BISA 2022 Conference (face-to-face)

Europe/London
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Welcome to the event management area for #BISA2022. Here you can view the programme and register for our face-to-face conference in Newcastle. We look forward to welcoming you at BISA 2022.

If you were instead looking for the virtual stream of #BISA2022 please visit the virtual conference event page. If you register for the face-to-face conference there is no need to also register for the virtual stream as you will automatically be sent the joining instructions for both.

    • 9:00 AM 6:15 PM
      / Virtual Conference stream - Please find the programme at https://indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/153/timetable/?view=standard
    • 6:00 PM 7:15 PM
      Roundtable / The Politics of Austerity: Global and Local Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
      Participants: Kyle Grayson (BISA) , Amanda Bailey (North East Child Poverty Commission) , Matt Davies (Newcastle University) , Tracy Shildrick (Newcastle University) , Stephen Moore (Newcastle University)
    • 8:45 AM 6:15 PM
      Conference event / The Limits of Safety – A Sound Installation: Find out more on our highlights page https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/highlights’ Outside Student Union
      Speaker: Michael Mulvihill (Newcastle)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / UK Defence Policy and Doctrine Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London) , Tony King (Warwick University) , Lucie Pebay (University of Bath) , Patrick Finnegan (University of St Andrews) , Sorina Toltica (University of Portsmouth) , Patrick Bury (Bath)
      Chair: Harriet Gray (University of York)
      Discussant: Harriet Gray (University of York)
      • British Military Responses to Right-wing Infiltration: a Historical Perspective
        Author: Patrick Finnegan (University of St Andrews)
      • Assessing the Challenges of UK Defence Engagement in Nigeria
        Author: Sorina Toltica (University of Portsmouth)
      • How to Win a Medal: The Professionalisation of British Military Decoration
        Authors: Patrick Bury (Uni of Bath) , Tony King (Warwick University)
      • French and British Military British Transformation: Shared History, Same Objectives, Different Approaches?
        Author: Lucie Pebay (University of Bath)
      • Hidden In Plain Sight: Military Victory and the Temporal Politics of the UK Doctrinal Imaginary
        Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Roundtable / BISA's Publications and Diversity Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: David Mainwaring (Cambridge University Press)
      Participants: Jacqui True (Monash University) , Ruth Blakeley (University of Sheffield) , Nisha Shah (University of Ottawa) , John Haslam (Cambridge University Press)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Border, Bodies and Migration Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: Anna Finiguerra (QMUL)
      Chair: Anna Finiguerra (QMUL)
      • The Anti-border Politics of AIDS Activism
        Author: Alexander Stoffel (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Contemporary Authoritarian Populism and the Geography of Borders
        Author: Akash Bhagat (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
      • Outsourcing Border Control: The Case of Visa Application Processing Companies
        Author: Samah Rafiq (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
      • The Professionalization of Borderzone Activism
        Author: Janina Pescinski (Queen Mary University of London)
      • The Choice to Belong: Securing ‘Authentic Bodies’ Through Community History
        Author: Hannah Owens (Queen Mary, University of London )
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Future Challenges for International Law Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh)
      Chair: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)
      • The Legacy of Antarctica: Does Space Law Prevent Imperialism on Mars?
        Author: Henry Padden (Durham University)
      • Cyberspace and International Relations: Reviewing Territorial Sovereignty and Cyberattack in Tandem with International Law
        Author: Namita Barthwal (MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)
      • Virtual Justice: The Impacts and Implications of Digital Proceedings at the International Criminal Court
        Author: Maxine Rubin (University of Cape Town)
      • Space Force, Lunar Bases and the End of Space Law?
        Author: Thomas Cheney (The Open University)
      • International Water Law and Hydropolitics: An Enquiry Into the Water Conflict Between India and Nepal
        Author: Harsh Vasani (University of East Anglia)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Roundtable / International Political Economy and the Middle East Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Chair: Hannes Baumann (University of Liverpool)
      Participants: Roberto Roccu (King's College London) , Cemal Burak Tansel (Newcastle University) , Crystal Ennis (Leiden University) , Katharina Lenner (University of Bath)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Narratives, Discourses and Developments in Contemporary Russian Security Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
      Chair: Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth University)
      • Anxiety and Identity: The Issue of Russian Democracy and Human Rights in the 21st Century Russia-US Relationship
        Author: Ruth Deyermond (King's College London)
      • Russia And China: The Rise of Global Security Actors. Domestic-international Dynamics.
        Authors: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London) , Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)*
      • Spatial And Scalar Politics – Russia’s Narratives and Practices Towards the Security Crisis in Afghanistan
        Author: Aglaya Snetkov (University College London)
      • Militarising Through Anxiety: Russian Historical Textbooks in the 1990s.
        Author: Allyson Edwards (University of Warwick)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Roundtable / New Directions in Researching South East Europe Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
      Chair: Lydia C. Cole (University of York)
      Participants: Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast) , Catherine Baker (University of Hull) , Sorana Jude , Daniela Lai (Royal Holloway ) , Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Questioning Key Concepts in AI and Cyber Security Studies Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Conveners: joe burton , Andrew Dwyer (University of Durham) , Tobias Liebetrau (CERI, Sciences Po, Paris and Danish Institute for International Studies) , Anna Nadibaidze (Centre for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
      Chair: Anna Nadibaidze (Centre for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
      • Why We Should Care About The Sensory Repression of Dissent By Democracies
        Authors: Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster) , Shala Cachelin (University of Westminster)
      • Printing Terror: Extreme Right Online Forums, and Do-It Yourself Firearms.
        Author: Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Leiden University)
      • Artificial Intelligence as Existential Risk: Fear, Uncertainty and the Cascading Insecurities of Emerging Technology
        Author: Joe Burton (University of St Andrews)
      • Malware Materialities in Cyber Security
        Authors: Andrew Dwyer (University of Durham) , Tobias Liebetrau (Sciences Po and Danish Institute for International Studies)
      • Technology as Status Anchor: A Study of Artificial Intelligence Practices in Russia
        Author: Anna Nadibaidze (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Strengthening Global Governance: How to Implement the Responsibility to Protect History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
      Convener: IR2P Working group
      Chair: Bola Adediran (Liverpool Hope University)
      • Diffusing R2P: a Role for Multinational Corporations?
        Author: Bola Adediran (Liverpool Hope University )
      • Revisiting ‘Success’ in the Responsibility to Protect: Could More Have Been Done to Prevent Mass Atrocities in Kenya?
        Author: Gillian McKay (University of Leeds)
      • Non-Traditional Security Challenges to a Statecentric International Order: Responsible Governance in East Asia
        Author: Brendan Howe (Ewha Womans University)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / The Political Economy of the Pandemic: National and Global Responses Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
      Convener: Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College)
      Chair: Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College)
      • The ‘Masking’ Performative in the Post-Pandemic World: Meanings, Evolution, and Knowledge Production
        Author: Debangana Chatterjee (Jain (Deemed-to-be University))
      • The Year the State Left Us Alone
        Author: Tara McCormack (University of Leicester)
      • Conversation on Precarity: The Mutation of the Virus into a Public Health Risk on Equity
        Author: Mariangela Veikou (University of Tilburg Law School)
      • Authoritarian Crisis Response: The Sustainability of “Zero-Covid” in China”
        Author: Alexsia Chan (Hamilton College)
      • The Covid Crisis in the USA: Neoliberal Underpinnings of 'American Exceptionalism'"
        Author: Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / The War on Drugs in Theory and Practice Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Convener: Euan Raffle (University of Leeds)
      Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
      • The Difficulty of Deconstructing the War on Drugs: Decaying Narcotics Prohibition Amid Waning US Hegemony
        Author: Matthew Bishop (University of Sheffield )
      • Distributive Injustice and the War on Drugs in Colombia and Mexico
        Author: Estefania Dominguez (University of Leeds )
      • ‘Legitimate Operations’? Challenging Drug War Killings in The Philippines
        Author: Euan Raffle (University of Leeds)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Roundtable / ‘Un-Siloing’ Nuclear Weapons in an Age of Pandemic, Climate Crisis and Global Injustice: On the Need to Connect Existential Threats Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Chair: Andrew Futter (University of Leicester)
      Participants: Olaf Corry (University of Leeds) , Laura Considine (University of Leeds) , Tom Vaughan (University of Exeter) , Luba Zatsepina-McCreadie (University of Edinburgh) , Olamide Samuel (University of Leicester)
    • 10:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Break with tea and coffee 15m
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Roundtable / Can IR Survive? Should it? Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: Kyle Grayson (BISA)
      Participants: Xander Kirke (Glasgow Caledonian University) , Felix Roesch (Coventry University) , Sarah Lieberman (Canterbury Christ Church University) , Louise Amoore (Durham University) , Martin Coward (Review of International Studies) , Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Roundtable / Can the 'Arctic' Survive? Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Chair: James Rogers (University of Southern Denmark)
      Participants: Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University) , Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University) , Liling Xu (Royal Holloway, University of London) , Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University) , Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London) , Ingrid A. Medby (Newcastle University) , Dorothea Wehrmann (DIE)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / China and Data Security Challenges: Domestic Surveillance and Transnational Governance Model Room 2, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Convener: Ruoxi Wang (University of St Andrews)
      Chair: Tim Stevens (King's College London)
      Discussant: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)
      • Norm Entrepreneurship? Understanding China’s Norm Construction in Data Security Governance
        Authors: Ruoxi Wang , Chi Zhang (University of St Andrews )*
      • Beijing Effect and Brussels Effect: Comparing China’s and the EU’s Approaches to Transnational Data Governance
        Author: Xuechen Chen (New College of the Humanities at Northeastern)
      • From Platform Capitalism to Surveillance Capitalism: A Case Study of Tencent
        Author: Lisa Lin (Anglia Ruskin University)
      • Accounting for Pacific and Assertive Postures in China’s Foreign Policy during 1958-2021: Assessing the Realist, Liberal, and Domestic Political Explanations
        Author: Hongyi Lai (University of Nottingham)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Democracy, Decline and Decent Work History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Muireann O'Dwyer (University of St Andrews)
      • British Trade Unions and Settler Colonialism: Racialising the National Agricultural Labourers’ Union, 1872-1896
        Author: Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)
      • Dominoes of Democratic Decline: Neoliberalism, rising insecurities, and the ‘anti-global’ atavistic nationalism
        Author: Akash Bhagat (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
      • The Bretton Woods Script: Half-Hearted Cooperation between Twin Organisations
        Author: Matthias Kranke (University of Kassel)
      • Everyday Political Economy of Decent Job Creation in Tunisia
        Author: Saerom Han (Durham University)
      • US Comedy and The Politics of Declinism
        Author: Alex Sutton (Oxford Brookes)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Diasporas Around the World Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: Maria Koinova (University of Warwick)
      Chair: Catherine Craven (University of Birmingham)
      • Colonial Continuities in Tamil Diaspora Governance: A Practice-based Analysis of Global Entanglements and Historical Connections
        Author: Catherine Craven (University of Birmingham)
      • Globalisation, Religion and Diasporic Identity Formation: Explaining the Prominence of Sect Amidst Second-Generation Iraqi Shia in London
        Author: Oula OULA KADHUM (University of Birmingham)
      • South Asian Women Diaspora in UK and USA: Challenges and Prospects
        Author: Farzeen Shahzadi (Department of Political Science, Forman Christian College ,54600 Lahore, Pakistan )
      • Diaspora As Cyberwarriors: Infopolitics, Participatory Warfare and the 2020 Karabakh War
        Author: Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield)
      • Diaspora Diplomacy and Emotions
        Authors: Alina Dolea (Bournemouth University) , Tabitha Baker (Bournemouth University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Roundtable / Diplomatic Networking: New Approaches and Methodologies Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: British International History Working Group
      Chair: Richard Smith (FCDO (Principal historian))
      Participants: Thomas Mills (Lancaster University) , Ian Gregory (Lancaster University) , Michael Hughes (Lancaster University) , Gaynor Johnson (University of Kent)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / IPE of Financialisation 1 Martin Luther King, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College London)
      Chair: Joseph Baines (KCL)
      Discussant: Joseph Baines (KCL)
      • The National Security That Prevails: Singapore’s Urban Agricultural Promotion
        Author: Rungroge Kamondetdacha (School of Agricultural Resources, Chulalongkorn University)
      • BlackRock: A (Financial) Data-driven Intellectual Monopoly
        Author: Cecilia Rikap (City University London)
      • Capital Flows and the North-South Divide in the Eurozone: Scrutinising the Finance-centric View
        Author: Karsten Kohler (Leeds)
      • Considering Financial Cycles in Financialisation and Currency Hierarchies
        Author: Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College London)
      • Making a Market: The Spread of the Primary Dealer Model in Sovereign Debt Management
        Author: Charlotte Rommerskirchen (University of Edinburgh)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / IR as a Discipline Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
      Convener: CRIPT Working group
      Chair: CRIPT Working group
      Discussant: Katharina Hunfeld (University of St Andrews)
      • Post-Eurocentric Grand Narratives in Critical International Theory and the Challenge of Global Survival
        Author: Andre Saramago (University of Coimbra)
      • Internalism and Originalism in the Disciplinary History of International Relations
        Author: Samuel Dixon (London School of Economics)
      • Is the International System an Earth System?
