BISA 2024 Conference

Europe/London
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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.

    • 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 The Exchange, The Assembly Room
      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)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Roundtable / Charting the Future of PCWP Scholarship beyond the Tübingen School Soprano, Hyatt
      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 Fortissimo, Hyatt
      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)
      • Bridging Regional Divisions: Anglo-Japanese Strategic Partnerships in the IndoPacific and Beyond
        Author: John Nilsson-Wright (University of Cambridge, England)
      • Japan’s Joint Military Exercises (JME) as a tool for shaping regional order?
        Author: Yee-Kuang Heng (University of Tokyo, Japan)
      • Evolution of Japan’s space cooperation: ambition, strategic environment, and partnership
        Author: Nanae Baldauff (United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium)
      • From Extended Nuclear Deterrence to Collective Deterrence: Japan embarks on a new age of deterrence.
        Author: Hiroshi Nakatani (Japan Air-Self Defense Force Command and Staff College, Japan)
      • Japan’s Defence Industrial Strategy and Fighter Aircraft Production: Striving for Tier-One Status
        Author: Christopher W. Hughes (University of Warwick, England)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Contours of Contemporary Nuclear Dynamics: Challenges and strategies Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Convener: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)
      Chair: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)
      • NATO Nuclear Hardware Sharing Initiatives: Explaining Success and Failure
        Author: Paul Avey (Virginia Tech)
      • South Asia and the Third Nuclear Age: Retrospect and Prospect
        Author: Shounak Set (KCL)
      • Technoscientific Rationality and Nuclear Weapons
        Author: Natasha Karner (RMIT University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Counter-Terrorism in Civic Spaces Justham, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: CST Working group
      Chair: Lee Jarvis
      • Tunisian youth workers, western influences, postcolonial narratives. Local actors in the making of global security.
        Author: Fabrizio Cuccu (Dublin City University)
      • Alternative conceptions of Social Cohesion and Belonging: Muslim Charity in Practice
        Author: Samantha May (University of Aberdeen)
      • Prevent and Critical Race Feminism: The implications of Prevent for Muslim women in post-16 education
        Author: Lilly Barker (Nottingham Trent University)
      • ‘Vigilante (Counter-)terrorism’: From ‘Citizen-Informants’ to ‘Citizen-Warriors’ in Nigeria
        Author: Akinyemi Oyawale (University of Warwick)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Explaining and Preventing Civil War Recurrence Room 103, Library
      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)
      • Learning from failure: how to prevent civil war recurrence in protracted civil wars
        Authors: Natascha Neudorfer , Stefan Wolff (University of Birmingham) , Argyro Kartsonaki , Giuditta Fontana (University of Birmingham)
      • Women’s reincorporation in Colombia
        Author: Angela D. Nichols (Florida Atlantic University)
      • The roles of mid-level commanders in conflict and peace processes
        Author: Anastasia Shesterinina (University of York)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Foreign policy analysis: Cases and Concepts Concerto, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      • Foreign Policy Toward Non-State Justice
        Author: Geoffrey Swenson (City, University of London)
      • Conceptualising Blindspots in Foreign Policy
        Author: Christoph Meyer (King's College London)
      • Success and failure in the international promotion of freedom of religion or belief: Lessons learned from the case of Asia Bibi
        Authors: Anne Jenichen (Aston University) , Tusharika Deka (University of Nottingham)*
      • Can a Leopard Change its Spots? Costly Signaling, Attribution, and Implicit Theories in International Politics
        Author: Paola Solimena (Columbia University)
      • Reputation and Geopolitical Dynamics in Transnational Repression: Insights from the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
        Authors: Aidan Kerr (University of Toronto) , Nikhil Goyal (University of Toronto)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Gender, race and capitalism Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Lena Rethel
      • Race and Gender in European Polycrisis
        Author: Muireann O'Dwyer (University of St Andrews)
      • Governing crises of social reproduction through interventions into the intimate: the case of Iran
        Author: Asma Abdi (University of Warwick)
      • The Gendered Political Economy of Higher Education Transformation: The case of Indonesia
        Authors: Ella Prihatini (President University, Indonesia) , Lena Rethel (University of Warwick) , Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)
      • Social reproduction along resource frontiers: understanding transforming access to land and gendered work in emerging Asia
        Author: Saba Joshi (University of York)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Roundtable / IPE and the current world (dis)order Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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 Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: ISMMEA Working group
      Chair: Rory McCarthy (Durham University)
      • Non-sovereign entities and the display of diplomatic agency: A case of the Taiwan independence movement
        Author: Zeng Ee Liew (University of Surrey)
      • “New modes of resistance: the power of art to desecuritise the war on drugs in the Philippines”
        Author: Lauren Stansfield (Coventry Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations)
      • An Expansion of International Studies: When Manu’s Dharma Meets Morgenthau’s Realism
        Author: Rashmi Gopi (Miranda House, University of Delhi)
      • A Subalternising Geopolitics Approach to Understanding Buddhist Diplomacy in the Indian Himalayan Region
        Authors: Stanzin Lhaskyabs (Jawaharlal Nehru University)* , Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Managing information, narratives and identities in Ukraine and Russia Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Stephen Hall (University of Bath)
      Chair: Frank Maracchione (University of Sheffield)
      • Ukraine's national identity and foreign policy, 2004-2014.
        Author: Artur Nadiiev (University of Nottingham)
      • Narratives of Russian national and state identities and the war in Ukraine
        Author: James Headley (University of Otago)
      • The cold wind of change: audience reception of Russian soft power, strategic narratives and linkages in Ukraine, 2011 vs 2021
        Author: Victoria Hudson (King's College London)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Race, religion, justice and the economy in Southern Africa Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
      Convener: AISG Working group
      Chair: Lesley Masters (Nottingham Trent University)
      • Cultural and creative constructions of transitional justice in post-genocide Rwanda
        Author: Anna Katila (City, University of London)
      • Inhabiting Paradoxes: Pentecostalism and Political Femininities in Zimbabwe
        Author: Kuziwakwashe Zigomo (University of Kent)
      • A Destination, Not a Journey: Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy in Urban Zambia
        Author: Kristina Pikovskaia (University of Edinburgh)
      • "South Africa's Post-1994 Foreign Policy: Unravelling Roles Through the Lens of Role Theory"
        Author: Musa Mdunge (University of Dundee)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Roundtable / Reframing British Politics: Lessons from International Relations Exec 1, ICC
      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 Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: European Journal of International Security
      Conveners: Vladimir Rauta (University of Reading) , Alex Neads (University of Durham)
      Chair: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)
      • Military Assistance, RMA and the Third Offset: how has technology shaped counterinsurgency on the ground
        Author: David J. Galbreath (University of Bath)
      • A New Great Game? Understanding Co-operation and Competition in Security Assistance: Towards a Typology of Military Aid
        Author: Alex Neads (University of Durham)
      • The intimacy of remoteness: Distance and the affective atmospheres of Security Assistance
        Author: Simone Tholens (European University Institute/John Cabot University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Sexual violence in military institutions Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Convener: Harriet Gray (University of York)
      Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)
      • What happens when good soldiers do rape? Making sense of sexual violence in the British military courts.
        Author: Hannah Richards (Cardiff University)
      • Understanding Female Veteran’s Experiences of Sexual Violence in the UK Armed Forces
        Authors: Charlotte Herriott (Anglia Ruskin University) , Lauren Godier-McBard (Anglia Ruskin University)
      • Peacekeeping Problems
        Author: Emily Gee (University of Leeds)
      • The Memorialisation of Military Gender-Based Violence: When is a counter-memorial not a counter-memorial?
        Author: Harriet Gray (University of York)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Roundtable / Strengthening the Evidentiary Foundations of Conflict Research Exec 10, ICC
      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? Sonata, Hyatt
      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)
      • Scotland’s Feminist Approach to International Relations
        Authors: Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh)* , Annika Bergman Rosamond (Lund University) , Caron Gentry*
      • Gendering Foreign Policy Making: Feminist Foreign Policy Networks in Mexico and Germany
        Author: Isabel Hernandez Pepe (Scuola Normale Superiore)
      • On co-optation, or: Making feminist foreign policy palatable
        Author: Karoline Färber (King’s College London)
      • Troubling Feminist Policies: Assessing the (in)securities of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy
        Author: Juliana Crema (York University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / Technology, Climate and Insecurity in the Transformations of International Order Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Alex Hoseason (Aston University)
      Chair: Philip Conway (Durham University)
      • Protecting extra-terrestrial biodiversity: Can space law and politics learn from protecting terrestrial biodiversity?
        Authors: Robert Palmer (Open University Law School)* , Marjan Ajevski (Open University Law School)
      • ‘Man lives in this world only by the grace of vegetation’: Herbicidal Warfare and the Two Trajectories of Ecocide in International Relations
        Author: Alex Hoseason (Aston University)
      • The false promise of technological escape: climate engineering and the problem of exception in a ‘climate emergency’
        Author: Danielle Young (University of Leeds)
      • Climate Justice, Counter-Mapping, and OpenSource empowerment in Middle Eastern Desert Communities
        Author: Rupert Allan
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / The Micro-dynamics of peace and conflict Boardroom, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)
      Chair: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)
      • ‘Borders and Barriers: Conflict boundaries and civilian agency’
        Authors: Thia Sagherian-Dickey (Durham University) , Clara Voyvodic Casabo (University of Bristol)
      • ‘From the Civil War, they’re very affected’: The psychological impact of recurring conflict in post-accord Lebanon
        Author: Thia Sagherian-Dickey (Durham University)
      • Understanding Legacy in Post-Accord Societies
        Author: Roddy Brett (University of Bristol)
      • Simultaneously inhabited life-worlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding conflict-affected societies
        Author: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)
      • Mostarians contesting the tale of a divided city: identifying peace at the local level
        Authors: Julianne Funk (Everyday Peace Indicators) , Vanja Celebicic (Everyday Peace Indicators)*
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / The Politics of Emotions in International Relations Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      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)
      • Ontological Security and the Politics of Emotion
        Authors: Todd Hall (University of Oxford) , Karl Gustafsson (Stockholm University)
      • The affective politics of US counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan
        Author: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      • The Politics of Feeling in Brexit Britain: Stories from the Mass Observation Project
        Authors: Emily Robinson (University of Sussex)* , Jonathan Moss (University of Sussex)
      • Of “Scaremongers”, “Vaccine Wars”, and “EU Idiots”: the Politics of Emotions in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic
        Authors: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford) , Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of Warwick)
      • Evoking Interest: The possibilities of an intimate global ethics
        Author: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Panel / The coloniality of movement: Mobilities, migration and empire Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      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)
      • Local borders in the global south: Colonial legacies in bordering and mobility regimes of South Asia
        Author: Samah Rafiq (King's College London)
      • Decolonising the Chagos Islands: ‘Belongers’ and ‘floating populations’ on Diego Garcia
        Author: Alice Engelhard (LSE)
      • International Relations in movement: coloniality, motion, and the production of ‘the international’
        Authors: Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics) , Tarsis Brito (London School of Economics)
      • Imperial Bordering and International Ordering: Mobility Management through Shifting World Orders
        Author: Nandini Dey (University of Michigan)
    • 09:00 10:30
      05 Roundtable / What does an International Studies with and for young people look like? Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      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)
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    • 10:30 18:15
      05 Conference event / Exhibition Hall Open Hyatt
    • 10:30 11:30
      Refreshment break 1h Hyatt Hotel

      Hyatt Hotel

    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / A decade of Feminist Foreign Policy – the state of the field Sonata, Hyatt
      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)
      • Feminist Foreign Policy & Postcolonial Knowledge-Production
        Author: Neha Tetali (Trinity College Dublin)
      • The silencing of war and militarism in feminist foreign policy
        Authors: Katharine Wright (Newcastle University) , Annika Bergman Rosamond (Lund University)
      • Feminism saves the world!: narratives in feminist foreign policy
        Author: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath)
      • The Performativity of Feminist Foreign Policy: Meaning, Performance, and Construction
        Author: Lena Wittenfeld (University of Bielefeld)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Adjusting to inter-state competition: How middle powers are carving out a defence role for themselves Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: Aleix Nadal (King's College London, Freeman Air and Space Institute)
      Chair: Andrew Dorman (Chatham House)
      • Understanding the evolution of the British military space posture since 2014
        Author: Aleix Nadal (King's College London, Freeman Air and Space Institute)
      • Five Eyes collaboration in outer space
        Author: Marissa Martin (King's College London, Defence Studies Department)
      • The modernisation of the French nuclear air-to-ground missile
        Author: July Decarpentrie (Swedish Defence University)
      • European Defence-Industrial strategies in comparison: UK, Germany & France
        Author: Linus Terhorst (Freeman Air and Space Institute)
      • The Lion and the Unicorn: British National Role Constructs in Defence Policy
        Author: Michelle Howard (King's College London, Defence Studies Department)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Roundtable / CPD Early Career Prize Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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 Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group
      Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (BISA)
      Chair: Sarah Dunn (University of Leicester)
      • Nigeria’s space collaborations through a postcolonial lens: How racialised hierarchies are reproduced in the space technology sector
        Authors: Laura Cashman (canterbury christ church university) , Kehinde Abolarin (Liverpool John Moores University)
      • Decolonizing Indonesia and the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) Utilization
        Author: Deden Habibi Ali Alfathimy (University of Leicester)
      • Space Stations and State Lines.
        Author: Sarah Lieberman (canterbury christ church university)
      • The Politics of International Cooperation in Deep Space Exploration and Human Settlements: Geopolitical Realities and the Hope for Common Values
        Author: Jana Fey (International Space University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Describing Difference, Seeking Solidarity: Interpretations of Race and Relationality in Anticolonial Campaigns during Historical Decolonization Dolce, Hyatt
      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)
      • Nations Ascendant: The Bolshevik Revolution and the Making of Global Anti-Colonialism
        Author: Zaib Aziz (University of South Florida)
      • Severing colonial relationality: Islamicate theories and strategies of autonomy
        Author: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews)
      • The Limits of Racial Solidarity in the West Papuan Campaign for Independence
        Author: Emma Kluge (University of Exeter)
      • “Where we end and they begin”: The Destruction of Herd Animals, Trees, and the Reforging of Indigenous Political Identities in the Era of the Nation State
        Author: Erin O'Halloran (University of Cambridge)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Domestic politics, political leaders, and foreign policies Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      • To Securitize or Not to Securitize: Internal Choices in Tony Blair’s and Gerhard Schröder’s Speech Acts on Iraq
        Author: Alexander Schotthöfer (The University of Edinburgh)
      • The rise and fall of UK international development policy under the Conservative Party (2010-2020): Evidence from parliamentary debates
        Author: Danielle Beswick (University of Birmingham)
      • Strategic Narratives and Assisting Foreign Conflict: The Case of Japan's Commitment to the Korean War
        Author: Chaeyoung Yong (University of St Andrews)
      • Party contestation of Foreign Policy in the New Global (dis)Order: National Responses to the Ukraine War and the resilience of Liberal International Order
        Author: Toby Greene (London School of Economics; Bar Ilan University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Far-Right and Misogynist Extremism Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: CST Working group
      Chair: Anna Meier (University of Nottingham)
      • Preventing Right Wing Online Extremism: what place in the current European counter-terrorism infrastructure?
        Author: Inés Bolaños Somoano (European University Institute)
      • Narrative Construction in Egyptian Identity Politics and the Role of Western Extreme Right-Wing Ideologies
        Author: Farah Rasmi (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
      • ‘We are not following what is trendy’: The ‘incel issue’ through the eyes of the Swedish security sector
        Author: Luise Bendfeldt (Uppsala University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Gendered militaries and knowledges of war Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Hannah West (Newcastle University) , Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      Chair: Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex)
      • The Effects of Gendered and Ethnicised Conscription on Political and Civic Life: The Case of Israeli Circassian and Druze Citizens
        Author: Marketa Odlova (Trinity College Dublin)
      • Visibly welcomed, invisibly undermined: British Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan 2010-2014
        Author: Hannah West (Newcastle University)
      • Gendered knowledges and counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan
        Author: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      • “Women’s work” in the Ukrainian armed forces
        Author: Jennifer Mathers (Aberystwyth University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Roundtable / Latin American IR in the UK Boardroom, The Exchange
      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 Exec 10, ICC
      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 Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)
      • Moving Beyond Binary Identities in Transitional Justice: Recognizing the Complexity of Agency in Agonistic Spaces
        Authors: Emma Murphy (University College Dublin) , Güneş Daşlı (Freie Universität Berlin)
      • Artificial NGOs: How a Hierarchical Civil Society prevents Inclusive Peacebuilding
        Author: Mark Barrow (University of Cambridge)
      • Perceived horizontal inequalities in the context of host-refugee relations in Lebanon: The role of humanitarian aid targeting
        Author: Kristina Tschunkert (The University of Manchester)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Roundtable / Occultism in International Studies: A Research Agenda Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      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 Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
      Convener: GHWG Working group
      Chair: Christopher Long (Queen's University Belfast)
      • Global health governance, COVID-19 and the limits of state-centrism in times of political violence
        Author: Aida Hassan (Queen Mary University of London)
      • The Present Present: The Epidemic Situation as an Emergency-Epistemic Object
        Author: Franziska Zirker (University of Marburg)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Policing, Prisons, and Counterinsurgency in the Global South Concerto, Hyatt
      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)
      • Policing as the Generation of Disorder and Abolition in Practice
        Author: Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University)
      • Finding Meaning in the Mihna: Incarceration, State Violence and Islamist Agency in Twentieth-Century Egypt
        Author: Michael Farquhar (King's College London)
      • Who speaks on global counterinsurgency? Making expertise and authority in India’s long wars
        Author: Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
      • Policing “Crises”: Postcolonial Penality and the Criminalization of Dissent in Pakistan
        Author: Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Political Economies of Europe and Europeanisation Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Pedro Perfeito da Silva (University of Exeter)
      • Oligarchic Practice in European Integration
        Author: Salvador Santino Regilme (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
      • Covid-19 and Divided States of Europe – Sino European Relationship after the Covid-19 Pandemic and the EU’s attempt to re-evaluate the Sino-European relation
        Author: Keiko Ferradj Ota (University of Dundee)
      • Rethinking Comparative Political Economy: Crisis and Dynamics of Change in Southern Europe
        Author: Konstantinos Myrodias (King's College London)
      • The Lagging South? Convergence, Europeanisation, and the fiscal politics of EMU accession in Spain and Italy
        Author: Guillermo Alonso Simon (University of Warwick)
      • Why is Brexit seen as a failure by many, despite a 'hard' exit form the EU: a critical political economy reading
        Author: Valentina Kostadinova (University of Buckingham)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Questioning structures, practices, and discourses in International Relations: Readings from Mexico and the Global South Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Arturo Santa Cruz (Universidad de Guadalajara)
      • IR in Mexico
        Author: Arturo Santa Cruz (Universidad de Guadalajara)
      • Intimate International Relations: Exploring “Queer” Tourism in Mexico City
        Author: Eduardo Luciano Tadeo Hernández (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco)
      • Beyond the traditional meaning of development: insights of ecofeminism from the Global South
        Author: Ruth Zavala (Centro de Relaciones Internacionales, UNAM)
      • International Relations in Mesoamerica
        Author: Salimah Monica Cossens (Centro de Relaciones Internacionales, UNAM)
      • Data science, International Relations, and the Global South. Towards a new paradigm in a de-globalizing world
        Author: Osmar Cervantes González (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Rituals in International Relations Exec 6, ICC
      Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
      Conveners: Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen) , Chiara Ruffa
      Chair: Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen)
      • Why Handshake Matters? Questioning the Visible and the Invisible in Diplomatic Encounters
        Author: Thierry Balzacq (Sciences Po)
      • The Logic of Ritual Action: Enchanting International Relations
        Author: Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen)
      • Anatomy of a ritual. The Tripartite Meetings (TPMs) in the United Nations mission in Lebanon
        Authors: Chiara Ruffa , Vanessa Newby (Leiden University)
      • Martial rituals: the temporal politics of military life
        Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Ritualised Coordination in the PLA Rocket Force: Nuclear Deterrence, Control and Sacrifice
        Author: Cameron Paul Hunter (University of Copenhagen)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Securitisation of Migration and Asylum in Europe: Perceptions, Representation and Management Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: IPMRD Working group
      Chair: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
      • The Visuals of Death: Researching the Greek Migratory Landscape
        Author: Marianna Karakoulaki (University of Birmingham)
      • Securitising Migration: A Visual Analysis of Migrant Representation in Portuguese Media
        Authors: Luiza de Almeida Bezerra , Marcos Rubén Bordalo Ferreira (Universidade de Coimbra - FEUC/CES)*
      • State-private company hybrid regimes in migration control
        Author: Samah Rafiq (King's College London)
      • The (racial) spectre of the ‘migrant boat’ in the Western imagination: a comparison of Australian and British ‘stop the boats’ discourse and policy
        Authors: Tarsis Brito (London School of Economics) , Silvester Schlebrügge (University of Warwick)
      • The New Border Regime in the EU: Technologies, Securitisation of Migration and Ethics
        Author: Foteini Kalantzi (University of Oxford)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / The Big Picture as an approach to the study of International Relations: Thinking with and beyond Barry Buzan Justham, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
      Convener: Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Laust Schouenborg (Roskilde University)
      • The role and structure of theory in big picture theorizing
        Author: Ole Waever (University of Copenhagem)
      • ‘Doing’ the big picture: regions and powers in global international society
        Author: Evelyn Goh (ANU)
      • ‘Big Picture Ethics? The challenge of normative theory’
        Author: John Williams (University of Durham)
      • Big picture theorizing on the evolution of international society and institutional change
        Author: Cornelia Narvari
      • Mapping the Globe: The Ambivalence of Regional Security Complex Theory
        Authors: Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen) , R. Emre Midilli (University of Tuebingen)*
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / The politics of actually existing climate leadership Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Stanley Wilshire (University of Manchester)
      Chair: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)
      Discussant: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)
      • Real talk or empty words? On the limits of Denmark’s global climate leadership ambitions
        Author: Lukas Slothuus (University of Sussex)
      • Indonesian Nickel Sovereignty and Global Raced Finance: The Meanings of Element 28 in an Age of Transition
        Author: Lisa Tilley (SOAS)
      • Situating labour in the green transition: the case of Danish slaughterhouse workers
        Author: Marie Andersen (Roskilde University)
      • Climate leadership for whom? Towards a critical political economy of British climate governance
        Author: Stanley Wilshire (University of Manchester)
      • ‘Uncovering new frontiers’: A political geography and geology of expanding mineral exploration in so-called Australia
        Author: Iona Summerson (SOAS, University of London)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Panel / Whose security? The UK’s security strategies and narratives Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      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)
      • Ecofeminism, Eco-collapse, and the UK’s security strategy
        Author: Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh)
      • Pluriversal Sovereignty in the UK: Intergovernmental Silence and the Integrated Defence Review
        Author: Alexander Bendix (University of Edinburgh)
      • War by Biodegradable Means? Challenging the Militarisation of Ecological Crises in UK National Security Policy
        Author: Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)
      • National security and Public Opinion: Challenges and Opportunities
        Author: Thomas Martin (Open University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      05 Roundtable / “War on Terror” 2.0.? Critique, contestation and human rights Exec 5, ICC
      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 Drawing Room, Hyatt
    • 12:15 13:15
      Lunch - SPONSORED BY REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (RIPE) 1h Symphony Hall

      Symphony Hall

    • 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 Justham, Symphony Hall
    • 12:45 13:15
      05 / Film screening of 'Youse are so brave' by Dr Hannah West with Q&A Jane How, Symphony Hall
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Roundtable / Adapting to a post-Brexit international relations: Identity, Status and Role in UK Foreign Policy Sonata, Hyatt
      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 Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Bruno Sowden-Carvalho (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
      • Between Klein and Lacan: Towards a psychoanalytical reading of OSS
        Authors: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford) , Bruno Sowden-Carvalho (University of Birmingham)
      • Understanding Far-Right Leaders’ Appeal: ‘Symbiotic Enjoyment’ and the Affective Articulation of National Collective Fantasies
        Author: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham)
      • Blue Pills, Red Pills, Black Pills, White Pills: Online Fantasies of Subjectivity and Ontological Security
        Author: Charlie Price (University of Warwick)
      • Audio-visual fantasy narratives and the pursuit for a whole subject: TRT World and the production of ‘Türkiye’ through the Syrian conflict.
        Author: Jordan Pilcher (Loughborough University)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / China at the Crossroads: Approaches to regional and domestic bargaining powers Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: ISMMEA Working group
      Chair: Mengqi Sun (Durham University)
      • Relations between China and Britain and the Search for A Post-War Settlement, 1942-1949
        Author: Zhaodong Wang (Renmin University of China)
      • Collective action because of polarisation? The case of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy 35+ Movement
        Author: Michael Mo (University of Leeds)
      • Illicit economy as Bargaining Power: Dynamic Multi-Agent Two-Level Game in China’s Crackdown on Online Scams in Myanmar
        Authors: Wan Peng (LSE) , Xu Peng (SOAS)
      • China's Green Soft Power Under the BRI: The Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Case
        Author: Katarzyna Skiert-Andrzejuk (Collegium Civitas)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / Communities, Conflict Preparedness and Agency in Unarmed Civilian Protection: Projects from Cameroon, Nigeria, Palestine, and South Sudan Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)
      Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)
      Discussant: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)
      • Safety and dignity: Enhancing unarmed civilian protection amongst Palestinians.
        Authors: Marwan Darweish (Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University) , Andrew Rigby* , Mahmoud Soliman (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)*
      • Unarmed civilian self-protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict
        Authors: Nancy Annan (Coventry University) , Gordon Crawford (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)
      • Investigating cultures of self-protection and civilian agency in conflict preparedness in South Sudan
        Author: Chas Morrison (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Roundtable / Disability and Illness in International Studies: Practising a Feminist Ethic of Care Soprano, Hyatt
      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 Justham, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Martin Hearson (Institute of Development Studies)
      • How financialisation undermines democratic cohesion: The case of South Africa
        Authors: Matt Barlow (University of Glasgow) , Ewa Karwowski (King's College London)*
      • Approaching financialisation with an IPE and CPE lens: the contested politics of financialisation in emerging economies.
        Author: Jorge Andres Quintero Sanchez (University of Warwick)
      • Great power competition and economic statecraft of emerging powers: Exploring the case of Turkey
        Authors: Seçkin Köstem (Bilkent University) , Mustafa Kutlay (City University of London)*
      • The Social Legitimacy of Post-growth and Degrowth: Youth Organsiations in Developing Asia.
        Author: Ali Saqer (ADA University)
      • Escaping the Oil Curse: The Road to Economic Diversification in the GCC
        Author: Maryam Alkuwari
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / Everyday Security: The Production of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Discourse and Praxis within Ordinary Spaces Jane How, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: Jack Holland (University of Leeds)
      Chair: Jack Holland (University of Leeds)
      • Everyday (in)security and discourses on ‘non-violent’ terrorism
        Author: Carl Gibson (University of Nottingham)
      • The object of Everyday Security Studies: Who are our publics?
        Author: Natalie Higham-James (University of York)
      • Everyday Security from the lens of Papuans in Indonesia
        Author: Irine Hiraswari Gayatri (Badan Riset Dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN), Indonesia)
      • The Globalisation of Terrorism and Security in the Everyday: New Media and International Muslim Constructions of British Security Debates on Twitter
        Author: Joseph Downing (Aston University)
      • The securitisation of the French space(s) and body(ies): the vernacular application of anti-terror laws. The relationality between counterterrorism legislation and the restrained rights to protest.
        Author: Marine Gueguin (University of Leeds)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / Knowledge production before and after the Troubles Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: Hannah West (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)
      • Institutional Glow Up? The Northern Ireland Office’s role, ethos and attitudes in making peace with the IRA during the Troubles.
        Author: Eleanor Williams (Oxford University)
      • Is Brexit the end?: Relations between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland 2017-2019.
        Author: Jessica Geoffroy (Cardiff University)
      • The 50th anniversary of the Ulster Defence Regiment Greenfinches: Perspectives on memorialisation and criticality
        Authors: Laura Patrick (Royal Irish Regiment)* , Hannah Richards , Hannah West (Newcastle University)
      • Metagovernance: understanding the changing role of Anglo-Irish networks in the path leading to the Northern Ireland Peace Process
        Author: Giada Lagana (Cardiff University)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / Macro-micro dynamics in peacekeeping research Concerto, Hyatt
      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)
      • Overcoming the crisis of multilateralism: procedural legitimization of UN peacekeeping
        Author: Camille Bayet (Université Paris II)
      • Interpreting Peacekeeping: Exploring meso-level governance in multilateral spaces.
        Authors: Vanessa Newby (Leiden University) , Chiara Ruffa
      • Global Power Shifts and their Effects on Peacekeeping Missions On the Ground
        Author: Tom Buitelaar (Leiden University)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / Martial Realism and the Problem of War Drawing Room, Hyatt
      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)
      • Martial Realism: The Problem of War Itself
        Author: Jamie Johnson (University of Leicester)
      • Martial Realism and the Construction of Hybrid War
        Author: Jeffrey Whyte (Lancaster University)
      • The conceptualisation and limits of 'critical' in Critical Military Studies
        Author: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)
    • 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 Boardroom, The Exchange
      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 / Power, Norms and the Legitimacy of the International Order Exec 1, ICC
      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)
      • Rooting for Culture: The Agency of the Global South in International Organisations
        Author: Caroline Elak (LSE)
      • The Law of Outer Space: In Whose Interest?
        Author: Fiona Naysmith (Open University (FBL))
      • Evaluating China’s norm entrepreneurship in cyberspace
        Author: Neelesh Maheshwari (South Asian University, New Delhi)
      • Authoritarian rising powers as norm entrepreneurs and the future of liberal international order
        Author: Qiaochu Zhang (University of Manchester)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / Security and political experiments in the West African Sahel Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      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)
      • The Necropolitics of Drone Bases and Use in the African Context
        Author: Ezenwa Olumba (Royal Holloway, University of London)
      • Emerging Governance in the Context of Disputed Statehood. The case of Kidal.
        Authors: Mohamed Ag Alhousseini (University of Maastricht) , Yvan Guichaoua (University of Kent)
      • Arming civilians in Burkina Faso: State, patriotism and the war on terror
        Author: Tanguy Quidelleur (Institut des sciences sociales du politique (CNRS - ENS Paris Saclay - Université Paris Nanterre)
      • Back to the ‘bad old days’ of the OAU? West African anti-coup norms in historical perspective.
        Author: Peter Brett (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Coups are back in fashion: the failure of democratic consolidation in Burkina Faso
        Authors: Samiratou Dipama (University Thomas Sankara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)* , Eloïse Bertrand (University of Nottingham)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / The Global South, Latin America, and international affairs Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      • Ecuador's foreign policy and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
        Author: Daniela Barreiro-Martinez (FLACSO Ecuador)
      • Debating Across the Divide at the United Nations: A Text Analysis of North-South Ideological Disagreement
        Author: Nicholas Lees (Department of Politics, University of Liverpool)
      • Autonomy in Global IR: Conceptual Development (or Applications) in Latin America and Beyond
        Author: Thais Doria (University of Warwick)
      • Latin American Small States (LASS) in international politics: between autonomy and dependency
        Author: Raul Salgado Espinoza (FLACSO ECUADOR)
      • US – Brazil Defence Cooperation Agreements: Hemispheric Security and Political Leadership.
        Author: Juan Velez (University of Kent)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / The Making and Unmaking of Global Orders Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
      Convener: IIRG Working group
      Chair: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson
      • What is it like to be entangled? – The Experience of Inseparability in Global Politics
        Author: Joost Hendrik Pietschmann (University of St Andrews)
      • Intergalactic war? Conspiracy theories, spirituality and the re-interpretation of global order
        Author: Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg (Tilburg University)
      • The World Westphalian and the Processes of Conceptual Antiquing
        Author: John Parker (University of Edinburgh)
      • Home as a Claim to Global Subjectivity Through and Against Sovereignty
        Author: Rhiannon Emm (King's College London)
      • Populi Sacri, or ‘Not Your International’: A Theopolitical Interpretation of the Sovereign Power of International System
        Author: Chia-Yu Liang (University of Sussex)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Roundtable / The Ukraine War and the Re-making of Europe's Security Order Exec 9, ICC
      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 Exec 10, ICC
      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 Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: British International History Working Group
      Convener: Peter Burnham (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Shaun Breslin (University of Warwick)
      Discussant: David Bailey (University of Birmingham)
      • The politics of the Joint Declaration in Sino-British relations, 2014-2023
        Author: Tim Summers (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
      • The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration (SBJD) - 40 years on: an analysis of the Chinese negotiation strategy
        Authors: Tim Summers (Chinese University of Hong Kong) , Rong Wei (University of Birmingham)
      • Ring No Bells? The European Community and the Sino-UK Joint Declaration in 1984
        Author: Biao Zhang (China University of Political Science and Law)
      • The primacy of domestic politics in Thatcher’s negotiations over the Sino-British Joint Declaration 1984
        Authors: Peter Burnham (University of Birmingham) , Peter Kerr (University of Birmingham)*
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / The uses and abuses of history, memory and identity in Russian foreign and security policies Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
      Chair: Kevork Oskanian (University of Exeter)
      • Defenders of History? Securitizing History and Militarizing Russia's Youth.
        Authors: Jennifer Mathers (Aberystwyth University) , Allyson Edwards (Bath Spa University)
      • Religion, history and war: Orthodoxies, Identities and the competition for young hearts and minds
        Authors: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University) , Vladyslav Havrylov (Georgetown University)*
      • Ukraine’s stolen children: deidentification as the goal of Russian deportations.
        Author: Jade McGlynn (King's College London)
      • Memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Russia’s Foreign Policy: Testing the Limits of the Possible
        Author: Valentina Feklyunina (Newcastle University)
      • Lost in Eurasia? Russia’s Civilizational Pivot from Europe to China
        Author: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / Uncovering Hierarchies of International Relations: Some Perspectives from India Exec 6, ICC
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Shailza Singh (Bharati College, University of Delhi)
      Chair: Nachiketa Singh (SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi)
      • International Politics of Conservation and Post-colonial Predicament: A study of National Parks in India
        Author: Sonali Yadav (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
      • Silent Histories in the Study of International Relations: Exploring the possibility of alternative historiography in International Studies in South Asia
        Author: Shailza Singh (University of Delhi)
      • Can the Global South Speak? Theory and Epistemic Struggles in IR
        Author: Rityusha Mani Tiwary (University of Delhi)
    • 13:15 14:45
      05 Panel / ‘Regions’ and Spatial Relations to International Thought Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Maria Tanyag (Australian National University)
      Chair: Sarah Dunstan (University of Glasgow)
      • The International Political Thought of Asia Pacific Women’s Regional Networks
        Author: Maria Tanyag (Australian National University)
      • Moral geographies of pan-Asian sisterhood in elite Indian women’s thought c.1910s-1930s
        Author: Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics)
      • Remembering Revolution: Gendered Work & Care
        Author: Quỳnh N. Phạm (University of San Francisco)
      • Feminism, Anti-Colonialism, and the Politics of Development at Afro-Asian Women’s Conferences
        Author: Su Lin Lewis (Bristol)
    • 14:45 15:00
      15 minute transition 15m
    • 14:45 15:45
      Refreshment break 1h Hyatt Hotel

      Hyatt Hotel

    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Bordering, Frontiers and Migrant Lives Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews)
      • Political Diasporism: Examining the Praxis of Radical Imaginaries on Jewish Community Farms
        Author: Chana Rose Rabinovitz (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Bordering the Bathroom, Bordering the Nation: A Study of Anti-Trans and Anti-Immigration Rhetoric in UK Print Media
        Authors: Patrick Vernon (King's College London) , Gina Gwenffrewi (University of Edinburgh)*
      • The Deportation Cycle – The Production and Disposal of Migrant Labour in Contemporary Capitalism
        Authors: Lucy Kneebone (Queen Mary University of London) , Timor Landherr (Queen Mary, University of London)*
      • Crossing many boundaries and endless agony Navigating the complex racial spatiality of EU border regime and fate of “deserving” Afghan migrants in the Balkan Corridor
        Author: Shazia Shaikh (University of Mumbai)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Controversies, Failed Scandals, and Contestation in the fields of Security and Counterterrorism Fortissimo, Hyatt
      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
      • The social organization of contestation and consent: debates on the Spanish Political Parties’ Act (2002)
        Author: Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín (Spanish National Distance University, UNED)
      • The suppression of security controversies: ‘reverse shaming’ and the perpetration of torture
        Author: Frank Foley (King's College London)
      • Scandalisation, Individual Detriment, and the Politics of Sight: Failing to Scandalise a Counterterrorism Program
        Author: Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Decolonialising peacebuilding and everyday peace Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)
      Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)
      • Resisting and countering militarized policing though community-led intersectional politics of care
        Authors: Raquel Silva (University of Coimbra) , Priya Dixit (Virginia Tech)*
      • Photography and everyday peacebuilding. Examining the impact of photographing everyday peace in Colombia
        Authors: Tiffany Fairey (King's College London) , Edwin Cubillos (Everyday Peace Indicators)* , Manuela Muñoz (Everyday Peace Indicators)*
      • Redefining Local Peacebuilding: The Case of Sulhu Approach in Northern Nigeria
        Author: Joshua Akintayo
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / EU-China relation in a changing global context (an Italian perspective) Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Matteo Dian (University of Bologna)
      Discussant: Matteo Dian (University of Bologna)
      • Renegotiating the norm of non-interference: China’s approach to insecurity in the neighbourhood
        Authors: Giulia Sciorati (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Eva Seiwert (Friedrich-Alexander Erlangen-Nuremberg Universität)*
      • Contemporary Italian Narratives on Russia and China: Analysing Continuity and Change
        Authors: Sara Berloto (Università degli Studi di Milano) , Nicolò Fasola (Università di Bologna)
      • Confucius Institutes and Chinese soft power: the case of Italy
        Author: Veronica Strina (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)
      • Beyond the ‘China Threat’ Narrative: EU-China Relations through a Critical Security Lens
        Author: Alice Politi (King's College London)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Everyday Peace and Lingering Violence Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Rebekka Friedman (KCL)
      Chair: Roddy Brett (Bristol)
      Discussant: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)
      • Women’s Everyday Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in the Shadow of a Divisive Past: Inter-communal Care Networks in Northern Sri Lanka
        Author: Rebekka Friedman (KCL)
      • Everyday peace in Montes de María (Colombia): a Struggle between Scarcity and Violence
        Author: Diana Florez (KCL)
      • Everyday Violence amidst Lingering Peace: Undermining Global Security
        Author: Gearoid Millar (University of Aberdeen)
      • Memory of post-Second World War violence in Slovenia: Unresolved Memory, Revisionism and Disputed Reconciliation in a Long-standing Everyday Peace
        Author: Zala Pochat Krizaj (KCL)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Non-State Actors and Civil Wars Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: WSWG Working group
      Chair: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University)
      • Colombia: a victim centred transitional justice approach, between local perception and wishful thinking
        Author: Kerry-Luise Prior (King's College London)
      • The ‘Knowledge Rebel’ & Civil Wars Journal: An emerging research agenda
        Author: Megghi Pengili (University of Leeds)
      • When Non-State Actors decide to play: what toys tell us about today’s wars
        Author: Virginie Grzelczyk (Aston University)
      • Community Leaders as Identity Mediators in Ethnic Defection
        Author: Yaniv Voller (University of Kent)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Ontologies and practices of global security Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: European Journal of International Security
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Dalia Saris (Queen Mary University London)
      • Beyond Words and Waves: Vibrant Matter as Co-Architect in Shaping International Security Landscape
        Author: Cynthia Mehboob (Australian National University)
      • Ordering Assemblages: an analytical framework for the study of the spatial effects of securitisation
        Author: Javier Bordón (Lancaster University / SEPAD)
      • Not for profit private security? Understanding the hardening of NGO security practices through the relation between the practitioners in private security and NGO security.
        Author: Dalia Saris (Queen Mary University London)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Public feelings: the politics of affective circulation Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)
      • Passionate development: the politics of emotions in infrastructure investments
        Author: Ran Hu (The Open University)
      • Exploring Particular Emotional Dynamics of Environmental Movements
        Author: Efser Rana Coskun (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
      • Strategic humour and post-truth public diplomacy
        Author: Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield)
      • Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past: Memory-Making during the Manchester Arena Bombing
        Author: Emma Connolly (Open University)
      • Making sense of the climate crisis: insights from existentialism and nuclear war
        Author: Nina C. Krickel-Choi (Lund University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Revisiting Turkish Politics: domestic, regional and global challenges to Ankara Boardroom, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: ISMMEA Working group
      Chair: Basak Alpan (Middle East Technical University)
      • CIMER in Turkey: A Revolutionary Platform for Political Participation or a Tool for Authoritarianism?
        Author: Caglar Ezikoglu (University of Birmingham)
      • Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey
        Authors: Arda Bilgen (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Ayşegül Kibaroğlu (MEF University)* , Caner Sayan (Swansea University)
      • New Securitization Waves of the Kurdish Question. A Two-Level Game Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy
        Authors: Bahar Baser (Durham University) , Samuele Abrami (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) , Riccardo Gasco (University of Bologna)
      • Old neighbours and new friends: changing China's role in Turkish history textbooks
        Author: Mengqi Sun (Durham University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Roundtable / Recentring Harm in Critical Military Studies Drawing Room, Hyatt
      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 Exec 1, ICC
      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 Concerto, Hyatt
      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 Exec 6, ICC
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)
      Chair: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)
      • The Myth of Criminal Liability: Migration Deals with Libya
        Author: Elif Gökşen (Bilkent University)
      • The limits of environmental governance in areas of disputed sovereignty: the implementation of human and environmental risk measures by European Antarctic actors
        Author: Daniela Portella Sampaio (Alfred Wegener Institute)
      • Who should legislate? Mapping the international debate on modern slavery
        Authors: Ece Ozlem Atikcan (University of Warwick) , Sofie Roehrig (University of Warwick/TU Dresden)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / The political economy of banking and banks Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Martin Hearson (Institute of Development Studies)
      • Following their lead? The African Development Bank and the Bretton Woods Institutions
        Author: Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe (Princeton University)
      • One future to bind them all? Modern central banking and the limits of performative governability
        Author: Timo Walter (University of Lausanne)
      • Whose Financial Services Revolution? The Politics of Open Banking, Fintech and Competition Policy in the UK
        Authors: Huw Macartney (University of Birmingham) , Chris Clarke (University of Warwick)
      • Morality, The Federal Reserve and Socio-Political Economic Governance
        Author: Sandra Park (University of St. Andrews)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Theorizing the International in International Organizations and Prototype INGOs: 1915 to 1950 Exec 10, ICC
      Sponsor: British International History Working Group
      Convener: Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes University)
      Chair: Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes University)
      • Intellectual Interactions: The International Federation of University Women (IFUW) at the League of Nations, 1920 – 1933
        Author: P. Sean Morris (University of Helsinki)
      • ‘Exploring Every Avenue to Find Only Dead Ends’: The UN in Kashmir and the Attempt to Redefine International Conflict Management, 1948–1950
        Author: Volker Prott (Aston University)
      • Beyond San Francisco: Anticolonial Worldmaking at the World Trade Union Congress, February 1945
        Author: Mark Reeves (University of Western England)
      • Saving Western Civilization: PEP, UNESCO, and a planned world order, 1931-1950
        Author: Sarah Dunstan (University of Glasgow)
      • Learning to be International: Women and International Summer Schools in the Interwar Era
        Authors: Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes University) , Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Panel / Unorthodox intersections: Migration Conversations from Diverse Perspectives Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      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)
      • The Unknown: Investigating border deaths and disappearances on the ‘Balkan Route’
        Authors: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University) , Arshad Isakjee (University of Liverpool)* , Thom Davies (University of Nottingham)* , Patricia Rubio Bertran (Aston University)
      • The “Migration Fix” at Europe’s borders: Racial Capitalism, Necropolitics, and the European border regime
        Authors: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool) , Davide Schmid
      • In-groups, out-groups, and human rights: the construction of Russia and Ukraine as human rights actors in British parliamentary discourse
        Author: Luke Marlow (Aston University)
      • Refugee Housing in ‘the city’: an examination of the everyday and the national in International Migration.
        Authors: Amanda Beattie (Aston University) , Patrycja Rozbicka (Aston)* , Mary Unsworth (Ashley Community Housing)* , Myriam Fotou (University of Leicester)*
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Roundtable / Whose Queer Political Economy? Conversations Within and Beyond IPE Sonata, Hyatt
      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 Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
      Convener: IIRG Working group
      Chair: Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London)
      • Hub-and-Spoke Approach: Identifying Who is Involved in Free Trade Agreement Negotiations from a Devolved Government Perspective
        Author: Lindsey Garner-Knapp (University of Edinburgh)
      • Whose International Relations? = Narrating the world into being by being the narrators
        Author: Divisha Srivastava (South Asian University)
      • Can ontological security be interviewed?
        Author: Tadek Markiewicz (Uppsala University)
      • "Being too Emotional"? Navigating Responsibility and Vulnerability in the Fieldwork
        Authors: Dilan Okcuoglu (Aberysywth University, Interpol)* , Dilan Okcuoglu
      • The Language of War: Historical Analogies in Ukraine’s Resistance to the Russian Aggression
        Author: Lina Klymenko (University of Helsinki)
    • 15:00 16:30
      05 Roundtable / Whose Security? Critical Reflections on Security Policy In the UK Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      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 15m
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Roundtable / Ambiguity Politics in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings Exec 5, ICC
      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 Sonata, Hyatt
      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)
      • Ontological Security, Vicarious Identity, and the Anthropocene: The Case of Sycamore Gap
        Authors: Lauren Rogers , Luke Stephens (University of Edinburgh)
      • Weaponising Domestic Violence: Ontological insecurity and complex state violence
        Author: Alexandria Innes (City, University of London)
      • Ontological Security, Projective Identification, and the Envy Dilemma in post-Brexit UK-EU relations
        Authors: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford) , Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of Warwick)
      • ‘Nobody does it better’? Nation Branding, Vicarious Identity, and the British Royal Family
        Authors: Christopher Browning (University of Warwick) , Tom Howe (University of Warwick)*
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Climate geopolitics: Conflict, security, and responsibility Boardroom, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Thomas Bobo (University of Birmingham)
      • Guerra del agua in Bolivia: Environmental discourse, power and the politics of ‘green’
        Author: Thomas Bobo (University of Birmingham)
      • Green Energy Transition at the Crossroads: Rethinking Energy Security in times of Climate Crisis and Emerging Geopolitical Constellations
        Author: Bruna Bosi Moreira (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
      • ‘We are all in this together’: Climate Change and The Politics of Collective Responsibility
        Author: Luca Mavelli (University of Kent)
      • A River, a Forest, and a Mountain: Three Facets of Environmental Conflict in South Asia
        Author: Jayashree Vivekanandan (South Asian University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Data Governance and Digital Health – Visualisation, Inclusion, and Sovereignty in a Digital Health Economy Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
      Convener: GHWG Working group
      Chair: Christopher Long (Queen's University Belfast)
      Discussant: Andreas Papamichail (Queen Mary University of London)
      • The global governance of genome editing: four approaches
        Author: Adele Langlois (University of Lincoln)
      • Visualising Pandemic Data: Maps, Genetic Technologies and the COVID-19 Outbreak
        Author: Christopher Long (Queen's University Belfast)
      • Gatekeeping global health in times of crisis: a discourse network analysis of marginalisation in digital health
        Author: Maria Weickardt Soares
      • Data (Quasi)Sovereignty: Knowledge Production, Disease Surveillance & the State
        Authors: Pedro Dutra Salgado (University of Portsmouth) , Anne-Sophie Jung (University of Leeds)*
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Forced migration, asylum, and citizenship from the UK to the Global South Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: IPMRD Working group
      Chair: Jemima Parker (University of Kent)
      • The figure of the migrant and the figure of the worker: rethinking a complex relationship in the context of the 'Channel migrant crisis'
        Author: Jemima Parker (University of Kent)
      • Politicization of the Identity and Citizenship of the Rohingyas
        Author: Ayesha Siddika (University of Leeds)
      • Forced Migration of Iraqi Kurds to the UK: Pre Arrival experiences and Post Arrival Slow Violence
        Author: Sameerah Mahmood (University of Leeds)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / In Whom We Trust? Trustworthiness, Trust and Trusting within Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy Concerto, Hyatt
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Eszter Simon (Nottingham Trent University)
      • A Site of Trust in a Era of Distrust: The International Space Station in the Context of US-Russian Relations.
        Authors: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham) , Carol Buxton (University of Birmingham)
      • Taking Things to The Next Level: The development of Track II to Track I diplomacy through Trustworthiness Transfer
        Author: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham)
      • The Consequences of Trust in Diplomatic Negotiations: Disentangling Interstate and Interpersonal Trust through Experimental Vignettes
        Author: Nicola Chelotti (Loughborough University)
      • ‘Trusting’ within Security Communities of Practice: Practice-informed indices of trustworthiness and trusting in ASEAN
        Author: Scott Edwards (University of Reading)
      • Trust in the shadow of Nuclear Destruction
        Authors: Nicholas J. Wheeler (University of Birmingham) , Marcus Holmes (College of William and Mary)*
    • 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 Jane How/Justham, Symphony Hall
      Speaker: Chair: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Narratives, noise and normality in the global nuclear order Room 102, Library
      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)
      • Justification and critique in the global nuclear order: Nuclear (ir)responsibility as practice
        Author: Megan Dee (University of Stirling)
      • A battle of narratives between the norm of deterrence and the norm of non-possession: how do stories of time constitute common sense?
        Author: Zeenat Sabur (University of Manchester)
      • ‘We were this close to providing peace and security for the galaxy’: Cultural representations of strategic stability and the normalisation of nuclear (super)weapons
        Author: Robin Vanderborght (University of Antwerp)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Nationalism, resistance, and dissent in political systems Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Mariah Thornton (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
      • Resistance statecraft: The case of Taiwan's open source governance and algorithmic co-governance technologies
        Author: Mariah Thornton (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
      • The Contentious Relationship between State Authority and Indigenous Self-Determination
        Author: Leah Sarson (Dalhousie University)
      • Political elite and social movements: changes and continuities on the Chilean political elite after the uprising of 2019
        Author: Victoria Leon-Porath (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / New approaches to understanding data and methodology in peace and conflict Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)
      • Narratives in social media in Israel following the attacks of Hamas on 7th October
        Author: Dana Guy (University College Dublin)
      • Transformative Justice from Below: everyday (photo)voices from Colombia. Research in a conflict-affected society using a participatory arts-based method
        Author: Germán Otálora-Gallego (Durham University)
      • Images and indicators: mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour in peace research.
        Authors: Pamina Firchow (Brandeis University)* , Peter Dixon (Colombia University)* , Tiffany Fairey (King's College London)
      • What's the Craic? Humour, Secret Negotiations and the Northern Ireland Peace Processed
        Author: Eleanor Williams (Oxford University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Peacebuilding as Violence? Engaging with a complex relationship Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Conveners: Werner Distler (University of Groningen) , Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
      Chair: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
      • Never-ending Troubles. How international peacebuilding enables violence in Northern Kosovo
        Author: Werner Distler (University of Groningen)
      • Material benefits for ex-combatants do not reduce community support for their re-integration: Evidence from a conjoint survey in Northeast Nigeria
        Author: Edward Morgan-Jones (University of Kent)
      • Trust no more? Alternatives to trust building in police reform in post-conflict societies
        Author: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)
      • Direct violence and United Nations peacekeeping
        Author: David Curran (Coventry University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Political economy of the environment Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)
      • Green Growth as Secret Post-Growth? International Organisations and Fuzzy Policy Paradigms
        Author: Matthias Kranke (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg)
      • How capitalism affirms its hegemony: The imperial mode of living
        Author: Ulrich Brand (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria)
      • South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership and the Externalisation of African Sovereignty
        Authors: Alex Beresford (University of Leeds) , Ruth Bookbinder (University of Leeds)
      • Race, wealth, and the green transition: Making sense of “woke capitalism”
        Author: Liam Stanley (University of Sheffield)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Projecting Power and Science: Anti-Satellite Weapons and Strategic Interests in Space Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group
      Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)
      Chair: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)
      • Orbits in the aftermath: framing ASATs in the PAROS assemblage.
        Author: Tegan Harrison (Cardiff University)
      • Russian Military Space Strategy: 1991-2023
        Author: Sarah Dunn (University of Leicester)
      • Chinese Anti-Satellite Technology and US Nuclear (In)Security
        Author: Cameron Paul Hunter (University of Copenhagen)
      • Science and National Defence: Vannevar Bush and the New Space Race
        Author: Thomas Cheney (Northumbria University)
      • Germany and astropolitics. Reflections on German military space policy from a non-German perspective
        Author: Lise Dubois (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Reading Against/With the (Colonial) Archive Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: Jenna Marshall (King's College London)
      • De(re)colonising Greenland: The Danish Empire and postcolonial theory
        Author: Eva Leth Sørensen (Johns Hopkins University)
      • Humanely Policing the Outlying Regions of the Empire
        Author: Elisabeth Schweiger (University of Stirling)
      • 19th Century British Interests in Post-Colonial Latin America
        Author: Perla Polanco Leal (The University of Manchester)
      • The Birth of Modern Border Security? Imperial Infrastructures in the Libyan-Egyptian Borderland, 1925-39.
        Author: Jessi Gilchrist (King's College London)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Revisiting thinkers and concepts of the international Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
      Convener: CRIPT Working group
      Chair: Borislav Tsokov (University of St Andrews)
      • Recalibrating Hedley Bull as a Theorist of Informality: The Privileging of Concertation as a Fundamental Institution
        Author: Andrew Cooper (University of Waterloo)
      • Why is there no Coral Bell in the English School?
        Author: Gregory Stiles (University of Sheffield)
      • Hugo Grotius and the law of friendship
        Author: Charlie Bradley (University of Nottingham)
      • No such thing as luck? Finding fortune in International Relations
        Author: Tuukka Kaikkonen (Australian National University)
      • Whose Silence has International Resonance: Investigating the International Dimension(s) of Political Silences.
        Author: Luke Lavender (Queen May University of London)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / Russia’s challenges to the liberal world order Exec 10, ICC
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Jennifer Mathers (Aberystwyth University)
      Chair: Jennifer Mathers (Aberystwyth University)
      • The European Union in the Caucasus: a Bourdieusian Power Audit in Contested Times
        Author: Kevork Oskanian (University of Exeter)
      • Russian conservative soft power after the Ukraine War
        Authors: Vincent Keating (University of Southern Denmark) , Katarzyna Kaczmarska (University of Edinburgh)*
      • Russia and the Global South: a critical analysis
        Author: Derek Averre (University of Birmingham)
      • New Russian thinking on civilisationism and international order
        Author: David Lewis (University of Exeter)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / The Politics of International Criminal Law: Historical and Contemporary Investigations Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group
      Convener: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)
      Chair: James Gow
      • Ecocide and Forgotten Histories of International Criminal Law
        Author: Suwita Hani Randhawa (University of the West of England)
      • Navigating power dynamics: the ICC’s prosecutorial behaviour in the court’s second decade
        Author: Carolina Carvalho (University of Coimbra (School of Economics))
      • Leftist ad hoc tribunals and Cold War campaigns for permanent international justice institutions
        Author: Peter Brett (Queen Mary University of London)
      • An Eye for an Eye? IO response to delegitimation
        Authors: Birte Gippert (University of Liverpool) , Theresa Squatrito (London School of Economics)*
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / The interconnectedness of norm definitions and norm contestation Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      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)
      • Clusters of normative meanings-in-use as sites of contestation
        Author: Carmen Wunderlich (University of Freiburg)
      • Defining and contesting: how actors at varying levels of analysis contest distinct norms in different ways
        Author: Jonathan Pettifer (University of Birmingham)
      • The contestation of fundamental norms: What Poland’s backlash against the EU reveals about norm hierarchies and contestation
        Author: Johanna Speyer (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Panel / The Nexus of Small States Between Emerging Middle Powers and Competing Global Actors Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: ISMMEA Working group
      Chair: Betul Dogan Akkas (Ankara University)
      • Between a Rock and a Hard Place – The Small Gulf States and the Israel-Hamas War
        Author: Mate Szalai (Ca' Foscari University)
      • Do small states have convening power to shape the domains of competition between great powers? Nepali agency in the context of Sino-Indian competition in South Asia
        Author: Sara Frumento (University of Oxford)
      • Between a rock and hard place? Canada’s role in the Indo-Pacific
        Author: Gavin Cameron (University of Calgary)
      • What Makes Small States Successful Mediators? The case of economic statecraft in Qatari mediation in the Horn of Africa
        Authors: Imad El-Anis (Nottingham Trent University) , Ali Al-Otaibi (Nottingham Trent University)
      • The domestic contestation of liberal internationalism: The case of Israel
        Author: Toby Greene (London School of Economics; Bar Ilan University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      05 Roundtable / Transnational conflict in the Middle East and Africa: a case study for policy and programming Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      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 Library of Birmingham
    • 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 Jane How, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)
      • Decoloniality and Right-Wing Populism in India
        Author: Saloni Kapur (FLAME University)
      • Uncivil: Contesting Free Speech Nationalism
        Author: Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex)
      • Old Itineraries, New Vocabularies: Mapping the Movements of Hindu Nationalism in Europe
        Authors: Shikha Dilawri (LSE) , Ida Birkvad (LSE)
      • Decolonial Imaginaries of the Far Right: Alexander Dugin, Carl Schmitt and the Reactionary Pluriverse
        Author: Miri Davidson (University of Warwick)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Conceptualising AI in Global Society Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Convener: ISET
      Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)
      • Forecasting and Worldmaking in Global Policy
        Authors: Anna Finiguerra (QMUL) , Alex Gould (King's College London)
      • The Subject of Intelligence: AI as Existential Risk and the Constitution of the Human
        Author: Caio Simoneti (University of Cambridge)
      • Decolonial AI: A Perspective on the Imperialist States' Colonizing Quest for Labor Applied in the Development of Artificial Intelligence.
        Author: Jian Melo (Federal University of Santa Catarina)
      • AI Futures? Towards a New Futurology for Emerging Technologies
        Authors: Joe Burton (Lancaster University) , Simona Soare
      • AI and the Makeover of Democratic Imagination
        Author: Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Contesting Nuclear and Climate Imperialisms in the Pacific Fortissimo, Hyatt
      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)
      • Pacific Post/Apocalypse: From Nuclear Colonialism to Carbon Imperialism
        Author: Anais Maurer (Rutgers University)
      • ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating climate change as part of the ‘imperial mess’ and colonial violence wrought in the Pacific
        Author: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)
      • Weaving a Transoceanic Web: Antinuclear Solidarities between Greenham Women and Indigenous Pacific Communities
        Author: Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Diverse Challenges to the Protection of Human Rights Dolce, Hyatt
      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)
      • Militarism in Global Drug Governance
        Author: Salvador Santino Regilme (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
      • Is Power from the Western World Dominating? - An International Insight into the Benchmark and Situation of Academic Freedom
        Author: Qiyu Zhuang (University of Edinburgh)
      • ‘I Say, You Say’: Transitional Justice and Normative Polarisation in Parliamentary Interactions
        Authors: Ivor Sokolic (University of Hertfordshire) , Lanabi La Lova (LSE)* , Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • State Extremism and International Relations
        Author: Jonathan Leader Maynard (King's College London)
    • 09:00 18:15
      06 Conference event / Exhibition Hall Open Hyatt
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Has “militarisation” had its day? Concerto, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University) , Sarah Bulmer
      Chair: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)
      • Taking Militarizations Seriously: What a Focus on the Heterogeneity of Militarized Childhoods Reveals about a Contested Concept
        Authors: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University) , Jana Tabak (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)*
      • Beyond Militarisation: The Fylingdales Archive revealing complex negotiations, diversity, and collaborations at RAF Fylingdales
        Authors: Chloe Barker (Newcastle University) , Michael Mulvihill (Teesside University)
      • (Fifty) shades of militariness in contemporary Britain
        Authors: Sarah Bulmer , Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      • Centering the transnational dynamics of militarization
        Author: Eva Johais (Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen)
      • Ready to change? Exploring the possibility of unmaking militarised identities using an ontological security approach
        Author: Tara Zammit (Kings College London)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Indigeneity and Contested Identities in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Convener: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism Working Group
      Chair: Leonid Nersisyan (University of Birmingham)
      • Civilian Targeting during Counterinsurgency: the Activities of Militias in Burkina Faso
        Author: Francis Asante (University of Bristol)
      • Whose ethnicity matters? ‘Mixed’ families navigating conflict in the Caucasus
        Author: Andrea Peinhopf (Northumbria University)
      • The Chechen Playbook: Russian use of indigenous forces for post-conflict security
        Author: Alex Crockett (Durham University)
      • Explaining paramilitary mobilization in Ukraine and beyond
        Author: Huseyn Aliyev (University of Glasgow)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Interdisciplinary approaches to the role of state and non-state actors in issues of forced migration Boardroom, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: Mabel Newton (University of Southampton)
      Chair: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)
      • Navigating Contraceptive Autonomy: Examining Actor Influence on Irregular Venezuelan Adolescent Migrant Girls in Colombia within the Reproductive Justice Framework
        Author: Hannah Hall (University of Southampton)
      • Asylum and refugee protection norm contestation: an analysis of anti-migration networks in the US
        Author: Mabel Newton (University of Southampton)
      • Wall of Visas: How Race Impacts the Externalisation of (Forced) Migration Control in Brazil
        Authors: Natalia Cintra (University of Southampton)* , Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Roundtable / Introduction to Book Publishing Room 101, Library
      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 Justham, Symphony Hall
      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 Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: WSWG Working group
      Chair: Afzal Ashraf
      • Military Learning Practices: Organisational Learning in the Portuguese Army
        Authors: Tom Dyson (Royal Holloway College, University of London) , John Tull (Royal Holloway College)*
      • Silences: Command and Trauma in Modern Warfare
        Authors: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University) , Martin Thorp
      • Assessing Warlords: Coalition Forces and Partner Selection in Afghanistan
        Author: Stephen Grenier (Johns Hopkins University)
      • Policy, Leadership, and Failure - The USA Experience
        Author: Antulio J. Echevarria II (US Army War College)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Roundtable / Ontological security and securitisation theory: identifying overlaps and divergences Room 103, Library
      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? Exec 10, ICC
      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
      • Building a new world? East-West power disputes on trusteeship between constructive negotiation and imperial competition
        Authors: Philipp Lottholz (CRC; Dynamics of Security) , Werner Distler (University of Groningen)
      • The language of peace: Exploring alternative visions of peace through linguistic resistance
        Author: Aidan Gnoth (Philipps University Marburg)
      • The Somaliland peace alternative: Thinking yeyond state-based forms of peace
        Author: Matthew Gordon (SOAS, University of London)
      • ‘Unconventional’ peace actors: How foreign intervenors integrate and differentiate themselves within the dominant peace
        Author: Sachiho Funabashi (SOAS University of London)
      • Protesting protection: Anti-UN dissent and occupational continuities on the Gaza Strip, 1956-1958
        Author: Margot Tudor (City, University of London)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Questioning African unity and diplomacy Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
      Convener: AISG Working group
      Chair: Peter Brett (Queen Mary University of London)
      • ‘Diplomacy without Diplomats’: The Diplomacy of Africa’s Liberation Movements
        Author: Lesley Masters (Nottingham Trent University)
      • Toward a Theoretical Framework for Analysing African Normative Agency in Global Cybernorms Processes
        Author: Ndidi Olibamoyo (University Of Bath)
      • Beyond nation-states: A critical appraisal of African statehood in International Studies
        Author: Juweria Ali (University of Westminster)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Reimagining Agency and Identity in International Relations Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
      Convener: PPWG Working group
      Chair: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire)
      • Doing International Relations ‘from the local’s point of view’? Situated knowledges, agency, and the performative logic of social inquiry
        Author: Timo Walter (University of Lausanne)
      • Reconceptualising Power: Foucault and Agency
        Author: Antonia Nicole Alecu (University of Birmingham)
      • Gender, Sexuality and the International Monetary Fund
        Author: Georgia Peters (University of Sydney)
      • Memories of 'Terus' (struggle) and 'Funu' (Suffering): Examining national identity formation in post-conflict East Timor
        Author: Marcelle Trote Martins (Liverpool John Moores University)
      • The Manifestation of Hybridity at Hybrid Courts: Personal Reflections from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL)
        Author: Charlotte Carney (University of Sydney)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Rethinking Challenges to Mass Atrocity Prevention Room 105, Library
      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)
      • Rethinking the Institutional Barriers to Mass Atrocity Prevention: The Impact of Competing Agendas in the UN System
        Author: Samuel Jarvis (York St John University)
      • China as a norm shaper: How does China adopt contestation practices across different norms of human protection?
        Author: Qiaochu Zhang (University of Manchester)
      • The Hypocrisy of Pillar Two: Linking Negative Duty Violations and Atrocity Prevention Under the Responsibility to Protect
        Author: Richard Illingworth (University of Glasgow)
      • The UK’s Reparative Responsibility to Protect: Colonial Injustice, Rectification, and Atrocity Prevention
        Author: Adam Cooper (University of Leeds)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Roundtable / Susan Strange @ 100: an enduring legacy for contemporary times Sonata, Hyatt
      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 Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      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 Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: TBC
      • Violence and Crime among Palestinians in Israel: Factors and Contexts
        Author: Marwan Darweish (Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)
      • Rethinking militarisation as co-constituting coloniality under military occupation
        Author: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Tear Gas and Protest Movements: A Tool of Policing or Weapon of Repression?
        Author: Shala Cachelin (University of Westminster)
      • Military Identity and postcolonial anxiety in Brazil
        Author: David Paulo Succi Junior (São Paulo State University)
      • Whose security? The ‘UK’s ‘hostile’ immigration environment seen through a feminist security lens.
        Author: Laura Zuber (King's College London)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Panel / Thinking Peace, Conflict and Political Transformation Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
      Convener: CRIPT Working group
      Chair: Borislav Tsokov (University of St Andrews)
      • Crisis of the Liberal International Order and the Space for the Global South
        Author: Jonathan Joseph (University of Bristol)
      • David Davies and the problem of peaceful change: A critical reappraisal
        Author: Takamitsu Hadano (Hiroshima City University)
      • Symbolic Dimensions of Surrender: Reshaping Notions of Survival in War Termination and Peace Formation
        Author: Alexandros Koutsoukis (Universtiy of Central Lancashire)
      • New Materialism, Pacfism and Prefigurative Politics
        Author: Borislav Tsokov (University of St Andrews)
    • 09:00 10:30
      06 Roundtable / Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue Exec 9, ICC
      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 15m
    • 10:30 11:30
      Refreshment break 1h Hyatt Hotel

      Hyatt Hotel

    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / African philosophy, intellectuals and the global political economy of knowledge production Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
      Convener: AISG Working group
      Chair: Sara Abdel Ghany (University of Warwick)
      • Tracing the state in African anticolonial thought – on vernaculars and confines of political imaginaries of the international
        Author: Paul Witzenhausen (University of Erfurt)
      • Large grant-funded research centres and the political economy of knowledge production
        Author: Portia Roelofs (King's College London)
      • Gatekeeping theoretical applications in knowledge production: What does this have to do with inclusivity in international studies?
        Author: Aboabea Akuffo (University of Oxford)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Roundtable / Authoritarian futures? International politics and future-oriented foreign policymaking in authoritarian regimes Sonata, Hyatt
      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 Exec 5, ICC
      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)
      • Rethinking Impact: INGOs Strategies and Peacebuilding in Africa
        Author: MartinLuther Nwaneri (Aston University, Birmingham)
      • Revisiting Peacebuilding Strategies in South Sudan and the Central African Republic: Beyond Western Paradigms
        Author: Clyde Collins (Aston University, Birmingham)
      • Navigating Postcolonial Realities: Decolonial Peacebuilding in African States
        Author: Joan McDappa (Kingston University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Counter-Terrorism and Colonial Violence Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: CST Working group
      Chair: Kodili Chukwuma (Durham University)
      • Embodying counterterrorism violence in the colony: Bodies and the (de-)legitimation of violence in ‘French’ Indochina
        Author: Xavier Mathieu (University of Sheffield)
      • The Coloniality of the Religious Terrorism Thesis
        Author: Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)
      • The Order of Humanisation: How the Label of Terrorism is Awarded
        Author: Chidubem Mogbolu
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Everyday Militarism Boardroom, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Convener: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)
      Chair: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)
      • The banality of everyday militarism: A comparative analysis of the UK and Finland
        Authors: Hannah Richards (Cardiff University) , Louise Ridden (Tampere University)
      • The pleasures and depletion of reproducing militarism in the military household
        Author: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)
      • Eating ourselves safe: intersections of food, militarisms, and national security in Sweden
        Authors: Emily Clifford (Royal Holloway University of London) , Luise Bendfeldt (Uppsala University)
      • Performing Militarism: From Hegemonic to Public Discourse in Critical Military Studies
        Author: Ellen Martin (University of Bristol)
      • Gender, War and Narrative Force: the atmospherics of soldier story-telling and self-care
        Author: Alexandra Hyde (University College London)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Geocultural Identities in the Making Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: HSIR Working group
      Chair: Leonardo Pagano Landucci
      • Postmemory: Public memory in Post-Totalitarian generation. Case of Spain and Romania
        Author: Jose Francisco Espejo Jiménez
      • Retracing regionness: Disentangling the emergence of the contemporary Latin American regional order back to the nineteenth century
        Author: Carolina Zaccato (University of St Andrews)
      • Gabooye marginalisation in Somaliland: root causes, legacies and social mobility prospects
        Author: Zakarie Abdi Bade (Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Global Governance and macro-level peace Concerto, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: Alexander Gilder (University of Reading)
      • Rethinking the Local-International Nexus in Peacebuilding
        Author: Mark Barrow (University of Cambridge)
      • Conflict Resolution or Conflict Perpetuation? Reframing Territorial Withdrawal as Territorial Consolidation
        Author: Rob Geist Pinfold (Durham University)
      • Amnesties as Incentives for In-Conflict Bargaining
        Authors: Timo Kivimäki (University of Bath) , Sean Garrett (University of Bath) , Mattia Cacciatori (University of Bath)*
      • The Resolution of Civil Wars: Changing International Norms of Peace-Making and the Academic Consensus
        Author: Giulia Piccolino (Loughborough University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / International studies and climate change in the Anthropocene Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)
      • An Anthropocentric International Relations? Acknowledging, Accommodating, and Governing the Non-Human
        Author: Divisha Srivastava (PhD Research Scholar South Asian University)
      • Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene
        Authors: Matthias Kranke (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg) , Bruna Bosi Moreira (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
      • The Present "We" and the Future "Us": Identification, Securitization, and Temporality in the Case of Climate Change
        Author: Jérémy Dieudonné (UCLouvain)
      • On Eco-Miserabilism
        Author: Debbie Lisle (Queens Universty Belfast)
      • International Studies, Climate Change and Climate Action
        Author: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Interpreting norms and status in world order Drawing Room, Hyatt
      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
      • The Multiple Audience Dynamic of Status Dissatisfaction: Examining China’s Shifting Response to the Emerging Global Environmental Regime, 1950-1972
        Author: Zikun Yang (University of Cambridge)
      • The Golden Mean: Explaining India’s stand on nonproliferation sanctions
        Author: Rishika Chauhan (Department of War Studies, King's College London)
      • I am Selling. But who is Buying?: Trustworthiness and Trust as Norms to be Contested
        Authors: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham) , Jonathan Pettifer (University of Birmingham)
      • How Far Are We from An Efficient Global Governance Architecture: A Normative and Empirical Analysis
        Author: Wan Peng (LSE)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Memory and the Afterlives of Empire Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: Ida Birkvad (LSE)
      • Provincialising the Partition: Framing Jinnah and the League in the Partition Museum, Amritsar
        Author: Sridhar Krishnan (Ashoka University, New Delhi)
      • The Pantayong Pananaw Movement (“From-Us-For-Us” Perspective) as a Decolonial Approach to Addressing the Ontological Insecurities of Everyday International Relations
        Author: Michael Magcamit (The University of Manchester)
      • ‘To Frame is to Exclude’: A Contrastive Study of How Two Museums Exhibited their India Collections
        Author: Jayashree Vivekanandan (South Asian University)
      • Remember everything but forget IR? The antinomies of anti-disciplinarity in a conservative era
        Authors: Suthaharan Nadarajah (SOAS, University of London)* , Mark Laffey (SOAS University of London)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / New approaches to theorising emotion in global politics Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
      • A structural approach to emotion
        Author: Anna Gillions (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)
      • Towards a Theory of Banal Modernism: China Managing the Racialised Shame of Unmodernity through “Stigma Reprojection”
        Author: Yang Han (University of Oxford)
      • Mapping the Unconscious in International Relations. A Lacanian IR Theory of Trauma and Identity for Conflict Studies
        Author: Albert C Cano (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • Integrating The Appraisal Theory of Emotions into Existing IR
        Author: Selma Imamoglu (Durham University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Norms, Legality & Identity in US Foreign Policy Jane How, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: USFP Working group
      Chair: Mauro Bonavita (King's College London - Department of War Studies)
      • Paradoxes of the West/Non-West Cleavage in International Relations
        Author: Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster)
      • The United States, Militarism, and Global Governance of Narcotic Drugs
        Author: Salvador Santino Regilme (Leiden University)
      • Promoting Law as Counterinsurgency
        Author: Geoffrey Swenson (City, University of London)
      • The Implications of Defend Forward on International Cyber Norms
        Author: Oisín Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Para-diplomacy, diasporas, and foreign policy of non-state actors Exec 6, ICC
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      • Being a Good Global Citizen: Contestation and the Development of Scotland's para-diplomacy
        Author: Alexander Bendix (University of Edinburgh)
      • Driving Australia-China Subnational Relations: the first decade
        Author: Nicholas Thomas (City University of Hong Kong)
      • The International Relations of Non-State armed groups: The case of ETA’s peace diplomacy
        Author: Sophie Haspeslagh (King's College London)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Roundtable / Pedagogies for Teaching International Relations in the Twenty-First Century Exec 10, ICC
      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 Conference event / Poster session - Susan Strange @ 100: an enduring legacy for contemporary times Exhibitor Hall, Hyatt
      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 Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      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 Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      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 Justham, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: WSWG Working group
      Chair: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)
      • The Eyes Above: The evolving impact of Satellite Imagery on Accountability, Memory and Agency in War
        Author: William Goodhind (Contested Ground)
      • Politics of childhood in the Russia-Ukraine war
        Author: Maya Nguyen (SOAS, University of London)
      • Perspectives on war in international relations: exploring the relationship between war and change
        Author: Troels Burchall Henningsen (Royal Danish Defence College)
      • OSINT as a Discourse of War
        Author: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Panel / Situating nuclear politics - exploring nuclear politics and places beyond the interstate Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Convener: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)
      Chair: Laura Rose Brown (University of Leeds)
      • Complexity and depoliticisation in African regional nuclear institutions
        Authors: Tom Vaughan (Aberystywth University) , Joelien Pretorius (University of the Western Cape)*
      • More than a half-life? The community impact of nuclear decommissioning
        Author: Linda Ross (Keele University)
      • Blasts from the Past: Echoing Memories and Making Fragile Kin Sixty Years after the H-Bomb
        Author: Becky Alexis-Martin (Bradford University)
      • Base Women and Beyond: Developing a Feminist Decolonial Approach to Military/Nuclear Assemblages.
        Authors: Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde) , Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Roundtable / Theorising Foreign Policy Exec 9, ICC
      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 Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Convener: Eugenio Lilli (University College Dublin)
      Chair: Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)
      • What’s got you so worried? Weaponised artificial intelligence, great power competition, and US technological anxieties since the end of the Cold War
        Author: Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)
      • US Securitization of Chinese Technology: The Case of Huawei
        Authors: Zeno Leoni (King's College London) , Eugenio Lilli (University College Dublin)
      • (Re-)configuring human-machine relations: Responsible artificial intelligence and human agency in future warfare
        Author: Anna-Katharina Ferl
      • Creativity in the US-China Technology War
        Author: Catherine Jones (University of St Andrews)
    • 10:45 12:15
      06 Conference event / Working group convener meeting Room 103, Library
      Speakers: Chrissie Duxson (BISA), Juanita Elias (University of Warwick), Juliet Dryden (BISA), Prof. Kyle Grayson (BISA)
    • 12:15 13:15
      Lunch 1h Symphony Hall

      Symphony Hall

    • 12:15 13:15
      06 Conference event / Young people, politics, and peace networking meeting Drawing Room, Hyatt
    • 12:20 13:15
      06 Conference event / BISA prize giving ceremony Justham, Symphony Hall
    • 12:30 13:15
      06 Conference event / Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group AGM Concerto, Hyatt
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / (De)Colonial Aesthetics & Poetics Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)
      • Postcolonialism and reflections on modernity in Arab horror cinema in the 21st century
        Author: Mate Szalai (Ca Foscari University)
      • Were The Troubles a Decolonial Conflict? A Lacanian IR History through Intertextuality
        Author: Albert Cullell Cano (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • From Mission Kashmir to Kashmir Files: Exposing Bollywood’s attempts to manufacture the ideal ‘Indian Kashmiri’ citizen.
        Author: Annapurna Menon (University of Sheffield)
    • 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 Room 101, Library
      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 Boardroom, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Convener: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism Working Group
      Chair: Nicola Mathieson (University of Liverpool)
      • A Delay of the Religious Wave, On Time for the Far-Right Wave or In-Between?: Blurred Lines of Bolsoterrorismo
        Author: João Raphael da Silva (UWE Bristol)
      • Mobilization strategies, threat narratives and historical parallels in conspiracy theories
        Author: Janina Pawelz (University of Hamburg)
      • Mining Its Own Business: Chinese Capital and the Land Rights Protests in Myanmar
        Author: Nimmi Kurian (Centre for Policy Research, India)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Emotions and the politics of subjectivity Concerto, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)
      • Ontological (In)Security as a Political Project: A Queer Perspective
        Author: Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University)
      • "I am stolen": Interrogating the coloniality of community and belonging in the western nation-state through the legacy of racialised anger
        Author: Elisabell Beyer (University of Manchester)
      • "A Wall of Pain and Love”: Atmospheric Walls and The UK’s ‘National COVID Memorial Wall’
        Author: Kandida Purnell (Richmond University)
      • The Affective Citizen-Subject of Neoliberalism: A view from the ‘South’
        Author: Amira Abdelhamid
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Everyday Ethics of the International: New imaginaries of relation, negotiation and care Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
      Conveners: James Brassett (University of Warwick) , Dan Bulley (Oxford Brookes University)
      Chair: Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex)
      • ‘Not fair!’ British immigration, moral immunity and the dangers of an everyday ethics
        Author: Dan Bulley (Oxford Brookes University)
      • Getting Muddy: Towards a Grounded Ethics of War
        Author: Cian O'Driscoll (Australian National University)
      • It’s complicated: The (international) political theory of Gareth Southgate
        Author: James Brassett (University of Warwick)
      • Hospitality for migrant pregnant women in the National Health Service: midwives’ moral dilemmas and the (im) possibility of being ethical
        Author: Moises Vieira (University of Manchester)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Feminist approaches to the everyday: Common people in a Complex World Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: GIRWG Working group
      Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)
      • Senses of safety: the politics and effects of online violence
        Author: Elsa Bengtsson Meuller (Goldsmiths, University of London)
      • Common Sense, Common People and the Dehumanisation of Minoritised Groups in the UK
        Authors: Patrick Vernon (King's College London) , Nicola Smith (University of Birmingham) , Emma Foster (University of Birmingham)*
      • The implementation of the UN Women, Peace & Security Agenda in the occupied Palestinian territory: a tool for feminist peace?
        Author: Laura Sulin (Coventry University)
      • The symbolic representation of gender in European External Affairs: the case of the HR/ VP
        Authors: Roberta Guerrina (University of Bristol)* , Laura Chappell (University of Surrey)
      • “Home” as a Humanitarian Space: The domestic and international politics of private refugee hosting
        Author: Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Frontiers, The Final Frontier: Narratives, Emotions, And Technologies Of Governance Dolce, Hyatt
      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)
      • Minority Media Border Narratives and Ontological Security
        Author: Marcus Nicolson (EURAC)
      • The Inward Frontier: Extreme Right Production of Irregular Everyday Borders
        Author: Charlie Price (University of Warwick)
      • The embodied frontiers of the “Game”: Migrant material geographies at the Italy-Slovenia border
        Author: Noemi Bergesio (University of Bologna)
      • Seeing the border where you’d most expect it: crisis aesthetics and the racialised hypervisibility of the border at the border
        Author: Silvester Schlebruegge (Univeristy of Warwick)
      • Digital Footprints: Identity, Technology and Migration Management in Italy
        Author: Alba Priewe (University of Warwick)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Roundtable / In the shadow of bipolarity? The Space Age beyond the United States and China Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      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 Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: IPMRD Working group
      Chair: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)
      • Perceptions of Everyday (in)security of Nigerian Refugee Women in Newcastle, United Kingdom
        Author: Boluwajo Kolawole
      • Understanding the Role of Race and Gender in an Increasingly Hostile Response towards Refugees: A UK Example
        Author: Anca Carter-Timofte (University of Liverpool)
      • The everyday political economy of recent Vietnamese migrant labour to/in the UK
        Author: Seb Rumsby (University of Birmingham)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Norms, nations, and identity crises in global politics Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Laura Gelhaus (University of Warwick)
      • The Emergence, Cascade, And Internalization Of ‘Bad’ Norms: Xenophobia And Nativism As A Normative Process
        Authors: Jeffrey Benvenuto (Gratz College)* , Michael Toomey (University of Glasgow)
      • Constructing EU-rope: Gastroeuropeanism and European Identity
        Author: Laura Gelhaus (University of Warwick)
      • Going Global: Trust Research and International Relations 10 Years On
        Authors: Vincent Keating (University of Southern Denmark) , Jan Ruzicka*
      • Re-securing the imagined West through news language in times of internal crisis.
        Author: Uma Muthia (Monash University)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Political economies of security and geopolitics Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Roberto Roccu (King's College London)
      • The national security in the international studies: Singapore’s aquaculture promotion
        Author: Rungroge Kamondetdacha (Chulalongkorn University)
      • Matter-of-fact geopolitics? Unpacking the EU's geopolitical discourse in the light of geopolitical theory
        Authors: Dora Piroska (Central European University)* , Balazs Szent-Ivanyi (Aston University)
      • War of Manoeuvre: The development of the FARC into an insurgent army
        Author: Oliver Dodd (University of Nottingham)
      • Redefining hegemony? The power of the European Union in its region
        Author: Patrick Holden (University of Plymouth)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Re-thinking and resisting in Critical Military Studies Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      • Refusing to Support the Troops: Support, Disengagement, and Resistance on Online Discussion Forums
        Author: Ellen Martin (University of Bristol)
      • The Coloniality of the British Army: A Decolonial Framework
        Authors: Sara de Jong (University of York) , Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      • “I never considered myself as a soldier”: Rethinking Agency and Militarized Identities
        Authors: Caroline Micklewright (University of Exeter)* , David Jackson (University of Exeter)* , Sarah Bulmer (University of Exeter)
      • Embracing discomfort: an emergent research agenda for reclaiming military-veteran research as careful, critical, creative encounters
        Author: Laura Mills (University of St Andrews)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Roundtable / Review of International Studies - RIS @ 50. On the Horizon: The futures of IR Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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 Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Conveners: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow) , Megan Dee (University of Stirling)
      Chair: Megan Dee (University of Stirling)
      • Temporal Disparities in Intergenerational Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence and Climate Change
        Author: Franziska Stärk (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg)
      • What happens when gender-talk meets nukespeak? Analysing the effects of gendering nuclear weapons policy
        Author: Laura Rose Brown (University of Leeds)
      • The Global Politics of Exterminism: E.P. Thompson and Nuclear Weapons in the Anthropocene
        Author: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)
      • A Third Wave of the Nuclear Disarmament Movement? Popular Campaigning and the Re-emergence of Nuclear Politics
        Author: Martin Shaw (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / The foreign policy and international relations of authoritarian middle-powers Soprano, Hyatt
      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)
      • Reshaping engagement: How autocratising middle powers redefine the patterns of interactions with civil society organisations?
        Author: Anna Grzywacz (Polish Academy of Sciences)
      • The rise of authoritarian middle powers and what it means for world
        Authors: Marie-Eve Desrosiers (University of Ottawa) , Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham)
      • To what shall I compare thee? Challenges of conceptualising Turkish foreign policy and what this reveals on middle powers in an era of renewed geopolitical competition
        Author: Ziya Meral (SOAS)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Roundtable / Palestine: The label of ‘terrorism’ and the permissibility of violence Sonata, Hyatt
      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 Exec 9, ICC
      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? Exec 10, ICC
      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))
      • Grassroots geopolitical imaginaries in the Sahel: Civil society security narratives in Burkina Faso and Niger
        Author: Adam Sandor (University of Bayreuth)
      • Counterterrorism, conspiracy theories and state legitimacy in Niger
        Author: Aoife McCullough (London School of Economics)
      • Leading from behind? Transforming US counterinsurgency into Iraqi counterterrorism during operation "New Dawn" in Iraq (2009-2011)
        Author: Christian Olsson (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
    • 13:15 14:45
      06 Panel / Youth, Violence and Conflict transformation: Exploring mobilization into violence and the role of youth in peacebuilding Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: Jessica Northey (Coventry University)
      Chair: Bahar Baser (Durham University)
      • A 'Youthed' Peace? A Framework for Understanding Youth Participation in Colombian Peacebuilding
        Authors: Justina Pinkeviciute (Coventry University) , Elly Harrowell (Coventry University) , Egoitz Gago Anton (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
      • Looking back to move forward: former underage child soldiers from the 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina
        Authors: Sinisa Sajevic (Wings of Hope) , Marija Šarić (Wings of Hope)* , Michaelina Jakala (Coventry University)*
      • Experiences of displacement and return: The journeys of conflict-affected youth and families across Iraq and Syria
        Authors: Chas Morrison (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University) , Laura Payne (Coventry University)
      • The Intergenerational Dimensions of Peace: Peace clubs and the preservation of cultural knowledge amongst displaced youth in the Glavda community in Abuja
        Author: Stephen McLoughlin (Coventry University)
      • Youth politics, citizenship and inclusion: The Algerian hirak and everyday activism
        Authors: Jessica Northey (Coventry University) , Adel Chiheb (Jijel 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 Justham, Symphony Hall
      Speaker: Chair: James Patton Rogers
    • 14:45 15:00
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      Hyatt Hotel

    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Roundtable / Book Talk: The End of Peacekeeping Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention Concerto, Hyatt
      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 Exec 6, ICC
      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 Boardroom, The Exchange
      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 Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: ESWG Working group
      Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)
      • A history of threats: mapping changing security issues and their conceptualisation in national security documents globally
        Authors: Roy Gardner (University of Edinburgh) , Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh)
      • Outermost Regions as geostrategic assets of the European Union: the Azorean case
        Author: Nuno Santos Lopes (Nova University of Lisbon; University of the Azores)
      • Eastern European Divergence: Exploring the Czech Republic and Hungary's Contrasting Stances on Ukraine Support
        Authors: Jacky Wei-ming Chien* , Jim An Chin Cheng (IPS, NSYSU)
      • There and Back Again: How UK-EU De-Engagement after Brexit shaped Re-Engagement after Ukraine
        Authors: Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh) , Monika Sus (Hertie School)*
      • Evolution of Natural Gas Conflicts in Europe: A Network Analysis of Energy Security
        Authors: Kerem Öge (University of Warwick) , Tim Henrichsen
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Feminist Security Studies: Gendering, Strategy, Tactics Sonata, Hyatt
      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)
      • The Feminist Exoneration of Drone Violence
        Authors: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield) , Jamie Johnson (University of Leicester) , Victoria Basham (Cardiff University)
      • Drones, Precision and Gender: Exploring Gender Dynamics in NATO Drone Strike Regulations
        Author: Karia Hartung (Royal Holloway, University of London)
      • ‘Knights of the Caliphate’: The Gendered nature of ‘Knighthood’ within the visual and multimodal propaganda content of the Islamic State
        Author: Harrison Swinhoe (University of Exeter)
      • War as Postcolonial Adventurism: China Revising Positionality in the Global Racial Hierarchy through Wartime Femininity during the Sino-Indian Border War
        Author: Yang Han (University of Oxford)
      • Exploring Women's Participation in Collective Violence: Women Cadres of the Khmer Rouge
        Author: Jennifer Howe (King's College London)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Global Social Theory and 'The International' Exec 10, ICC
      Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: HSIR Working group
      Chair: Pedro Dutra Salgado (University of Portsmouth)
      • Kenneth Waltz’s Neglected International Social Theory
        Author: Huu Phu Gia Nguyen (University of Sussex)
      • Fields, Frontiers, and the Making of Global Agrarian Order
        Author: Rowan Lubbock (Queen Mary, University of London)
      • Decolonise development? Abandon the state! Insights from the Brazilian experience
        Author: Pedro Salgado (University of Portsmouth)
      • International Relations at the End of the Atlantic
        Authors: Scott Lavery (University of Glasgow)* , Davide Schmid (Manchester Metropolitan University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Global climate governance: Policies and finances of the climate crisis Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Geoffrey Swenson (City, University of London)
      • Banking against sustainable finance. The effect of the Eurozone Collateral Framework on Green Bond prices
        Author: Julio Galindo-Gutiérrez (University of York)
      • Populism at the UN Climate and Biodiversity Negotiations
        Author: Adam Barnett (University of Lincoln)
      • Gaps Everywhere: How UNEP Frames Climate Problems and Solutions
        Author: Matthias Kranke (University of Freiburg)
      • Varieties of sustainable finance: States, markets, and the political economy of green bond performance
        Author: Liam Clegg (University of York)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Roundtable / Meet the Editors of Review of International Studies and International Affairs Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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 Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Convener: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)
      Chair: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)
      • The opportunities and challenges of zine-making as pedagogy: Critically engaging with militarism in the classroom
        Author: Emma Huddlestone (University of East Anglia)
      • British Army Supporting Education (BASE): Militarism and the reproduction of (in)securities in UK Schools
        Authors: Emma Huddlestone (University of East Anglia) , Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire)
      • Exploring the intersection between militarism and peace in Ukraine’s educational landscape: "I Vote for Peace"
        Authors: Yanina Pocheniuk (International University of Economics and Humanities, Rivne.)* , Iryna Budz (International University of Economics and Humanities, Rivne.)* , Allyson Edwards (Bath Spa University) , Yesid Cubides (Bath Spa University)*
      • Childhood, Museums and Curating War Games
        Author: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)
      • (Re)Making home after civil war: Exploring child soldiers’ reintegration imageries in the DRC
        Author: Pauline Zerla (King's College London)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Narratives and dilemmas of global security Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: European Journal of International Security
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Katherine Pye (LSE)
      • Waiting for arms control
        Authors: Laust Schouenborg (Roskilde University) , Thomas Müller (Bielefeld University)
      • The Security Dilemma Beyond the Malign-Benign Dichotomy
        Authors: Daniel Rio Tinto (Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)) , Joshua Baker (University of Leicester)
      • ‘I Am the State, and It Is Up to Me to Defend It’: Ukrainian Civil Society and the Decades-Long State of Emergency
        Author: Bohdana Kurylo (University College London)
      • From Security as Emancipation as to Dignity as Emancipation: Alternate Narratives from India
        Author: Abhishek Choudhary (University of Delhi)
      • Failing again, failing better: The meaning-making narratives of EU peacebuilders in the Sahel
        Author: Katherine Pye (LSE)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Negotiated State-Building: Unravelling the Complex Relationship between the State and Non-State Actors Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: Sarajuddin Isar (Radboud University Nijmegen)
      Chair: Oliver Walton (University of Bath)
      • Negotiated State-Building in Afghanistan: Unpacking Power Relations between the State and Non-State Actors
        Author: Sarajuddin Isar (Radboud University Nijmegen)
      • The Liberal Consequences of Illiberal Peacebuilding? Civil-Military Relations in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire
        Author: Giulia Piccolino (Loughborough University)
      • Resistance and Co-option in Colombian State-building: A Comparative Analysis of Criminal Bands and Victim Associations
        Authors: Louis Monroy-Santander (University of Birmingham) , Francy Carranza-Franco (University of Birmingham)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Perspectives on Nuclear Narratives: Discourses, Ethics, and Global Implications Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group
      Convener: Soul Park (University of East Anglia)
      Chair: Soul Park (University of East Anglia)
      • How to justify inaction: Dealing with nuclear remnants and injustices
        Author: Jana Baldus (Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt)
      • A Cinematic Catalyst for Rethinking Nuclear Narratives
        Authors: Emily Faux (Newcastle University) , Rebekah Pullen (McMaster University)
      • Nuclear Metaphorics and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: the case of Egypt
        Author: Ludovica Castelli (University of Leicester)
      • The making and maintenance of extended nuclear deterrence: A critical discursive approach to an international security policy.
        Author: Konstantin Schendzielorz (University of St. Gallen)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Political economies of development Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: Pedro Perfeito da Silva (University of Exeter)
      • The Enlightenment of the British Urban and Rural Coordination Policy on the Urban and Rural Integration Strategies of Developing Countries
        Author: Ximing Yang
      • A new UK policy agenda for international development cooperation
        Authors: Ivica Petrikova (Royal Holloway University of London)* , Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)
      • ‘We need to use the leverage we have’: North-South Debt Relations, Debt-for-Nature Swaps and the State in Britain
        Author: Thomas Da Costa Vieira (London School of Economics)
      • The political economy of capital controls in Latin America: assessing the variegated effects of the Left Turn
        Author: Pedro Perfeito da Silva (University of Exeter)
      • Mobile Capital: capturing rent from digital financial services in Ghana, Uganda and Kenya
        Authors: Martin Hearson (Institute of Development Studies) , Florence Dafe (Technical University of Munich)* , Mary Abounabhan (Institute of Development Studies)*
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Populist foreign policies, authoritarianism, and democratic back-sliding Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      • Gender Equality in Right-Wing Populist Foreign Policy - continuity or change?
        Authors: Jennifer Thomson (University of Bath) , Sophie Whiting (University of Bath)*
      • Contesting US foreign policy: Populism and the reimagination of the US-led liberal order
        Author: Carina van de Wetering (Leiden University)
      • Norm Contestation, Populist Foreign Policy and the Convergence of Venezuela and Turkey
        Author: Begum Zorlu (City, University of London)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 / Screening event: Keynote speaker Ed Hall, "Forced out" Justham, Symphony Hall
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Roundtable / The World of the Right: A Discussion Room 103, Library
      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 Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Karl Gustafsson (Stockholm University)
      • Ontological (In)Security: EU Foreign Policy Narratives and the War in Ukraine
        Author: Lauren Rogers (The University of Edinburgh)
      • The Trauma Competition: how narratives of the cultural trauma of the communist past are narrated by Bulgarian political elites
        Authors: Michael Toomey (University of Glasgow) , Petar Bankov (University of Glasgow)
      • Managing Distrust, Pursuing Peace: Intra-Party Rivalries in Bilateral Conflict Negotiations
        Author: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham)
      • Emotions, identity, and leadership in diaspora diplomacy
        Author: Alina E Dolea (Bournemouth University)
      • ‘Geopolitics of Sympathy’: George F. Kennan and NATO Enlargement
        Author: Kaarel Piirimäe (University of Helsinki)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / US Diplomacy, Alliance Politics and National Security Narratives Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: USFP Working group
      Chair: Mauro Bonavita (King's College London - Department of War Studies)
      • A Part-Time Arsenal Of Democracy: Ontological Security Narratives in U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Ukraine and Israel
        Author: Stephen Dunne (The University of Warwick)
      • Narratives of Withdrawal: U.S. Ontological (In)Security in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
        Author: Jonny Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • South Africa’s AGOA status VS Brigety and the Lady R incident: Diplomatic trade-offs in US Foreign Policy towards South Africa
        Author: Martha Bridgman (South African Institute of International Affairs)
      • Transborder Learners: Negotiating and Resisting the U.S.-Mexico Border through Border Hacks
        Author: Mabel Meneses (Sheffield Hallam University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Understanding diplomacy and peace processes Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: Walt Kilroy (Dublin City University)
      • Modelling Peace: Understanding the Northern Ireland peace process through a new framework
        Author: Eleanor Williams (Oxford University)
      • Exiled, Marginalised, and Maligned: The Fall and Rise of the NUG
        Author: Anna Plunkett (King's College London)
      • Negotiating Education: The Impact of Rebel Educational Services on Civil War Peace Agreements
        Authors: Giuditta Fontana (University of Birmingham) , Mehwish Sarwari (SUNY Buffalo)*
      • Can Theo-Diplomacy Provide A Pathway Towards Achieving Sustainable Peace
        Author: Kaleem Hussain (University of Birmingham)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Panel / Whose foreign policy? Re-assessing Turkey in International Relations after the Centenary Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen)
      Chair: Tom Walsh (Durham University)
      • Representations of liberal democracy in the EU-Turkey discourse since Gezi Park
        Author: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham)
      • The Transformation of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Since 2011
        Author: Cengiz Gunes (The University of Tübingen)
      • Talking Past While Needing Each Other: The Complex and Ambiguous Relationship between the EU and Türkiye
        Authors: Thomas Diez (University of Tuebingen) , Damla Cihangir Tetik (Assistant Professor)*
      • Ontological Security and Turkish Foreign Policy: a Buzzword or a Trend?
        Authors: A. Erdi Ozturk (London Metropolitan University)* , Basak Alpan (Middle East Technical University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      06 Roundtable / ‘Making the Sandwiches’: Gender, Race, Social Reproduction, and Academic Labour Soprano, Hyatt
      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
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    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / (In)tangible cultural heritage and conflict (transformation) Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      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)
      • "The harvest is a poem" - how indigenous cultural practices support Palestinian everyday resistance
        Authors: Aurélie Broeckerhoff (Coventry University) , Laura Sulin (Coventry University)* , Marwan Darweish (Coventry University)* , Mahmoud Soliman (Coventry University)
      • Exploring a conflict transformational approach to heritage
        Authors: Patricia Sellick (Coventry University)* , Elly Harrowell (Coventry University)
      • Youth Engagements with Heritage Futures: Enhancing resilience, cohesion, and community in Iraq and KRI
        Author: Sofya Shahab (University of Sussex)
      • Reversing displacement: Navigating the spontaneity of spatial networks of craft, tradition and memory in post-war Old Mosul
        Author: Yousif Al- Daffaie (Nottingham Trent University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / Critical engagements with war and war labour Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Convener: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)
      Chair: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Late modern war and the geos
        Authors: Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University) , Henry Redwood (King's College London)
      • Battle Imaginaries in World Politics
        Authors: Tarak Barkawi (Johns Hopkins University) , Shane Brighton (Queen's University Belfast)*
      • War and military power from the perspective of work and labour
        Authors: Elena Simon (University of Sheffield) , Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)
      • ‘Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the making of military victory
        Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Roundtable / Depletion – the cost of social reproduction: 10 years on Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      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 Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
      Convener: EWPG Working group
      Chair: Robin Dunford (University of Brighton)
      • Sceptical Bases of Cicero’s Theory of Just War and “Just Empire” and its Uncritical Reception in Western Political Thought
        Author: Muhammad Ashfaq (University of St Andrews)
      • One category fits all? An assessment of vulnerability and its categorisation in national research ethics guidelines.
        Authors: Rebecca Tapscott (University of York; The Graduate Institute (Geneva)) , Sophie Moxon (University of York)*
      • International morality and the standard of civilisation in Georg Schwarzenberger’s classical realism
        Author: Carmen Chas (University of Bath)
      • Manifestations of consent and necessity in formation of the State in the digital era
        Author: Truman Venters (University of St Andrews)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / Identity construction: Soft power, mediation, public diplomacy, security policy Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      • Liminal Identity of Turkey in Humanitarian Government
        Author: Efser Rana Coskun (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
      • Identity in Crisis? A Critical Analysis of European Identity Construction through the Common Foreign and Security Policy
        Author: Eric Hubberstey (University of Waterloo)
      • From Neutrality to Prosperity: Oman's Soft Power Dynamics in Diplomatic Mediation and Economic Stability
        Author: Abdullah Al-Maani (Durham University)
      • Identity Reconstruction in British Foreign and Security Policy
        Author: Ali Askari (University of Kent)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / Multiple Practices of Humanitarianism and Beyond Exec 10, ICC
      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)
      • Refuge in Peril: The UK and US Responsibility to Protect Syrians Fleeing Mass Atrocities
        Author: Chloe McRae Gilgan (University of Lincoln)
      • Everyday (in)security in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh: a vernacular security study
        Author: Sabrina Ahmed (University of East Anglia)
      • Reconstruction for whom? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ukraine's Recovery Plan
        Author: Justina Pinkeviciute (Centre for Peace, Trust and Social Relations)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Roundtable / NATO at 75: Challenging Times Sonata, Hyatt
      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 Soprano, Hyatt
      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 Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)
      • Civilian protection 25 years on: norm diffusion as a lens for understanding how protection is promoted, internalised, and undermined since Security Council Resolution 1270 (1999).
        Author: Walt Kilroy (Dublin City University)
      • Global, Regional, and National Dynamics of Legitimacy in Partnership Peacekeeping
        Author: Daeun Jung (University of Warwick)
      • Inclusive-Hybrid Peace: A more inclusive, less exclusionary approach to peace for international military interveners
        Author: Gena Sturgon (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 Dolce, Hyatt
      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 Concerto, Hyatt
      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)
      • Transnational Repression in an Age of Global Authoritarianism: Experiences of Uyghur Diaspora Activists in Sweden
        Authors: Arne Wackenhut (University of Gothenburg) , Michel Harb (University of Gothenburg)*
      • Resilience in Exile: Turkey's Intelligentsia's Narratives on Migration and Advocacy
        Authors: Bahar Baser (Durham University) , Ahmet Erdi Ozturk (London Metropolitan University)*
      • Transnational Human Rights Violations: Institutional Strategies to Address Globalized Repression
        Authors: Andrew Chubb (Lancaster Universiry) , Kirsten Roberts Lyer (Central European University)*
      • Between and rock and a hard place: the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s struggles with diasporic subjectivity and transnational repression.
        Author: Lucia Ardovini (Lancaster University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / Rethinking epistemologies and representation in international studies Boardroom, The Exchange
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Andrew Milne (University of St Andrews)
      • Necropolitics and Necropolice: Immortality and Death Art-Activism in Late Putin’s Russia.
        Author: Vladimir Ogula (Central European University)
      • Comparative Experiences with 'Affirmative Action': Findings from a New Dataset
        Author: Rachel Gisselquist (UNU-WIDER)
      • Epistemic Injustice and Quantum IR: Improving inclusivity by granting ontological status to the unconscious
        Author: Andrew Milne (University of St Andrews)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / Shifting roles in Middle East politics: collaborators, newcomers and dealbreakers Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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)
      • From Bystander to Game Maker: Changing Roles of Russia in Libya
        Authors: Yusuf Topaloglu (University of Edinburgh) , Abdullah Kesvelioglu (University of Edinburgh)
      • Kuwait-Turkey Relations: Regional sub-system collaborators or pragmatic allies?
        Author: Betul Dogan Akkas (Ankara University)
      • Understanding Russia's Role in the Syrian Conflict
        Author: Kasia Houghton (University of St Andrews)
      • China’s international roles and goals in mediation between Iran and Saudi Arabia
        Author: Jia Liu (Durham University)
      • Understanding Saudi-Iran Détente Using Role Theory
        Author: Mohamed Shaheem Kizhakke Purayil (Qatar University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / Spatial Logics of Violence in Global Politics Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
      Convener: PPWG Working group
      Chair: Jeffrey Whyte (Lancaster University)
      • Nonviolence as a rejection of permanence? The temporality of unarmed civilian protection
        Author: Louise Ridden (University of Tampere)
      • Recognising Violence: The Embodied Production of Atrocity
        Author: Nicholas Gribble (University of Manchester)
      • Can the Subaltern Speak in Village Assembly? Reflections on Caste Dynamics in South Asia
        Author: Chintala Venkatramana (university of allahabad)
      • Queering responses to domestic violence: the impact of international contestation in the conceptualization of domestic violence
        Author: Leah de Haan (University of Amsterdam)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Roundtable / The politics of development: Institutions, interests, and ideas Room 101, Library
      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 Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: CST Working group
      Chair: Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)
      • Continuity and change in the construction of Terrorism Expertise: Struggles for Epistemic Authority on the Islamic State Group
        Author: Dylan Marshall (Aberystwyth University)
      • The New ‘New Terrorism’? Terrorism's temporalities and their resilience
        Authors: Lee Jarvis , Andrew Whiting (Royal Holloway) , Michael Lister (Oxford Brookes University)*
      • Deconstructing terrorism as a contested term: A social constructionist thematic analysis of the Nigerian government use of terrorism in labelling groups as terrorist and legitimising their counterterrorism responses
        Authors: Evangelyn Ebi Ayobi (National Open University)* , Mieyebi Lawrence Ike* , Tarela Juliet Ike (Teesside University)
      • From ‘Political undesirable’ to ‘friendly agent’? Negotiating power dynamics in elite security interviews in critical security research in Nigeria
        Author: Joshua Akintayo
      • Narrating the discipline of terrorism studies: Historiography, waves of rebel terror, and terrorism ‘for’ the state
        Author: Thomas Martin (Open University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Panel / Theorising International Orders – historical and social scientific perspectives Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
      Convener: Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth University)
      Chair: Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth University)
      Discussant: Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth University)
      • The Liberal Order of Fear: the facts and values of international order
        Author: Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth University)
      • International Order and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: the Global South between Rising Powers and the West
        Author: Kevork Oskanian (University of Exeter)
      • Rethinking the Problem of International (Dis)order
        Author: Aaron McKeil (LSE)
      • The System Concept in International Politics
        Author: Regan Burles (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 16:45 18:15
      06 Roundtable / What do we know about war in 2024? Justham, Symphony Hall
      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? Exec 1, ICC
      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) Room 105, Library
      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)
      • Stigmatisation or Victimisation? The Iran-US Nuclear Relationship from 2015 to 2021
        Author: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)
      • Identity, Difference, Gender: A Poststructuralist Approach to Nuclear Policy
        Author: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)
      • Is It All about the Big Bang? Examining the Evolution of the Stigmatisation of WMD in the 21st Century
        Author: Patricia Shamai (University of Portsmouth)
      • The Role of Knowledge Infrastructures in Global Nuclear Governance
        Authors: Linda Ostermann (RWTH Aachen University) , Julian Schäfer (RWTH Aachen University)*
    • 18:15 19:15
      06 Conference event / Gendering International Relations Working Group business meeting Fortissimo, Hyatt
    • 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 The Exchange, The Assembly Room
      Speakers: Dr Julie Norman (UCL), Professor Mark Webber (University of Birmingham), Professor Mick Cox (LSE), Rosa Prince (Politico), Sir Peter Westmacott
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Roundtable / Author meets critics: Rita Floyd's The Duty to secure Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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 Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
      Conveners: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool) , Mate Subašić (Manchester Metropolitan University)
      Chair: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)
      • Fostering solidarity at sea: The maritime shipping industry and the rescue of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea.
        Author: Pat Rubio Bertan (Aston University)
      • The externalisation of asylum after the 2015-2016 'refugee crisis'; The EU's internal actions between external and internal borders
        Author: Sarah Elmammeri (University of Liverpool)
      • On borders, boundaries and transnational ties: lived experiences of Romanians establishing diaspora organisations in the UK
        Author: Alina E Dolea (Bournemouth University)
      • A border in the everyday: Transborder ethnic communities and the Schengen
        Author: Mate Subašić (Manchester Metropolitan University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / Colonialism and the Reproduction of Agrarian Labour Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)
      Chair: Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)
      • Colonialism and the Reproduction of Agrarian Labour: Contested Relations of Class, Gender and Race
        Authors: Merisa Thompson (University of Birmingham)* , Natalie Langford (University of Sheffield)* , Ben Richardson (University of Warwick) , Jessica Underwood (University of Warwick)*
      • Negotiating Contestation Between Oil, Agriculture and Fisheries on the Post-Colonial Extraction Frontier
        Author: Merisa Thompson (University of Birmingham)
      • Who is the American farmer? Neglected agrarian stories of differently racialised women in Turtle Island history
        Author: Jessica Underwood (University of Warwick)
      • Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and relations of (re)production
        Author: Ellie Gore (University of Manchester)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / Critical spaces: engaging with Queer, feminist and postcolonial IR Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: GIRWG Working group
      Chair: Mandeep Sidhu (University of Brighton)
      • “Gay at home, straight in the UK”: bisexuality, asylum and bordering
        Author: Aine Bennett (Royal Holloway University of London)
      • Gendering International Studies and Maternal Activism in the Global South: A Case of Saturday Mothers in Turkey
        Author: İpek Bahar Karaman Yılmazgil (Bilkent University)
      • Queer Anti-Fascism: Transnational Sexual Politics Beyond Homonationalism
        Authors: Howie Rechavia-Taylor (LSE) , Billy Holzberg (King's College London)
      • The Feminism of Zainab Al-Ghazali: A Case for Epistemic Plurality.
        Author: Hammaad Mehraj Syed (South Asian University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Roundtable / Developing a British Kashmiri Studies Boardroom, The Exchange
      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 Exec 10, ICC
      Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group
      Convener: EWPG Working group
      Chair: Robin Dunford (University of Brighton)
      • The International Politics and Global Ethics of Degrowth
        Authors: Robin Dunford (University of Brighton) , Vasileios Leontitsis (University of Brighton)
      • Exploring Frontiers: Demographic Change and Global Existential Risks
        Author: Kennedy Mbeva (University of Cambridge)
      • Hispanismo, shared values, universality: neocolonialism in International Human Rights Law
        Author: Marta Fernandez Albuerne (University of St Andrews)
      • Burying the Migrant Dead: Humanity and Death in The Refugee Crisis
        Author: Luca Mavelli (University of Kent)
      • Feminist eco-centric pacifist praxes for the Anthropocene
        Author: Beatriz Arnal Calvo (University of Brighton)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / Evaluating the Intellectual Project of Critical Military Studies: its First Decade in Review Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Convener: Harriet Gray (University of York)
      Chair: Harriet Gray (University of York)
      Discussant: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)
      • Embodiment as an analytical category: an inquiry into the ten-year publication of the journal Critical Military Studies
        Authors: Bibi Imre-Millei (Lund University) , Priscyll Anctil Avoine (Swedish Defence University)*
      • Beyond Familiarity: The Evolving Role of Theories of Masculinities in Critical Military Studies
        Author: Demet Asli Caltekin (Durham University)
      • Critical Military Subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in Professional Military Education
        Authors: Annick T.R. Wibben (Swedish Defence University)* , Anna Danielson (Stockholm University)* , Sebastian Larsson (Swedish Defence University)* , Malte Riemann (Leiden University)* , Norma Rossi (University of St Andrews)* , Hannah West (Newcastle University)
    • 09:00 16:45
      07 / Exhibition Hall Open Hyatt
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / Foreign Fighters: Returnees, Repatriation and Recidivism Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Convener: Ces Moore (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Chi Zhang (St Andrews)
      • The Dynamics of Islamist Insurgency and Transnational Activism in the Caucasus
        Author: Aleksandre Kvakhadze (Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GIFSIS))
      • The Returnee: Narratives on Threat and Citizenship
        Author: Louise Tiessen (University of Kent)
      • Problematising ‘radicalisation’: a community-based approach to understanding religion & political violence in the UK and France
        Author: Charles Hierons (Durham University)
      • Narratives of Repatriation: an assessment of the repatriation of foreign combatants from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
        Author: Nicola Mathieson (University of Liverpool)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Roundtable / Grant Culture, Impact, and Critical Scholarship Dolce, Hyatt
      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 Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: WSWG Working group
      Chair: James Patton Rogers (Cornell University)
      • India's Naval Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific - A strategic driver in a post-Western regional order
        Author: Mauro Bonavita (King's College London)
      • The US-South Korea Alliance at a Crossroads: Seoul’s Defence Dilemma in the Age of Nuclear-armed North Korea
        Author: Wooyun Jo (Loughborough University)
      • Far from Home: Explaining European Naval Deployments in the South and East China Seas
        Author: Victoria Henley (Massachusettes Institute of Technology)
      • Offensive cyber operations and Iran's military strategy: a study
        Author: Eugenio Lilli (University College Dublin)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / One Destination, Many Roads: Distrust-Reduction, Hope, and Trust Building in Conflict Resolution Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Jiyoung Chang (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Nicola Chelotti (Loughborough University)
      • What is the role of hope in devising conciliatory gestures?
        Author: Jiyoung Chang (University of Birmingham)
      • Dissolving Distrust in Adversarial Nuclear Relationships
        Authors: Mark Saunders (University of Birmingham)* , Nicholas Wheeler (University of Birmingham) , Chiara Cervasio (BASIC)*
      • Must distrust disrupt a peace process?
        Author: Darren Murphy (University of Birmingham)
      • Doves Returning With Olive Branches: Trustworthiness Entrepreneurs and the Transferring of Perceptions of the Other Side
        Author: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham)
      • From the relational to the institutional: The Moscow-Washington hotline as a repository of the interpersonal trust developed between Kennedy and Khrushchev.
        Authors: Agnes Simon (Comenius University Bratislava)* , Eszter Simon (Nottingham Trent University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Roundtable / Pedagogies of the everyday in International Studies Room 102, Library
      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 Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Convener: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)
      Chair: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)
      • Moral Injury: A Theory of Sexual Violence Against Men in Counter-terrorism Operations
        Authors: Isaac Dery (Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana)* , Emeka Njoku (University of Birmingham) , Scott Romaniuk (Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) Corvinus University of Budapest)
      • Legitimating violence: military operations within Brazilian borders
        Author: David Paulo Succi Junior (São Paulo State University)
      • Epistemic violence in archives of war: thinking beyond transparency in British inquiries into the use of force
        Authors: Margot Tudor (City, University of London) , Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)
      • The Officers' Resurgence: Military-Militia Competition and the Eruption of Civil War in Sudan
        Author: Yaniv Voller (University of Kent)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / Transatlantic Relations: the US, the EU, the UK and NATO Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: ESWG Working group
      Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)
      • The Post-Cold War Anglo-American Military Relationship
        Author: Wyn Rees (University of Nottingham)
      • Dealing with rivals together? The US and its relationship with European allies after the Russian-Ukrainian war
        Author: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)
      • Economic Sanctions: The Absent Instrument for NATO Dealing with Emerging Challenges
        Author: Peiran Wang (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
      • Disconnected? The UK’s ties with the European Union’s foreign intelligence network after Brexit
        Author: Lucia Frigo (Royal Holloway, University of London)
      • Exploring public-private cooperation in Maritime Critical Infrastructure Protection in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
        Authors: Robert McCabe (Coventry University) , James Malcolm (Coventry University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / Turkey’s Tightrope: Navigating Domestic and International Crosswinds Room 105, Library
      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)
      • Defying the Odds: A Political Economy Analysis of Turkey’s Defense Industry within the Systemic Vulnerability Framework
        Author: Melike Bozkurt (Loughborough University)
      • Assessing Turkey's Foreign Policy Behavior as a Middle Power Between NATO and Russia
        Author: Riccardo Gasco (University of Bologna)
      • Negotiations of Gender Normativity in Everyday Life Ethnographic: Insights from Young Couples in Contemporary Turkey
        Author: Karolin Tuncel (Oxford University)
      • Internal and External Parameters of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Change. A Historicized Inside-Out Anatomy
        Author: Samuele Abrami (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Panel / US Foreign Policy and the Indo-Pacific Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: USFP Working group
      Chair: Michiel Foulon
      • From Ally to Ambiguity: Thailand in US Foreign Policy
        Author: Benjamin Coulson (University of Edinburgh)
      • President, Generals and Broken Foreign Policy: US Troop Withdrawal from Korea in the Cold War
        Author: Juhong Park
      • Small Powers and the US-China Competition: Using Public Opinion Data to Evaluate the Potential for Foreign Policy Change
        Authors: Fee-Sophie Cohausz (NCCU (Taiwan))* , Ingmar Sturm (UCSB (USA))* , Dennis Redeker (Bremen University (Germany))* , Bastian van der Neut (St. Andrews University)
    • 09:00 10:30
      07 Roundtable / Ukrainian identity, regional diversity and wartime unity Sonata, Hyatt
      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 Justham, Symphony Hall
      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 15m
    • 10:30 11:30
      Refreshment break 1h Hyatt Hotel

      Hyatt Hotel

    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / 'Whose climate justice: ecofeminist researchers want to know' Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)
      Chair: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)
      • Ecofeminist ‘Mothering’
        Author: Joanna Flavell (Sheffield University)
      • Feminist decolonial degrowth: An ecofeminist-republican perspective on climate justice
        Author: Jaeim Park (Queen's University Belfast)
      • A decolonial ecofeminist perspective on rewilding, land ownership and multispecies justice.
        Author: Heather Urquhart (University of Manchester)
      • An intersectional ecofeminist exploration of food provisioning practices of Pakistani-heritage women in UK
        Author: Zarina Ahmad (University of Manchester)
      • Towards socially just climate finance: lessons from the ground
        Authors: Magdalena Svetlana Rodekirchen (University of Manchester) , Sherilyn MacGregor (University of Manchester)*
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Anticipating the Future of War: AI, Automated Systems, and Resort-to-Force Decision Making Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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)
      • ‘Through a Glass, Darkly: Algorithmic War and the Dangers of (In)-Visibility, Anonymity, and Fragmentation’
        Author: Baggiarini Bianca (Australian National University)
      • ‘The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Crisis Decision-Making: A Complement, Not a Substitute’
        Author: Nicholas Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
      • ‘Before Algorithmic Armageddon: The Erosion of Norms of Restraint as a Neglected Risk When Resort-to-Force Decision Making is Abdicated to Intelligent Machines’
        Author: Toni Erskine (Australian National University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / China and India in the (Post-)Colonial Entanglements Exec 1, ICC
      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)
      • Crash points and the Game of Chicken: The Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong
        Author: Patrick (Pak Hei) Hao (University of Oxford)
      • A Liminal Space Between Empire and the Nation-State: China, the “Standard of Civilization,” and the League of Nations’ Public Health Work in the Interwar Years
        Author: Annie Hsu (University of Oxford)
      • Searching for a Rising India: India International Science Festival and the Postcolonial World Order
        Author: Song Tang (University of Oxford)
      • Why should Postcolonial International Relations Abandon the Black-White Dichotomy?: Chinese Practitioners’ Racialisation of Africa and the West in the 21st century
        Author: Yang Han (University of Oxford)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Democracy, Displacement and Diaspora in West Africa Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
      Convener: AISG Working group
      Chair: Lesley Masters (Nottingham Trent University)
      • The State, Boko Haram and the ‘Bloody Civilian’: Vernacular Conceptions of Counterterrorism in Nigeria
        Author: Akinyemi Oyawale (University of Warwick)
      • International Farm Labor Migration and Sustainable Agri–Food Systems: The Case of Ghanaian Farm Labor in Italy’s Tomato Farm Sector
        Author: Genevieve Odamtten
      • Emerging threats to Democracy in Africa: A Conceptual Framework towards Improving Civil-Military Relations in African Postcolonial States.
        Author: Fatai Alli (University of Portsmouth)
      • Accounting for the Muted Voices of Internally Displaced Women in International Studies
        Author: Sixtus Onyekwere (University of Portsmouth)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Roundtable / Does the Method Fit? Exploring Diverse Methodologies of Research in South East Europe Boardroom, The Exchange
      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 Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: ISMMEA Working group
      Chair: Simon Mabon (Lancaster University/SEPAD)
      • The Changing Dynamics of Japan-India Cooperation: A Case of ‘Rule-Based Order’ in Indo-Pacific
        Author: Naresh Subba (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
      • The Divisive Past and the Conflicted Other: How Chinese Netizens View Russia
        Author: Yi Wang (University of Birmingham)
      • Rethinking South Asian Regional Cooperation
        Authors: Serena Hussain (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University) , Vishal Sharma (Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University/Deakin University)
      • The dynamics of transnational interactions between Hong Kong and Taiwan: An ontological security framework perspective
        Author: Adrian Chiu (SOAS)
      • Coping with Triangular Geopolitical Competition of the US-China-India in South Asia: Explaining Bangladesh’s Strategic Navigation & Foreign Policy Choices in 21st Century
        Author: Raian Hossain (University of Nottingham)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Legacies of Rebellion: Wartime Dynamics and Postwar Political Consequences Exec 10, ICC
      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)
      • The Impact of Insurgent Gender Governance on Women's Postwar Representation
        Author: Tessa Devereaux Evans (Cornell University)
      • The Long Run Political Effects of Wartime Recruitment by Rebel Victors: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
        Author: Philip A. Martin (George Mason University)
      • Legacies of Rebel Governance and its Impact on Post-Civil War State-Building
        Author: Gyda Sindre (University of York)
      • From Victorious Rebellion to State Army: How Warfare Shapes Postwar Military Institutions
        Author: Victor Bouemar (Radboud University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Roundtable / Mothering, Motherhood and (Feminist) International Relations 2.0: An open roundtable conversation Fortissimo, Hyatt
      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 Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Non-Governmental Organisations Working Group
      Convener: NGO Group
      Chair: Patricia Shamai (University of Portsmouth)
      Discussant: Thomas Davies (City, University of London)
      • Protesting at the margins: intersectional justice, protest and crisis in Lebanon and Sri Lanka
        Author: Oliver Walton (University of Bath)
      • The “Milk Tea Alliance”: Transnational Civil Society and Digital Politics in Asia
        Author: Wichuta Teeratanabodee (University of Cambridge)
      • Substantiating the World Society: Local Community Actors and IR
        Author: Stefan Cibian (The Făgăraș Research Institute)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Peace on Display: The Arts and Aesthetics of Peacebuilding Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)
      Chair: Rachel Kerr (King's College London)
      • Statebuilding otherwise? Spatial and aesthetic community building after War
        Author: Henry Redwood (King's College London)
      • ‘Artful Struggles’ Exhibition and Curating Peace Through the Arts
        Authors: Nilanjana Premaratna (Newcastle University) , Lars Waldorf (University of Essex)
      • Peace on Display: Knowledge, Narrative and Affect at the Museum
        Author: Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)
      • Graffiti as Method: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Political Perception and Community Relations
        Author: Birte Vogel (University of Manchester)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Post-Brexit U.K. foreign policy, and “Global Britain” Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      Chair: Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln)
      • Out of Sight, out of Mind? How UK bilateralism with European capitals in times of Politicisation enables Europeanisation to continue
        Authors: Sarah Wolff (Leiden University)* , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University) , Agathe Piquet (University of Louvain)*
      • Lessons behind “Global Britain” on post-Brexit’s trade policy: Finding British Exceptionalism between the dichotomy of globalisation and economic nationalism
        Author: Nok Ching Noreen Lui (University of Bath)
      • Tracing the elaboration of the UK’s post-Brexit foreign policy role through the narrative analysis of ‘Global Britain’ and the impact of domestic intra-elite role contestations
        Author: Camille Schmitz (University of Edinburgh)
      • Follow the Money: Global Britain and Post-Brexit Economic Interests
        Author: Catarina M. Liberato (University of Kent)
      • The UK’s Integrated Reviews: Role conceptions, human protection and international order
        Author: Blake Lawrinson (University of Leeds)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Power & Governance in Digital Global Politics Concerto, Hyatt
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Convener: ISET
      Chair: Eugenio Lilli (University College Dublin)
      • Decoding China's Cyberspace Norms: A Reception Analysis in the FOCAC Context
        Author: Theo Westphal (University of Sheffield)
      • Leadership through statecraft: the UK as an ambitious cyber actor
        Authors: Tim Stevens (King's College London)* , Andre Barrinha (University of Bath)
      • Exploring accessibility requirements for UK Armed Forces; Myth busting disability perceptions for Service Personnel in Defence Digital Services
        Author: Silvia Grant (UK MOD)
      • A journey to discover the possibilities of scaling research from the national to the international level.
        Author: Saebyoul Yun (University of Edinburgh)
      • (Re)structuring power in the cyberspace: policy and governance challenges to the production of state cybersecurity policies
        Author: Mattia Sguazzini (University of Genova (Italy))
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Space Strategy, Surveillance, and Threats Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group
      Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)
      Chair: Tegan Harrison (Cardiff University)
      • Space Warfare in the Russian-Ukrainian War: Commercial Providers and Targeting Military Logistics
        Author: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester)
      • The Smell of Low Earth Orbit: exploring sensorial knowledges of space surveillance.
        Author: Michael Mulvihill (Teesside University)
      • Space Operations and Surveillance: A Post-Phenomenological Exploration of 60 Years of RAF Fylingdales and the Evolving Role of AI Technologies in UK and US Space Commands
        Author: Chloe Barker (Newcastle University)
      • Space and the (Re)Construction of Future Threats: A Human-Centric Analysis
        Author: Jeni Mitchell (King's College London)
      • ASAT (Anti-Satellite) and Geopolitics of Outer Space
        Author: Shounak Set (KCL)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / State-Formation, Colonisation, World Orders Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: HSIR Working group
      Chair: Pedro Dutra Salgado (University of Portsmouth)
      • Colonisation, not Consolidation: The Japanese Colonisation of the Ryukyu Kingdom 1872–1879 and Its International Origins
        Author: Huu Phu Gia Nguyen (University of Sussex)
      • The lasting legacy of Latin American independence: Retracing the challenges and contributions of developing states to global governance
        Authors: Carolina Zaccato (University of St Andrews) , Andrea Oelsner (Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA), Argentina)*
      • Social Conflict and Polity-Formation in the 15th Struggle over Baltic Supremacy
        Author: Lauri von Pfaler (University of Helsinki)
      • A Brotherhood of Nations: Imagining the Nation-Based Order during the Springtime of Nations
        Author: Arthur Duhé (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
      • International Politics as Double Exclusion: the Geopolitics of Transatlantic Slavery
        Authors: Pedro Salgado (University of Portsmouth) , Gustavo Bezerra (CEBRI/UFF)*
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Teaching and Learning in International Studies Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group
      Convener: Ilan Baron (Durham University)
      Chair: Ilan Baron (Durham University)
      • #GlobalChallenges: Social Media, Pedagogy and International Studies,
        Authors: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire) , Madeleine Le Bourdon (University of Leeds) , Louise Pears (University of Leeds) , Andreas Papamichail (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Teaching Geopolitics in an Age of Conflict and Neoliberalism
        Author: Benjamin Coulson (University of Edinburgh)
      • Decolonizing the pedagogy of peace
        Author: Ariadna Petri
      • Student-led module design in the social sciences
        Author: Laura Gelhaus (University of Warwick)
      • Free labour and lack of accountability in the Decolonial university - a critical approach
        Authors: Jo Krishnakumar (SOAS)* , Arshita Nandan (University of Kent) , Annapurna Menon (University of Sheffield)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / The role of institutional actors towards refugee policies Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: IPMRD Working group
      Chair: Ece Ozlem Atikcan (University of Warwick)
      • When ‘The Centre’ meets ‘The Margins’: the EU’s management of ‘irregular migration flows’ in Ethiopia
        Author: Floris van Doorn (University of Helsinki)
      • Bridging WHO’s Networks of Care Approach with Ecological Model of Health in Understanding Refugee Women’s Access to Maternal Care
        Author: Sureyya Sonmez Efe (University of Lincoln)
      • Framing ‘refugee flows’ in the United Nations: Mapping actor coalitions and policy frames
        Authors: Sofie Roehrig (University of Warwick & TU Dresden)* , Tim Henrichsen* , Ece Ozlem Atikcan (University of Warwick)
      • Transformation of Global Refugee Governance through Transorganizational Partnerships
        Author: Sho Akahoshi (Kobe University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Thinking the Future of War: Epistemology, Innovation, and Revolutions Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)
      Chair: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)
      Discussant: Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)
      • Robot Wars
        Author: Anthony King (University of Exeter)
      • Prophesying War : Giulio Douhet, Air Power, and World War I
        Author: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)
      • Sacrament in/of War: Battlefield Miracles and Political Authority in the Afghan Jihad.
        Author: Hammaad Mehraj Syed (South Asian University)
      • The changing possibilities for drone use and use in the wake of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
        Author: Bibi Imre-Millei (Lund University)
      • The Future of (Non)Remote Warfare Scholarship: Comparing US Visions of Great Power War in the Indo-Pacific
        Author: Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Roundtable / Unseeing Genocide: Academic Responsibilities and Complicities Justham, Symphony Hall
      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 Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: CST Working group
      Chair: Sophie Haspeslagh (King's College London)
      • Vernacularising P/CVE in the Southern Philippines: The Resistance of the South
        Author: Queenie Pearl Tomaro (School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University)
      • The pre-criminal and Islamophobic logic of Italian counterterrorism: deportation, counter-radicalization strategies, and lack of citizenship reform
        Author: Ugo Gaudino (London School of Economics)
      • Rendered Abject: Unveiling the politics of abjection within terrorist lists throughout the Global War on Terror
        Author: Owen Hanley (King's College London)
      • Juridico-Political Conditions of State Violence: Turkey’s Military Actions Post-2015
        Author: Burcu Turkoglu-Payne (Bilkent University)
      • The transnational terrorism threat imaginary: Tackling the counter-terrorism Ban Opticon in Portugal and France
        Authors: Raquel Silva (University of Coimbra)* , Carlos Morgado Braz (Universidade Europeia)
    • 10:45 12:15
      07 Panel / Whose news, whose history? Critically interrogating media, information and international relations Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
      Chair: Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
      • Perceptions of threat: the news media and disordered information as a security issue
        Author: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham)
      • Religious institutions as information actors: Identity, emotions and war
        Author: Precious Chatterje-Doody (Open University)
      • The Emergence of Roles in British Foreign Policy: How the UK Interprets Russian Disinformation
        Author: Sean Garrett (University of Bath)
    • 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 Justham, Symphony Hall
    • 12:15 13:15
      07 Conference event / Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group AGM Stuart Hall, The Exchange
    • 12:15 13:15
      07 / European Security Working Group AGM Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
    • 12:15 13:15
      07 Conference event / Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group AGM Mary Sturge, The Exchange
    • 12:15 13:15
      Lunch 1h Symphony Hall and Hyatt

      Symphony Hall and Hyatt

    • 12:15 13:15
      07 Conference event / South East Europe Working Group AGM Dhani Prem, The Exchange
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / (Re)Narrating the ‘International’: Telling stories from feminist and decolonial perspectives Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)
      Chair: Tomás Ojeda Güemes
      Discussant: Tomás Ojeda Güemes
      • Telling stateless stories otherwise
        Author: Nour Almazidi (LSE)
      • Gatekeeping & Fencebuilding: Stories at/on the Border
        Author: Lizzie Hobbs (London School of Economics)
      • When the personal becomes international: exploring the affective, embodied and political dimensions of knowledge production about Russia’s war in Ukraine from the position of a Ukrainian scholar
        Author: Oksana Potapova (LSE)
      • Stories beyond ‘liberal’ militarisation: Understanding coloniality as the constitutive logic of occupation
        Author: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Culture wars and international relations: Contesting moral authority in global order Concerto, Hyatt
      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)
      • “Feels Good Man”: Techno-Affective Politics of the Face
        Authors: Elisabeth Moerking (University of Bristol) , Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)
      • Small boats in the UK’s ‘culture war’ on migration
        Author: Ben Whitham (SOAS, University of London)
      • Remaking the West? The war on woke, Sinoscepticism, and the new red scare
        Author: Liam Stanley (University of Sheffield)
      • Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses
        Author: Chenchen Zhang (Durham University)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Diasporas’ mobilisation, political participation and activism Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
      Convener: IPMRD Working group
      Chair: Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex)
      • The Comparative Analysis of Turkish Migrants’ Ideological Position and Voting Behavior in terms of Elections in Turkey and the UK
        Author: Caglar Ezikoglu (University of Birmingham)
      • UN Mediations and Peace Settlement Preferences in Cyprus and the Cypriot Transnational Diaspora
        Authors: Işık Kuşçu Bonnenfant (METU)* , Laura Sudulich (Essex)* , Neophytos Loizides (University of Warwick)* , Raluca Popp (University of Kent) , Edward Morgan-Jones (University of Kent)
      • Diasporas at #War: The online battle of the Armenian and Azerbaijani diasporas to narrate Karabakh war
        Author: Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield)
      • Homeland and Diasporic Political Engagement: The Case of Greece
        Author: Foteini Kalantzi
      • Jewish International Relations: A diasporist perspective
        Authors: Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex) , Howie Rechavia-Taylor (LSE)*
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Emerging Patterns in Digital Norms and Culture Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Convener: ISET
      Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)
      • TikTok as a Propaganda Platform: Affordances, Limitations, and the Realities of Narrative Control in a Contested Environment
        Author: Chris W. Cai (University of Oxford)
      • Opportunities for political engagement in online multiplayer role-playing games
        Author: Emma Brewis (University of Leeds)
      • Exploring Normative Agency of African States in UN Cybernorms Processes
        Author: Ndidi Olibamoyo (University Of Bath)
      • Legislating Cyberspace and navigating Digital Human Rights in Pakistan
        Author: Ramsha Ashraf (Northeastern University London)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Emotions and collective identification Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: EPIR Working group
      Chair: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford)
      • Heimat as affective bordering: White innocence, nostalgia, and nationalist belonging in Germany
        Author: Billy Holzberg (King's College London)
      • Ongoing Issue or Closed History: Emotional Cycles and the Abduction Issue in Japan and North Korea
        Author: Phuong Anh Nguyen (University of St Andrews)
      • Melodramatic Nations and Serious States: The War on Terror
        Author: Shah Zeb Chaudhary (Northwestern University)
      • Ingroup and Intergroup Effects of Djokovic's Exclusion from 2022 Australia Open
        Authors: Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Lanabi La Lova (LSE) , Tolga Sinmazdemir (SOAS)* , Sanja Vico (Exeter)*
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / International politics of African statebuilding Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group
      Convener: AISG Working group
      Chair: Jonathan Fisher (University of Birmingham)
      • Rethinking the declining state of democracy: A social constructionist thematic analysis of perceptions towards African and western international relations on the state of democracy in Nigeria
        Authors: Evangelyn Ebi Ayobi (National Open University)* , Tarela Juliet Ike (Teesside University) , Mieyebi Lawrence Ike (Southern New Hampshire University)*
      • Legacies of Rebellion: Explaining Polar Cases of Post-Conflict State Formation at the Horn of Africa
        Author: Johannes Jüde (University of Edinburgh)
      • Alternative hierarchies? The consequences of a development intervention on elite co-optation and rural social structure in Ethiopia
        Author: Justin Williams (University of Birmingham)
      • The relationship between decolonisation and post-colonial insecurity in Lusophone Africa
        Author: Daniel Rio Tinto (Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV))
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Media discourses on Security and Threat Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
      Convener: CST Working group
      Chair: Anna Meier (University of Nottingham)
      • ‘Islamic State’ in Chinese State News Media: Reporting Terrorism within a Communist Regime
        Author: Qiang Zhang (University of Sheffield)
      • (Re)Imagining the Caliphate – Exploring the Interplay between Media and Political (Self)Representations of the Islamic State
        Author: Jared Ahmad (University of Sheffield)
      • Cosmic Horror, White Supremacy, and the Dark Enlightenment: The Reception and Utilisation of H.P. Lovecraft within the Contemporary Far Right
        Author: Kye Allen (University of Oxford)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Negotiating and renegotiating political worlds Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
      Convener: CRIPT Working group
      Chair: Anthony Lang (University of St Andrews)
      • How Does `Changing Attitudes' Disarm Thucydides' Trap? Demonstrating Ontological Security's Third Image Potential
        Author: Ernesto Kettner (University of Münster)
      • A realist framework for democratic peace
        Author: Haro Karkour (Cardiff University)
      • Cruelty at the Border: Judith Shklar and the ethics of admissions debate
        Author: David Anderson (University of St Andrews)
      • Arguing and Bargaining in International Forums: The Need for a New Approach
        Author: Marco Genovesi (Nottingham Trent University)
      • Diagnosing the Anatomy of Worldmaking through the History of International Political Thought of Post-colonial Indonesia
        Author: Quah Say Jye (University of Cambridge)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Roundtable / Never Again? Unpacking the German Discourse on Palestine Justham, Symphony Hall
      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 Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Laura McLeod (University of Manchester)
      Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (The University of Edinburgh)
      • Engaging Women, Peace, and Security in Defence: The Once and Future Role of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives
        Authors: Katharine Wright (Newcastle University)* , Matthew Hurley (Sheffield Hallam University)
      • Transformative Resourcing: Duplication, Overlap and Complementarity between the Women Peace and Security and Youth Peace and Security Agendas
        Author: Caitlin Mollica (University of Newcastle)
      • Between contested narratives and transformative actions: digitalization discourse and practice in the Women, Peace and Security agenda
        Authors: Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos (Graduate Institute) , Outi Donovan (Griffith University)*
      • Fluid indicators: Gendering leaky militarised bodies within the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.
        Authors: Laura McLeod (University of Manchester) , Georgina Holmes (The Open University)* , Jennifer Hobbs (University of Leicester)*
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Roundtable / Pedagogical Approaches to Global Health Exec 6, ICC
      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 Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)
      Chair: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)
      Discussant: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)
      • Modernising Naval Professional Military Education...again? The second Fisher/Selborne project
        Authors: Jane Harrold (Britannia Royal Naval College) , Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln, University of St Andrews)*
      • The development and implementation of a modern teaching and learning strategy for effective delivery of international studies at Britannia Royal Naval College
        Author: Chris Lavers (Britannia Royal Naval College)
      • Digital Skills and Professional Military Education in the Royal Air Force
        Author: Harry Richards (University of Portsmouth)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Roundtable / Publishing as a PhD Scholar: Dos and Don'ts Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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 Room 102, Library
      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)
      • Coloniality and Modernity: Russia and the Muslim World
        Author: Roland Dannreuther (University of Westminster)
      • The Sino-Russian relations in the 1990s: Endless Rapprochement?
        Author: Hanjing Wang (University of Nottingham)
      • Fortifying or forfeiting sovereignty? Russia’s integration with post-Soviet de facto states as an unintended consequence of parent states’ economic counter-secessionist measures
        Author: Jaroslava Barbieri (University of Birmingham)
      • Ruxit Revisited: Unravelling Russia's Dissociation from the Pan-European Security Order
        Author: Mikhail Polianskii (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF))
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Relational Approaches to Civil War: From Inter-Rebel Cooperation to Ex-Combatant Reintegration Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Convener: Anastasia Shesterinina (The University of York)
      Chair: Anastasia Shesterinina (The University of York)
      • Living to Fight Each Other Another Day: Armed Group Relationships in Multiparty Civil Wars
        Author: Regine Schwab (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
      • United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Why Some Rebel Groups’ Alliances Last Longer Than Others
        Author: Edoardo Corradi (University of Genoa)
      • Action, Inaction, or Somewhere in Between? UN Peacekeepers and War Criminals
        Author: Tom Buitelaar (European University Institute)
      • Rebel Victory: A Research Agenda
        Authors: Victor Bouemar (Radboud University) , Kai Thaler (University of California, Santa Barbara)* , Romain Malejacq (Radboud University)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Roundtable / Rethinking stabilisation and responding to transnational threats Room 103, Library
      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 Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Marina Duque (University College London)
      Chair: Edward Keene
      • Do we still live in a great power world?
        Author: Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
      • Backlash Design: Historical Antecedents and the Origins of the League of Nations’ Institutional Design
        Authors: Tom Long (University of Warwick)* , Carsten-Andreas Schulz (University of Cambridge)
      • Do Nuclear Weapons Confer Status?
        Author: Marina Duque (University College London)
      • The Production and Performance of Status: Behind the Scenes of an International Summit
        Author: Tristen Naylor (University of Cambridge)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / The political economy of green energy transitions in an age of crises Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: Stanley Wilshire (University of Manchester)
      Chair: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)
      Discussant: Lukas Slothuus (University of Sussex)
      • The contradictions of decarbonising steel
        Author: Jack Copley (University of Durham)
      • Destroying incumbent corporate power and pursuing just transitions: the troubling case of the UK coal phaseout
        Author: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)
      • The Contradictions and Crisis of British Electricity Decarbonisation
        Author: Stanley Wilshire (University of Manchester)
      • Uneven Development of State Capacity for Governing Green Transitions: The Case of Denmark
        Author: Rosie Collington (University College London)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / War and the Earth Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Henry Redwood (King's College London) , Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)
      Chair: Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)
      • Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq
        Author: Oliver Belcher (Durham University)
      • Historicizing Ecological Martial Violence
        Author: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)
      • War by Biodegradable Means? Towards a Political Ecology of Green Militarism
        Author: Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)
      • AUKUS and Deterrence-by-Resilience: Whose Deterrence?
        Author: Sarah Tzinieris (King's College London)
    • 13:15 14:45
      07 Panel / Whose Nuclear Governance? New(er) Trends of Interpretive Scholarship in Understanding Nuclear Governance II (Agency Dimensions) Exec 10, ICC
      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)
      • Nuclear Deterrence in Disguise? Condemnation of the Ukraine War and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons
        Author: Carolina Pantoliano Panico (University of Auckland)
      • “The World Could No Longer Remain Complacent:” The Construction of the Humanitarian Initiative and Resistance to the Nuclear Order
        Author: Jana Baldus (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
      • Europe’s (Un)Challenged Nuclear Narratives - Introducing A Critical Feminist Perspective
        Authors: Sandra Bandemer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)* , Lena Wittenfeld (University of Bielefeld)
      • Worldviews, Mindsets, and Trust: A Cognitive Framework for Why Countries Establish Non-Nuclear or Deterrence-Based Security Orders
        Authors: Leonardo Bandarra (Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen) , Carmen Wunderlich (Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen)
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    • 14:45 15:45
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      Hyatt Hotel

    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Roundtable / Academic freedom in the teaching, learning and research of Politics and IR Jane How, Symphony Hall
      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 Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)
      • Teaching international relations with(in) racial capitalism: experience from the classroom
        Author: Leila Mouhib (ULB)
      • Challenging Transformation: Reparative Justice in the former Metropoles of Colonialism
        Author: Laura Kotzur (Freie Universität Berlin)
      • Not in our name: An Ontological Security Interpretation of Non-Alignment in the Ukrainian war.
        Author: Marco Vieira (University of Birmingham)
      • British Foreign Relations Through a Decolonial Lens: Towards a New Research Agenda
        Author: David Wearing (University of Sussex)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Roundtable / Critical Studies on Terrorism Special Issue Roundtable: Abolition, Decoloniality, and Criticality: Can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”? Soprano, Hyatt
      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 Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group
      Convener: ISET
      Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)
      • What does China want
        Author: Ludovica Meacci (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
      • Private rules and public obligations: geopolitics and data sovereignty in the semiconductor industry
        Authors: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University) , Ben Farrand (Newcastle University)
      • Unpacking China’s roles in the governance of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems
        Author: Qiaochu Zhang (University of Manchester)
      • Policy Diffusion and Cyber Governance: A Comparative Look at the EU's GDPR and China's PIPL
        Author: Sarah Jeu (University of Nottingham)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Everyday Security: Countering Radicalisation in Ordinary Spaces Dolce, Hyatt
      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)
      • Between Orthodoxy and Criticality: Mapping UK Terrorism Studies Educators' Paradigmatic Perspectives
        Authors: Raquel Silva (ISCTE-IUL) , João Raphael da Silva (UWE Bristol)
      • Everyday Experiences of Counter-radicalisation at the Periphery
        Author: Nick Brooke (University of St Andrews)
      • “Vernacular vulnerability” and the Prevent duty in UK Higher Education
        Author: Andrew Whiting (Royal Holloway)
      • Enactors of the State: The everyday coproduction of security in the prevention of radicalisation
        Authors: Jack Holland (University of Leeds) , Natalie Higham-James (University of York)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Roundtable / Foreign Policy Analysis Challenges in South America: Links and gaps between theory and practice Boardroom, The Exchange
      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 Concerto, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)
      • Barriers to Prevention: Understanding Peacekeeper Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
        Author: Emily Gee (University of Leeds)
      • Rethinking Legitimate Expertise in Peace Governance: what fields and feminists might offer
        Author: Helen Berents (Griffith University)
      • Critical Feminist Intervention in International Peace studies : A case of Sri Lanka
        Author: Aruni Samarakoon (University of Hull)
      • Queering WPS: Critical Views and Reflections from UN Peacekeepers and UN Gender Advisors
        Author: Alexandra Richardson (Trinity College Dublin, University of Ireland)
      • Navigating the Intersections: Indigenous Women, Conflict, and Environmental Security in Central India within the WPS Agenda
        Author: Bulbul Prakash (University of Manchester)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Conference event / Meet the editors - Speed networking session Sonata, Hyatt
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century International Order Exec 6, ICC
      Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
      Chair: Carsten-Andreas Schulz (University of Cambridge)
      • Imperial Expansion and Global Order in the Nineteenth Century Pacific
        Author: Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)
      • Crisis Ordering: Sovereignty and Hierarchy at the International Sanitary Conferences
        Author: Jan Eijking (University of Oxford)
      • Mapping the Interpolity System of the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914
        Author: Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
      • Sovereignty, Statehood and Membership of International Organisations in the 19th Century
        Author: Ellen Ravndal (University of Stavanger)
      • Practicing Law, Governing Difference: Multi-Centric Legal Orders in the Indian Subcontinent
        Author: Shreya Bhattacharya (SOAS)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Re-Thinking Global IR amid wars, political violence and inofficious narrative Exec 5, ICC
      Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
      Convener: ISMMEA Working group
      Chair: Kasia Houghton (University of St Andrews)
      • Between Rounds of Violence: The Sustainability of Infrastructure Projects in the Gaza Strip
        Author: Saad Aldin Halawani (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations - Coventry University)
      • From enemies to allies: France24 discourse on the nahdawi role in Saied’s self-coup
        Author: Leonardo Pagano Landucci (Universidade Estadual Paulista)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Reframing global political phenomenon Exec 10, ICC
      Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
      Convener: CRIPT Working group
      Chair: Felix Roesch (University of Sussex)
      • Comparative Political Theory and International Relations: An agenda for partnership
        Authors: Nikhil Goyal (University of Toronto) , Seerat Arora (Jindal Global University)*
      • Civilizationism in Asia: A survey of ideas
        Author: Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
      • Theorizing Populism in International Relations: A Classical Realist Perspective
        Authors: Thorsten Wojczewski (Coventry University) , Felix Roesch (University of Sussex)
      • Thinking Dystopia: An Insight on the Ukrainian War
        Author: Aristidis Victor Agoglossakis Foley (University of St Andrews)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Regional governance and responsibility for refugee protection in Latin America, Africa and Europe Exec 9, ICC
      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)
      • Migration Policy Preferences and Forms of Trust in Contexts of Limited State Capacity
        Author: William Allen (University of Oxford)
      • Regional migration governance and shared responsibility for women and girls on the move in Latin America
        Authors: Pia Riggirozzi (University of Southampton) , Natalia Cintra (University of Southampton)*
      • The Gendered 'Instinct' in Humanitarian Work in Greece: How Humanitarians Employ the ‘Gender Neutral’ Cover of Vulnerability
        Author: Meena Masood (Queen Mary, University of London)
      • The geographies of refugee protection in Latin America: spaces, politics and actors
        Author: Marcia Vera Espinoza (Queen Margaret University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Sea change: Ocean politics, management and security Benjamin Zephaniah, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: Alexandre Rocha (Escola de Guerra Naval/Universidade Federal Fluminense)
      • How Does A River (Discourse) Change Course? Alternative Futures for the Brahmaputra
        Author: Nimmi Kurian
      • Climate Change and Maritime Security: Can the Quad withstand the Storm?
        Author: Robert Mizo (University of Delhi)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Securing the Institution, Securing the State: Militarised Ontological Security and Strategic Narratives Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick) , Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)
      Chair: Max Warrack (University of Warwick)
      • Soldierly Ontological Anxiety and the Breakdown of Institutional Narratives about the US-Japan Alliance in the Military Anime “GATE”
        Author: Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)
      • Seeking Ontological Security through Overseas Military Deployment: Status and (Self)-Esteem in the Japan Self-Defense Forces
        Author: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick)
      • Evaluating tensions around inclusion and "operational effectiveness": ontological security, gendered military narratives, and the British Armed Forces
        Author: Tara Zammit (King's College London)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / The EU and its Southern Border: Security and Migration Dhani Prem, The Exchange
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: ESWG Working group
      Chair: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)
      • The EU response to migration from the Middle East and North Africa: Charting the waters between security and legitimacy.
        Authors: Baris Celik (University of Sheffield)* , Simon Sweeney (University of York) , Neil Winn (University of Leeds)*
      • From the ‘laboratory’ to the ‘arena’: CSDP, the Wagner Group and the EU’s geopolitical reckoning in Africa
        Author: Katherine Pye (LSE)
      • “Nous ne les laisserons pas passer”. Anti-Muslim narratives in French security discourse
        Author: Fabrizio Cuccu (Dublin City University)
      • The EU’s integrated approach to external border management in the Sahel
        Author: Thom Vigor (University of Kent)
      • Pipe dreams: the politics of European – North African hydrogen development
        Authors: Rainer Quitzow* , Silvia Weko (FAU Erlangen)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / The Social Foundations of Global Finance: Engagements with the Work of Timothy J. Sinclair Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: Chris Clarke (University of Warwick)
      Chair: Ben Clift (University of Warwick)
      • Social Foundations of Academic Knowledge Production
        Author: Aida Hozic (University of Florida)
      • Managing Multiple Audiences: The Importance of Legitimacy to Bond Index Providers and the Politics of Bond Indexing
        Author: Dan Wood (University of Warwick)
      • The Political Economy of Credit Rating Agencies: American Short-termist Universalism, Europe’s Acquiescence, and East Asia’s Resistance
        Author: Fumihito Gotoh (University of Sheffield)
      • Credit Rating Agencies and The Idea of History: the role of synchronic and diachronic mental frameworks in the work of Timothy J. Sinclair
        Author: Randall Germain (Carleton University)
      • The Politics of Credit Rating: Future Directions
        Author: Giulia Mennillo (Academy for Political Education,Tutzing)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / The continuum of gendered violence – everydayness, trauma and insecurity Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      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)
      • Exploring Incel and Intimate Partner Violence Side-by-Side: Implications for Comparative Work on Gendered Violence
        Author: Anne Peterscheck (University of St Andrews)
      • Gendering extremism: radicalisation as masculinity project
        Author: Elizabeth Pearson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
      • Trauma Time and Non-Linear Tracking of Gender-Based Violence
        Author: Chaeyoung Yong (University of St Andrews)
      • Diaspora organizations, modern slavery, human trafficking and labour exploitation: capacity building for resilience
        Authors: Alina E Dolea (Bournemouth University) , Oana Burcu (University of Nottingham)*
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / The political economy of domestic jurisdictions Justham, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group
      Convener: IPEG Working group
      Chair: James Scott (King's College London)
      • Alibaba in South-East Asia: A Case of Chinese Capitalism in the World System
        Author: Feiyang Xu (University of Manchester)
      • New Constitutionalism in Post-Invasion Iraq
        Author: Shehnoor Khurram (York University)
      • Bidenomics as a Passive Revolution- Revitalising American Hegemony?
        Author: Tom Chodor (Monash University)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Troubling the domestic and the international in South East Europe Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group
      Convener: SEEWG Working group
      Chair: Lydia Cole (University of Sussex)
      • What Makes Revisionist States? Historical Revisionism and Ontological Security in the Western Balkans
        Author: Maja Davidovic (Cardiff University)
      • The Collapse of Economic Voting Behaviour in Turkish Politics
        Author: Caglar Ezikoglu (University of Birmingham)
      • Peace as normal life: Post-Yugoslav peace imaginings
        Authors: Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol) , Sladjana Lazic (University of Innsbruck)*
      • Symbolic power of authoritarian leaders in the Western Balkans: How Vucic builds his muscles
        Author: Sabina Pacariz (King's College London)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Whose state? State conflict and security provision in and beyond Europe Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: BISA
      Conveners: Nicholas Barker (University of Birmingham) , George Kyris (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)
      • The Geopolitics of Europe’s Protracted Conflicts: Contested Territories, Contested Orders
        Author: Nicholas Barker (University of Birmingham)
      • The impact of war on sub-ethnic groups: the case of Megrelians in Georgia
        Author: Tomas Hoch (University of Ostrava)
      • For things to remain the same, everything must change: assessing the UK’s transformed role in the Russian sanction negotiations before and after Brexit
        Author: Marianna Lovato (Vrije Universiteit)
      • Adapting to survive: Brexit, war in Ukraine and Gaza, and Euro-British intelligence sharing
        Author: Lucia Frigo (Royal Holloway, University of London)
      • From Minsk Agreements to Moscow’s Aggression: Explaining the failure of Russia’s de-sovereignisation strategy in Ukraine
        Author: Jaroslava Barbieri (University of Birmingham)
    • 15:00 16:30
      07 Panel / Whose futures: the role of fiction in re/imagining climate politics Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: Environment Working Group
      Convener: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)
      Chair: Carl Death (University of Manchester)
      • Islanding as reimagining: how oceanic fiction challenges dominant narratives of climate doom
        Author: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)
      • Queer eco-heroes in African climate fiction
        Author: Carl Death (University of Manchester)
      • Disrupting anthropocentric fantasies of authority and control: Climate change adaptation in the work of Jeff VanderMeer
        Authors: Jana Fey (University of Sussex) , Jennifer Hobbs (University of Leicester)
      • Ecopolitical imaginaries for transition: the role of climate fiction
        Authors: Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of Bath) , Benoit Dillet (University of Bath)*
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    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Aesthetic Refusal, Aesthetics of Refusal, Refusal of Aesthetics Soprano, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group
      Conveners: Sara Wong (LSE) , Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)
      Chair: Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)
      • Humans of Late Cannibalism: The Memetic Politics of Eating the Rich
        Author: Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)
      • Elemental poetics of the urban
        Author: Aya Nassar (University of Warwick)
      • Dark IR: The Possibility of Political Praxis after Refusal
        Author: Ignasi Torrent (University of Hertfordshire)
      • Curation as method: aesthetic practice & epistemic refusal
        Author: Sara Wong (London School of Economics)
      • “Perhaps this occupation will create… a nucleus of a new world in the heart of fossil-nuclear capitalism”: Political Possibility and Refusal in the Hambach Forest Occupation
        Author: Ben Bowsher (Newcastle University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Security, Applied History and Foreign Policy Fortissimo, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group
      Convener: Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University)
      Chair: Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University)
      • Myth Diplomacy: How Ukraine Have Actioned Memory Diplomacy Through Myth
        Authors: Artur Nadiiev (University of Nottingham) , Thomas Eason (Aston University)
      • Lacking a Clear Target: Britain and NATO institutional reform after the end of the Cold War
        Author: Davis Ellison (King's College, London)
      • From China Question to China Problem: Constructing British Visions of a Rising China,1899-1922
        Author: Oliver Yule-Smith (King's College, London)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Contestations of sovereignty and democracy: History, legitimacy, volatility Dolce, Hyatt
      Sponsor: BISA
      Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)
      Chair: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)
      • Researching ‘from below’ in Turkey: qualitative research on authoritarian legitimacy
        Author: Evelyn Strongylakou (University of Warwick)
      • Contesting regional sovereignty from below: the puzzle of illegal and unofficial referendums
        Author: Louis Stockwell (University of Warwick)
      • Saffron Ethnocracy: Conceptualising Ethnocracy in India, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka
        Authors: Ronan Lee (Loughborough University) , Rudabeh Shahid (Oberlin College)*
      • Expansions, Contractions and Liminalities of International Relations and the History of Sovereignty
        Author: George Kyris (University of Birmingham)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Europe and Global Security Room 101, Library
      Sponsor: European Security Working Group
      Convener: ESWG Working group
      Chair: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)
      • Secularism and Securitisation: A Mutually Compatible Relationship.
        Author: Hammaad Mehraj Syed (South Asian University)
      • Opening the Black Box of EU Digital Sovereignty: A Systematic Review of the Development of a Concept
        Authors: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University) , Ben Farrand (Newcastle University) , Aleksei Turobov (Northumbria University)
      • Constructing the 'China Technological Threat' in the European Perspective: A Case Study of Huawei's Involvement in 5G Infrastructure Development
        Author: Xuechun Tian (King's College London)
      • Perceptions of threat: the news media and disordered information as a security issue
        Author: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Everyday action in times of economic change: historical lessons for contemporary international trends Concerto, Hyatt
      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)
      • Everyday Perceptions of Economic Inequality During Periods of International Economic Turbulence: Evidence from the British Interwar Years
        Author: Kasper Arabi (University of Warwick)
      • The “siren song” of Smoot-Hawley: Metaphor and masculinity in US trade policy, 1981-2021
        Author: Edward Knudsen (University of Oxford)
      • Forestalling hegemonic decline: Walter Runciman, trade protectionism and Britain’s search for systemic openness
        Author: Oksana Levkovych (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      • The pandemic, ‘the economy’ and race: how economic histories mobilised American anti-lockdown and Black Lives Matter protesters
        Author: Jessica Eastland-Underwood (University of Warwick)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Feminist Foreign Policy: Labelling, Narratives and Performativity Jane How, Symphony Hall
      Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
      Convener: GIRWG Working group
      Chair: Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)
      • Gender Mainstreaming in the EU's Green Deal
        Author: Rosalind Cavaghan (Flax Foundation/University of Edinburgh)
      • Historical responsibility narratives and coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy
        Authors: Karoline Färber (King’s College London) , Madita Standke-Erdmann (King's College London)
      • What’s in a name—The politics of labelling of Feminist Foreign Policies
        Author: Neha Tetali (Trinity College Dublin)
      • Gendering Foreign Policy Making: Feminist Foreign Policy Networks in Mexico and Germany
        Author: Isabel Hernandez Pepe (Scuola Normale Superiore)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Gendering the Military, Militarising Gender: Military Representations in Pop Culture and Social Media Room 102, Library
      Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group
      Conveners: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick) , Max Warrack (University of Warwick)
      Chair: Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)
      • 'When ancient beauty meets modern army!': Military, gender and nation in Chinese state media
        Author: Séagh Kehoe (University of Westminster)
      • Instagramming the infantry: re-inscribing hegemonic military masculinity in the contemporary era
        Author: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire)
      • Gender-hybridity and Rehabilitating Military Violence: JSDF ‘Beautiful Fighting Girls’
        Author: Max Warrack (University of Warwick)
      • Gendering the Military on Social Media: Redefining Masculinity, Femininity, and Ontological Security
        Author: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick)
      • “We are finally visible (on Facebook)” - Negotiation and Compromise in Thai Military Women’s Online Self-Representation
        Author: Chanapang Pongpiboonkiat (University of Leeds)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Historicising geopolitics: Revisiting the discipline of Global IR Drawing Room, Hyatt
      Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
      Convener: HSIR Working group
      Chair: Ann Bajo (University of Portsmouth)
      • Fenchurch Street Goes Global: The Role of Private Expertise in Shaping International Shipping Standards
        Authors: Anna Finiguerra (QMUL) , Alex Gould (King's College London)
      • Auslandwissenschaft: The German Science of IR, 1871-1945
        Author: Jude Rowley (Lancaster University)
      • Negotiating Morocco: Francisco Franco's Spain, Ontological Security, and Imperial Identity
        Author: Sujin Heo (American University)
      • How (not) to decolonize the discipline of IR: Insights from India
        Author: Abhishek Choudhary (University of Delhi)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Military Humanitarianism: Reimagining the Nexus Between Aid Operations and Armed Forces Stuart Hall, The Exchange
      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)
      • “Repressive developmentalism” in Ethiopia during the Cold War: NGOs and the continuity of colonial counterinsurgency practices on the African continent
        Author: Maria Cullen (HCRI, University of Manchester)
      • Israeli Counterinsurgency and Humanitarian Governance in Colonised Palestine
        Author: Pietro Stefanini (University of Edinburgh)
      • Born in war(s): UNRRA and the US military in China, 1944-1947
        Author: Jiayi Tao (University of Vienna)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / New Paradigms from the Global South Room 103, Library
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: TBC
      • Coloniality and interstate/national order: Latin America between global polycentricity and local epistemic-political dependency
        Authors: Fábio Santino Bussmann (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) , Walter Mignolo (Duke University)*
      • The West Politics of Aggression, Imperialism and the Global South
        Author: Muhammad Ashfaq (University of St Andrews)
      • From Third World to Global South: Unresolved Dilemmas
        Authors: Yuxuan Liu (University of Toronto)* , Liam Wood (University of Toronto)* , Nikhil Goyal (University of Toronto)
      • The Israeli-Palestinian Best Case Scenario: Perpetual Peacebuilding
        Author: Ariadna Petri (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / New Technologies and Future War Room 105, Library
      Sponsor: War Studies Working Group
      Convener: WSWG Working group
      Chair: James Patton Rogers (Cornell University)
      • AI, Data, War: The Rise of the Military Tech Complex
        Author: Tony King (University of Exeter)
      • Banalizing extraordinariness: how the defence and security sector pursues legitimacy
        Author: Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes (University of Oxford)
      • Imagining a low-carbon warfare theory of victory
        Authors: Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University) , Tamiris Santos (Loughborough University)
      • Intelligence Analysis, Emotions, and the Future with AI
        Author: Ronan Mainprize (University of Warwick)
      • The Second Drone Age: Defining War in the 2020s
        Author: James Patton Rogers (Cornell University)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Perspectives on conflict management and stabilisation Exec 1, ICC
      Sponsor: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
      Convener: PKPBG Working group
      Chair: David Curran (Coventry University)
      • Unraveling the Enigma: Explaining Success and Failure of State-Building Interventions in Iraqi Kurdistan and Iraq
        Author: Johannes Jüde (University of Edinburgh)
      • The Rise and Fall of “Stabilisation” in the Overlap with Counter-terrorism, Counterinsurgency and Statebuilding: a (unsuccessful) case of Afghanistan
        Author: Hiromi Fujishige (Aoyama Gakuin University)
      • Partnerships in the Midst of Robust Peacekeeping
        Author: Alexander Gilder (University of Reading)
      • Challenging Conflict Management Categories: A Complexity Theory Perspective
        Author: Giulio Levorato (University of Genoa)
      • The UN Group of Experts for the DRC: Implications for stabilization and adaptation of MONUSCO's mandate
        Author: Guilherme Dias (Roskilde Universitet)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Revisiting the postcolonial critiques of IR Exec 9, ICC
      Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
      Convener: CPD Working group
      Chair: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)
      • From Palestine to Ukraine: a postcolonial critique of the neorealist strategy of offshore balancing
        Author: Haro Karkour (Cardiff University)
      • Transcending dichotomy in postcolonial critiques of International Relations theories: Revisiting intellectual whiteness through Chinese scholars’ writings on sub-Saharan Africa
        Author: Yang Han (University of Oxford)
      • Whose Politics for Whose life? From Politics of Empathy to Politics of Liberation
        Author: Anil Yildirim (University of Exeter)
      • Diagnosing the Anatomy of Worldmaking through the History of International Political Thought of Post-colonial Indonesia
        Author: Quah Say Jye (University of Cambridge)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / Understanding Violent Movements Exec 10, ICC
      Sponsor: Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism
      Convener: Ces Moore (University of Birmingham)
      Chair: Una McGahern (Newcastle University)
      • Replacing the Standard Bearer: Theorizing Leadership Transition in Insurgencies
        Authors: Ces Moore (University of Birmingham) , Mark Youngman (University of Portsmouth)*
      • Militant Loyalties: Familial Attachments and Emotional Pulls
        Author: James Hewitt (University of St Andrews)
      • The different wartime and post-wartime trajectories of tribal networks in Salahaldin the peripheral areas of Salahaldin province in Iraq
        Author: Tamer Badawi (University of Kent)
      • Local Elites in Regime Transitions: Cooperation and Contestation
        Author: Anna Plunkett (King's College London)
    • 16:45 18:15
      07 Panel / ‘Making friends and influencing people’: a Russian toolbox for managing others on the international stage Mary Sturge, The Exchange
      Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
      Convener: Victoria Hudson (King's College London)
      Chair: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham)
      • Anonymous discussions on Russia-Ukraine War Online: A Quantitative Analysis of Russian comments in YouTube
        Author: Akira Sano (University of Tsukuba)
      • Bolstering Autocracy? The role of post-Soviet regional Organisations.
        Author: Stephen Hall (University of Bath)
      • 1973 and 2003 Energy Crises and the War in Ukraine
        Author: Wojciech Ostrowski (University of Westminster; School of Social Sciences; Senior Lecturer in International Relations)
      • The Russian Way of Regime Change: Assessing the 2022 Offensive in Historical Context
        Author: Joel Iams (King's College London)
      • Russia’s Policy in Syria: a thorny road with a clear goal
        Author: Anna Matveeva (Kings College London)