BISA 2024 Conference

4 Jun 2024, 09:00 → 7 Jun 2024, 23:59 Europe/London

Welcome to the event management area for #BISA2024. Here you can register for our conference in Birmingham. You can purchase either a one-day or a three-day ticket (two-day tickets are not possible). We look forward to welcoming you at BISA 2024.

Tuesday 4 June

18:15 → 20:30 TU Roundtable / 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

Speakers: Dr Mwita Chacha (University of Birmingham), Dr Petra Alderman (University of Birmingham), Dr Toby Greene (Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics), Professor Catherine O'Regan (University of Oxford), Professor Nic Cheeseman, Professor Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 5 June

09:00 → 10:30 05 Roundtable / Charting the Future of PCWP Scholarship beyond the Tübingen School

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Chair: Robert Saunders (State University of New York)

Participants: Louise Pears (University of Leeds) , Katarina Birkedal (University of St Andrews) , Nick Robinson (University of Leeds) , Matt Davies (Newcastle University) , Julian Schmid (Central European University) , Erzsebet Strausz (Central European University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Continuity versus change in Japan’s security and defence policies

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Yee-Kuang Heng (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Chair: Christopher Hughes (University of Warwick, England)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Contours of Contemporary Nuclear Dynamics: Challenges and strategies

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Convener: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)

Chair: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Counter-Terrorism in Civic Spaces

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Lee Jarvis

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Explaining and Preventing Civil War Recurrence

Sponsor: University of Birmingham, School of Government Conflict and Peace Processes Research Group

Convener: Stefan Wolff (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Stefan Wolff (University of Birmingham)

Discussant: Gearoid Millar (University of Aberdeen)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Foreign policy analysis: Cases and Concepts

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Gender, race and capitalism

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Lena Rethel

09:00 → 10:30 05 Roundtable / IPE and the current world (dis)order

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Chair: Owen Worth (University of Limerick)

Participants: Yuliya Yurchenko (University of Greenwich) , Peter Burnham (University of Birmingham) , David Bailey (University of Birmingham) , Owen Worth (University of Limerick)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Internal Affairs of Asia: An elusive balance of regional and domestic instruments

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: ISMMEA Working group

Chair: Rory McCarthy (Durham University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Managing information, narratives and identities in Ukraine and Russia

Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Stephen Hall (University of Bath)

Chair: Frank Maracchione (University of Sheffield)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Race, religion, justice and the economy in Southern Africa

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: AISG Working group

Chair: Lesley Masters (Nottingham Trent University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Roundtable / Reframing British Politics: Lessons from International Relations

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Chair: Nicola Smith (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham) , Patrick Vernon (King's College London) , Sadiya Akram (Manchester Metropolitan University) , Ash Stokoe (University of Birmingham) , Parveen Akhtar (Aston University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Security Partnerships in Comparative Perspective

Sponsor: European Journal of International Security

Conveners: Vladimir Rauta (University of Reading) , Alex Neads (University of Durham)

Chair: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Sexual violence in military institutions

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Harriet Gray (University of York)

Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Roundtable / Strengthening the Evidentiary Foundations of Conflict Research

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Chair: Ces Moore (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Chi Zhang (St Andrews) , Nicholas Barker (University of Birmingham) , David Stroup (Manchester) , Toni Rouhana (York)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Taking stock of Feminist Foreign Policy - embedded or expendable?

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath) , Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / Technology, Climate and Insecurity in the Transformations of International Order

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Alex Hoseason (Aston University)

Chair: Philip Conway (Durham University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / The Micro-dynamics of peace and conflict

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)

Chair: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / The Politics of Emotions in International Relations

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford) , Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of Warwick)

Chair: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Panel / The coloniality of movement: Mobilities, migration and empire

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Conveners: Alice Engelhard (LSE) , Tarsis Brito (London School of Economics)

Chair: Shikha Dilawri (LSE)

Discussant: Quỳnh N. Phạm (University of San Francisco)

09:00 → 10:30 05 Roundtable / What does an International Studies with and for young people look like?

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Chair: Helen Berents (Griffith University)

Participants: Yulia Nesterova (Glasgow University) , Caitlin Mollica (University of Newcastle) , Bina D'Costa (Australian National University) , Sean Carter (University of Exeter) , Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield) , Allyson Edwards (Bath Spa University)

10:30 → 10:45 15 minute transition

10:30 → 18:15 05 Conference event / Exhibition Hall Open

10:30 → 11:30 Refreshment break

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / A decade of Feminist Foreign Policy – the state of the field

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath) , Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)

Discussant: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Adjusting to inter-state competition: How middle powers are carving out a defence role for themselves

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Aleix Nadal (King's College London, Freeman Air and Space Institute)

Chair: Andrew Dorman (Chatham House)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Roundtable / CPD Early Career Prize

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Jenna Marshall (King's College London)

Participants: Alice Engelhard (LSE) , Jamal Nabulsi (University of Queensland) , Heba Youssef (University of Brighton) , Cian O'Driscoll (ANU) , Sara Wong (LSE)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Cooperation and colonization: Future geopolitical relations in space

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (BISA)

Chair: Sarah Dunn (University of Leicester)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Describing Difference, Seeking Solidarity: Interpretations of Race and Relationality in Anticolonial Campaigns during Historical Decolonization

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: Margot Tudor (City, University of London)

Chair: Margot Tudor (City, University of London)

Discussant: Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Domestic politics, political leaders, and foreign policies

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Far-Right and Misogynist Extremism

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Anna Meier (University of Nottingham)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Gendered militaries and knowledges of war

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Hannah West (Newcastle University) , Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Roundtable / Latin American IR in the UK

Sponsor: BISA

Chair: Leslie Wehner (University of Bath)

Participants: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham) , Tom Long (University of Warwick) , Carsten-Andreas Schulz (University of Cambridge) , Consuelo Thiers (University of Edinburgh) , Marina Duque (University College London)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Roundtable / Learning and Teaching Drop In Café - open to all

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Chair: Ilan Baron (Durham University)

Participants: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire) , Akinyemi Oyawale (University of Warwick) , Louise Pears (University of Leeds) , Madeleine Le Bourdon (University of Leeds) , Shambhawi Tripathi (University of St. Andrews)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Local peace and hybridity in peacebuilding interventions

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Roundtable / Occultism in International Studies: A Research Agenda

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Chair: Ida Birkvad (LSE)

Participants: Zeynep Gülsah Capan (University of Erfurt) , Philip Conway (Durham University) , Ida Birkvad (LSE) , Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg (Tilburg University)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Pandemic Governance and the State – Local approaches at a time of emergency

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Convener: GHWG Working group

Chair: Christopher Long (Queen's University Belfast)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Policing, Prisons, and Counterinsurgency in the Global South

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Conveners: Francisco Mazzola (King's College London) , Michael Farquhar (King's College London)

