Name: BISA 2024 Conference
Start: 2024-06-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-07T23:59:00+01:00
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21st Century Right Wing Nationalisms

'Whose climate justice: ecofeminist researchers want to know'

(De)Colonial Aesthetics & Poetics

(In)tangible cultural heritage and conflict (transformation)

(Re)Narrating the ‘International’: Telling stories from feminist and decolonial perspectives

A decade of Feminist Foreign Policy – the state of the field

A tribute to the work of Christopher Coker – The Return of History: Christopher Coker and The Study of War

Academic freedom in the teaching, learning and research of Politics and IR

Adapting to a post-Brexit international relations: Identity, Status and Role in UK Foreign Policy

Adjusting to inter-state competition: How middle powers are carving out a defence role for themselves

Advocacy, Protest and Activism

Aesthetic Refusal, Aesthetics of Refusal, Refusal of Aesthetics

African philosophy, intellectuals and the global political economy of knowledge production

Ambiguity Politics in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings

Anticipating the Future of War: AI, Automated Systems, and Resort-to-Force Decision Making

Applied History and British Foreign Policy

Author meets critics: Rita Floyd's The Duty to secure

Authoritarian futures? International politics and future-oriented foreign policymaking in authoritarian regimes

Beyond the Giddensian subject in Ontological Security Studies: Rethinking the psychic life of world politics.

Beyond Western Paradigms: Adapting Peacebuilding for Africa's Realities

BISA 2024 reception

BISA prize giving ceremony

Book launch reception for The Duty to Secure: From Just to Mandatory Securitization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Rita Floyd. Sponsored by the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) & the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), University of Birmingham

Book Talk: The End of Peacekeeping Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention

Bordering, Frontiers and Migrant Lives

Borders, boundaries, frontiers, and borderlands of South East Europe: Enacting, engaging and performing.

British Ontological Insecurities and Anxieties in International Politics

Canal run lead by Mark Webber and Stefan Wolff. Meet outside Hyatt Hotel, either 4k or 8k route

Charting the Future of PCWP Scholarship beyond the Tübingen School

China and India in the (Post-)Colonial Entanglements

China at the crossroads: Approaches to regional and domestic bargaining powers

Climate geopolitics: Conflict, security, and responsibility

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group AGM

Colonialism and the Reproduction of Agrarian Labour

Communities, Conflict Preparedness and Agency in Unarmed Civilian Protection: Projects from Cameroon, Nigeria, Palestine, and South Sudan

Conceptualising AI in Global Society

Contestations of sovereignty and democracy: History, legitimacy, volatility

Contesting Empire in the Contemporary Global Order

Contesting Nuclear and Climate Imperialisms in the Pacific

Continuity versus change in Japan’s security and defence policies

Contours of Contemporary Nuclear Dynamics: Challenges and strategies

Controversies, Failed Scandals, and Contestation in the fields of Security and Counterterrorism

Cooperation and colonization. Future geopolitical relations in space.

Counter-Terrorism and Colonial Violence

Counter-Terrorism in Civic Spaces

CPD Early Career Prize

Critical engagements with war and war labour

Critical spaces: engaging with Queer, feminist and postcolonial IR

Critical Studies on Terrorism Special Issue Roundtable: Abolition, Decoloniality, and Criticality: Can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”?

Cultural heritage in peace and conflict – from theory to practice

Culture wars and international relations: Contesting moral authority in global order

Data Governance and Digital Health – Visualisation, Inclusion, and Sovereignty in a Digital Health Economy

Decolonialising peacebuilding and everyday peace

Democracy, Displacement and Diaspora in West Africa

Depletion – the cost of social reproduction: 10 years on

Describing Difference, Seeking Solidarity: Interpretations of Race and Relationality in Anticolonial Campaigns during Historical Decolonization

Developing a British Kashmiri Studies

Diasporas’ mobilisation, political participation and activism

Digital Geopolitics: Rising Powers and International Institutions

Disability and Illness in International Studies: Practising a Feminist Ethic of Care

Diverse Challenges to the Protection of Human Rights

Does the Method Fit? Exploring Diverse Methodologies of Research in South East Europe

Domestic politics, political leaders, and foreign policies

Egyptian Stories: Narrating Spatial Memories in Evanescent Spaces of Belonging

Emerging Patterns in Digital Norms and Culture

Emerging powers and economies

Emotions and collective identification

Emotions and the politics of subjectivity

Ethics and World Politics

Ethics and World Politics: the Anthropocene, Mobilities and Neocolonialism

EU-China relation in a changing global context (an Italian perspective)

Europe and Global Security

European National Security Strategies: Dynamics of Change

European Security Working Group AGM

Evaluating the Intellectual Project of Critical Military Studies: its First Decade in Review

Everyday action in times of economic change: historical lessons for contemporary international trends

Everyday Ethics of the International: New imaginaries of relation, negotiation and care

Everyday Militarism

Everyday Peace and Lingering Violence

Everyday Security: Countering Radicalisation in Ordinary Spaces

Everyday Security: The Production of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Discourse and Praxis within Ordinary Spaces

Exhibition Hall Open

Explaining and Preventing Civil War Recurrence

Far-Right and Misogynist Extremism

Feminist approaches to the everyday: Common people in a Complex World

Feminist Foreign Policy: Labelling, Narratives and Performativity

Feminist Security Studies: Gendering, Strategy, Tactics

Film screening of 'Youse are so brave' by Dr Hannah West with Q&A

Forced migration, asylum, and citizenship from the UK to the Global South

Foreign Fighters: Returnees, Repatriation and Recidivism

Foreign Policy Analysis Challenges in South America: Links and gaps between theory and practice

Foreign policy analysis: Cases and Concepts

Frontiers, The Final Frontier: Narratives, Emotions, And Technologies Of Governance

Gender, race and capitalism

Gendered approaches to peacebuilding policy and practice

Gendered militaries and knowledges of war

Gendering International Relations Working Group business meeting

Gendering the Military, Militarising Gender: Military Representations in Pop Culture and Social Media

Geocultural Identities in the Making

Global climate governance: Policies and finances of the climate crisis

Global Governance and macro-level peace

Global Social Theory and 'The International'

Grant Culture, Impact, and Critical Scholarship

Great Powers, Rising Powers and Deterrence

Has “militarisation” had its day?

Historicising Geopolitics and Geopolitical Practices

Identity construction: Soft power, mediation, public diplomacy, security policy

In the shadow of bipolarity? The Space Age beyond the United States and China

In Whom We Trust? Trustworthiness, Trust and Trusting within Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy

Indigeneity and Contested Identities in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings

Indo-Pacific Diplomacy: Challanges and Opportunities

Interdisciplinary approaches to the role of state and non-state actors in issues of forced migration

Internal Affairs of Asia: An elusive balance of regional and domestic instruments

International Law and Politics Working Group business meeting

International politics of African statebuilding

International studies and climate change in the Anthropocene

Interpreting norms and status in world order

Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group AGM

Introduction to Book Publishing

IPE and the current world (dis)order

Keynote by Prof Tarak Barkawi: 'War and World Politics: or why I stopped doing IR' SPONSORED BY THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY

Knowledge production before and after the Troubles

Latin American IR in the UK

Learning and Teaching Café

Legacies of Rebellion: Wartime Dynamics and Postwar Political Consequences

Less, More, Different? Exploring the Global Politics of Post-Growth

Local peace and hybridity in peacebuilding interventions

Lunchtime history talk from the War Studies Working Group - Birmingham: The War Years. Speakers: Brian Wright and Matt Felkin

Macro-micro dynamics in peacekeeping research

Managing information, narratives and identities in Ukraine and Russia

Martial Realism and the Problem of War

Media Discourses on Security and Threat

Meet the editors - Speed networking session

Meet the Editors of Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Security and International Affairs

Memory and the Afterlives of Empire

Migrants and Refugees in the UK

Militarised childhoods and resistance in education

Militaristic Popular Culture – keeping apace in a war economy?

Military Humanitarianism: Reimagining the Nexus Between Aid Operations and Armed Forces

Military Learning: Command, Leadership, and Failure

Mothering, Motherhood and (Feminist) International Relations 2.0: An open roundtable conversation

Multiple Practices of Humanitarianism and Beyond

Narratives and dilemmas of global security

Narratives, noise and normality in the global nuclear order

Nationalism, resistance, and dissent in political systems

NATO at 75: Challenging Times

Negotiated State-Building: Unravelling the Complex Relationship between the State and Non-State Actors

Negotiating and renegotiating political worlds

Never Again? Unpacking the German Discourse on Palestine

New actors, spaces and methods of activism in world politics

New approaches to theorising emotion in global politics

New approaches to understanding data and methodology in peace and conflict

New directions for the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda.

New Paradigms from the Global South

New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century International Order

New Technologies and Future War

No feminism without anticolonialism: towards a just feminist international thinking

Non-State Actors and Civil Wars

Norms, Legality & Identity in US Foreign Policy

Norms, nations, and identity crises in global politics

Occultism in International Studies: A Research Agenda

One Destination, Many Roads: Distrust-Reduction, Hope, and Trust Building in Conflict Resolution

Ontological security and securitisation theory: identifying overlaps and divergences

Ontologies and practices of global security

Pandemic Governance and the State – Local approaches at a time of emergency

Para-diplomacy, diasporas, and foreign policy of non-state actors

Peace on Display: The Arts and Aesthetics of Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding as Violence? Engaging with a complex relationship

Peacekeeping in a multipolar world: Pluralised or (neo-)imperial peace?

Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and conflict resolution

Pedagogical Approaches to Global Health

Pedagogies for Teaching International Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Pedagogies of the everyday in International Studies

Perspectives on conflict management and stabilisation

Perspectives on Nuclear Narratives: Discourses, Ethics, and Global Implications

Policing minoritised groups in the global ‘South’ and ‘North’: New perspectives on vulnerabilities revolving around migration, religion, and race

Policing, Prisons, and Counterinsurgency in the Global South

Political economies of development

Political Economies of Europe and Europeanisation

Political economies of security and geopolitics

Political economy of the environment

Popular Culture and World Politics – Keeping Pace by Looking ‘Beyond the Mirror’

Popular Culture and World Politics – new sites of activity in a changing world

Popular Culture and World Politics – reflection and mirroring an ever-changing world

Populist foreign policies, authoritarianism, and democratic back-sliding

Post-Brexit U.K. foreign policy, and “Global Britain”

Poster session - Susan Strange @ 100: an enduring legacy for contemporary times

Power & Governance in Digital Global Politics

Power, Norms and the Legitimacy of the International Order

Precision: The American Way of War? - In conversation with Professor Mick Cox and Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe

Professional Military Education in the United Kingdom

Projecting Power and Science: Anti-Satellite Weapons and Strategic Interests in Space

Public feelings: the politics of affective circulation

Public roundtable: Is the foreign policy of democratic states facilitating the global decline of democratic and human rights standards? Reception 6.15-7pm followed by roundtable 7-8.30pm. Sponsored by University of Birmingham and CEDAR. Although this is open to all conference delegates you need to register in advance to attend at https://www.bisa.ac.uk/events/foreign-policy-democratic-states-facilitating-global-decline-democratic-and-human-rights

Publishing as a PhD Scholar: Dos and Don'ts

Questioning African unity and diplomacy

Questioning structures, practices, and discourses in International Relations: Readings from Mexico and the Global South

Race, religion, justice and the economy in Southern Africa

Re-focusing transnational connectivities: new conversations on diasporas, activism, and repression.

Re-thinking and resisting in Critical Military Studies

Re-Thinking Global IR amid wars, political violence and inofficious narrative

Re-visiting the Gulf Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Scope, Theory and Data

Re-visiting the Turkish politics: domestic, regional and global challanges to Ankara

Reading Against/With the (Colonial) Archive

Recentring Harm in Critical Military Studies

Reframing British Politics: Lessons from International Relations

Reframing global political phenomenon

Regional cooperation and shifting power dynamics in Eurasia

Regional governance and responsibility for refugee protection in Latin America, Africa and Europe

Reimagining Agency & Identity in International Relations

Relational Approaches to Civil War: From Inter-Rebel Cooperation to Ex-Combatant Reintegration

Rethinking Challenges to Mass Atrocity Prevention

Rethinking Connections: The Future of Humanitarianism, Human Protection and Building Peace

Rethinking epistemologies and representation in international studies

Rethinking stabilisation and responding to transnational threats

Review of International Studies - RIS @ 50. On the Horizon: The futures of IR

Revisiting the postcolonial critiques of IR

Revisiting thinkers and concepts of the international

Rituals in International Relations

Roundtable: Western approaches to security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group AGM

Russia’s challenges to the liberal world order

Russia’s Offensive War Against Ukraine

Screening event: Keynote speaker Ed Hall, "Forced out"

Sea change: Ocean politics, management and security

Securing the Institution, Securing the State: Militarised Ontological Security and Strategic Narratives

Securitisation of Migration and Asylum in Europe: Perceptions, Representation and Management

Security and political experiments in the West African Sahel.

Security Partnerships in Comparative Perspective

Sexual violence in military institutions

Shifting roles in Middle East politics: collaborators, newcomers and dealbreakers

Sites and bodies of violence

Situating nuclear politics - exploring nuclear politics and places beyond the interstate.

South East Europe Working Group AGM

Space Strategy, Surveillance, and Threats

Spatial Logics of Violence in Global Politics

State-Formation, Colonisation, World Orders

Status, Social Closure and Stratification in International Society

Strengthening the Evidentiary Foundations of Conflict Research

Susan Strange @ 100: an enduring legacy for contemporary times

Taking stock of Feminist Foreign Policy - embedded or expendable?

Teaching and Learning in International Studies

Teaching ‘terrorism’ critically

Technology, Climate and Insecurity in the Transformations of International Order

The 'knowers' of international studies: Radical intersectionality and collective imagining from the margins

The Big Picture as an approach to the study of International Relations: Thinking with and beyond Barry Buzan

The Coloniality of Security

The colonially of movement: Mobilities, migration and empire

The continuum of gendered violence – everydayness, trauma and insecurity

The emotional politics of leadership

The EU and its Southern Border: Security and Migration

The foreign policy and international relations of authoritarian middle-powers

The Global South, Latin America, and international affairs

The Injustices of Law

The interconnectedness of norm definitions and norm contestation

The Intersectional Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament

The label of ‘terrorism’ and the permissibility of violence

The Making and Unmaking of Global Orders

The Micro-dynamics of peace and conflict

The nexus of artificial intelligence and critical security studies: Current issues and future research trajectories

The nexus of small states between emerging middle powers and competing global actors

The political economy of banking and banks

The political economy of domestic jurisdictions

The political economy of green energy transitions in an age of crises

The political economy of the Sino-British Joint Declaration - 40 years on

The politics of actually existing climate leadership

The politics of development: Institutions, interests, and ideas

The Politics of Emotions in International Relations

The Politics of International Criminal Law: Historical and Contemporary Investigations

The role of institutional actors towards refugee policies

The Social Foundations of Global Finance: Engagements with the Work of Timothy J. Sinclair

The Ukraine War and the Re-making of Europe's Security Order

The uses and abuses of history, memory and identity in Russian foreign and security policies.

The World of the Right: A Discussion

Theorising (counter)terrorism

Theorising Foreign Policy

Theorising International Orders – historical and social scientific perspectives

Theorizing the International in International Organizations and Prototype INGOs: 1915 to 1950

Thinking Peace, Conflict and Political Transformation

Thinking the Future of War: Epistemology, Innovation, and Revolutions

Towards an IPE of Raced Finance: a conversation

Transatlantic Relations: the US, the EU, the UK and NATO

Transnational conflict in the Middle East and Africa: a case study for policy and programming

Troubling the domestic and the international in South East Europe

Turkey’s Tightrope: Navigating Domestic and International Crosswinds

Ukrainian identity, regional diversity and wartime unity

Uncovering Hierarchies of International Relations: Some Perspectives from India

Understanding diplomacy and peace processes

Understanding Violent Movements

Unorthodox intersections: Migration Conversations from Diverse Perspectives

Unpacking the ongoing tech war between China and the United States

Unseeing Genocide: Academic Responsibilities and Complicities

US Diplomacy, Alliance Politics and Economic Security

US Foreign Policy and the Indo-Pacific

War and the Earth

War Studies Working Group Keynote by Ed Hall: Finding Rainbows in the UK’s Armed Forces: from sacking lesbians and gays to promoting LGBT soldiers, a journey in diversity and inclusion SPONSORED BY POLITY. Followed by film screening at 3pm

Wars on terror

What do we know about war in 2024?

What does an International Studies with and for young people look like?

What does the future hold for the US and UK’s ‘Special Relationship’? Examining the transatlantic partnership in the year of elections: roundtable followed by drinks reception. SPONSORED BY The Foreign Policy Centre, University of Birmingham and BISA. Although this is open to all conference delegates you need to register in advance to attend at: https://www.bisa.ac.uk/events/what-does-future-hold-us-and-uks-special-relationship-examining-transatlantic-partnership

Who thinks of everything? Reckoning with the value of racialised epistemologies in IR

Whose Counter-terrorism?

Whose foreign policy? Re-assessing Turkey in International Relations after the Centenary

Whose futures: the role of fiction in re/imagining climate politics.

Whose International Studies are we teaching?

Whose news, whose history? Critically interrogating media, information and international relations

Whose Nuclear Governance? New(er) Trends of Interpretive Scholarship in Understanding Nuclear Governance I (Structural Approaches)

Whose Nuclear Governance? New(er) Trends of Interpretive Scholarship in Understanding Nuclear Governance II (Agency Dimensions)

Whose Queer Political Economy? Conversations Within and Beyond IPE

Whose Reflexivity? Different Interpretive Approaches for Researchers in Global Politics

Whose Security? Critical Reflections on Security Policy In the UK

Whose security? The UK’s security strategies and narratives

Whose State? Statehood Conflict in Europe and its Neighbourhood

Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue

Working group convener meeting

Young people, politics, and peace networking meeting

Youth, Violence and Conflict transformation: Exploring mobilization into violence and the role of youth in peacebuilding

‘Making friends and influencing people’: a Russian toolbox for managing others on the international stage

‘Making the Sandwiches’: Gender, Race, Social Reproduction, and Academic Labour

‘Regions’ and Spatial Relations to International Thought

“War on Terror” 2.0.? Critique, contestation and human rights

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