        Author: Regan Burles (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Interrogating the (Neo)Liberal State: Violence, Migration and Resistance Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Conveners: Cetta Mainwaring , Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)
      Chair: Joe Turner (University of York)
      • European Integration, Border Deaths and Counterinsurgency: The Colonial Asymmetry of Violence in the Mediterranean and the Sahel
        Author: Hassan Ould Moctar (SOAS)
      • Carceral Technologies: Politicizing Invisible Violence and Harm in Refugee Humanitarianism
        Author: Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London)
      • Teaching Critical Perspectives on Migration and its Governance in An Age of Polarization
        Author: Leila Hadj Abdou (University of Vienna)
      • Bad Data or Bad Practice? The Wicked Problem of Knowledge Production and Migrants in Insecure Status
        Author: Alexandria Innes (City, University of London)
      • Building Bridges Across the Sea: Resistance In and Outside the State
        Authors: Cetta Mainwaring , Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Managing Conflicts in the Age of Global Governance: Insights from Twentieth-Century History Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
      Convener: Volker Prott (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
      Chair: Volker Prott (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
      • Exploring, Overreaching, Giving Up? The UN and Global Governance in Kashmir, Congo, and East Pakistan
        Author: Volker Prott (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
      • UNESCO’s Fundamental Education in China, 1945–1950: Between the Geopolitics and Idealism of Post-War Global Governance and Chinese Nationalism
        Author: Yarong Chen (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
      • The Operation of the ‘First Bailout’: The Impact of the League of Nations’ Programme for Austrian Reconstruction 1922–26
        Author: Barbara Warnock (The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, UK)
      • Insecurity, Precarity and Local Labour in United Nations Peacekeeping: Towards a Research Agenda
        Author: Martin Ottovay Jørgensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
      • To Be or Not to Be a Refugee? How UNHCR’s Humanitarian Aid Inhibited Refugee Recognition in Vietnam Between 1973 and 1977
        Author: Sara Cosemans (University Leuven, Belgium)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Meaning Making and Decision Making in UN Peacekeeping Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Tom Buitelaar (University of Leiden)
      Chair: Tom Buitelaar (University of Leiden)
      Discussant: Maria Martin de Almagro (University of Ghent)
      • Perfecting Peace or Instantiating an Impasse? Interpreting the Peacemaking Strategies of Peacekeepers in South Lebanon
        Author: Vanessa F. Newby (Leiden University)
      • Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations
        Authors: Kseniya Oksamytna (City, University of London / King's College London) , Oisín Tansey (King’s College London)* , Birte Gippert (University of Liverpool)*
      • Meaning Making in Peacekeeping Missions: Mandate Interpretation and Multinational Collaboration in the UN Mission in Mali
        Authors: Chiara Ruffa (Swedish Defence University ) , Bas Rietjens (Netherlands Defence Academy)*
      • The Agency of Individuals in UN Peace Operations
        Author: Tom Buitelaar (University of Leiden)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Narratives of Violence and Trauma: Modes of Storytelling and the Politics of Victim and Perpetrator Representation Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)
      Chair: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)
      • Youth, Comics and Trauma: Graphic Novels as Sites of Representation and Engagement
        Author: Henry Redwood (London South Bank University)
      • Transitional Justice in Full Colour: Racial Injury, Trauma and Victimhood in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
        Author: Ninette Amarachi Iheke (King's College London)
      • Narratives of Trauma and War in Central Africa
        Author: Pauline Zerla (King's College London)
      • Those Falling Behind: Trauma, Pain and Healing in Post-genocide Narratives About Rwanda
        Author: Anna Katila (King's College London)
      • Trauma and Justice for victims of the CIA’s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Programme
        Author: Ruth Blakeley (University of Sheffield)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Perspectives on Peacebuilding Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: PKPBG Working group
      • Conceptualizing Deep Positive Peace
        Author: Tuba Turan (University of Essex)
      • Agonistic Transitional Justice: A Comparative Analysis
        Author: Emma Murphy (University College Dublin)
      • Can the 'Local' Speak? A Spivakian Critique of the Local Turn in Critical Peacebuilding Research
        Author: Q. Dung Pham (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • The “Posts War” Era: The Role of Narratives in Social Media During Intractable Conflicts (TBC)
        Author: Dana Guy (University College Dublin)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Security and Sexuality Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Lindsay Clark (University of Southampton)
      Chair: Lindsay Clark (University of Southampton)
      • The Mire of Mystification: On the Methodological Deployment of Trans, Queer, and Subaltern in Critical Knowledge Production
        Author: Alexander Stoffel (Queen Mary University of London)
      • SAS Queens of the Desert: Queering the Origin Story of the Special Forces
        Author: Louise Pears (University of Leeds)
      • Caught in a Bad Romance: Heteronormativity, Race and UK Counterterrorism
        Author: Rahima Siddique (University of Manchester)
    • 12:15 PM 1:15 PM
      / British Truth Telling Commission on Colonialism pre-roundtable meetup Bewick, Civic Centre
    • 12:15 PM 1:15 PM
      Conference event / Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group AGM Stephenson, Civic Centre
    • 12:15 PM 1:15 PM
      / International Law and Politics Working Group Meeting Swan, Civic Centre
    • 12:15 PM 1:15 PM
      Lunch 1h Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre

      Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre

    • 12:15 PM 12:45 PM
      / Research Directors' coffee The Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RH
    • 12:15 PM 1:15 PM
      Conference event / South East Europe Working Group AGM Armstrong, Civic Centre
    • 12:30 PM 5:30 PM
      Conference event / BISA and PSA Workshop: Gender, Race and the Intersections of Precarity - An Interactive Workshop - Although this is open to all conference delegates you need to register in advance to attend at https://www.bisa.ac.uk/events/bisa-and-psa-workshop-gender-race-and-intersections-precarity-interactive-workshop-best Henry Daysh Building - Lecture Hall 1.02
    • 12:45 PM 1:15 PM
      / Extraordinary General Meeting (Full BISA members only) Council Chamber, Civic Centre
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Roundtable / Beyond Willful Ignorance: A British Truth-Telling Commission on Colonialism? History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Chair: Kojo Koram (Birbeck University)
      Participants: Gurminder Bhambra (University of Sussex) , Lisa Tilley (Birkbeck, University of London) , Bill Rolston (Ulster University) , Gary Younge (University of Manchester) , Kojo Koram (Birbeck University)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Contemporary Approaches to Biopolitics & Governmentality Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
      Conveners: Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England) , Jeffrey Whyte (University of Manchester) , Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)
      Chair: Christina Oelgemoller (Loughborough University)
      • Biopolitics After Covid
        Author: Oliver Belcher (School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University)
      • Between Barad and Rancière: Building a Theoretical Approach to Emancipatory Politics Fit for the Anthropocene
        Author: Benjamin Bowsher (Newcastle University)
      • A Genealogy of Failure? Investigating Regimes of Truth-seeking and Truth-telling in Brazil and Colombia
        Author: Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England)
      • The COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Between Governmental Practices of Security and Fear
        Author: Evangelos Fanoulis (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
      • “What Are The Rules In Hell?”: Squid Game and the Construction of Neo-liberal Crises
        Author: Julian Schmid (Institute of International Relations Prague)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Environmental Activism and Youth Engagement: Imagining a Sustainable Future in Algeria and its Neighbourhood Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
      Chair: Gordon Crawford (Coventry University)
      • Youth Activism for Sustainable Development and the Environment in Algeria
        Authors: Jessica Northey (Coventry University) , Adel Chiheb (Jijel University, Algeria) , Latefa Guemar (University of East London)
      • Sustainability and SMEs: Imagining a New Economy in Algeria
        Author: Seif Ziad (Southampton University)
      • Using The Arts to Imagine a Sustainable Future – How to Engage Youth on Environmental Challenges and Sustainability
        Author: Ikram Berkani (Coventry University)
      • Political Engagement of Algerian Women and the environment
        Author: Meryem Abdelhafid (Coventry university )
      • Algerian Children and Youth Understanding of the Concept of "Sustainability”: How they Envisage and Imagine their Contemporary and Future Environments
        Author: Souad Smaili (Northampton University)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Epidemiological Imperialism: The Medicalization of (In)Security in International Relations Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
      Conveners: Jana-Maria Fey (Queen Mary University London) , Malte Riemann (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
      Chair: Malte Riemann (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
      • Quarantining Conflict: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Public-health-based Approaches to Conflict Resolution
        Authors: Malte Riemann (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) , Norma Rossi (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
      • Mind over Matter? The Political Economy of "Securing" Mental Health in the Wake of the Pandemic
        Author: Jana-Maria Fey (Queen Mary University London)
      • Inscribing Race Through Trauma – Border Management and the Colonial Roots of Transcultural Psychiatry
        Author: Laura Jung (University of Sussex)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Finance, State and Capitalism Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Lena Rethel
      • Crisis Management and New Constitutionalism: Tracing the Foundations of Post-2008 Austerity in the US and UK
        Author: Dillon Wamsley (York University, Department of Politics)
      • The Distinctiveness of State Capitalism in Britain: Market-making, Industrial Policy and Economic Space
        Authors: Craig Berry (Manchester Metropolitan University) , Silverwood James (Bishop Grosseteste)*
      • Sovereign Wealth Funds, Privateering, and Political Push-Back
        Author: A. Felix Beltran (Purdue University)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Gendering the Politics of Public Memory Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Harriet Gray (University of York)
      Chair: Rhiannon Griffiths (University of York)
      Discussant: Rhiannon Griffiths (University of York)
      • Witnessing and Time: Artistic Responses to Wartime Sexual Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina
        Author: Lydia C. Cole (University of York)
      • Gendering Memorials to Conscientious Objectors
        Author: Natasha Danilova (University of Aberdeen)
      • The Comfort Women and the Silence Breakers: Memorialising sexual violence as feminist politics
        Author: Harriet Gray (University of York)
      • Transnationalising Gendered Memory: The Case of Conflict-related Sexual Violence
        Author: Megan O’Mahony (London School of Economics and Political Science and Imperial War Museums )
      • Memorializing Terror through Gender and Race
        Author: Tom Pettinger
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Historical International Relations and Latin America Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
      Conveners: Luis Schenoni (University College London) , Carsten-Andreas Schulz (University of Cambridge)
      Chair: Carsten-Andreas Schulz (University of Cambridge)
      Discussant: Luis Schenoni (University College London)
      • Benito Juárez, Republican Internationalism, and the Transformation of Nineteenth Century International Order
        Author: Tom Long (University of Warwick)
      • Latin American Violence in Historical Perspective: Lessons From Nineteenth-century Data
        Author: Luis Schenoni (University College London)
      • The Evolution of a Regional Order in South America: Solidarist Discourse, Pluralist Practice?