Chair: Francisco Mazzola (King's College London)

Discussant: Francisco Mazzola (King's College London)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Political Economies of Europe and Europeanisation

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Pedro Perfeito da Silva (University of Exeter)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Questioning structures, practices, and discourses in International Relations: Readings from Mexico and the Global South

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Arturo Santa Cruz (Universidad de Guadalajara)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Rituals in International Relations

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen) , Chiara Ruffa

Chair: Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Securitisation of Migration and Asylum in Europe: Perceptions, Representation and Management

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: IPMRD Working group

Chair: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / The Big Picture as an approach to the study of International Relations: Thinking with and beyond Barry Buzan

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Convener: Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Laust Schouenborg (Roskilde University)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / The politics of actually existing climate leadership

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Stanley Wilshire (University of Manchester)

Chair: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)

Discussant: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Panel / Whose security? The UK’s security strategies and narratives

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Conveners: Thomas Martin (Open University) , Larry Attree (Rethinking Security) , Elisabeth Schweiger (University of Stirling)

Chair: Elisabeth Schweiger (University of Stirling)

Discussant: Larry Attree (Rethinking Security)

10:45 → 12:15 05 Roundtable / “War on Terror” 2.0.? Critique, contestation and human rights

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Chair: Frank Foley (King's College London)

Participants: Andrea Birdsall (University of Edinburgh) , Harmonie Toros (University of Kent) , Frank Foley (King's College London) , Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield) , Lee Jarvis

12:15 → 13:15 05 / International Law and Politics Working Group business meeting

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch - SPONSORED BY REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (RIPE)

12:15 → 13:15 05 Conference event / Lunchtime history talk from the War Studies Working Group - Birmingham: The War Years. Speakers: Brian Wright and Matt Felkin

12:45 → 13:15 05 / Film screening of 'Youse are so brave' by Dr Hannah West with Q&A

13:15 → 14:45 05 Roundtable / Adapting to a post-Brexit international relations: Identity, Status and Role in UK Foreign Policy

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Chair: Mark Webber (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Amelia Hadfield (University of Surrey) , Richard Whitman (University of Kent) , Megan Dee (University of Stirling) , Ben Kienzle , Charlotte Burns (University of Sheffield)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Beyond the Giddensian subject in Ontological Security Studies: Rethinking the psychic life of world politics

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: Bruno Sowden-Carvalho (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / China at the Crossroads: Approaches to regional and domestic bargaining powers

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: ISMMEA Working group

Chair: Mengqi Sun (Durham University)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Communities, Conflict Preparedness and Agency in Unarmed Civilian Protection: Projects from Cameroon, Nigeria, Palestine, and South Sudan

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)

Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)

Discussant: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Roundtable / Disability and Illness in International Studies: Practising a Feminist Ethic of Care

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Hannah Wright (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Debbie Lisle (Queens University Belfast) , Q Manivannan (University of St Andrews) , Laura McLeod (University of Manchester) , Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Emerging powers and economies

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Martin Hearson (Institute of Development Studies)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Everyday Security: The Production of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Discourse and Praxis within Ordinary Spaces

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: Jack Holland (University of Leeds)

Chair: Jack Holland (University of Leeds)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Knowledge production before and after the Troubles

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Hannah West (Newcastle University)

Chair: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Macro-micro dynamics in peacekeeping research

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Conveners: Fanny Badache (Geneva Graduate Institute) , Chiara Ruffa , Camille Bayet (Université Paris II)

Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Martial Realism and the Problem of War

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Conveners: Jamie Johnson (University of Leicester) , Jeffrey Whyte (Lancaster University)

Chair: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University)

Discussant: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Roundtable / Policing minoritised groups in the global ‘South’ and ‘North’: New perspectives on vulnerabilities revolving around migration, religion, and race

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Chair: Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)

Participants: Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick) , Zin Derfoufi (St Mary's University) , Jennifer Philippa Eggert (Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities) , Maryam Kanwer (Independent researcher/practitioner)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Popular Culture and World Politics – reflection and mirroring an ever-changing world

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

Chair: Julian Schmid (Central European University)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Power, Norms and the Legitimacy of the International Order

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: Suwita Hani Randhawa (University of the West of England)

Chair: Suwita Hani Randhawa (University of the West of England)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Security and political experiments in the West African Sahel

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Conveners: Eloïse Bertrand (University of Nottingham) , Samiratou Dipama (University Thomas Sankara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

Chair: Eloïse Bertrand (University of Nottingham)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / The Global South, Latin America, and international affairs

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / The Making and Unmaking of Global Orders

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Convener: IIRG Working group

Chair: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson

13:15 → 14:45 05 Roundtable / The Ukraine War and the Re-making of Europe's Security Order

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)

Participants: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth) , Andrew Cottey (University College Cork) , Martin Smith (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) , Christoph Meyer (King's College London) , Alexander Kolding Borum (European University Institute)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Roundtable / The nexus of artificial intelligence and critical security studies: Current issues and future research trajectories

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Chair: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)

Participants: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University) , Mike Bourne (Queen's University Belfast) , Hamoon Khelghat-Doost (University of Lincoln) , Toni Erskine (Australian National University) , Karli Gibson (Queen's University Belfast) , Cameron Paul Hunter (University of Copenhagen)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / The political economy of the Sino-British Joint Declaration - 40 years on

Sponsor: British International History Working Group

Convener: Peter Burnham (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Shaun Breslin (University of Warwick)

Discussant: David Bailey (University of Birmingham)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / The uses and abuses of history, memory and identity in Russian foreign and security policies

Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)

Chair: Kevork Oskanian (University of Exeter)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / Uncovering Hierarchies of International Relations: Some Perspectives from India

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: Shailza Singh (Bharati College, University of Delhi)

Chair: Nachiketa Singh (SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi)

13:15 → 14:45 05 Panel / ‘Regions’ and Spatial Relations to International Thought

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: Maria Tanyag (Australian National University)

Chair: Sarah Dunstan (University of Glasgow)

14:45 → 15:00 15 minute transition

14:45 → 15:45 Refreshment break

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Bordering, Frontiers and Migrant Lives

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Controversies, Failed Scandals, and Contestation in the fields of Security and Counterterrorism

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Conveners: Frank Foley (King's College London) , Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín (Spanish National Distance University, UNED)

Chair: Lee Jarvis

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Decolonialising peacebuilding and everyday peace

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)

Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / EU-China relation in a changing global context (an Italian perspective)

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Matteo Dian (University of Bologna)

Discussant: Matteo Dian (University of Bologna)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Everyday Peace and Lingering Violence

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: Rebekka Friedman (KCL)

Chair: Roddy Brett (Bristol)

Discussant: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Non-State Actors and Civil Wars

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: WSWG Working group

Chair: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Ontologies and practices of global security

Sponsor: European Journal of International Security

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Dalia Saris (Queen Mary University London)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Public feelings: the politics of affective circulation

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Revisiting Turkish Politics: domestic, regional and global challenges to Ankara

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: ISMMEA Working group

Chair: Basak Alpan (Middle East Technical University)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Roundtable / Recentring Harm in Critical Military Studies

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Chair: Jamie Johnson (University of Leicester)

Participants: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University) , Sarah Bulmer , Hannah Richards , Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Roundtable / Western approaches to security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Chair: Christoph Meyer (King's College London)

Participants: Zeno Leoni (Defence Studies Department - King’s College London) , Mauro Bonavita (King's College London - Department of War Studies) , Anna Tan (Lau China Institute - King’s College London) , Participant to be confirmed

15:00 → 16:30 05 Roundtable / The 'knowers' of international studies: Radical intersectionality and collective imagining from the margins

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Helen Berents (Griffith University)

Participants: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London) , Q Manivannan (University of St Andrews) , Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester) , Participant to be confirmed

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / The Injustices of Law

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / The political economy of banking and banks

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Martin Hearson (Institute of Development Studies)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Theorizing the International in International Organizations and Prototype INGOs: 1915 to 1950

Sponsor: British International History Working Group

Convener: Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes University)

Chair: Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes University)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Unorthodox intersections: Migration Conversations from Diverse Perspectives

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)

Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)

Discussant: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Roundtable / Whose Queer Political Economy? Conversations Within and Beyond IPE

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Chair: Ellie Gore (University of Manchester)

Participants: Ursula Mäki (University of Manchester) , Sameera Khalfey (University of Birmingham) , Alexander Stoffel (QMUL) , SM Rodriguez (LSE) , Ellie Gore (University of Manchester) , Nicola Smith (University of Birmingham)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Panel / Whose Reflexivity? Different Interpretive Approaches for Researchers in Global Politics

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Convener: IIRG Working group

Chair: Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London)

15:00 → 16:30 05 Roundtable / Whose Security? Critical Reflections on Security Policy In the UK

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Chair: Thomas Martin (Open University)

Participants: Laura Cleary (Oakwood International Security) , Steven Chisnall (University of Southampton) , Richard Reeves (Rethinking Security) , Hillary Briffa (King's College London) , Chas Morrison (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University) , Harmonie Toros (University of Reading)

16:30 → 16:45 15 minute transition

16:45 → 18:15 05 Roundtable / Ambiguity Politics in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Chair: Romain Malejacq (Radboud University)

Participants: Anastasia Shesterinina (The University of York) , Adam Sandor (University of Bayreuth) , Anna Plunkett (King's College London) , Koen Vlassenroot (Ghent University) , Rebecca Tapscott (University of York; The Graduate Institute (Geneva))

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / British Ontological Insecurities and Anxieties in International Politics

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford) , Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of Warwick)

Chair: Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of Warwick)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Climate geopolitics: Conflict, security, and responsibility

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Thomas Bobo (University of Birmingham)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Data Governance and Digital Health – Visualisation, Inclusion, and Sovereignty in a Digital Health Economy

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Convener: GHWG Working group

Chair: Christopher Long (Queen's University Belfast)

Discussant: Andreas Papamichail (Queen Mary University of London)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Forced migration, asylum, and citizenship from the UK to the Global South

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: IPMRD Working group

Chair: Jemima Parker (University of Kent)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / In Whom We Trust? Trustworthiness, Trust and Trusting within Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Eszter Simon (Nottingham Trent University)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Conference event / Keynote by Prof Tarak Barkawi: 'War and World Politics: or why I stopped doing IR' SPONSORED BY THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY

Speaker: Chair: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Narratives, noise and normality in the global nuclear order

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow) , Megan Dee (University of Stirling)

Chair: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)

Discussant: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Nationalism, resistance, and dissent in political systems

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Mariah Thornton (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / New approaches to understanding data and methodology in peace and conflict

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Peacebuilding as Violence? Engaging with a complex relationship

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Conveners: Werner Distler (University of Groningen) , Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

Chair: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Political economy of the environment

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Projecting Power and Science: Anti-Satellite Weapons and Strategic Interests in Space

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)

Chair: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Reading Against/With the (Colonial) Archive

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Jenna Marshall (King's College London)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Revisiting thinkers and concepts of the international

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: CRIPT Working group

Chair: Borislav Tsokov (University of St Andrews)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / Russia’s challenges to the liberal world order

Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Jennifer Mathers (Aberystwyth University)

Chair: Jennifer Mathers (Aberystwyth University)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / The Politics of International Criminal Law: Historical and Contemporary Investigations

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)

Chair: James Gow

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / The interconnectedness of norm definitions and norm contestation

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Convener: Jonathan Pettifer (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham)

Discussant: Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Panel / The Nexus of Small States Between Emerging Middle Powers and Competing Global Actors

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: ISMMEA Working group

Chair: Betul Dogan Akkas (Ankara University)

16:45 → 18:15 05 Roundtable / Transnational conflict in the Middle East and Africa: a case study for policy and programming

Sponsor: BISA

Chair: Leah de Haan (University of Amsterdam)

Participants: Hayder Al-Shakeri (Chatham House) , Leah de Haan (University of Amsterdam) , Renad Mansour (Chatham House) , Jutta Bakonyi (Durham University)

18:45 → 21:00 05 / BISA 2024 reception

Thursday 6 June

07:30 → 09:00 06 Conference event / Canal run lead by Mark Webber and Stefan Wolff. Meet outside Hyatt Hotel, either 4k or 8k route

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / 21st Century Right Wing Nationalisms

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Conceptualising AI in Global Society

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: ISET

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Contesting Nuclear and Climate Imperialisms in the Pacific

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Mililani Ganivet (The British Museum and University of East Anglia) , Anaïs Maurer (Rutgers University) , Charlotte Weatherill (Open University) , Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde) , Lis Kayser (University of Copenhagen)

Chair: Becky Alexis-Martin (University of Bradford)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Diverse Challenges to the Protection of Human Rights

Sponsor: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Responsibility to Protect Working Group

Convener: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Responsibility to Protect Working group

Chair: Jonathan Leader Maynard (King's College London)

09:00 → 18:15 06 Conference event / Exhibition Hall Open

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Has “militarisation” had its day?

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University) , Sarah Bulmer

Chair: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Indigeneity and Contested Identities in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Convener: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism Working Group

Chair: Leonid Nersisyan (University of Birmingham)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Interdisciplinary approaches to the role of state and non-state actors in issues of forced migration

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Mabel Newton (University of Southampton)

Chair: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Roundtable / Introduction to Book Publishing

Sponsor: BISA

Chair: Juliet Dryden (BISA)

Participants: Joanna Godfrey (Senior Commissioning Editor, Yale University Press) , Atifa Jiwa (Bloomsbury Academic) , Don Jacobs (Georgetown University Press) , John Haslam (Cambridge University Press) , Louise Knight (Polity) , Isobel Cowper-Coles (Palgrave Macmillan)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Roundtable / Less, More, Different? Exploring the Global Politics of Post-Growth

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)

Participants: Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna) , Lena Rethel , Matthias Kranke (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg) , Jack Ainsworth (SOAS University of London)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Military Learning: Command, Leadership, and Failure

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: WSWG Working group

Chair: Afzal Ashraf

09:00 → 10:30 06 Roundtable / Ontological security and securitisation theory: identifying overlaps and divergences

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Chair: Bruno Sowden-Carvalho (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Nina Krickel-Choi , Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham) , Bruno Sowden-Carvalho (University of Birmingham) , Ole Waever (University of Copenhagem) , Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Peacekeeping in a multipolar world: Pluralised or (neo-)imperial peace?

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Conveners: Aidan Gnoth (Philipps University Marburg) , Philipp Lottholz (CRC; Dynamics of Security)

Chair: Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)

Discussant: Mark Laffey

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Questioning African unity and diplomacy

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: AISG Working group

Chair: Peter Brett (Queen Mary University of London)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Reimagining Agency and Identity in International Relations

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: PPWG Working group

Chair: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Rethinking Challenges to Mass Atrocity Prevention

Sponsor: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Responsibility to Protect Working Group

Convener: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Responsibility to Protect Working group

Chair: Samuel Jarvis (York St John University)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Roundtable / Susan Strange @ 100: an enduring legacy for contemporary times

Sponsor: BISA

Chair: Randall Germain (Carleton University)

Participants: Benjamin Cohen (University of California, Santa Barbara) , Blayne Haggart (Brock University) , Liam Stanley (University of Sheffield) , Sean Starrs (Kings College London)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Roundtable / Teaching ‘terrorism’ critically

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Chair: Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield)

Participants: Inés Bolaños Somoano (European University Institute) , Anna Meier (University of Nottingham) , Louise Pears (University of Leeds) , Chidubem Mogbolu (University of Sheffield)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / The Coloniality of Security

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: TBC

09:00 → 10:30 06 Panel / Thinking Peace, Conflict and Political Transformation

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: CRIPT Working group

Chair: Borislav Tsokov (University of St Andrews)

09:00 → 10:30 06 Roundtable / Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Jemima Repo (Newcastle University)

Participants: Afaf Jabiri (University of East London) , Hala Shoman (Newcastle University) , Maryam Aldossari (Royal Holloway, University of London) , Ashjan Ajour (University of Wolverhampton) , Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick) , Sara Ababneh (University of Sheffield)

10:30 → 10:45 15 minute transition

10:30 → 11:30 Refreshment break

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / African philosophy, intellectuals and the global political economy of knowledge production

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: AISG Working group

Chair: Sara Abdel Ghany (University of Warwick)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Roundtable / Authoritarian futures? International politics and future-oriented foreign policymaking in authoritarian regimes

Sponsor: University of Birmingham, Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR)

Chair: Petra Alderman (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Natasha Lindtaedt (University of Essex) , Christopher Browning (University of Warwick) , Petra Alderman (University of Birmingham) , Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh) , Jonathan Fisher (University of Birmingham)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Beyond Western Paradigms: Adapting Peacebuilding for Africa's Realities

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: MartinLuther Nwaneri (Aston University, Birmingham)

Chair: Jelena Obradovic – Wochnik (Aston University, Birmingham)

Discussant: MartinLuther Nwaneri (Aston University, Birmingham)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Counter-Terrorism and Colonial Violence

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Kodili Chukwuma (Durham University)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Everyday Militarism

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)

Chair: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Geocultural Identities in the Making

Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group

Convener: HSIR Working group

Chair: Leonardo Pagano Landucci

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Global Governance and macro-level peace

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Alexander Gilder (University of Reading)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / International studies and climate change in the Anthropocene

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Interpreting norms and status in world order

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Conveners: Kevork Oskanian (University of Exeter) , Nino Kemoklidze , Matthieu Grandpierron (Catholic University of Vendée)

Chair: Matthieu Grandpierron (Catholic University of Vendée)

Discussant: Manon Dehillotte

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Memory and the Afterlives of Empire

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Ida Birkvad (LSE)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / New approaches to theorising emotion in global politics

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Norms, Legality & Identity in US Foreign Policy

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: USFP Working group

Chair: Mauro Bonavita (King's College London - Department of War Studies)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Para-diplomacy, diasporas, and foreign policy of non-state actors

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Roundtable / Pedagogies for Teaching International Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Chair: Anahita Arian (University of Cambridge)

Participants: Blake Lawrinson (University of Leeds) , Sudhir Selvaraj (University of Bradford) , Anahita Arian (University of Cambridge) , Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London) , Hillary Briffa (King's College London)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Popular Culture and World Politics – Keeping Pace by Looking ‘Beyond the Mirror’

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

Chair: Louise Pears (University of Leeds)

Discussant: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Conference event / Poster session - Susan Strange @ 100: an enduring legacy for contemporary times

Speakers: Andreas Kanaris Miyashiro (Warwick University), Dan Wood (University of Warwick), Kasper Arabi (University of Warwick), Korey Pasch (Queens University), Oksana Levkovych (London School of Economics and Political Science)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Roundtable / Re-visiting the Gulf Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Scope, Theory and Data

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Chair: Betul Dogan Akkas (Ankara University)

Participants: Abdullah al-Khonaini (Durham University) , Abdullah Al-Maani (Durham University) , Mohamed Shaheem Kizhakke Purayil (Qatar University) , Sarah Muhanna Al Naimi

10:45 → 12:15 06 Roundtable / Rethinking Connections: The Future of Humanitarianism, Human Protection and Building Peace

Sponsor: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Responsibility to Protect Working Group

Chair: Chloe McRae Gilgan (University of Lincoln)

Participants: David Curran (Coventry University) , Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh) , Anthony Lang (University of St Andrews) , Samuel Jarvis (York St John University)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Russia’s Offensive War Against Ukraine

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: WSWG Working group

Chair: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Situating nuclear politics - exploring nuclear politics and places beyond the interstate

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Convener: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)

Chair: Laura Rose Brown (University of Leeds)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Roundtable / Theorising Foreign Policy

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Chair: Kai Oppermann (Chemnitz University of Technology)

Participants: Klaus Brummer (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) , Amelia Hadfield (University of Surrey) , Consuelo Thiers (University of Edinburgh) , Karen Smith (LSE) , Amnon Aran (City, University of London)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Panel / Unpacking the ongoing tech war between China and the United States

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: Eugenio Lilli (University College Dublin)

Chair: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)

10:45 → 12:15 06 Conference event / Working group convener meeting

Speakers: Chrissie Duxson (BISA), Juanita Elias (University of Warwick), Juliet Dryden (BISA), Prof. Kyle Grayson (BISA)

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

12:15 → 13:15 06 Conference event / Young people, politics, and peace networking meeting

12:20 → 13:15 06 Conference event / BISA prize giving ceremony

12:30 → 13:15 06 Conference event / Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group AGM

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / (De)Colonial Aesthetics & Poetics

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Roundtable / A tribute to the work of Christopher Coker – The Return of History: Christopher Coker and The Study of War

Sponsor: BISA

Chair: Michael Cox (LSE)

Participants: Aaron McKeil (LSE) , Caroline Kennedy-Pipe , Michael Cox (LSE) , Christopher Dandeker (KCL)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Advocacy, Protest and Activism

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Convener: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism Working Group

Chair: Nicola Mathieson (University of Liverpool)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Emotions and the politics of subjectivity

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Everyday Ethics of the International: New imaginaries of relation, negotiation and care

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Conveners: James Brassett (University of Warwick) , Dan Bulley (Oxford Brookes University)

Chair: Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Feminist approaches to the everyday: Common people in a Complex World

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Frontiers, The Final Frontier: Narratives, Emotions, And Technologies Of Governance

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Conveners: Charlie Price (University of Warwick) , Marcus Nicolson (EURAC)

Chair: Alexandria Innes (City, University of London)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Roundtable / In the shadow of bipolarity? The Space Age beyond the United States and China

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Chair: Sarah Lieberman (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Participants: Natalie Trevino (Open University) , Deden Alfathimy (University of Leicester) , Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester) , PJ Blount (Cardiff University) , Marissa Martin (King's College London, Defence Studies Department)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Migrants and Refugees in Europe

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: IPMRD Working group

Chair: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Norms, nations, and identity crises in global politics

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Laura Gelhaus (University of Warwick)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Political economies of security and geopolitics

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Roberto Roccu (King's College London)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Re-thinking and resisting in Critical Military Studies

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Roundtable / Review of International Studies - RIS @ 50. On the Horizon: The futures of IR

Sponsor: BISA

Chair: Richard Devetak (University of Queensland)

Participants: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester) , Lisa Tilley (SOAS, University of London) , Emily Clifford (Royal Holloway, University of London) , Toni Erskine (Australian National University) , Rita Abrahamsen (Ottawa University) , Darshan Vigneswaran (University of Amsterdam)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / The Intersectional Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow) , Megan Dee (University of Stirling)

Chair: Megan Dee (University of Stirling)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / The foreign policy and international relations of authoritarian middle-powers

Sponsor: University of Birmingham, Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR)

Conveners: Marie-Eve Desrosiers (University of Ottawa) , Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Roundtable / Palestine: The label of ‘terrorism’ and the permissibility of violence

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Chair: Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield)

Participants: Sophie Haspeslagh (King's College London) , Carl Gibson (University of Nottingham) , Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick) , Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews) , Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Roundtable / Towards an IPE of Raced Finance: a conversation

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Chair: Ilias Alami (Cambridge University)

Participants: Nick Bernards (Warwick University) , Vincent Guermond (Queen Mary University of London) , Ali Bhagat (Simon Fraser University) , Lisa Tilley (SOAS, University of London)

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Whose Counter-terrorism?

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Conveners: Aoife McCullough (London School of Economics) , Adam Sandor (University of Bayreuth)

Chair: Adam Sandor (University of Bayreuth)

Discussant: Yvan Guichaoua (University of Kent))

13:15 → 14:45 06 Panel / Youth, Violence and Conflict transformation: Exploring mobilization into violence and the role of youth in peacebuilding

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)

Chair: Bahar Baser (Durham University)

13:25 → 14:45 06 Conference event / 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

Speaker: Chair: James Patton Rogers

14:45 → 15:00 15 minute transition

14:45 → 15:45 Refreshment break

15:00 → 16:30 06 Roundtable / Book Talk: The End of Peacekeeping Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Chair: Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast)

Participants: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University) , Aiko Holvikivi (LSE) , Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester) , Marsha Henry (Queen's University, Belfast)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Roundtable / Cultural heritage in peace and conflict – from theory to practice

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Chair: Marwan Darweish (Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)

Participants: Mahmoud Soliman (Coventry University) , Elly Harrowell (Coventry University) , Stephanie Grant (British Council) , Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu (University of Cambridge)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Roundtable / Egyptian Stories: Narrating Spatial Memories in Evanescent Spaces of Belonging

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Chair: Sara Abdel Ghany (University of Warwick)

Participants: Mohamed El-Shewy (Newcastle University) , Sara Abdel Ghany (University of Warwick) , Reem Abu Zaid (University of Warwick) , Aya Nassar (University of Warwick)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / European National Security Strategies: Dynamics of Change

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Feminist Security Studies: Gendering, Strategy, Tactics

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Discussant: Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Global Social Theory and 'The International'

Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group

Convener: HSIR Working group

Chair: Pedro Dutra Salgado (University of Portsmouth)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Global climate governance: Policies and finances of the climate crisis

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Geoffrey Swenson (City, University of London)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Roundtable / Meet the Editors of Review of International Studies and International Affairs

Sponsor: BISA

Chair: David Mainwaring

Participants: Andrew Dorman (Chatham House) , Cian O'Driscoll (ANU) , Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh) , Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Militarised childhoods and resistance in education

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)

Chair: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Narratives and dilemmas of global security

Sponsor: European Journal of International Security

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Katherine Pye (LSE)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Negotiated State-Building: Unravelling the Complex Relationship between the State and Non-State Actors

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Sarajuddin Isar (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Chair: Oliver Walton (University of Bath)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Perspectives on Nuclear Narratives: Discourses, Ethics, and Global Implications

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Convener: Soul Park (University of East Anglia)

Chair: Soul Park (University of East Anglia)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Political economies of development

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Pedro Perfeito da Silva (University of Exeter)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Popular Culture and World Politics – new sites of activity in a changing world

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

Chair: Cahir O'Doherty (University of Groningen)

Discussant: Danièle Andre (University of La Rochelle)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Populist foreign policies, authoritarianism, and democratic back-sliding

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

15:00 → 16:30 06 / Screening event: Keynote speaker Ed Hall, "Forced out"

15:00 → 16:30 06 Roundtable / The World of the Right: A Discussion

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Chair: Michael Williams (University of Ottawa)

Participants: Jean-Francois Drolet (Queen Mary University) , Tarak Barkawi (Johns Hopkins University) , RBJ Walker (University of Victoria) , Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa) , Katharina Rietzler (Sussex University) , Karin Narita (Sheffield University)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / The emotional politics of leadership

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Karl Gustafsson (Stockholm University)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / US Diplomacy, Alliance Politics and National Security Narratives

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: USFP Working group

Chair: Mauro Bonavita (King's College London - Department of War Studies)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Understanding diplomacy and peace processes

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Walt Kilroy (Dublin City University)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Panel / Whose foreign policy? Re-assessing Turkey in International Relations after the Centenary

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen)

Chair: Tom Walsh (Durham University)

15:00 → 16:30 06 Roundtable / ‘Making the Sandwiches’: Gender, Race, Social Reproduction, and Academic Labour

Sponsor: University of Birmingham, School of Government/POLSIS Gender and Feminist Theory Research Group (GAFT)

Chair: Columba Achilleos-Sarll (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Sameen Ali (IDD, University of Birmingham) , Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham) , Nicola Smith (University of Birmingham) , Emily Scott (University of Birmingham) , Sameera Khalfey (University of Birmingham) , Kailing Xie (University of Birmingham)

16:30 → 16:45 15 minute transition

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / (In)tangible cultural heritage and conflict (transformation)

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Conveners: Aurélie Broeckerhoff (Coventry University) , Marwan Darweish (Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University) , Laura Sulin (Coventry University) , Elly Harrowell (Coventry University) , Mahmoud Soliman (Coventry University)

Chair: Aurélie Broeckerhoff (Coventry University)

Discussant: Marwan Darweish (Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Critical engagements with war and war labour

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)

Chair: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Roundtable / Depletion – the cost of social reproduction: 10 years on

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)

Participants: Jayanthi Lingham (University of Sheffield) , Victoria Basham (Cardiff University) , Aida Hozic (University of Florida) , Shirin Rai (SOAS, University of London) , Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Ethics and World Politics

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Convener: EWPG Working group

Chair: Robin Dunford (University of Brighton)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Identity construction: Soft power, mediation, public diplomacy, security policy

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Multiple Practices of Humanitarianism and Beyond

Sponsor: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Responsibility to Protect Working Group

Convener: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Responsibility to Protect Working group

Chair: Blake Lawrinson (University of Leeds)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Roundtable / NATO at 75: Challenging Times

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Chair: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)

Participants: Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham) , Andrew Cottey (University College Cork) , Mark Webber (University of Birmingham) , Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Roundtable / No feminism without anticolonialism: towards a just feminist international thinking

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Senel Wanniarachchi (LSE) , Mandeep Sidhu (University of Brighton) , Nour Almazidi (LSE) , Participant to be confirmed

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and conflict resolution

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Roundtable / Precision: The American Way of War? - In conversation with Professor Mick Cox and Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe. THIS IS AN INVITE ONLY EVENT

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Chair: James Patton Rogers (Cornell University)

Participants: James Patton Rogers (Cornell University) , Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University) , Michael Cox (LSE) , TBC

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Re-focusing transnational connectivities: new conversations on diasporas, activism, and repression

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Lucia Ardovini (Lancaster University)

Chair: Lucia Ardovini (Lancaster University)

Discussant: Dana Moss (University of Notre Dame)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Rethinking epistemologies and representation in international studies

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Andrew Milne (University of St Andrews)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Shifting roles in Middle East politics: collaborators, newcomers and dealbreakers

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Conveners: ISMMEA Working group , Bahar Baser (Durham University) , Betul Dogan Akkas (Ankara University) , Rory McCarthy (Durham University)

Chair: Dan Wang (Durham University)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Spatial Logics of Violence in Global Politics

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: PPWG Working group

Chair: Jeffrey Whyte (Lancaster University)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Roundtable / The politics of development: Institutions, interests, and ideas

Sponsor: University of Birmingham, International Development Department (School of Government)

Chair: Sameen Ali (IDD, University of Birmingham)

Participants: Emeka Njoku (University of Birmingham) , Claire Mcloughlin (University of Birmingham) , Kailing Xie (University of Birmingham) , David Hudson (University of Birmingham) , Jonathan Fisher (University of Birmingham) , Emily Scott (University of Birmingham)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Theorising (counter)terrorism

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Theorising International Orders – historical and social scientific perspectives

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Convener: Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth University)

Chair: Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth University)

Discussant: Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth University)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Roundtable / What do we know about war in 2024?

Sponsor: Journal of Global Security Studies

Chair: Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University)

Participants: Georgina Holmes (The Open University) , Anthony King (University of Exeter) , Kenneth Payne (King's College London) , Kodili Chukwuma (Durham University)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Roundtable / Whose International Studies are we teaching?

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Chair: Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield)

Participants: Louise Pears (University of Leeds) , Annapurna Menon (University of Sheffield) , Sara Ababneh (University of Sheffield) , Arshita Nandan (University of Kent) , Megha Kashyap (London South Bank University) , Madeleine Le Bourdon (University of Leeds)

16:45 → 18:15 06 Panel / Whose Nuclear Governance? New(er) Trends of Interpretive Scholarship in Understanding Nuclear Governance I (Structural Approaches)

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford) , Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London)

Chair: Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London)

18:15 → 19:15 06 Conference event / Gendering International Relations Working Group business meeting

18:30 → 21:00 06 Roundtable / 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

Speakers: Dr Julie Norman (UCL), Professor Mark Webber (University of Birmingham), Professor Mick Cox (LSE), Rosa Prince (Politico), Sir Peter Westmacott

Friday 7 June

09:00 → 10:30 07 Roundtable / Author meets critics: Rita Floyd's The Duty to secure

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Chair: Anthony Lang (University of St Andrews)

Participants: Ole Waever (University of Copenhagem) , Chris Brown (LSE) , Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham) , Toni Erskine (Australian National University) , João Nunes (Comillas Pontifical University)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Borders, boundaries, frontiers, and borderlands of South East Europe: Enacting, engaging and performing

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Conveners: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool) , Mate Subašić (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Chair: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Colonialism and the Reproduction of Agrarian Labour

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)

Chair: Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Critical spaces: engaging with Queer, feminist and postcolonial IR

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Mandeep Sidhu (University of Brighton)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Roundtable / Developing a British Kashmiri Studies

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: TBC

Participants: Awais Hussain (University of York) , Zafar Khan (JKLF) , Karamat Iqbal (Forward Partnership) , Serena Hussain (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University) , Tahir Abbas (Leiden University)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Ethics and World Politics: the Anthropocene, Mobilities and Neocolonialism

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Convener: EWPG Working group

Chair: Robin Dunford (University of Brighton)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Evaluating the Intellectual Project of Critical Military Studies: its First Decade in Review

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Harriet Gray (University of York)

Chair: Harriet Gray (University of York)

Discussant: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)

09:00 → 16:45 07 / Exhibition Hall Open

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Foreign Fighters: Returnees, Repatriation and Recidivism

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Convener: Ces Moore (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Chi Zhang (St Andrews)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Roundtable / Grant Culture, Impact, and Critical Scholarship

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Chair: Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield)

Participants: Ruth Blakeley (University of Sheffield) , Anna Meier (University of Nottingham) , Hannah Wright (Queen Mary University of London) , Participant to be confirmed

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Great Powers, Rising Powers and Deterrence

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: WSWG Working group

Chair: James Patton Rogers (Cornell University)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Militaristic Popular Culture – keeping apace in a war economy?

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

Chair: Louisa Rogers (Northumbria University)

Discussant: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / One Destination, Many Roads: Distrust-Reduction, Hope, and Trust Building in Conflict Resolution

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: Jiyoung Chang (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Nicola Chelotti (Loughborough University)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Roundtable / Pedagogies of the everyday in International Studies

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)

Participants: Kandida Purnell (Richmond University) , Laura Mills (University of St Andrews) , Tom Chodor (Monash University) , Akinyemi Oyawale (University of Warwick)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Sites and bodies of violence

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

Chair: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Transatlantic Relations: the US, the EU, the UK and NATO

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / Turkey’s Tightrope: Navigating Domestic and International Crosswinds

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Conveners: Samuele Abrami (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) , Karolin Tuncel (Oxford University) , Riccardo Gasco (University of Bologna) , Melek Kucukuzun

Chair: Bahar Baser (Durham University)

Discussant: Massimo D'Angelo (Loughborough University London)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Panel / US Foreign Policy and the Indo-Pacific

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: USFP Working group

Chair: Michiel Foulon

09:00 → 10:30 07 Roundtable / Ukrainian identity, regional diversity and wartime unity

Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group

Chair: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)

Participants: Anna Oliinyk (UCL) , Artur Nadiiev (University of Nottingham) , Svitlana Rostetska (University of Nottingham) , Bohdana Kurylo (Oxford Brookes University)

09:00 → 10:30 07 Roundtable / Who thinks of everything? Reckoning with the value of racialised epistemologies in IR

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Amal Abu-Bakare (University of Liverppol)

Participants: Jenna Marshall (King's College London) , Leila Mouhib (ULB) , John Narayan (KCL) , Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews) , Olivia Rutazibwa (LSE)

10:30 → 10:45 15 minute transition

10:30 → 11:30 Refreshment break

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / 'Whose climate justice: ecofeminist researchers want to know'

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)

Chair: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Anticipating the Future of War: AI, Automated Systems, and Resort-to-Force Decision Making

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Convener: Toni Erskine (Australian National University)

Chair: Cian O'Driscoll (ANU)

Discussant: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / China and India in the (Post-)Colonial Entanglements

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: YANG HAN (University of Oxford)

Chair: Edward Keene (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Andy Hanlun Li (London School of Economics and Political Science)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Democracy, Displacement and Diaspora in West Africa

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: AISG Working group

Chair: Lesley Masters (Nottingham Trent University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Roundtable / Does the Method Fit? Exploring Diverse Methodologies of Research in South East Europe

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Chair: Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol)

Participants: Ivor Sokolic (University of Hertfordshire) , Freya Cumberlidge , Ivan Nikolovski (Central European University) , Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool) , Mate Subašić (Manchester Metropolitan University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Indo-Pacific Diplomacy: Challanges and Opportunities

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: ISMMEA Working group

Chair: Simon Mabon (Lancaster University/SEPAD)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Legacies of Rebellion: Wartime Dynamics and Postwar Political Consequences

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Conveners: Alex Waterman (German Institute for Global and Area Studies) , Philip A. Martin (George Mason University) , Tessa Devereaux Evans (Cornell University) , Gyda Sindre (University of York) , Victor Bouemar (Radboud University)

Chair: Romain Malejacq (Radboud University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Roundtable / Mothering, Motherhood and (Feminist) International Relations 2.0: An open roundtable conversation

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex)

Participants: Julia Welland (University of Warwick) , Laura Mills (University of St Andrews) , Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex) , Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / New actors, spaces and methods of activism in world politics

Sponsor: Non-Governmental Organisations Working Group

Convener: NGO Group

Chair: Patricia Shamai (University of Portsmouth)

Discussant: Thomas Davies (City, University of London)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Peace on Display: The Arts and Aesthetics of Peacebuilding

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)

Chair: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Post-Brexit U.K. foreign policy, and “Global Britain”

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Power & Governance in Digital Global Politics

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: ISET

Chair: Eugenio Lilli (University College Dublin)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Space Strategy, Surveillance, and Threats

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)

Chair: Tegan Harrison (Cardiff University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / State-Formation, Colonisation, World Orders

Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group

Convener: HSIR Working group

Chair: Pedro Dutra Salgado (University of Portsmouth)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Teaching and Learning in International Studies

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Convener: Ilan Baron (Durham University)

Chair: Ilan Baron (Durham University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / The role of institutional actors towards refugee policies

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: IPMRD Working group

Chair: Ece Ozlem Atikcan (University of Warwick)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Thinking the Future of War: Epistemology, Innovation, and Revolutions

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)

Chair: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)

Discussant: Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Roundtable / Unseeing Genocide: Academic Responsibilities and Complicities

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews)

Participants: Shikha Dilawri (LSE) , Catherine Charrett (University of Westminister) , Olivia Rutazibwa (LSE) , Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews) , Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Wars on terror

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Sophie Haspeslagh (King's College London)

10:45 → 12:15 07 Panel / Whose news, whose history? Critically interrogating media, information and international relations

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)

Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

12:15 → 13:15 07 Conference event / 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

12:15 → 13:15 07 Conference event / Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group AGM

12:15 → 13:15 07 / European Security Working Group AGM

12:15 → 13:15 07 Conference event / Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group AGM

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

12:15 → 13:15 07 Conference event / South East Europe Working Group AGM

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / (Re)Narrating the ‘International’: Telling stories from feminist and decolonial perspectives

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)

Chair: Tomás Ojeda Güemes

Discussant: Tomás Ojeda Güemes

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Culture wars and international relations: Contesting moral authority in global order

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Conveners: chenchen zhang , Liam Stanley (University of Sheffield)

Chair: Xavier Mathieu (University of Sheffield)

Discussant: Xavier Mathieu (University of Sheffield)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Diasporas’ mobilisation, political participation and activism

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: IPMRD Working group

Chair: Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Emerging Patterns in Digital Norms and Culture

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: ISET

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Emotions and collective identification

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / International politics of African statebuilding

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: AISG Working group

Chair: Jonathan Fisher (University of Birmingham)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Media discourses on Security and Threat

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Anna Meier (University of Nottingham)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Negotiating and renegotiating political worlds

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: CRIPT Working group

Chair: Anthony Lang (University of St Andrews)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Roundtable / Never Again? Unpacking the German Discourse on Palestine

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Howie Rechavia-Taylor (LSE) , TBC , TBC , Hanna Al-Taher (TU Dresden)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / New directions for the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: Laura McLeod (University of Manchester)

Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Roundtable / Pedagogical Approaches to Global Health

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Chair: Nicholas Thomas (City University of Hong Kong)

Participants: Stefan Elbe (University of Sussex) , Nicholas Thomas (City University of Hong Kong) , Catherine Lo (University College Maastricht) , Jana Fey (University of Sussex) , Renu Singh (Durham University) , Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Professional Military Education in the United Kingdom

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)

Discussant: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Roundtable / Publishing as a PhD Scholar: Dos and Don'ts

Sponsor: Review of International Studies

Chair: Richard Devetak (University of Queensland)

Participants: Assala Khettache (Aberystwyth University) , Lauren Rogers , Marcus Nicolson (Glasgow Caledonian University) , Burcu Turkoglu-Payne (Bilkent University)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Regional cooperation and shifting power dynamics in Eurasia

Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Artur Nadiiev (University of Nottingham)

Chair: Jessie Hamill-Stewart (University of Bristol)

Discussant: Artur Nadiiev (University of Nottingham)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Relational Approaches to Civil War: From Inter-Rebel Cooperation to Ex-Combatant Reintegration

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Convener: Anastasia Shesterinina (The University of York)

Chair: Anastasia Shesterinina (The University of York)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Roundtable / Rethinking stabilisation and responding to transnational threats

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Chair: Heather Marquette (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Sarah Fares (Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime) , Emily Winterbotham (RUSI) , Larry Attree (Rethinking Security) , David Lewis (University of Exeter) , Aoife McCullough (London School of Economics) , Alexander Kolding Borum (European University Institute)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Status, Social Closure and Stratification in International Society

Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group

Convener: Marina Duque (University College London)

Chair: Edward Keene

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / The political economy of green energy transitions in an age of crises

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Stanley Wilshire (University of Manchester)

Chair: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)

Discussant: Lukas Slothuus (University of Sussex)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / War and the Earth

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Henry Redwood (King's College London) , Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)

Chair: Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)

13:15 → 14:45 07 Panel / Whose Nuclear Governance? New(er) Trends of Interpretive Scholarship in Understanding Nuclear Governance II (Agency Dimensions)

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London) , Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

Chair: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

14:45 → 15:00 15 minute transition

14:45 → 15:45 Refreshment break

15:00 → 16:30 07 Roundtable / Academic freedom in the teaching, learning and research of Politics and IR

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Chair: Jonathan Pettifer (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge) , Chris Brown (LSE) , Vanessa Pupavac (University of Nottingham) , Daniel Rogers (University of Birmingham) , Edward Howell (University of Oxford) , Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Contesting Empire in the Contemporary Global Order

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Roundtable / Critical Studies on Terrorism Special Issue Roundtable: Abolition, Decoloniality, and Criticality: Can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”?

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Chair: Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)

Participants: Anna Meier (University of Nottingham) , Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University) , Amal Abu-Bakare (University of Liverppol) , Hannah Wright (Queen Mary University of London) , Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London) , Kodili Chukwuma (Durham University)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Digital Geopolitics: Rising Powers and International Institutions

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: ISET

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Everyday Security: Countering Radicalisation in Ordinary Spaces

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: Carl Gibson (University of Nottingham)

Chair: Carl Gibson (University of Nottingham)

Discussant: Carl Gibson (University of Nottingham)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Roundtable / Foreign Policy Analysis Challenges in South America: Links and gaps between theory and practice

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Chair: Raul Salgado Espinoza

Participants: Raul Salgado Espinoza , Daniela Barreiro (FLACSO Ecuador) , Natalia Encalada (Universidad Internacional del Ecuador) , Participant to be confirmed

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Gendered approaches to peacebuilding policy and practice

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Conference event / Meet the editors - Speed networking session

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century International Order

Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group

Convener: Edward Keene (University of Oxford)

Chair: Carsten-Andreas Schulz (University of Cambridge)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Re-Thinking Global IR amid wars, political violence and inofficious narrative

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: ISMMEA Working group

Chair: Kasia Houghton (University of St Andrews)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Reframing global political phenomenon

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: CRIPT Working group

Chair: Felix Roesch (University of Sussex)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Regional governance and responsibility for refugee protection in Latin America, Africa and Europe

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Pia Riggirozzi (University of Southampton)

Chair: Pia Riggirozzi (University of Southampton)

Discussant: Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Sea change: Ocean politics, management and security

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Alexandre Rocha (Escola de Guerra Naval/Universidade Federal Fluminense)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Securing the Institution, Securing the State: Militarised Ontological Security and Strategic Narratives

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick) , Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Max Warrack (University of Warwick)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / The EU and its Southern Border: Security and Migration

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / The Social Foundations of Global Finance: Engagements with the Work of Timothy J. Sinclair

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Chris Clarke (University of Warwick)

Chair: Ben Clift (University of Warwick)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / The continuum of gendered violence – everydayness, trauma and insecurity

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)

Discussant: Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / The political economy of domestic jurisdictions

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: James Scott (King's College London)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Troubling the domestic and the international in South East Europe

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Convener: SEEWG Working group

Chair: Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Whose state? State conflict and security provision in and beyond Europe

Sponsor: BISA

Conveners: Nicholas Barker (University of Birmingham) , George Kyris (University of Birmingham)

Chair: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)

15:00 → 16:30 07 Panel / Whose futures: the role of fiction in re/imagining climate politics

Sponsor: Environment Working Group

Convener: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)

Chair: Carl Death (University of Manchester)

16:30 → 16:45 15 minute transition

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Aesthetic Refusal, Aesthetics of Refusal, Refusal of Aesthetics

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Conveners: Sara Wong (LSE) , Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)

Chair: Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Security, Applied History and Foreign Policy

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University)

Chair: Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Contestations of sovereignty and democracy: History, legitimacy, volatility

Sponsor: BISA

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Europe and Global Security

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Everyday action in times of economic change: historical lessons for contemporary international trends

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Conveners: Oksana Levkovych (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Jessica Eastland-Underwood (University of Warwick)

Chair: James A. Morrison (London School of Economics and Political Science)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Feminist Foreign Policy: Labelling, Narratives and Performativity

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Gendering the Military, Militarising Gender: Military Representations in Pop Culture and Social Media

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick) , Max Warrack (University of Warwick)

Chair: Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Historicising geopolitics: Revisiting the discipline of Global IR

Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group

Convener: HSIR Working group

Chair: Ann Bajo (University of Portsmouth)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Military Humanitarianism: Reimagining the Nexus Between Aid Operations and Armed Forces

Sponsor: British International History Working Group

Convener: Margot Tudor (City, University of London)

Chair: Margot Tudor (City, University of London)

Discussant: Patrick Vernon (King's College London)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / New Paradigms from the Global South

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: TBC

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / New Technologies and Future War

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: WSWG Working group

Chair: James Patton Rogers (Cornell University)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Perspectives on conflict management and stabilisation

Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Revisiting the postcolonial critiques of IR

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / Understanding Violent Movements

Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Convener: Ces Moore (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Una McGahern (Newcastle University)

16:45 → 18:15 07 Panel / ‘Making friends and influencing people’: a Russian toolbox for managing others on the international stage

Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Victoria Hudson (King's College London)

Chair: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham)