa: technology, norms and practices Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: Laura Routley (Newcastle)
  
  Chair: Kathy Dodworth (University of Edinburgh)
  - Digital Identity: opportunity or obstacle to Africa's development
    
    Author: Odilile Ayodele
  - Polanyi and the double movement in Africa: explaining private sector demands for re-embedding in neoliberal Ghana
    
    Author: Mark Langan (Newcastle University)
  - Foreign Friends, Local Villains? A Micro-level, Sector-Disaggregated Test of Transnational Corporations and Armed Conflict in Africa
    
    Authors: Samuel Brazys (University College Dublin) , Indra de Soysa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)* , Krishna Vadlamannati (University College Dublin)*
  - In whose interest? Evaluating the Africa - EU Partnership
    
    Author: Sophia Price (Leeds Beckett University)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / Christendom in International Relations: imaginaries and afterlives Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: John Heathershaw (University of Exeter)
  
  Chair: Brieg Powel (Exeter)
  - Legitimacy and authority: Middle Age lessons for contemporary superpowers
    
    Author: Luke Cahill (Bath)
  - Medieval missionaries and imaginaries of the international
    
    Author: Julia Costa Lopez (University of Groningen)
  - What is Christendom to Us? Making better sense of Christian sources of international order
    
    Author: John Heathershaw (University of Exeter)
  - Francis of Assisi, the Italian City-State International System And the Countercultural Critique of Christendom
    
    Author: Scott Thomas (Bath)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Roundtable / Cultivating an Inclusive Discipline: Constructions, Challenges, and Conduct in Contemporary Academia’ Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: #FutureIR @NclPolitics
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Participant: Saara Saarma (Tampere University)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Panel / European Journal of International Security Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: European Journal of International Security
  
  Convener: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
  
  Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / Everyday imaginaries of war and conflict Bewick Room
  
  Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
  
  Convener: EPIR Working group
  
  Chair: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
  - Uncertainty, emotion, and self-idealisation in public perception of international crises
    
    Author: Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield)
  - Emotions and war on YouTube: Affective investments in RT’s visual narratives of the conflict in Syria
    
    Authors: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University) , Rhys Crilley (Open University)*
  - The Israel Defense Forces and the Role of Emotions in Military Education
    
    Author: Sorana Jude (Newcastle University)
  - Frustration and pain in global politics: the specificities of subject-formation in hierarchical and violent contexts
    
    Author: Paula Sandrin (Institute of International Relations, PUC-Rio, Brazil)
  - Alternative Imaginaries of Cooperation in Conflict and Resistance
    
    Author: Amya Agarwal (Centre for Global Cooperation Research)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / In, against and beyond International Relations: Disciplinary investigations and interventions Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Convener: CPD Working group
  
  Chair: Kerem Nişancıoğlu (SOAS)
  
  Discussant: Kerem Nişancıoğlu (SOAS)
  - From Thucydides To 1648: The “Missing” Years In IR And The Missing Voices In World History
    
    Author: Kevin Blachford (Baltic Defence College)
  - What does ‘non-Western knowledge’ mean? De-territorialising the Global IR debate
    
    Author: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham)
  - Violent International Relations
    
    Authors: Lucas Van Milders (University of Groningen) , Harmonie Toros (University of Kent)
  - Carr’s post-colonialism and the Eurocentric origins of the Eurocentric critique
    
    Author: Haro Karkour (University of Birmingham)
  - Narrating Singularities?: De-colonising IR through Indigenous Knowledge Systems
    
    Author: Ananya Sharma (Ashoka University)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / International Responsibility in Theory and Practice Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: EWPG Working group
  
  Chair: Robin Dunford (University of Brighton)
  
  Discussant: Susan Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
  - Drone warriors, shared humanity, and a feminist ethics of care
    
    Author: Christian Enemark (University of Southampton)
  - Rethinking International Responsibility: A Proposal for Conceptual Clarity.
    
    Author: Evert Raafs (Durham University )
  - Kantian International Theory and Treatment for Epistemology: A Teaching of John Rawls
    
    Author: Chayuth Chamnanseth (University of Aberdeen)
  - Justice in International Trade: Re-Envisioning What It Asks Of Us
    
    Author: LISA SAMUEL (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / Learning lessons from the agenda for civilian protection by peacekeeping missions Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Convener: david curran (Coventry University)
  
  Chair: Walt Kilroy (Dublin City University)
  - Towards an integrated approach to civilian protection: synergies and tensions between the three tiers of protection in peacekeeping
    
    Author: Walt Kilroy (Dublin City University)
  - Inter-Organisational Transfer of Norms, Policies, and Practices: The African Union, its Partners, and Peace Support Operations
    
    Authors: Kseniya Oksamytna (King's College London) , Nina Wilen (Egmont Institute for International Relations)
  - Integrating contact skills into pre-deployment PoC training for military peacekeepers
    
    Author: david curran (Coventry University)
  - The Road from Katanga to Bentiu: Armed Groups, Civilian Protection and the Indian Experience of Peacekeeping in Africa
    
    Author: Sukanya Podder (King's College London)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / Let us open a Pandora’s box: Is India’s federalism exclusionary? Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: #FutureIR @NclPolitics
  
  Convener: Madhan Mohan Jaganathan (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  
  Chair: Madhan Mohan Jaganathan (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Foreign Policy and the Indian State: Expanding the Frontiers of Federalism?
    
    Author: Amitabh Mattoo (Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - More unitary than federal? Unpacking the dynamics of India’s federalism
    
    Author: Madhan Mohan Jaganathan (Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - (Re)Looking Into-Out: India’s Margins and the Lost Federal Promise?
    
    Author: Mansoor Ashraf (Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Is India’s federalism at risk?
    
    Author: Amna Sunmbul (Oakridge International School, Bangalore)
  - Exclusionary Citizenship in India: Towards a Hindu Nation?
    
    Author: Abhishek Choudhary ( Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Roundtable / Making Sense of International Law and Politics in the 21st Century Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
  
  Chair: Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh)
  
  Participants: David Bicknell (King's College London, War Studies) , Kerr Rachel (King's College London, War Studies) , Victor Peskin (Arizona State University, IR) , Kurt Mills (University of Dundee) , Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow) , James Gow (King's College London, War Studies) , Shaina Western (University of Edinburgh, IR)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Roundtable / Teaching and (Un)learning Gender, War and Militarism Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Chair: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)
  
  Participants: Julia Welland (University of Warwick) , Harriet Gray (University of York) , Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol) , Aiko Holvikivi (LSE) , Alice Cree (Newcastle University)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / The Politics of Governance and Policy Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: PPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Dan Bulley (Oxford Brookes University)
  - The Politics of Knowledge Production at the UN Security Council
    
    Author: Aurel Niederberger
  - Assembling China's 'Belt and Road' Initiative
    
    Author: Ran Hu (University of York)
  - Anticipating unintended consequences of policy making: A poststructuralist approach to policy analysis
    
    Authors: Donna Arrondelle (University of Portsmouth) , Carlos Cardenas Escutia (University College London (UCL))*
  - Governance in a time of turmoil; Conceptualising hegemonic environmental governance post-Brexit
    
    Author: Sean Heron (Queen's University Belfast)
  - The politics of debating intelligence reports: The case of Russia’s influence in Czechia
    
    Authors: Jakub Eberle (Institute of International Relations, Prague) , Jan Daniel (Institute of International Relations Prague)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / US Foreign Policy towards Asia History Room
  
  Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: USFP Working group
  
  Chair: Mara Oliva (University of Reading)
  
  Discussant: USFP Working group
  - Considering the Sino-American Relationship
    
    Author: Bradley Thayer (University of Oxford)
  - Vietnamese Education Exchangees to the U.S.: “Symbolic Pawns” in Elite Interactions or Peacemakers?
    
    Author: Thi Ly Le (University of Nottingham)
  - Military Occupation and Collective Defense: The Origins of European Multilateralism and Asian Bilateralism
    
    Author: Mike Cohen (ANU)
  - US ‘Hegemony’, Chinese Geopolitics, and the Limits of US Foreign Policy
    
    Author: Benjamin Coulson
  - Coalescing the Kaleidoscope : Problematizing the Balance of Power Theory in the Asia Pacific
    
    Author: Abhishank Mishra (Jawaharlal Nehru University )
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / Understanding Foreign Policy making within Area Studies Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
  
  Chair: Lucas Scott (University of Birmingham )
  
  Discussant: Abdulla Ali Khaled Alsabah (SOAS)
  - Accounting for China’s actions in the Middle East: comparing realism, idealism and tianxia
    
    Author: Guy Burton (Vesalius College)
  - Formulating Middle Eastern foreign policy in IR: Determinants of continuity in transition
    
    Author: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
  - The individual level of analysis and Europe: promises, limits and future challenges
    
    Authors: Nicola Chelotti ( Loughborough University) , Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh)
  - Developing an AU foreign policy: pan-Africanism in international affairs
    
    Author: Lesley Masters (University of Derby)
  - Generically Singapore? Foreign Policy and the Limits of Exceptionalism
    
    Author: Simon Obendorf (University of Lincoln)
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Panel / Why do Wars Occur and How do They End? Carilol
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Convener: James Rogers (Yale University)
  
  Chair: Chiara de Franco (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
  
  Discussant: Jacob Eriksson (University of York)
  - Aggression, Imperialism and the Global South
    
    Author: Muhammad Ashfaq (University of St Andrews)
  - Using Quantitative Data in Conflict Studies: Challenges and Opportunities
    
    Author: Tabitha Poulter (City, University of London)
  - Explaining the February 2019 India-Pakistan Crisis
    
    Authors: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies) , Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
  - Uncertainties in the Strategic Motivation Assessment for Contemporary International Conflicts
    
    Author: Hongyu Guo (Lecturer of the College of International Studies, National University of Defense Technology, P.R.China)
- 16:00 → 16:15
  
  Coffee and Tea Break 15m
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Liberal Ordering of Movement and the Mobile Struggle for Rights Collingwood Room
  
  Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
  
  Conveners: Dimitris Skleparis (Newcastle University) , Una McGahern (Newcastle University)
  
  Chair: Canzutti Lucrezia (Newcastle University)
  - Young Syrian Refugees in the UK: A Two-Tier System of International Protection?
    
    Authors: Gareth Mulvey (University of Glasgow)* , Dimitris Skleparis (University of Newcastle) , Georgios Karyotis (University of Glasgow)*
  - Humanitarian geographies of whiteness: entanglements of race, immobility, and care
    
    Author: Polly Pallister-Wilkins (University of Amsterdam)
  - Making citizens? Differential inclusion by traditional and new state actors in UK and German naturalization procedures
    
    Author: Elisabeth Badenhoop (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
  - Cross-Border Student Mobility and the Reterritorialisation of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel-Palestine
    
    Author: Una McGahern (Newcastle University)
  - Borders, Coloniality and the Policing of Family
    
    Author: Joe Turner (University of York)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Challenges to the Transatlantic Alliance Stephenson Room
  
  Sponsor: European Security Working Group
  
  Conveners: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University) , Arantza Gomez Arana (Birmingham City University) , Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
  
  Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)
  - Forecasting NATO’s Burden Sharing Disputes
    
    Authors: Tommi Koivula (Finnish National Defence University) , Heljä Ossa (Finnish National Defence University)
  - Forbidden waters? China in the North Atlantic
    
    Authors: Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira (CICP-University of Minho, Braga, Portugal) , Paulo Afonso Brardo Duarte (CICP-University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)*
  - Member state engagement with EU and NATO operations: an operational overlap perspective
    
    Author: Feyyaz Baris Celik (University of Kent)
  - Assessing the future studies of Euro-Atlantic security institutions: the need for an eclectic approach
    
    Author: Luca Ratti (University of Rome 3 and The American University of Rome)
  - Towards the construction of a (new) European security architecture?
    
    Author: Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters (University of Kent)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Conservatism and International Relations: Theories and Strategies of Japanese Foreign Relations Martin Luther King
  
  Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
  
  Convener: Karin Narita (Queen Mary, University of London)
  
  Chair: Katie Dingley (University of Warwick)
  
  Discussant: Misato Matsuoka (Teikyo University)
  - Abductions and North Korean Policy: Emotions, Gender, and Conservative Ideas about Japaneseness
    
    Author: Katie Dingley (University of Warwick)
  - Ideas and institutional arrangements: How institutional arrangements neutralise Conservative sentiments in Japan’s engagement in Asian financial regionalism
    
    Author: Chieh-Chi Hsieh (University of Warwick)
  - Realism and conservatism in Japan: examining knowledge production of foreign policymaking
    
    Author: Misato Matsuoka (Teikyo University)
  - Radical conservatism in Japan: against the liberal global order
    
    Author: Karin Narita (Queen Mary University of London)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Decolonising memory and history: countering coloniality in museums and the arts Swan Room
  
  Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
  
  Convener: CPD Working group
  
  Chair: Kerem Nişancıoğlu (SOAS)
  - De-colonising memory and connecting histories: translating trans-scalar violence through the arts
    
    Author: Stefanie Kappler (Durham University)
  - Public History and IR: Engaging with ‘Counter-memories’ in South Asia
    
    Author: Jayashree Vivekanandan (South Asian University)
  - Public History and International Relations: Mapping the Future through Archiving the Past
    
    Author: Manu Sharma (PhD candidate)
  - Re-imagining world politics through art: decolonial resistances inside the ethnographic museum
    
    Author: Muriel Bruttin (University of Lausanne)
  - Museums as Fields of Politics: IR and Politics of Visual Representation in India and Sri Lanka
    
    Author: Rittuporna Chatterjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Foreign Policy and Security Dobson Room
  
  Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
  
  Convener: FPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Stefan LUNDQVIST (Swedish Defence University)
  - Why Can’t the Drama Stop? The Entrenched Security Trilemma on the Korean Peninsula
    
    Author: Xiangfeng Yang (Yonsei University)
  - Reviving the Northern Flank: The 2019 U.S. DoD Arctic Strategy in the Context of Growing Rivalry
    
    Author: Stefan LUNDQVIST (Swedish Defence University)
  - A comparative study between Israel’s responses to the Arab Boycott and the BDS movement
    
    Author: Ronnie Olesker (St. Lawrence University )
  - The 'Special Relationship' during the Troubles, turning the lens around
    
    Author: Patrick Finnegan (University of St Andrews)
  - Remote Warfare during an Era of Great Power Competition
    
    Authors: Biegon Rubrick (University of Kent ) , Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Militarism, Terrorism and Security Daniel Wood
  
  Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
  
  Convener: PPWG Working group
  
  Chair: Ciara McHugh (Queen's University Belfast)
  - The [subjective] Poverty of Feminist Security Studies: Soldiers' Experiences of Pleasure & the Imperative for Psychoanalytic Interventions in Critical Military Studies
    
    Author: Kyle Catto (Dept. of Politics – York University, Toronto, Canada)
  - Returning the Gaze: Critical Interventions into Police-Protestor (Counter-)surveillance
    
    Author: Ciara McHugh (Queen's University Belfast)
  - Tattooed bodies of (political) memories
    
    Author: Marcelle Trote Martins (Politics Department - The University of Manchester)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Perspectives of UN peace operations History Room
  
  Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
  
  Convener: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding Working group (BISA)
  
  Chair: Georgina Holmes (University of Reading)
  - Bangladesh as Emerging UN Peacekeeper: Role of Motivations, Decision-Making and the Returns
    
    Author: Banshanlang Marwein (Jawahar Lal Nehru University)
  - Agency in UN peace operations
    
    Author: Tom Buitelaar (European University Institute)
  - Robust Resolution? The relationship between the ‘robust turn’ in UN peace operations and conflict resolution
    
    Author: david curran (Coventry University)
  - Virtual Reality in Peacekeeping: a Rosy Future or Blinded by the Promises of Technological Advancement?
    
    Author: Lenneke Sprik (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  - The Hybrid Mission of International and Regional Organization, The Peacekeeping Operations across the Border: A case of Darfur
    
    Author: Renu Kumari (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Popular Culture and the Sociology of Knowledge in Politics and International Relations Parsons Room
  
  Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
  
  Convener: Jack Holland (University of Leeds)
  
  Chair: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds )
  - Theoretical Fractions and Fusions in Scholarly Practice
    
    Author: Helen Turton (University of Sheffield)
  - Origin Stories and Disciplinary Gatekeeping: A Co-citation Analysis of IR’s Sociology of Knowledge
    
    Author: Jack Holland (University of Leeds)
  - White knights and Bodyguards: an examination of ‘whiteness’ in Bodyguard
    
    Author: Louise Pears (University of Leeds)
  - Political Science and the Displacement of Politics
    
    Author: Jonathan Dean (University of Leeds)
  - ‘You don’t knock him out, you don’t have a home’: Emotional Reconstructions of Masculinity in Boxing Movies
    
    Author: James Brassett (University of Warwick)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  
  Roundtable / Rethinking Teaching and Learning about International Relations Armstrong Room
  
  Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group
  
  Chair: Ilan Baron (Durham University)
  
  Participants: Jonneke Koomen (Willamette University) , Xavier Guillaume (University of Groningen) , Jonathan Havercroft (University of Southampton) , Naomi Head (University of Glasgow) , Naeem Inayatullah (Ithaca College)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  
  Roundtable / Saving Strangers in a Post-Liberal World Order? Twentieth Anniversary Roundtable Katie Adie
  
  Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
  
  Chair: Alex Leveringhaus (University of Surrey)
  
  Participants: James Pattison (University of Manchester) , Karen E. Smith (London School of Economics) , Jennifer Welsh (McGill) , Adrian Gallagher (University of Leeds) , Cristia Stefan (University of Leeds) , Nick Wheeler (Birmingham)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  
  Roundtable / THE RUSSIA-CHINA ENTENTE & STRATEGIC RIVALRY WITH THE WEST Council Chamber
  
  Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
  
  Chair: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
  
  Participants: David Lewis (University of Exeter) , Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London) , Paul Richardson (Birmingham University) , Aglaya Snetkov , Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / The Political Economy of Digital Transactions Carilol
  
  Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
  
  Conveners: Juvaria Jafri (City, University of London) , Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway University of London)
  
  Chair: Juvaria Jafri (City, University of London)
  - Finance/Security Infrastructures
    
    Author: Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam)
  - Contesting the marketisation of remittances: Repertoires of reluctance, refusal and dissent
    
    Author: Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway University of London)
  - Financial Inclusion as a First World Problem and the future of digital payments in Pakistan
    
    Author: Juvaria Jafri (City, University of London)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / The politics, legality and ethicality of non-state actors in war Sandhill Room
  
  Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
  
  Conveners: Helene Olsen (King's College London) , Keith Smith (Kings College London)
  
  Chair: Keith Smith (Kings College London)
  
  Discussant: Cian O'Driscoll (University of Glasgow)
  - Solidarity, brothers and sisters: the ethics of transnational war fighting
    
    Author: Keith Smith (King's College London)
  - Sanitising the ethics of political violence: The critical inadequacies of revisionist just war thinking when considering transnational fighters.
    
    Author: Thomas Hooper (Queen Mary University London)
  - Who should fight? The use of German mercenaries in the American Revolutionary War and their construction as illegitimate fighters
    
    Author: Helene Olsen (King's Collge London)
  - Accountable to Whom?: private military and security companies, law, and the challenge of accountability
    
    Author: Fletch Williams (LSE)
- 16:15 → 17:45
  Panel / Tracing Intersections of ‘Race’, Gender, and the Colonial Afterlives of Foreign Policy Organisations Pandon Room
  
  Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
  
  Conveners: Hannah Wright (LSE) , Columba Achilleos-Sarll (Miss)
  
  Chair: Annick Wibben (Swedish Defence University)
  
  Discussant: Toni Haastrup (University of Stirling)
  - Early Female Envoys of India: When the Post-colonial Women Spoke to the World
    
    Author: Khushi Padma Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - The Violence of Feminist Foreign Policy
    
    Author: Althea-Maria Rivas (SOAS)
  - Diversity and Inclusion in UK National Security Policymaking: ‘Mission Critical’ or Business as Usual?
    
    Author: Hannah Wright (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  - ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken’: Mapping Sovereign Orders and Imperial Feminism across the UK’s Women, Peace and Security Agenda
    
    Author: Columba Achilleos-Sarll (University of Warwick)