        Author: Carolina Zaccato (St Andrews University)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Roundtable / Race & State Securitisation: Counterterrorism, Counter-insurgency and Borders - International Affairs 100th Anniversary Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Chair: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews)
      Participants: Jenna Marshall (Kings College London) , Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University) , Amal Abu-Bakare (University of Liverpool) , Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) , Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Perceptions of Nuclear Weapons - Risk, Predictability, and Trust in Nuclear Politics Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Convener: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
      Chair: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)
      • Nuclear War As A Predictable Surprise
        Author: Matthew Rendall (University of Nottingham)
      • The Roots of Nuclear Mistrust Between the US and Iran: Historical Trauma and Signs of Aggression
        Author: Selma Imamoglu
      • Once Upon A Fail-safe: Exploring the Treatment of Nuclear Weapon System Failures in Popular Film
        Author: Rebekah Pullen (McMaster University)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Roundtable / Producing Knowledge: Migration, Activism & History Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Chair: Alexandria Innes (City, University of London)
      Participants: Leila Hadj Abdou (University of Vienna) , Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London) , Hassan Ould Moctar (SOAS) , Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield) , Cetta Mainwaring , Joe Turner (University of York)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Stories in US Foreign Policy Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick)
      Chair: Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick)
      Discussant: Oliver Turner (University of Edinburgh)
      • Narrative Alliances: The Discursive Foundation of the Rules-Based International Order
        Authors: Oliver Turner (University of Edinburgh) , Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick)
      • Hardening of the American Discourse on China: Actors, Processes and Intellectual Strategies
        Author: Yang Han (Oxford University)
      • Fit for a Hybridized Media World? De-Centralizing the Concept of Strategic Narratives
        Author: Stephen Dunne (The University of Warwick)
      • Storytelling in World Politics: US Policy From the ‘Global War on Terror’ to the ‘Chinese Threat’
        Author: Anthony Teitler (Karlshochschule International University)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Teaching and Learning European Integration in 'The Periphery' Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
      Conveners: Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen) , Basak Alpan (Middle East Technical University)
      Chair: Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen)
      • Teaching the European Union in Brexit Britain: ‘Peripheral Ideas’ at a ‘New Periphery’
        Author: Owen Parker (University of Sheffield)
      • Europeanization through Education: Promoting European Studies in Eastern Partnership Countries
        Authors: Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu)* , Miruna Troncota (SNSPA, Bucharest)
      • Teaching and Learning ‘Europe’ in ‘the Periphery’: Disciplinary, Educational and Cognitive Boundaries of the European Studies
        Authors: Basak Alpan (Middle East Technical University) , Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen)
      • Mapping EU-Turkey Studies: Theoretical, Methodological and Thematic Evolution
        Author: Ebru Turhan (Turkish-German University)
    • 2:45 PM 3:00 PM
      Break with tea and coffee 15m
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Bottom Up Perspectives of Peace and Conflict Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)
      • How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity
        Authors: Antonia Witt (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) , Simone Schnabel (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)* , Sophia Birchinger (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)*
      • The Neglected: Military Adaptation Through All-Female Military Units
        Author: Cristina Fontanelli (University of Genoa)
      • The Role of Peace Education in Post-conflict Sierra Leone
        Author: Yi Yu (University of Warwick)
      • “War is Costly, but Peace is Priceless”: Civil Society and the Neglected Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon
        Author: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Challenges in South East European Politics: From Local to Global Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
      Convener: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
      Chair: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
      Discussant: Lydia C. Cole (University of York)
      • Friends With Benefits: Russia’s relations With Serbia and Republika Srpska
        Author: Abdullah Kesvelioglu (University of Edinburgh (PhD student))
      • Rightly Guided Leaders: the Role of Religion in the Political Ideology of Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
        Author: Tamas Dudlak (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest)
      • The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the Western Balkans
        Author: Jan Niemiec (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Roundtable / Confronting the Militarised Academy Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Chair: Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London)
      Participants: Alice Cree (Newcastle University) , Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol) , Nick Caddick (ARU) , Harriet Gray (University of York) , Paul Higate (University of Bath)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Global Politics of Health Knowledge – The Intersection between Expertise and Security Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
      Convener: Eva Hilberg
      Chair: Eva Hilberg
      • Health Governance as Violence: Capacity and Debility in the Face of COVID-19
        Author: Jennifer Hobbs (University of Manchester)
      • From Plumbing Poverty to Plumbing Violence
        Author: Susan J Elliott (University of Waterloo)
      • The Frames and Audiences of Pandemic (De)Securitisation in the UK
        Authors: Dimitris Skleparis (Newcastle University) , Andrew Judge (University of Glasgow)* , Georgios Karyotis (University of Glasgow)*
      • Securitizing Infectious Diseases: The WHO and the Surveillance of Molecular Life
        Author: Christopher Long
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Roundtable / What of the Future of War Debate? - International Affairs at 100 Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Chair: Andrew Dorman (International Affairs)
      Participants: Patrick Bury (Bath) , Tony King (Warwick University) , Tracey German (King's College London) , Matthew Uttley (King's College London)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Internationalising Protection: Actors, Themes, and Practices of Protection Model Room 2, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
      Conveners: Jutta Bakonyi (Durham University) , Anne Flaspöler (Durham University)
      Chair: Jutta Bakonyi (Durham University)
      • Governing through Protection: The Rise of an Emotive Concept
        Authors: Anne Flaspoeler (Durham University) , Jutta Bakonyi (Durham University)*
      • How Armed Actors Can Be Encouraged to Comply With Rules: Different Approaches and their Underlying Logics
        Author: Julia Steets (Global Public Policy Institute)
      • International relations and the problem of care
        Author: Cameron Harrington (Speaker) (Durham University)
      • Food Policies as Social Protection
        Authors: Klaus Schlichte (Univeristy of Bremen) , Roy Karadag (University of Bremen)* , Anna Wolkenhauer (Univerity of Bremen)*
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Making and Unmaking International Law and Politics History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)
      Chair: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)
      • The Draft Convention on the Right to Development: Normative, Legal and Political Analysis
        Author: Daniel Whelan (Hendrix College)
      • International Law, Arms Control, and Disarmament in Hans J. Morgenthau’s Theory of Law
        Author: Carmen Chas (University of Kent)
      • Specifying States’ Mitigation Obligations: The Limits of Political Discretion
        Author: Violetta Ritz (University of Kent)
      • International Human Rights Contestation in UN Diplomatic Fora
        Author: Pilar Elizalde (London School of Economics and Political Science)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Making Sense of Global Politics Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
      Conveners: IIRG Working group , Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University)
      Chair: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University)
      Discussant: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University)
      • Securitisation Gaps: Towards Ideational Understandings of State Weakness
        Author: Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham)
      • From The International to The (Inter)Personal: Exploring Vernacular Ontological Security-seekingPpractices vis-à-vis Contemporary Critical Situations Through Focus Groups
        Authors: Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of Warwick) , Anne-Marie Houde (University of Warwick)
      • Understanding UCP: Photography and Metaphor as Interpretive Method
        Author: Ridden Louise (Aberystwyth University )
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / New Approaches to Strategy Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh)
      Chair: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
      Discussant: Patrycja Rozbicka (Aston University)
      • Strategy and Role Conceptions in Security and Foreign Policy
        Author: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)
      • How ‘Wide’ and ‘Deep’ are State Approaches to Security? A Comprehensive International Security and Defence Document Analysis
        Author: Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Non-Western Involvement in Peace- and Statebuilding – a Shift in Norms and Practices? Part 1 Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Conveners: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent) , Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg)
      Chair: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
      Discussant: Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg)
      • Colonial Continuity and Efforts to Decolonialize Security Norms: How International Norms Shape Localized Efforts to Reform Institution Building
        Author: Tareq Sydiq (University of Marburg )
      • An Assessment of Turkey’s Contribution to the Security Sector Reform Efforts in Libya since 2011
        Author: Nuri Yesilyurt (University of Kent / Ankara University)
      • Mimicry in Diversity: (Non-)Western Strategies in the External Governance of Afghanistan
        Author: Bojan Savić (University of Kent, BSIS)
      • The Challenges of Norm Changes on the International Level
        Author: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Norms and Emerging Technologies Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Conveners: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath) , Theo Westphal (University of Sheffield) , Raquel Gontijo (PUC Minas, Brazil) , Arindrajit Basu (Centre for Internet and Society)
      Chair: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)
      • Silently Negotiating Normativity: Practice, Technology, and Loitering Munitions
        Author: Ingvild Bode (University of Southern Denmark)
      • Political Urgency and the Regulation of Sociotechnical Imaginaries: The Outer Space Treaty and its Lessons for Cyberspace
        Author: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)
      • Cultural Lag and Sensitive Technological Advances: Building International Norms for the Space Sector
        Author: Raquel Gontijo (PUC Minas, Brazil)
      • The Belt and Road Initiative and the Diffusion of China’s Cybersecurity Laws
        Author: Theo Westphal (University of Sheffield)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Roundtable / Post-Structural Politics: Twenty Years of Reflections Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
      Chair: Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)
      Participants: Martin Coward (Review of International Studies) , Maja Zehfuss (Københavns Universitet) , Elisa Wynne-Hughes (Cardiff University) , Kodili Chukwuma (University of East Anglia) , Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / The (Gendered, Racialized) Politics of Collective Memory in Security Imaginaries Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Conveners: Tom Pettinger , Alice Martini (QMUL)
      Chair: Alice Martini (QMUL)
      • White Supremacist Violence, Collective Memory, and the "Hitlerian Connotation"
        Author: Anna Meier (University of Nottingham)
      • Competitive Memories in IR and their Potential to Foster Conflict or Peace
        Author: Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
      • Monsters, Masterminds, Mummy's Boys: Gender and Memory in Terrorist Obituaries
        Authors: Lee Jarvis (University of East Anglia) , Andrew Whiting (Birmingham City University)
      • ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ in Europe: An Assemblage of Racialized Forgetting
        Author: Tom Pettinger
    • 4:30 PM 4:45 PM
      Break with tea and coffee 15m
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Conference event / Keynote Address from Kim Stanley Robinson - Dodging the Mass Extinction Event: SPONSORED BY BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Council Chamber, Civic Centre
    • 4:45 PM 6:00 PM
      Panel / The Newcastle Blitz: A History of Newcastle During WW2 Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RH
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: James Rogers (University of Southern Denmark)
      Chair: James Rogers (University of Southern Denmark)
      Discussant: Stephen Moore (Newcastle University)
    • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM
      Conference event / Conference Reception Wylam Brewery, Palace of Arts Exhibition Park, Claremont Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PZ
    • 7:15 AM 8:15 AM
      Conference event / Toon Run around Newcastle - Find out more in section 2 at https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/highlights Civic Centre Steps
    • 8:45 AM 6:15 PM
      Conference event / The Limits of Safety – A Sound Installation - Find out more on our highlights page https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/highlights’ Outside the Student Union
      Speaker: Michael Mulvihill (Newcastle)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / (De)Bordering the Middle East: Space, Mobility and Thought Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University)
      • Who Are The (Most) Vulnerable? Dissecting Humanitarian Vulnerability Assessments of Refugees
        Author: Lewis Turner (Newcastle University)
      • Crossing the Green Line: Everyday Processes of (De)Bordering in Israel-Palestine
        Author: Una McGahern (Newcastle University)
      • Living With Ruins: Hebron and the Politics of Settler-colonial Urban Ruination
        Author: Moriel Ram (Newcastle University)
      • Locating the Middle East in International Political Economy
        Authors: Cemel Burak Tansel (Newcastle University) , Merve Sancak (Loughborough University)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / European Security Inside Out Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: ESWG Working group
      Chair: Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters
      • Securitizing China’s Rise: Trade, Technology, and the Emerging ‘Threat’ Discourse in EU-China Relations
        Authors: Evangelos (Evans) Fanoulis (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) , Scott Brown (University of Dundee)
      • The European Peace Facility and African agency: How the EU's changing foreign policy doctrine affects African security
        Authors: Toni Haastrup (University of Stirling) , Ueli Staeger (University of Geneva)
      • Human Rights and European Ontological Security: The “Crisis” That the Refugees Gave Rise To
        Author: Tolga Karakoç (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
      • The Impact of European Union Migration Policies in Southern European Countries: The Case of Spain
        Author: Arantza Gomez Arana (University of Northumbria)
      • Taken Back Control? The Irish Border and the Citizen Border Guard
        Author: Ben Rosher (Queen's University Belfast)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / IPT Key Thinkers Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
      Convener: CRIPT Working group
      Chair: CRIPT Working group
      Discussant: Cat Wayland (University of Edinburgh)
      • Beyond Bourdieu: Exploring the Limits of Practice Theory in International Relations
        Author: Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Sheffield)
      • Morgenthau the Naturalist
        Author: Ahmet Borazan (Durham University)
      • The Internationality of Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
        Author: Hanno Berger (Freie Universität Berlin)
      • On the Psychosocial Function of Nationalism and War: E. H. Carr and the Crisis of the (Neo)Liberal Order
        Author: Haro Karkour (Cardiff University)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Images, Voices and Silences: New Empirical Vision in Transitional Justice Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      Chair: Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      Discussant: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)
      • Visual Peacebuilding: the Strategic Use of Images and Image-making to Build Bottom-up Peace, Dialogue and Histories. Learning from Cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal and Rwanda
        Author: Fairey Tiffany (King's College London)
      • Nomen Est Omen: Stereotyping and War Legacy
        Author: Vico Sanja (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • When Victims Break Silence: Wartime Sexual Violence and Social Recognition in Kosovo and Croatia
        Author: Cocaj Venera (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • Women’s Discursive Agency: How Women Ask Parliamentary Questions About Transitional Justice?
        Authors: Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)* , Vesna Popovski (London School of Economics and Political Science)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Managing Risk and Conflict Escalation in the Digital Age Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Conveners: Eugenio Lilli , Tim Stevens (King's College London) , James Johnson (University of Aberdeen)
      Chair: Mabda Haerunnisa Fajrilla (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
      Discussant: Ingvild Bode (Associate Professor)
      • Digital Risk: Hyperconnectivity and the Political Economy of Uncertainty
        Author: Tim Stevens (King's College London)
      • Artificial Intelligence and the Security Dilemma: Self-fulfilling Spirals of Mistrust and Insecurity Between Strategic Rivals
        Author: James Johnson (University of Aberdeen)
      • Managing Crisis Escalation in the Time of Cyber: the Case of Iran and the United States
        Author: Eugenio Lilli
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Operational Experiences, Military Role Conceptions and their Influence on Civil-military Relations Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: European Journal of International Security
      Conveners: Chiara Ruffa (Swedish Defence University ) , Christoph Harig (TU Braunschweig)
      Chair: Jason Ralph (University of Leeds and EJIS)
      • Knocking On The Barracks’ Door: How Role Conceptions Shape the Military’s Reactions to Political Demands
        Authors: Christoph Harig (TU Braunschweig) , Chiara Ruffa (Swedish Defence University )
      • The People’s Army ‘Enemizing’ the People – The Covid-19 Case of Israel
        Author: Yagil Levy (The Open University of Israel)
      • A Versatile Organisation: Mapping the Military’s Core Roles in a Changing Security Environment
        Author: Nina Wilén (Lund University)
      • “Every Death Matters?”: Combat Casualties, Role Conception and Civilian Control
        Author: Anit Mukherjee (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS))
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Pandemics, Power and Foreign Policy Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: FPWG Working group
      Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      Discussant: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      • Global Health Responds to COVID-19: Does the Security/access Divide Persist?
        Author: Denis Kennedy (College of the Holy Cross)
      • Global Vaccine Nationalism and Soft Power in the Covid Era
        Author: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      • Two-Level Patron-Client Relations in Philippine COVID-19 Vaccine Response
        Authors: Chester Yacub (University of Nottingham) , Pauline Eadie (University of Nottingham)*
      • Pandemics and Foreign Policy: C-19, MERS and Health Cooperation in the Gulf States
        Author: Lucy Abbott (University of Edinburgh)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Sexual and Gendered Violence in Times of Insecurity Pandon, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Annika Bergman Rosamond (Lund University)
      Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (Lund University)
      • The Shadow Pandemic and the Need for Gender-Specific Policy Intervention
        Author: Swati Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta)
      • Can the World Survive Current Discursive Constructions of Presidential Leadership?
        Author: Corrin Bramley (University of Bristol)
      • Emotional and Gendered Sense-making through Apologies for Conflict-related Sexual Violence
        Author: Emma Dolan (University of Limerick)
      • Feminist Historiographies and the Memorialization of Sexual Violence in Comfort Women Activism and Analysis
        Author: Anna-Karin Eriksson (Linnaeus University)
      • Contending With Paradox: Feminist Investments in Gender Training
        Author: Aiko Holvikivi (LSE)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / The Responsibility to Protect: Norm Contestation and Diffusion Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
      Convener: IR2P Working group
      Chair: Dr Chloe M Gilgan (York Law School)
      • China's Approach to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
        Author: Ruolan Gan (The University of Edinburgh)
      • Contesting R2P in the UN: Differences of China and Russia
        Authors: Zeynep Selin Balcı (Ege University) , Altuğ Günal (Ege University)*
      • How (and What) do States Contest R2P?
        Author: Thomas Peak (Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University)
    • 10:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Break with tea and coffee: SPONSORED BY BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (BJPIR) 15m
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Aspects of Coloniality and Race in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Laura Shepherd (University of Sydney)
      Chair: Marsha Henry (LSE)
      Discussant: Aiko Holvikivi (LSE)
      • Climate Change Resilience through WPS: Exploring Indigenous and Ecofeminist critiques
        Author: Maria Martin de Almagro (University of Ghent)
      • Governing the Feminist Peace: Domesticating the Gender Perspective
        Authors: Laura Shepherd (University of Sydney) , Paul Kirby (Centre of Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics)*
      • WPS at Home? New Possibilities in Global North Practices
        Authors: Toni Haastrup (University of Stirling) , Jamie Hagen (Queen's University, Belfast)
      • Going Beyond WPS: Locating the Cyprus Rape Case between the ‘Domestic’ and ‘International’, ‘Conflict’ and ‘Peace’, and Coloniality and (Post-)Coloniality
        Authors: Columba Achilleos-Sarll (University of Birmingham) , Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick)
      • Is Rights Talk Just Talk? Implementing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda at the Global-Local Nexus in Kosovo
        Author: Lucy Maycox (University of Oxford)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Roundtable / BISA PGN Meet the Editors Roundtable Pandon, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: David Mainwaring (Cambridge University Press)
      Participants: Carolina Moulin (Review of International Studies) , Andrew Dorman (International Affairs) , Martin Coward (Review of International Studies) , Edward Newman (University of Leeds)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / British Politics and Foreign Policy Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: British International History Working Group
      Convener: Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth University)
      Chair: Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth University)
      Discussant: Gaynor Johnson (University of Kent)
      • Cold War Rivalry: How the British in Saudi Arabia Went from Disappointment to Signing One of the Biggest Arms Deals in History, 1979-1985
        Author: Johanne Marie Skov (Lancaster University)
      • English Nationalism as Secessionist Nationalism
        Author: Ben Wellings (Monash University)
      • Scotland and Northern Ireland in the Brexit Negotiation Process: Roles and Implications
        Author: Bruno Santos Fonseca (NOVA University (FCSH) | Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA))
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / European Strategic Autonomy I Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Simon Sweeney (University of York)
      • Europe, Strategic Autonomy and the China Question: A Multitude of Dilemmas
        Author: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)
      • Marching into battle or extinction? Understanding the existence of the EU Battlegroup Concept
        Author: Laura Chappell
      • French Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Strategic Autonomy – a Successful Export to the EU?
        Author: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
      • Strategic Autonomy and Economic Sovereignty for the EU in terms of Security
        Author: Sarah Lieberman (Canterbury Christ Church University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Grand Strategy: New Approaches and Perspectives History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)
      Chair: Rob Geist Pinfold (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
      Discussant: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)
      • Equal Distance but not Hedging: Maintaining Equilibrium by Great Britain under US-China Competition
        Author: Mateusz Ambrożek (University of Warsaw)
      • Grand Strategy: A Research Programme for the West and Not the Rest?
        Author: Rob Geist Pinfold (Peace Research Center Prague)
      • A House Divided: Populism and Grand Strategy
        Author: Georg Löfflmann (University of Warwick)
      • The Grand Strategic Value of Empathy
        Author: Claire Yorke (SDU)
      • “Grand” Strategic Planning in International Relations
        Author: Nina Silove (ETH Zürich)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Groundings - The Practice of Global Thought From Below Model Room 2, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      Chair: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews)
      • The Brazilianisation of the World: The Reflection in the Mirror and the Horizons of Futurity
        Author: Francine Rossone de Paula (Queen's University Belfast)
      • Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State of IR
        Author: Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University)
      • Prefiguring Decolonization: Notes Across Brazil and the US Academy
        Author: Desiree Poets (Virginia Tech)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Interpreting Russian Security Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth University)
      Chair: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
      • Unwrapping Russian Security Policy: Rhetoric, Reality and Responsiveness in the Putin Era
        Author: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
      • Russian Narratives of Anti-Westernism: From Traditional to Post-modern?
        Author: Dogachan Dagi (University of Warwick)
      • (In)Security Discourses in the Cultural Realm as a Mobilising Mechanism? The Topic of NATO in 1990s Russian Newspapers
        Author: Allyson Edwards (University of Warwick)
      • Insecurity in EU-Russia Relations: Perceptions of Threat since 1991
        Author: Maxine David (Leiden University)
      • It's a Man's World, Or Is It? Russia's Gendered Security Institutions
        Author: Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Pacifism, Nonviolence, Security, and Rebellion Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
      Convener: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
      Chair: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      Discussant: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      • Palestinian Poet-singers: Celebration under Israel’s Military Rule
        Author: Marwan Darweish (Coventry University)
      • The Failure of the European Project: An Anarcho-Pacifist Critique
        Author: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
      • Unsettling Rebellion
        Author: Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol)
      • Learning from the Violence Prevention Work of “Credible Messengers”
        Author: M.S. Wallace (Portland State University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Power and Wealth in Pandemic Times Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)
      • The Infrastructural Power of Logistics: Covid-19 and the Future of Global Production Networks
        Author: Federico Jensen (Copenhagen Business School)
      • Post-Corona Capitalism: The Alternatives Ahead
        Author: Andreas Nölke (Goethe University Frankfurt)
      • The System Didn’t Work: The G20 in the Covid-19 Crisis
        Author: Tom Chodor (Monash University)
      • The New Fault Lines of Inequality - Covid 19 and the Asset Economy
        Authors: Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (University of Liverpool) , Johnna Montgomerie (King's College London)
      • COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State
        Author: Tom Chodor (Monash University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Reconsidering Stability - the Risks of Deterrence and Disarmament Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Convener: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
      Chair: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
      • Reactive Rearmament: The Instability of a Post-Nuclear World
        Author: David Blagden (University of Exeter)
      • Artificial Intelligence and the Bomb: Nuclear Command and Control in the Age of the Algorithm
        Author: James Johnson (University of Aberdeen)
      • The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Opportunity for Disarmament but Danger for Deterrence? 
 What Deterrence Discourses in Germany Reveal About the Ban
        Author: Jannis Kappelmann (University of Hamberg)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Refugees and Insecurity Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: Ian Paterson (University of Glasgow)
      Chair: Ian Paterson (University of Glasgow)
      • Making Waste into Art, and Art into Waste: the Multiple Afterlives of Migratory Traces
        Author: Finiguerra Anna (QMUL)
      • Acts of Resistance and Connection in the Immigration Detention Archipelago
        Author: Lucy Kneebone (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Simultaneous Success and Failure: The Strange Case of the (Failed) Securitisation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the United Kingdom and Scotland
        Author: Ian Paterson (University of Glasgow)
      • Forced Mobility, Mobile Phones, and the Transnational Political Economy of Urban Precarity in Somali Cities
        Authors: Peter Chonka (King's College London) , Jutta Bakonyi (Durham University)
      • Territorial Cariance in the UK’s Refugee Politics and its Consequences: Young Syrian Refugees in England and Scotland
        Authors: Dimitris Skleparis (Newcastle University) , Gareth Mulvey (University of Glasgow)*
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Surviving the Human Epoch: Popular Culture and the (Geo)Politics of the Anthropocene Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Robert Saunders (State University of New York)
      Chair: Simon Philpott (Newcastle University)
      • Karel Čapek’s The War with the Newts, Or now I am become Newt, the Destroyer of Worlds
        Author: Joel Vessels (Nassau Community College - SUNY)
      • Representing the Anthropocene: Climate Fiction and Environmental Discourses from the Perspective of Ecocritical Geopolitics
        Author: Elena dell'Agnese (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
      • 'That Funny Feeling': Popular Culture and the Affective Atmospheres of the Anthropocene
        Author: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)
      • Climate Fiction, Solarpunk, and The Limits of Utopia
        Author: Benjamin Coulson (Durham University)
      • A See Change? Observations on the (Visual) Politics of Screening the Anthropocene
        Author: Robert Saunders (State University of New York)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Theorising International Orders Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham)
      • Facebook Friendships as a Space for Peace: An Aristotelian Framework for International Political Friendships
        Author: Gibson Lisa (LCC International University)
      • Awkwardness, Capital, and Crisis: International Orders as Anarchic Meta-Fields
        Author: Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham)
      • Writing the Future of Global Politics – Hope, Despair, and the Mid-century Bang
        Author: Franziska Müller (University of Hamburg)
      • Georg Schwarzenberger’s Theory of International Law
        Author: Carmen Chas (University of Kent)
      • The Evolution of International Institutional Restraints on Power and “Lockean Liberalism” in IR
        Author: Alexandru Grigorescu (Loyola University Chicago)
    • 12:15 PM 1:45 PM
      Lunch and networking: SPONSORED BY BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (BJPIR) 1h 30m Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre

      Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre

    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Roundtable / Plenary Roundtable: The Global Governance of Scientific Challenges: SPONSORED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Council Chamber
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: Georgina Holmes (Imperial College London)
      Participants: Lorraine Elliott (Australia National University) , Elbe Stephen (University of Sussex) , Trevor Taylor (RUSI)
    • 1:30 PM 3:00 PM
      / Photography Exhibition: Visualizing Global Challenges Grand Staircase
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Conference event / Ethics & World Politics Working Group AGM Armstrong, Civic Centre
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      / European Security Working Group AGM Swan, Civic Centre
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      / Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group AGM Carloil, Civic Centre
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Conference event / Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group AGM Stephenson, Civic Centre
    • 2:15 PM 2:30 PM
      Break with tea and coffee: SPONSORED BY BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (BJPIR) 15m
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Anxiety, Emotion, and Ontological Security Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Kaul Nitasha (University of Westminster)
      • The Poverty of Cybernorms? Global Anxieties and Cyberagonism
        Author: Xymena Kurowska
      • Desires, Fantasies, and Hierarchies: Status Anxiety through the Lacanian Ontological Security
        Author: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
      • The Unbearable Incompleteness of Nations: Reading Bolsonaro’s Brazil through Ontological Security
        Authors: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham) , Bruno Carvalho (University of Birmingham)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Constructing Islam and the War on Terror Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: Bareeha Fatima (University of Aberdeen)
      Chair: Bareeha Fatima (University of Aberdeen)
      • Political Islam: A Response to Fundamental Crisis in Muslim Societies. (A Case study of Pakistan)
        Author: Altaf Hussain (Student/Civil Servant)
      • Waging 'Waar': An Exploration of Military Aesthetics in Pakistan's Popular Culture during the Global War on Terror
        Author: Bareeha Fatima (University of Aberdeen)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Energy Colonialism: Roots, Racialization, Recurrent patterns Model Room 2, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Conveners: Anne Kantel (Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI) , Daniela Salite (University of York) , Franziska Müller (University of Hamburg) , Johanna Tunn (University of Hamburg) , Joshua Kirshner (University of York) , Joshua McEvoy (Queens University) , Birte Förster (University of Bielefeld) , Liam Midzain-Gobin (Brock University)
      Chair: Franziska Müller (University of Hamburg)
      • The Paradox of Technocratic Governance: The Extractive/Emancipatory Potential of Indigenous Utilities?
        Authors: Liam Midzain-Gobin (Brock University)* , Joshua McEvoy (Queens University)
      • Energy Colonialism: Debates, Phenomena, and Steps Towards a Research Agenda
        Author: Franziska Müller (University of Hamburg)
      • Glocal Justice? Colonial Narratives in Germany's and the European Green Hydrogen Strategy
        Author: Anne Kantel (Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI)
      • Exploring Colonial Continuities in Mozambique’s Energy System: Electricity Networks and Extractive Relations
        Author: Joshua Kirshner (University of York)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Gendering Economies Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Owen Parker (University of Sheffield)
      Discussant: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)
      • The Feminist Political Economy of Productivity
        Author: Muireann O'Dwyer (University of St Andrews)
      • The Governance of Everyday Insecurities: Stop street harassment campaigns and authoritarian neoliberalism in Cairo
        Author: Elisa Wynne-Hughes (Cardiff University)
      • Frugal Femininity and Disciplinary Masculinity: Gender Performance and the Politics of the Eurozone Crisis
        Author: Frederic Heine (JKU Linz)
      • Towards a Feminist Decolonizing Trade Agenda
        Author: Asha Herten-Crabb (London School of Economics and Political Science)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Human Rights and Security in African International Relations Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
      Convener: AISG Working group
      Chair: Peter Brett
      • Public Attitudes Towards External Democracy Promotion in Africa
        Author: Mwita Chacha (University of Birmingham)
      • What About Us? Citizenship Problem in Unrecognized States: Cases of Puntland and Somaliland
        Author: Natalia Piskunova (Moscow State University)
      • Waging Wars Abroad to Build a State at Home? Citizens’ Perceptions of Chad Military Intervention in Mali
        Author: Moudwe Daga (SOAS, University of London)
      • Reintegrating Repentant Terrorists in Nigeria: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Victims Experiences of Trauma
        Authors: Tarela Juliet Ike (Teesside University ) , Dung Ezekiel Jidong (Nottingham Trent University )* , Evangelyn Ebi Ayobi (National Open University )* , Mieyebi Lawrence Ike (Southern New Hampshire University )* , Christopher Francis (Manchester Global Foundation )*
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / IPE of Financialisation 2 Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College London)
      Chair: Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College London)
      Discussant: Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College London)
      • Asset Managers, Carbon Majors and the Deceptions of 'Sustainable Finance'
        Author: Joseph Baines (KCL)
      • Subordinate Financialised Capitalism in Emerging Capitalist Economies
        Author: Bruno Bonizzi (Hertfordshire)
      • Shades of (In)Formality: Empirical Evidence from the Financial Action Task Force
        Author: Isabel Rodriguez Toribio (University of Glasogw)
      • Patterns of Financialization Across Emerging Regions and Economies: A Comparison of International, National and City Level Indicators
        Author: Jimena Castillo (Leeds)
      • Successful and Unsuccessful Politicisation of Central Banking in Emerging Market Economies During the COVID-19 Crisis: Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic
        Author: Alen Toplišek (KCL)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Identity, Security, Climate and the Nation Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: Omer Tekdemir (University of Coventry)
      Chair: Ikram Berkani (Coventry University)
      • Jordan’s Climate Change Official Discourse: Communicating Local Vulnerabilities Within Political Restrictions
        Author: Imad El-Anis (Nottingham Trent University)
      • Dragonfire: Chinese Natural Gas Relations in Central Asia
        Author: Tamas Dudlak (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest)
      • Feminine Fighters of Justice? Gendered Narratives of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and their Impact on Japanese Security Policy
        Author: Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Public Diplomacy, Influence and Knowledge Production Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
      Chair: Meryem Abdelhafid (Coventry university )
      • Mainland China and Taiwan’s Strategies for Overcoming the Middle/High Income Trap: Domestic Consensus-Building and the Foundations of Cross-Strait Interactions
        Author: Mingke MA (University of Oxford )
      • Knowledge Production in Turkey about the Middle East: A Critical Investigation of Graduate Theses on the Gulf
        Authors: Ali Bakir (Qatar University)* , Eyüp Ersoy (Ahi Evran University)
      • The CCP’s Media Influence in Turkey
        Author: Ozge Soylemez (King's College London)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Reimagining / Complicating Everyday Security Discourse and Praxis Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Conveners: Tom Pettinger , Alice Martini (QMUL)
      Chair: Alice Martini (QMUL)
      • Preventing Global Enemies
        Author: Alice Martini
      • I saw it with my Drone Eyes: Fantasies of Targeted Killing and Dangerous Spaces
        Author: Julian Schmid (Institute of International Relations Prague)
      • The International Is Personal – Situating the Individual in the Transversality of P/CVE
        Author: Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield)
      • Re-imagining Counterterrorism: The Politics of Emotions in Deradicalisation
        Author: Yrsa Landström (Swedish Defence University)
      • Tracing The Persistence and Fragmentation of Coloniality Within Contemporary Pre-criminal Tools
        Author: Alice Finden
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Roundtable / Screening Violence: a Transnational Approach to the Local Imaginaries of Post-conflict Transition Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: Guy Austin (Newcastle University)
      Participants: Nicholas Morgan (Newcastle University) , Simon Philpott (Newcastle University) , Diah Kusumaningrum (Gadjah Mada Universit)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Selective Reconstruction: Conceptualising (Re-)Engagement in the Post-Brexit UK-EU Security Relationship (Panel 1) Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Conveners: Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh) , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
      Chair: Richard Whitman (University of Kent)
      • Historical (De-)Institutionalism and the Breakdown in UK-EU Security Cooperation
        Authors: Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh) , Monika Sus (Hertie School of Governance)*
      • NATO and CSDP Post-Brexit: Why the EU Needs to Step-up in NATO and Bring the UK into CSDP
        Authors: Simon Sweeney (University of York) , Neil Winn (University of Leeds)
      • Muddling through as the Best of Frenemies: UK Preferences and Practices in the Post-Brexit EU-UK Foreign, Security and Defence Policy Relationship
        Author: Richard Whitman (University of Kent)
      • EU-UK Diplomatic and Security Coordination beyond Brexit through Informal Venues: Risk or Opportunity?
        Authors: Sarah Wolff (Queen Mary, University of London)* , Agathe Piquet (Queen Mary, University of London)* , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / The Performance of Identity in the Production of (In)Security Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Conveners: Alice Martini (QMUL) , Tom Pettinger
      Chair: Lee Jarvis
      • Social Categorisation And Rise of Violence: How Deprivation of Human Dignity Becomes the Linking Tile Between Moralistic Categories and the Rise of Violence in Society
        Author: Giulia Grillo (University of Kent)
      • Constructions of Citizenship and its Consequences for the Reintegration of Islamic State Returnees
        Author: Louise Tiessen (University of Kent)
      • Fundamental British Values & The Prevent Duty in Scotland
        Author: Nick Brooke (University of St Andrews)
      • ‘You Have Been Betrayed’: Radical Right Attempts to Appeal to LGBTQ+ Communities
        Authors: Xander Kirke (Glasgow Caledonian University) , Russell Foster (King's College London)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Transnational Politics, Nationalisation, Geopolitics and the State Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
      Chair: Omer Tekdemir (University of Coventry)
      • External Interventions in Multi-ethnoreligious Conflicts: the Case of Contemporary Syria
        Author: Joe Macaron (University of Bath)
      • “Hollow statism: Discourse and Praxis in the Nationalization of Islamic institutions in Sisi’s Egypt”
        Author: Neil Russell (Glasgow Caledonian University)
      • Region-building in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Pandemic
        Author: Zenonas Tziarras (Peace Research Institute Oslo Cyprus Centre)
      • Similar Structure, Different Behaviours: A Role Theory Analysis of Different Foreign Policies of Qatar and the UAE towards the Yemeni Civil War
        Author: Yusuf Topaloglu (The University of Edinburgh)
    • 4:30 PM 4:45 PM
      Break with tea and coffee: SPONSORED BY BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (BJPIR) 15m
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Roundtable / Abolitionist Thinking as an Unanswered Question Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      Participants: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews) , Sabrina Villenave (University of Manchester) , Jessica Oddy (University of East London) , Taylor Borowetz (SOAS University of London)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Approaching Climate Crisis History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)
      Chair: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)
      • When Representation Matters: A Critique on Climate Governance
        Author: Keysha Jaime (Queen's University Belfast)
      • Making Things Last (Longer)? The Global Governance of Planned Obsolescence
        Author: Matthias Kranke (University of Kassel)
      • The International Politics of Climate Crisis: ‘The Decade of Decision’
        Author: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)
      • Shaping the Policies While Changing the Discourses – Gendered Environmental Discourses at the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
        Author: Dora Matejak (phD candidate, Univversity of Ljubljana)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Conference event / BISA Working Group Convener Meeting: closed session by invitation only with BISA Chair and Director Council Chamber
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Implementing Peace Agreements in a Complex World Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Conveners: Kathryn Nash (Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh) , Michael Aeby (Politics & International Relations Department, University of Edinburgh)
      Chair: Michael Aeby (Politics & International Relations Department, University of Edinburgh)
      Discussant: Toni Haastrup (University of Stirling)
      • Peace Process Implementation in Somalia
        Author: Kathryn Nash (Edinburgh Law School)
      • Exploring the Role of the Universal Periodic Review in Peace Agreement Implementation
        Author: Sean Molloy (Newcastle Law School)
      • How African Organisations Support the Implementation of Comprehensive Peace Agreements: AU, IGAD and SADC mediation, guarantees and monitoring practices in Kenya, South Sudan and Zimbabwe
        Author: Michael Aeby (University of Edinburgh)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Roundtable / Manchester University Press Sponsored Roundtable: Counter-terrorism: International proscription and proliferation Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: Alice Martini (QMUL)
      Participants: Tim Legrand (UEA) , Sophie Haspeslagh (American University in Cairo) , Kseniya Oksamytna (City, University of London / King's College London) , Lee Jarvis
    • 4:45 PM 6:10 PM
      Conference event / PGN: Meet The Editors (one-to-one): closed session by invitation only Pandon, Civic Centre
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Pathways In and Out of Violence Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Conveners: Annamaria Kiss (King's Russia Institute, King's College London) , Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth)
      Chair: Cerwyn Moore (University of Birmingham)
      • Accountability Mechanisms as Part of Peace Agreements: The Popular Acceptance of the Havana Peace Accord
        Author: Kerry-Luise Prior (King's College London)
      • Civil War Paths: Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages
        Author: Anastasia Shesterinina (The University of Sheffield)
      • Uniformed Threats: A Comparative Analysis of NATO Member State’s National Approaches to Combating Extremism within their Ranks.
        Authors: Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Leiden University) , Anne Peterscheck (University of St Andrews)*
      • Just War in the 21st Century: Lessons from Afghanistan
        Author: Alex Crockett (Durham University )
      • "Internal Migration, Socio-Political Transformation and Counter Violent Extremism in Pakistan: A Case Study of Newly Merged Tribal District South Waziristan
        Author: Muhammad Irfan Mahsud (Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, National Defence University Islamabad, Pakistan)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Roundtable / Policing’s Contested Relationalities Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Chair: Amal Abu-Bakare (University of Liverpool)
      Participants: Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol) , Kate Hall (Queen Mary University of London) , Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) , Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster) , Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London) , Paul Higate (University of Bath)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Presenting, Narrating and Translating Security Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: European Journal of International Security
      Convener: Jason Ralph (University of Leeds and EJIS)
      Chair: Jack Holland (University of Leeds)
      Discussant: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)
      • Queer Lives During the Troubles in Northern Ireland: Deconstructing the ‘Two Communities’ Model
        Author: Aine Bennett (Royal Holloway University of London)
      • How do Political Parties Translate Security? Securitization of Islam From the Populist Radical Right to the Left
        Author: Ugo Gaudino (University of Kent)
      • 'We Produce a Generation of Criminals'. Ambivalent Presentations of the Youth in the War on Drugs
        Author: Euan Raffle (University of Leeds)
      • Genealogising ‘Terrorism’ in Northern Ireland: ‘The Northern Ireland Problem’ and the Roots of Contemporary Security Discourse
        Author: Michael Livesey (University of Sheffield)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Roundtable / Newcastle Conference Team: Reflections on Collaborations Between Creative Arts Practice and Social Science in Military, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Research Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: BISA
      Chair: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
      Participants: Michael Mulvihill (Newcastle) , Alice Cree (Newcastle University) , Chloe Barker (Newcastle) , Nilanjana Premaratna (Newcastle) , Hannah West (Newcastle University)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Roundtable / Russia’s War in Ukraine: Implications for the World Collingwood
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Chair: James Rogers (University of Southern Denmark)
      Participants: Tony King (Warwick University) , Sir Lawrence Freedman (Kings College London) , Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University) , Patrick Bury (Bath)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / The Politics of Truth in the Digital Age Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
      Conveners: Anam Kuraishia (University of Essex) , Seb Bierema (National University of Ireland) , Beatriz Lopes Buarque (University of Manchester) , Peter Stuart Robinson (The Arctic University of Norway ) , Linda Monsees (Institute of International Relations Prague)
      Chair: Ilan Baron (Durham University)
      • Information Disorder, Fake News and the Future of Democracy
        Author: Linda Monsees (Institute of International Relations Prague)
      • Imagining Reality into Existence: Castoriadis, Qanon, and the War on Terror
        Author: Seb Bierema (National University of Ireland)
      • Will the Ocean Biodiversity Survive? Sovereign Agency, (Mis)Recognition and the Negotiations of the BBNJ Treaty
        Author: Georgette Matthews (University of Sydney)
      • The Dangerous Impact of the Digitalisation of International Politics: The Alt-Right Conspiratorial Regimes of Truth
        Author: Beatriz Lopes Buarque (University of Manchester)
      • Contemporary Epistemic Resistance: Modes of Alternative Truth-construction after Occupy London
        Author: Peter Stuart Robinson (The Arctic University of Norway )
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Transnational Perspectives on Memory, Trauma, and Conflict Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      Discussant: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      • Nationalist Love: Affect and Possibilities of Feminist Critique
        Author: Anna-Karin Eriksson (Linnaeus University)
      • Experiencing COVID-19: The Challenge of Mass Deaths for Social Order in a Transnational Context
        Author: Katharine Millar (London School of Economics)
      • Trauma and the Grip of Emotions: A Comparison of Post-Conflict Attitudes in Georgia and Azerbaijan
        Author: Cesare Figari Barberis (IHEID)
      • '#Remembrancing Isn't Just For Poppymas®’: How Competing Existential Anxieties Influence the Spatial and Temporal Presentation of British War Remembrance
        Author: Joseph Haigh (University of Warwick)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Working Towards a Just Transition Model Room 2, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Lynette Shultz (University of Alberta)
      Chair: Lynette Shultz (University of Alberta)
      • State-public Relations in the Digital Anthropocene
        Author: Audrey Verma (Newcastle University, UK)
      • Technology Fetishism in Climate Politics: A Theoretical Account
        Author: Gareth Dale (Brunel University)
      • Education Against a Futureless Future: Youth Vision and Action for Energy Justice
        Authors: Lynette Shultz (University of Alberta) , Carrie Karsgaard (University of Alberta)
    • 6:30 PM 7:30 PM
      / Gendering International Relations Working Group Meeting Stephenson, Civic Centre
    • 6:30 PM 7:30 PM
      Conference event / Inaugural War Studies Keynote: Command in the Falklands War - Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman - Open to conference attendees and the public Council Chamber
    • 8:45 AM 6:15 PM
      Conference event / The Limits of Safety – A Sound Installation - Find out more on our highlights page https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/highlights’ Outside of the Student Union
      Speaker: Michael Mulvihill (Newcastle)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Roundtable / Can the International Peace Architecture and Liberal Interventionism Survive? Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Chair: Birte Vogel (University of Manchester)
      Participants: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University) , Stefanie Kappler (Durham University) , Oliver Richmond (University of Manchester) , Pogodda Sandra (University of Manchester)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Constructing Roles and Narratives in Interstate Relations Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
      Conveners: Matthieu Grandpierron (ICES) , Rafael Alexandre Mello (University of Brasilia) , Nino Kemoklidze (University of Chichester)
      Chair: Matthieu Grandpierron (ICES)
      • Domestic Decision-making and Indonesia’s Leadership role in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific
        Author: Pia Dannhauer (Griffith University)
      • Revisiting the Analytic Gaze: Entangled Biographies and Knowledge Production in IR
        Author: Siddharth Tripathi (Käte Hamburger Kolleg, University of Duisburg-Essen)
      • Strategic Culture and Othering: The Missing Link in the Construction?
        Author: Dogachan Dagi (University of Warwick)
      • Partnering for Social Capital: Strategic Partnerships in International Politics
        Author: Nihal Kutlu (Fudan University )
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Digital Sovereignty and European Security Integration Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Conveners: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork) , Antonia Niehuss (University of St Andrews) , Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters
      Chair: Tim Stevens (King's College London)
      • Digital Sovereignty and Private Tech: A Historical Juncture in European Security Cyber Governance
        Authors: Benjamin Farrand (University of Newcastle) , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
      • Towards A Cyber-Assertive EU? From Technological Sovereignty to International Actorness
        Authors: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath) , George Christou (Warwick University)
      • The Geopolitical Imaginaries of Digital Sovereignty
        Authors: Linda Monsees (Institute of International Relations Prague) , Daniel Lambarch (University of Frankfurt)*
      • A Genealogy of EU Cyber Security: Expanding the Single Market, Nurturing the Security Industry, and Supporting Digital Sovereignty
        Author: Tobias Liebetrau (CERI, Sciences Po, Paris and Danish Institute for International Studies)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Julian Schmid (Institute of International Relations Prague)
      Chair: Julian Schmid (Institute of International Relations Prague)
      Discussant: Josef Harrasser (University of Innsbruck)
      • How U.S. Representatives Framed the threat of Iraq prior to the Iraq War?
        Author: Nikolaos Lampas (The American College of Greece, Deree)
      • The Belt and Road Initiative, US-China Relations, and the “Return of Geopolitics”: An Analysis of US Think Tank Reports, 2013-2021
        Author: Nick Sundin (Newcastle University)
      • Thanos vs. The Avengers: Superhero Films as Liberal Counter-Narrative of the Trump Era?
        Author: Julian Schmid (Institute of International Relations Prague)
      • Taking the Public Back Out: Considering Salience in the Study of Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
        Author: Jonny Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / European Strategic Autonomy II Pandon, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)
      Discussant: Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)
      • From Autonomy to Sovereignty - Evolving Concepts of European Actorness
        Author: Michał Rekowski (Jagiellonian University)
      • Rhetoric and (Un)Reality – Does the Strategic Compass Point to Strategic Autonomy?
        Authors: Simon Sweeney (University of York) , Neil Winn (University of Leeds)
      • CSDP and Strategic Autonomy in an Era of Transboundary Threats
        Author: Alistair Shepherd (Aberystwyth University)
      • Implications of European Strategic Autonomy for EU-NATO Cooperation
        Author: Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Forced Migration and Diplomacy: New Forms of Diplomacy? Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: Fiona Adamson (SOAS, University of London)
      Chair: Lewis Turner (Newcastle University)
      • Claim-making At The border: Risk Profiling and Human Mobility
        Author: Samah Rafiq (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
      • Bodies in Translation: Forensics, Kinship and the Institutional Complex for the Identification of Migrants Missing at Sea
        Author: Anna Finiguerra (QMUL)
      • The Politics of Refugee Recognition in Jordan: Hierarchies of Nationality, Race and Labour
        Author: Lewis Turner (Newcastle University)
      • Historicizing The Global Politics of People In Movement: ‘Refugees’, ‘Migrants’ and The League of Nations
        Author: Alice Engelhard (LSE)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / From the Pull of the People to Geopolitical Pressures: Contemporary Challenges in Russia and Eurasian Polities Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Conveners: RESG Working group , Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
      Chair: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
      • Illiberal Movements in Authoritarian Regimes: Endurance Tactics of Populist Nativists in Russia
        Author: Sofia Tipaldou (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow)
      • CSTO - a Russian Tool?
        Authors: Zeynep Selin Balcı (Ege University ) , Altuğ Günal (Ege University)*
      • Between Giants: Maintaining Independent Foreign Policies in Contemporary Central Asia
        Author: Carl Mohr (Oxford Brookes University)
      • Listening to the Streets? The Response of Post-Soviet Non-Democratic Regimes to Street Protest
        Author: Katherine Crofts-Gibbons (King's College London)
      • Exploring the Push and Pull Factors Driving the Migration of Ethnic Russian Citizens of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation Since 1991
        Author: Victoria Hudson (King's College London)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Roundtable / Global Struggles, Anti-carceral Solidarities and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      Participants: Elian Weizman (London South Bank University (LSBU)) , Lisa Tilley (SOAS, University of London) , Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) , Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) , Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University) , Rafeef Ziadah (Kings College London) , Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / International Gendered Politics of the Family History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Lindsay Clark (University of Southampton)
      Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (Lund University)
      • Gendered Silences: Absence and Presence in the UN System During the COVID Pandemic
        Author: Georgina Holmes (Imperial College London)
      • Gendered Inheritances: The Figure of the Son-in-Law and the Construction of Empire
        Author: Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)
      • Continuum of Violence: How Stigmatization Against Children Born of War Affects Sustainable Peace
        Author: Sofie Rose (University of Southern Denmark)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Nuclear Weapons in a Changing World Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Convener: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
      Chair: Tom Vaughan (University of Exeter)
      • The Impact of New Weapon Systems on Strategic Stability and the Debate about Nuclear Deterrence
        Author: Tom Sauer (Universiteit Antwerpen)
      • An Equitable Global Nuclear Order: Bridging the gap Between Great and Middle Nuclear Powers
        Author: Shivani Singh (Aberystwyth University, U.K)
      • Will AUKUS Foster Nuclear Proliferation?
        Author: Alan Kuperman (University of Texas at Austin)
      • Nuclear Proliferation, India and the New World Order: A Study in Nuclear Transitions
        Author: Shounak Set (KCL)
      • Deterrence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift in Nuclear Deterrence Theory and Practice?
        Author: James Johnson (University of Aberdeen)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Race, Discourse and the Colonial Media Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews)
      Chair: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews)
      • 'Jihadi Brides' In The Limelight: Race and Gender in UK Media
        Author: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews)
      • Race, Gender and the Colony in Western Media: The Case of the Representation of Ethiopian Model Liya Kebede in Mainstream Media
        Author: Gabrielle Bayle (SOAS)
      • Personal Discourses, International Selves: Belonging, Transnationalism, and Popular Culture in Mixed-race Identity Construction
        Author: Heather Proctor (Newcastle University)
      • The Shaheen Bagh Protests: Coloniality and Epistemic Resistance in Contemporary BJP India
        Author: Mandeep Sidhu (University of Brighton)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Regional Development Banks and Governance of Global Crises Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: Stuart Shields (The University of Manchester)
      Chair: Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (University of Liverpool)
      • Transition to Transition: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Egypt’s Neoliberalisation
        Author: Stuart Shields (The University of Manchester)
      • Explaining EIB and EBRD Lending activity: Agency Loss in Central and Eastern Europe?
        Author: Ana Lara Gómez (University of Cantabria)
      • Bold or Bond: Understanding the European Investment Bank’s Pivot into a Climate Bank
        Author: Helen Kavvadia (University of Luxembourg)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Panel / Security, Identity and Foreign Policy Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: FPWG Working group
      Chair: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)
      Discussant: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)
      • Identity and Foreign Policy: The US - North Korea Relations
        Author: Irem Cihan (SOAS)
      • Ontological Security and Responsibility beyond Borders: A Non-Western Perspective from Iran
        Author: Alen Shadunts (University of Oxford )
      • Individuals in Securitization: An Investigation into Leaders' Attitudes toward Iraq and North Korea
        Author: Alexander Schotthöfer (The University of Edinburgh)
      • Constructivism, Narratology, and the Protagonist: US Foreign Policy in Syria - Beyond Identity Binaries, Towards Narrative Power
        Authors: Jack Holland (University of Leeds) , Xavier Mathieu (University of Liverpool)*
      • Ideas and Foreign Policy: ‘Global Britain’ Infiltrated into the British Political System
        Author: Catarina M. Liberato (University of Kent)
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Roundtable / Review of International Studies: Up to Our Necks - International Relations and Existentialism Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Review of International Studies
      Chair: Richard Devetak (University of Queensland)
      Participants: Cian O'Driscoll (ANU) , Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh) , Eileen Hunt (University of Notre Dame) , Rens van Munster (Diis)
    • 10:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Break with tea and coffee: SPONSORED BY REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 15m
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Technology and Future War Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Conveners: David Galbreath (University of Bath) , Tony King (Warwick University) , Patrick Bury (Bath) , John Alexander (Air Historical Brancb (Royal Air Force))
      Chair: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University)
      Discussant: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University)
      • Killer Robots and Supercomputers: Back to the Future
        Author: Tony King (Warwick University)
      • Understanding JSOC's Transformation: Post-Fordism and the Limits of Networked Warfare
        Author: Patrick Bury (Bath)
      • From Tools to Teammates: Human-Machine Teaming and the Future of Command and Control in the Australian Army
        Authors: David Galbreath (University of Bath) , Farrell Theo (University of Wollongong)* , Alex Neads (University of Bath)
      • Whither Operational Art in an Era of Systemic Competition, ‘Gray Zone’ Threats and Multi-domain Operations
        Author: John Alexander (Air Historical Brancb (Royal Air Force))
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Ethics and World Politics: Cutting-edge Research Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
      Convener: Ethics & World Politics Working Group (BISA)
      Chair: Susan Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
      • Just War Theory in the Post-liberal Order
        Author: James Pattison
      • Politics of Hospitality in the National Health Service: Immigration Enforcement Through the Provision of Healthcare in England
        Author: Moises Vieira (University of Manchester)
      • Reimagining International Social Ethics: Do Neoliberal INGOs Still Stand as Sources of Normative Meaning?
        Author: Marija Antanaviciute (QMUL)
      • Skeptical Bases of Cicero’s Theory of Just War and “Just Empire” and its Uncritical Reception in Western Political Thought
        Author: Muhammad Ashfaq (University of St Andrews)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Extractive Enclaves and the Legacies of Spatial Inequalities Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      Chair: Lisa Tilley (SOAS, University of London)
      • Locating the Subjects in a Politics of Improvement: Rethinking International Intervention
        Author: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
      • Stigma Reversal in Development Aid Discourse: An Analysis of Ethiopian States’ Discursive Mechanisms
        Author: Gabrielle Bayle (SOAS, University of London)
      • Touristic Zoopolitics: The Continued Coloniality of the International
        Authors: Sarah Becklake (Leibniz University Hannover)* , Elisa Wynne-Hughes (Cardiff University)
      • Reckoning with Ruins: Colonial Carceral Debris in Africa
        Author: Laura Routley (Newcastle University)
      • Making Sense of the State: Citizens and State Buildings in South Africa
        Author: Julia Gallagher (SOAS, University of London)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Non-Western Involvement in Peace- and Statebuilding – a Shift in Norms and Practices? Part 2 Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Conveners: Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg) , Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
      Chair: Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg)
      Discussant: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
      • How Unrecognised States Consolidate Statehood? Bargaining Role in Understanding Sovereignty and Statebuilding Processes
        Author: Dilara Ozbek (University of Kent)
      • Political Influence Comes First: Peace- and Statebuilding in Timor-Leste Amid Rising Regional Competition
        Author: Werner Distler (University of Marburg)
      • The Anglophone Crisis and Non-western Actors: Non-Interference on whose terms?
        Author: Maria Ketzmerick (University of Bayreuth)
      • The Interlinkages Between India’s Strategy at the UN and its Policy in Kashmir
        Author: Arshita Nandan (University of Kent)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Pacifism and Survival: Exploring the Readiness to Adopt Violence Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Convener: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
      Chair: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
      • Faith in War: Causes and Consequences
        Author: Dobos Ned (UNSW Canberra)
      • A Pacifist Perspective on the Lethal Autonomous Weapons Debate
        Author: Jeremy Moses (University of Canterbury)
      • Deferred Pacifism
        Author: Helen Dexter (University of Leicester)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Past Is Present - Tracing Intellectual Histories Model Room 2, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      Chair: Christopher Balcom (York University)
      • ‘She is English’: Land, People, and Modern-colonial Capitalism in Latin America
        Author: Luísa Calvete Portela Barbosa
      • “New Humanism” in Marx, Roy, and Fanon
        Author: Christopher Balcom (York University)
      • What (Where, Whose) is Enlightenment? A Conceptual History of Toussaint Louverture’s Republican Ideals
        Author: Taylor Borowetz (SOAS University of London)
      • Of Histories (Un)Shared: India, Pakistan, and 1857
        Authors: Sridhar Krishnan (SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY, New Delhi) , Mumitha Madhu (South Asian University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Practices of Violence Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Conveners: Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth) , Annamaria Kiss (King's Russia Institute, King's College London)
      Chair: Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth)
      • Resisting Unjust Aggression: The Case for the Targeting of Security Forces During Occupations
        Author: Alex Crockett (Durham University)
      • From Leading Movements to Leading Matters: A Critical Evaluation of Leadership in an Insurgent Movement in the North Caucasus
        Authors: Cerwyn Moore (University of Birmingham) , Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth)*
      • A Comparative Study of Non-State Violent Drone Use
        Authors: Emil Archambault (University of Ottawa) , Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Leiden University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Rethinking World Order and the Study of State Power Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
      Conveners: Rafael Alexandre Mello (University of Brasilia) , Matthieu Grandpierron (ICES) , Nino Kemoklidze (University of Chichester)
      Chair: Nino Kemoklidze (University of Chichester)
      Discussant: Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham)
      • Realism, Reckless States, and Natural Selection
        Author: Matthew Rendall (University of Nottingham)
      • World-scale Problems, the World Policy Response, and the World Order
        Author: Fulvio Attina (University of Catania)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Security, Coloniality and the Policing of Mobility Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Conveners: Joe Turner (University of York) , Terri-Anne Teo (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Joe Turner (University of York)
      Discussant: Joe Turner (University of York)
      • The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Unacknowledged Mediterranean Colour Line
        Author: Itxaso Domínguez De Olazábal
      • Arresting Movement: The Political Economy of Immigration Detention
        Author: Axster Sabrina (Johns Hopkins University)
      • The Architecture of ‘Veillances’
        Author: Terri-Anne Teo (Newcastle University)
      • There Is No Land Beyond the Jungle: Colonialism, Race, and the Politics of (De)materialisation in Calais
        Author: Tarsis Brito (London School of Economics)
      • Survivors as Knowledge Producers: Using Survivors Stories to identify Implementation Gaps in Anti-Trafficking Policies in Kenya
        Authors: Robin Redhead (Leeds Beckett University) , Radoslaw Malinowski (Haart Kenya)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / Selective Reconstruction: Conceptualising (Re-)Engagement in the Post-Brexit UK-EU Security Relationship (Panel 2) History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Conveners: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University) , Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh)
      Chair: Arantza Gomez Arana (Birmingham City University)
      • De-institutionalisation and UK Foreign Policy-making: Theorising Brexit-driven Change
        Author: Nicholas Wright (University of Surrey)
      • UK-EU Security Relationship after Brexit: Discursive Construction of De-/Re-engagement
        Author: Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University)
      • UK-EU Cybersecurity Relations Post-Brexit: from Special Cooperation to Selectivity and Differentiation
        Authors: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University) , George Christou (Warwick University)
      • (Un)Managed (In)Security: Divergences and Disengagement in the Regulation of Harmful Content Online in the UK and EU
        Author: Benjamin Farrand (University of Newcastle)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / The International Political Economy of Development Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)
      • Cursed New States? Post-Independence Divergence in Extreme Rentier States
        Author: Geoffrey Swenson (City, University of London)
      • Latin American Agency and China’s Infrastructure Diplomacy: an analytical framework
        Author: Bruno Binetti (LSE)
      • Neither ‘Revisionist’ Nor ‘Status Quo’, Both Statist and (Neo-)Liberal Institutionalist: China’s Comprehensive Participating Approach in International Development Finance
        Author: Jue Wang (Leiden University)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / The Role of Actors in Foreign Policy Change Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: FPWG Working group
      Chair: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)
      Discussant: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)
      • Nuclear Proliferation and Foreign Policy: The Case of India
        Authors: Shounak Set (KCL) , Shounak Set (kcl)*
      • Role Theory in Narrow Social Contexts: The Case of Russian Digital Disinformation in British Foreign Policy
        Author: Sean Garrett (University of Bath)
      • A Leader-centered Framework of Major Foreign Policy Change
        Author: Brummer Klaus (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt)
      • The Role of Historical Analogies in Germany's Foreign Policy Toward Russia
        Author: Viktor Savinok
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Panel / The Cultural Politics of Empathy in War and Memory Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      Chair: Alister Wedderburn (University of Glasgow)
      Discussant: Alister Wedderburn (University of Glasgow)
      • Strange Meetings: Feeling for/with the Enemy in the Long Nineteenth Century
        Author: Holly Furneaux (Cardiff University)
      • Affective Landscapes of IR
        Author: Erzsébet Strausz (Central European University)
      • Feeling What for Whom? COIN and the Politics of Empathy in Iraq and Afghanistan
        Author: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      • Collective Punishment and the Distortion of Accountability: Locating Empathy in Pre-colonial and Land-based Communities
        Author: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster)
    • 10:45 AM 12:15 PM
      Roundtable / Towards Hybridity in the Protection of Civilians Martin Luther King, Student Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)
      Participants: Walt Kilroy (Dublin City University) , Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University) , David Curran (Coventry University) , Kseniya Oksamytna (City, University of London / King's College London) , Nina Wilén (Lund University)
    • 12:15 PM 1:15 PM
      / Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Meeting Armstrong, Civic Centre
    • 12:15 PM 1:15 PM
      Lunch: SPONSORED BY REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 1h Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre

      Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre

    • 12:30 PM 1:15 PM
      / BISA 2022 Prize Giving Ceremony Council Chamber, Civic Centre
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Roundtable / BISA Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group Prize Panel Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Chair: Martin Coward (Review of International Studies)
      Participants: Maia Entwistle (Queen Mary London) , Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) , Jenna Marshall (Kings College London) , Asma Abdi (Warwick University) , Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Contemporary Views of a Changing World Order Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: FPWG Working group
      Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      Discussant: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      • African Ventures Revisited: UK and Russian Activities Compared
        Author: Natalia Piskunova (Moscow State University)
      • Brazilian Diplomatic Capacities and Foreign Policy Aims – On Transient Means and Ends
        Authors: Leticia Pinheiro (IESP-UERJ) , Leandro Wolpert dos Santos*
      • What Went Wrong in Afghanistan? A Strategic Analysis of American War on Terrorism
        Authors: Mudassir Farooqi (Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Pakistan) , Muhammad Younas (Forman Christian College)*
      • Populism Towards Syria: Muslimism, Humanitarian Discourse, and Foreign Policy Shift in Turkey’s Syria Policy in 2011 and 2012
        Author: Tamas Dudlak (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Defence Reform and Military Transformation in a Changing World: Cross-regional Approaches to Military Change Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Mehmet Sahin (King's College London) , Tamiris Santos (UFRGS) , Raphael Lima (King's College London) , Linus Terhorst (King's College London, Defence Studies Department) , Lucie Pebay (University of Bath)
      Chair: Onur Kara (King's College London)
      • Stakeholder Management in Military Innovation Processes: the Case of Germany’s Military Procurement in the 2010s
        Author: Linus Terhorst (King's College London, Defence Studies Department)
      • Know Thy Enemy? Understanding the Conceptualisation of Insurgents in US COIN Manuals, 2004-2014
        Authors: Alex Waterman (German Institute for Global and Area Studies) , James Worrall (University of Leeds)*
      • Why and how is France Transforming its Land Army? Tensions, Dynamics and the Quest of Balance
        Author: Lucie Pebay (University of Bath)
      • Institutional Change in a Post-Authoritarian Military: The Case of Tunisian Military Transformation
        Author: Onur Kara (King's College London)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Early Warning and Mass Atrocity Prevention Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
      Convener: IR2P Working group
      Chair: James Pattison (University of Manchester)
      • The UN Secretariat’s Early Warning Capacity on Mass Atrocity Crimes: Fit for Purpose?
        Authors: Stephen McLoughlin (Coventry University) , Jess Gifkins (University of Manchester)*
      • The Responsibility to Protect: the Vaccine Against Mass Atrocities?
        Author: María Fernanda Arreguín Gámez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
      • Muscular Mediation and Ripeness Theory
        Author: Alan Kuperman (University of Texas at Austin)
      • An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Reaction: The Responsibility to Protect and Atrocity Prevention
        Author: James Pattison (University of Manchester)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Feminist Foreign Policy - Interrogating a Developing Idea Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Conveners: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath) , Clara Eroukhmanoff (LSBU)
      Chair: Clara Eroukhmanoff (LSBU)
      • A Feminist Foreign Policy for NATO is a contradiction in terms
        Authors: Katharine Wright (Newcastle University) , Annika Bergman Rosamond (Lund University)
      • In The Name Of Gender Equality: Femo-internationalism and the Performativity of French Feminist Diplomacy
        Author: Clara Eroukhmanoff (LSBU)
      • Adjustments or Transformations in the Foreign Policy of Sweden and Chile: The Development of Feminist Foreign Policies
        Authors: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath)* , Leslie Wehner (University of Bath)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / From Order to Peace? Debating (and Comparing) Local Ordering and Actor Constellations across Eurasia Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Philipp Lottholz (CRC "Dynamics of Security")
      Chair: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
      Discussant: Katarina Kusic (University of Bremen)
      • From Rhetoric to Practice – Finnish Development Aid and Gender in Afghanistan
        Author: Ilona Kuusi (Helsinki University)
      • Reclaiming Security and Infrastructures: The Emergence, Circulation and Discontents of “Safe City” Projects
        Author: Philipp Lottholz (CRC "Dynamics of Security")
      • Limitations of the Local Turn: Local versus International Organisations' Ordering
        Author: Karolina Kluczewska (Ghent Institute for International and European Studies, Ghent University,)
      • How can International Organizations Open Up to Local Peace Processes? The Case of Everyday Eooperation of Armenians and Azerbaijanis in a Borderland of Georgia
        Authors: Anna Kreikemeyer (Insitute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)) , Vadim Romashov (Tampere University)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Global Defence Policy and Practice Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Maryam Nazir , Soul Park (University of East Anglia) , Anit Mukherjee (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)) , Malte Riemann (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
      Chair: Claire Yorke (SDU)
      • Enhancing Democratic Civilian Control and Military Effectiveness: Comparing Defence Reforms in India and Japan
        Authors: Anit Mukherjee (RSIS, NTU, Singapore) , Bhubhindar Singh (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS))
      • Women In Security Forces
        Author: Maryam Nazir (Department of Political Science, Forman Christian College.)
      • ‘War By Pencil’: Military Education Programs As Remote Warfare
        Authors: Malte Riemann (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) , Norma Rossi (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
      • Globalization of Arms Production and Hierarchical Market Economies: Explaining the Transformation of the South Korean Defense Industry
        Authors: Soul Park (University of East Anglia) , Chonghyun Choi (National University of Singapore)*
      • From Occupation to Withdrawal: Territory and Security in Israeli Policy-Making
        Author: Rob Geist Pinfold (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Global Intersections – The Governance of Health at the Intersection with Political Economy and the Environment History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
      Convener: Christopher Long
      Chair: Christopher Long
      • Issues of Access and inequity in Developing Countries of Health Products During Covid-19 and Intellectual Property Regime
        Author: Krishna Kumar Verma (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
      • Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Transboundary Crisis from an International Relations Perspective
        Author: Feyyaz Baris Celik (University of Surrey)
      • Addressing New Threats in a Pluralist International Order: The UN Security Council’s Response to Health and Climate-related Security Challenges
        Author: Samuel Jarvis (York St John University)
      • The Political Dynamics of Decision-making in GAVI: How Can We Understand Decision Making in the GAVI Board?
        Author: Minju Jung (University of Sheffield)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Interpreting Global Politics Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
      Convener: IIRG Working group
      Chair: Ingvild Bode (Associate Professor)
      • ‘It’s The EU’s Fault!’ Strategies of Blame Avoidance in Andrej Babiš’s Discourse on the Conflict-of-interest Case
        Author: Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University)
      • One Sniff is Never Enough: Narcos’ Role in Reaffirming the United States’ Actions in South America and beyond
        Authors: Ryan O'Connor (BCU) , Euan Raffle (University of Leeds)
      • The Second Act: Brexit Performances at the UN Security Council
        Author: Lauren Rogers
      • Beyond the Terminator: How Imaginaries Draw Boundaries in the Debate About Weaponised Artificial Intelligence
        Author: Ingvild Bode (Associate Professor)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Roundtable / Race, Coloniality and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Reflections on Research and Practice Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Chair: Laura Shepherd (University of Sydney)
      Participants: Toni Haastrup (University of Stirling) , Collumba Achilleos-Sarll (University of Birmingham) , Jamie Hagen (Queen's University, Belfast) , Aiko Holvikivi (LSE) , Maria Martin de Almagro (University of Ghent)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Roundtable / Rethinking Pedagogy in Political Economy Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Chair: Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)
      Participants: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick) , Lena Rethel , Serena Natile (University of Warwick) , Craig Berry (Manchester Metropolitan University) , Hannes Baumann (University of Liverpool)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / Rethinking Security and Solidarity Through Emotions Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham)
      Discussant: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham)
      • (In)Security Atmospheres: The Affective Apparatus of International Administrations
        Author: Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg)
      • Strategic Humour and Post-truth Public Diplomacy: A Comparative Study of Audience Reception
        Author: Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield)
      • Re(story)telling Survival in International Relations: Anxious Humans, Emotional Stories, Magical Methods
        Author: Shambhawi Tripathi (University of St Andrews)
    • 1:15 PM 2:45 PM
      Panel / The Politics of Emotions in Social Movements Dobson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Johannes Sauerland (Durham University)
      • Fear, Conspiracy Narratives and Israeli Politics
        Author: Johannes Sauerland (Durham University)
      • Black Lives Matter Movement: Emotions and Protests
        Author: Efser Rana Coskun (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
      • Shame and the Solidarity Movement for Timor-Leste: the Body-in-suffering In the International Agenda
        Author: Marcelle Trote Martins (The University of Manchester)
    • 2:45 PM 3:00 PM
      Break with tea and coffee: SPONSORED BY REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 15m
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / (State) Terrorism and Violence: Processes of Legitimation in (In)Security Narratives Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Conveners: Alice Martini (QMUL) , Tom Pettinger
      Chair: Tom Pettinger
      • Ideologically Inspired Hate Crimes: Victims’ Narratives and Police Officers’ Unconscious Cognitive Biases
        Authors: Raquel da Silva (University of Coimbra) , Catarina Rosa (University of Aveiro)*
      • From Official Secrets to Official Discourse: How the State Came to Justify Torture
        Author: Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Sheffield)
      • The Depoliticising Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism in South East Europe
        Author: Magdalena König (University of Groningen)
      • Rhetorical Manoeuvres to Enable Torture: ‘Reverse Shaming’ and Narrative Contestation in Spain and the UK
        Author: Frank Foley (King's College London)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / British Foreign Policy and Human Rights Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
      Convener: Grace Livingstone (University of Cambridge)
      Chair: David J. Karp (University of Sussex)
      Discussant: David J. Karp (University of Sussex)
      • The Foreign Office, Human Rights and the Private Sector – A Critical Analysis of British Policy Towards the Dictatorships of Chile and Argentina, 1973-82
        Author: Grace Livingstone (University of Cambridge)
      • Activist Foreign Policy: Merging Practices with Mixed Results
        Author: Jamie Gaskarth (The Open University)
      • Scotland, Soft Power and Human Rights Policy
        Authors: Kurt Mills (University of Dundee) , Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh)
      • “Hardly a Trumpet Call for Freedom Everywhere!” Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Reframing of Britain’s Human Rights Agenda
        Author: David Grealy (University of Liverpool)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Communication and Messaging of Violence Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Conveners: Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth) , Annamaria Kiss (King's Russia Institute, King's College London)
      Chair: Annamaria Kiss (King's Russia Institute, King's College London)
      • Ingroup, Outgroup, or Ally? An Inquiry on the Identity Content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) Supporters on Social Media
        Authors: Ozden Melis Ulug (University of Sussex)* , Helin Unal (Clark University)* , Arda Bilgen (University of Warwick)
      • Images as Narrative: Analysing How the Islamic State Manipulates Images for Storytelling Purposes
        Author: Simon Copeland (Swansea University)
      • Ideology, Identity and Insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus
        Author: Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth)
      • Role of Social Media in Extremism: A Perspective for Understanding 'New' Militancy in Kashmir
        Author: Namita Barthwal (MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Disrupting the Western Intellectual Foundations of IR Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      Chair: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews)
      • Blood and Conspiracy Theories: Bringing an Analysis of Anti-Semitism Into IR
        Authors: Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex) , Laura Jung (University of Sussex)
      • Ubuntu and Global Justice
        Author: Katharina Hunfeld (University of St Andrews)
      • The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order
        Author: Owen Brown (Northwestern University)
      • Towards a Global Security Studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?
        Author: Jonna Nyman
      • Politics of Knowledge Production in the Global South: An Analysis of IR in India
        Author: Siddharth Tripathi (Käte Hamburger Kolleg, University of Duisburg-Essen)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / International Institutions and Organisations: Complexity, Bureaucracy, and Funding Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Ueli Staeger (Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Geneva)
      Chair: Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Readign)
      • Hybrid Institutional Complexes in Hard Times: Governance Responses to Global Crises
        Authors: Faude Benjamin (Newcastle University) , Kenneth Abbott (Arizona State University)*
      • The Path-dependent Evolution of the Chemical Weapons and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Governance Complexes
        Author: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni (University of Cambridge)
      • Earmarked Funding and the Effectiveness of International Organizations: Evidence From the Food and Agriculture Regime
        Author: Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow)
      • Funding and Expertise in International Organisations: Multidimensional Mandates and Civilian Staff in UN Peacekeeping
        Authors: Kseniya Oksamytna (City, University of London / King's College London) , Katharina Coleman (The University of British Columbia)* , Jessica Di Salvatore (University of Warwick)* , Sabine Otto (Uppsala University)*
      • Diversified Resource Mobilization and the Agency of International Organization Secretariats: The Case of the African Union
        Author: Ueli Staeger (Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Geneva)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Material Politics and the Circuits of Colonial Relations Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      Chair: Patrick Vernon (University of Birmingham)
      • Saving Civilians at the End of the World: A Queer Analysis of House of Commons Debates on Humanitarian Intervention
        Author: Patrick Vernon (University of Birmingham)
      • The Disciplining of Marginalized Groups Through Tear Gas
        Author: Shala Cachelin (University of Westminster)
      • Curating within Cyberspace: Museum of Material Memory and the Politics of Display
        Authors: Sridhar Krishnan (South Asian University, New Delhi) , Mumitha Madhu (South Asian University)
      • 'We Are Just Like You!’ Obscuring German Colonialism Through Transiting Indigenous Bodies
        Author: Doerthe Rosenow (Oxford Brookes University)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Participation and Protection in Security Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: European Journal of International Security
      Convener: Jason Ralph (University of Leeds and EJIS)
      Chair: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
      Discussant: Jason Ralph (University of Leeds and EJIS)
      • Doing Women, Peace and Security”: challenges and opportunities in mainstreaming a gender perspective in EU CSDP missions
        Author: Marion Greziller (University of Manchester)
      • Rising Powers and Human Protection: Understanding China’s Normative Contestation regarding Atrocity Prevention
        Author: Qiaochu Zhang
      • Foreign Fighters and Group Cohesion
        Author: Nicola Mathieson (Australian National University)
      • Swapping 'The Barracks' for 'The Cabinet': Military Political Participation in the Bolsonaro Administration
        Authors: Ricardo Barbosa (University of Brasilia) , Cortinhas Juliano (University of Brasilia)*
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Procuring Together, Procuring More Efficiently? European States and Defence Procurement in the 21st Century History Room, Student Union
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Conveners: Locatelli Andrea (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan, Italy) , Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)
      Chair: Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters
      • Europeans in Space: A Comparative Study of the Supra-nationalization of Critical Security Infrastructure
        Author: Nettles Adam (University of Milan, Italy)
      • Team FCAS vs Team Tempest: Why the New EU Defence Initiatives Will Not Prevent the Persistent Fragmentation of the European Defence Market
        Author: Antonio Calcara (University of Antwerp)
      • Cooperation You Don’t Expect: Explaining Collaborative Procurement in the EU
        Authors: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth) , Andrea Locatelli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Remembrance, War and Peace: Critical Approaches to Violence and Militarism Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
      Conveners: Jeffrey Whyte (University of Manchester) , Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol) , Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England)
      Chair: Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England)
      • Remembering Production: Favela Museums, Building, and the Production of Space
        Authors: Matt Davies (Newcastle University) , Renata Summa (International Relations Institute, PUC-Rio)*
      • Gender as an Analytic Lens for Agonistic Peace
        Author: Emma Murphy (University College Dublin)
      • Grieveable Life in Arms and Aviation: Mapping Boeing’s Social Media Response to the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Crash
        Authors: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire) , Emma Dolan (University of Limerick)
      • Discursive Helix: The Construction of the Conditions of Possibility for Military Interventions
        Author: Ryan O'Connor (BCU)
      • Conflicting Trajectories or Binding Ties? Situating Overlapping Regionalism Along a Continuum of Liminality, Ontological Security and Agonistic Pluralism
        Author: Antony Horne (University of Portsmouth)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Panel / Rethinking Research Practices in IR Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
      Conveners: Matthieu Grandpierron (ICES) , Rafael Alexandre Mello (University of Brasilia) , Nino Kemoklidze (University of Chichester)
      Chair: Cerwyn Moore (University of Birmingham)
      • An Intimate Theatre Of War
        Authors: Alice Cree (Newcastle University) , Hannah West (Newcastle University)
      • Discovering Case Studies in Global Politics
        Author: Cerwyn Moore (University of Birmingham)
      • The Global Regulation of Social Science Research: Ethical Scandals and Rule Indeterminacy in Institutionalized Ethical Review
        Author: Rebecca Tapscott
    • 4:30 PM 4:45 PM
      Break with tea and coffee: SPONSORED BY REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 15m
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Global Governance, International Organization, and Emerging Technologies Council Chamber, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Conveners: Odilile Ayodele , Asaf Alibegovic (Heidelberg University) , Mabda Haerunnisa Fajrilla (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
      Chair: Theo Westphal (University of Sheffield)
      • Setting The Scene: (De-)Constructing the AI Revolution in Security and Warfare
        Author: Hendrik Huelss (University of Southern Denmark)
      • Autonomous Warfare: Exploring EU and NATO Strategic Challenges and Ppportunities Resulting from the Development and Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
        Author: Isaac Bennett (University College Dublin)
      • Mapping the Virtual: Constructing Regions through the Cyberspace
        Author: Mabda Haerunnisa Fajrilla Sidiq (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / International Approaches to Peace and Conflict Carloil, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: PKPBG Working group
      • The Security Development Nexus at a Crossroads: Examining the UK Government’s Evolving Response to Conflict since 2015
        Authors: Oliver Walton (University of Bath) , Andrew Johnstone (University of Bath)*
      • Complexities of International Mediation at Sub-regional Levels in Africa: Lessons from South Sudan
        Author: Ibrahim Magara (Loughborough University)
      • What Accounts for the Gap Between UK Development Policy and Actual Aid Commitments in Conflict-Affected States
        Author: Melita Lazell (University of Portsmouth)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Politics of International Law Armstrong, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh)
      Chair: James Gow (King's College )
      • Why Ordinary People Care About International Law
        Authors: Janina Dill (University of Oxford) , Benjamin Valentino (Dartmouth College )*
      • The Rule of Law and State Capacity: Exploring Varieties of International Authoritarianism
        Author: Rebecca Tapscott
      • Russian Foreign Policy and the International Law in 1990s versus 2000s: Using, Misusing, or Creating a New Norm?
        Author: Natalia Piskunova (Moscow State University)
      • We Are All Chinese: a Constructivist Norm Contestation Perspective on China’s Assimilationist Ethnic Minority Policy and National Identity-building
        Authors: Cecilia Ducci (University of Bologna) , Pak Lee (University of Kent)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Practices of Violence and Control in the Middle East Swan, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Lewis Turner (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Lewis Turner (Newcastle University)
      • Psychic Force of Security: Analogue Surveillance, Informant Activities, and the Psychological Warfare in Security States
        Author: Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University)
      • On Life Support or Supporting Life? Counter Wounding and Care-as-politics in the Gaza Strip
        Author: Craig Jones (Newcastle University)
      • Relations of Care Amidst Military Bombings and COVID-19: Making and Unmaking Bonds of Care in Gaza
        Authors: Silvia Pasquetti (Newcastle University) , Jemima Repo (Newcastle University) , Hala Shoman (Newcastle University)
      • The Deferred Violence of Aerial Assaults on Gaza
        Author: Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Practising Peacekeeping: Experiences of Peacekeepers and Beyond Daniel Wood, Student Union
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Conveners: Anne Flaspöler (Durham University) , Jutta Bakonyi (Durham University)
      Chair: Anne Flaspöler (Durham University)
      Discussant: Marco Jowell (FCDO)
      • Quantum Leap: Ireland’s evolutionary role in Peacekeeping Operations at the Cusp of the 21st Century
        Author: Rory Finegan (Maynooth University )
      • African Peacekeeping
        Authors: Jonathan Fisher (University of Birmingham) , Nine Wilén (Lund University)
      • Peacekeepers and Everyday Doctrine Negotiations in an Age of the 'Robust Turn'
        Author: Louise Wiuff Moe (University of Southern Denmark)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Rethinking Emancipation Bewick, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
      Conveners: Giorgio Shani (International Christian University) , Hartmut Behr (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Hartmut Behr (Newcastle University)
      • What is an Emancipatory Peace?
        Author: Oliver Richmond (University of Manchester)
      • Conspiracy Theories as Pseudo-emancipatory Theories of Power
        Author: Philip Conway (Durham Univserity)
      • Rethinking Emancipation in a Critical IR
        Author: Hartmut Behr (Newcastle University)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / The Diverse Politics of Secession Parson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Cambridge)
      Chair: Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University)
      • Now Is Not The Time! Discourse of Theresa May and Boris Johnson vis-à-vis the Second Scottish Independence Referendum
        Author: Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University)
      • Anxious for Territory: Territorial Claims of Unrecognised States as an Ontological Routine
        Author: Dominik Sipinski (Central European University)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Roundtable / The Ethics and Politics of 'Harm' Martin Luther King, Student Union
      Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
      Chair: James Pattison (University of Manchester)
      Participants: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter) , David J. Karp (University of Sussex) , Alex Hoseason (Aston University) , Lara Montesinos Coleman (University of Sussex) , Eric Heinze (Queen Mary)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / The Power of Narratives: Russia’s Strategic Narratives of Identity and Crises Kate Adie, Student Union
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Valentina Feklyunina (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Benjamin Faude (Newcastle University)
      • How do International Audiences Psychologically Respond to Russian State-sponsored Media Narratives About Their State? An Experimental Study
        Author: Aiden Hoyle (University of Amsterdam)
      • News Media Use and (In)Security: An Assessment of Threats and Vulnerabilities in Ukraine’s Peripheral Regions
        Author: Joanna Szostek (Glasgow University)
      • Views In The News: Othering and Threat Construction on RT
        Author: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
      • RT UK and Its Coverage of the 2019 British General Elections: Ambitious Goals and Modest Results
        Author: Vitaly Kazakov (Manchester University)
      • Strategic Narratives of Victories and Defeats: Russia’s Engagement with Afghanistan
        Author: Valentina Feklyunina (Newcastle University)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Roundtable / The Academic-Practitioner Nexus: What Can We Learn? Collingwood, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group
      Chair: Andrew Dorman (International Affairs)
      Participants: Tracey German (King's College London) , Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews) , Andrew Dorman (International Affairs)
    • 4:45 PM 6:15 PM
      Panel / Understanding Transnational Violent and Non-violent Activism and its Challenges Stephenson, Civic Centre
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Conveners: Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth) , Annamaria Kiss (King's Russia Institute, King's College London)
      Chair: Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth)
      Discussant: Cerwyn Moore (University of Birmingham)
      • Everyday Resistance as a Complex Adaptive System in Myanmar
        Author: Alex Moodie (Durham University)
      • Understanding Russian Perceptions of Transnational Armed Mobilisation
        Author: Annamaria Kiss (King's Russia Institute, King's College London)
      • Explaining the Absence of Jihadi Mobilisation among Georgian Azeris
        Author: Aleksandre Kvakhadze (University of Birmingham)
      • Questioning Violences of Gendered (In)Visibility in the TPA-CAA-NRC-NPR
        Author: Q Manivannan (PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews)