Name: BISA 2025 virtual conference - Global political imaginations: towards a more inclusive world
Start: 2025-01-13T07:05:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-15T18:50:00+00:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 13 January
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Conflict, Justice, and Reconciliation
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More a Just World: Inequality and Exclusion
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Hanna Ketola (Newcastle University)
  - Recipients, Activists, Experts: Discourses of Queer Inclusion and Ownership in Transitional Justice
    
    Author: Caitlin Biddolph (University of New South Wales)
  - Reimagining Transitional Justice through Cinema: The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin (2019) and Camptown Women in Postcolonial South Korea
    
    Author: Haneol Mun (Australian National University)
  - Epistemic justice and the Avoidance of War - The International Order as Epistemic Framework
    
    Author: Ernesto Kettner (University of Münster)
  - What do we do with the Voices of the Perpetrators? An Approach to the Narratives on the Colombian Armed Conflict
    
    Author: Irene Piedrahita (University of Glasgow)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Global Structures of Precarity and Vulnerability
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More a Just World: Inequality and Exclusion
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Helen Turton (University of Sheffield)
  - The Haunted and the Hunted: Young, Male, Mobile - Are Young Men Protectable?
    
    Authors: Lucy Hovil , Christina Oelgemoller (Loughborough University)
  - Moving Towards a Non-Productivist Society: Exploring the Insights of Gig Economy Workers Subjected to Structural Disablement
    
    Author: Ioana Cerasella Chis (University of Birmingham)
  - Negotiating Inclusion: Civil Society Advocacy and Evolution of the Roma Movement
    
    Author: Riddhi Sanyal (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Decent Work for Undignified Wages? The Importance of Local Politics on Social Upgrading
    
    Author: Emese Dobos (HUN-REN CERS IWE)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Inequality and Power in Indian Politics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More a Just World: Inequality and Exclusion
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Kirti Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Digital Borders and Collective Memory: Social Media's Role in Shaping Historical Narratives in India
    
    Author: Kirti Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - How Powerful are the Courts? A Study of Judicial Autonomy in India (2014-2022)
    
    Author: Swarati Sabhapandit (Shiv Nadar University)
  - Of Rubble, Ruins and Razing: Choreographing the Destruction by Bulldozer Demolitions
    
    Author: Ananya Sharma (Ashoka University)
  - Propagandist Film Making and the Myth Making Exercises of the Hindutva State
    
    Author: Devika Misra (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Legitimising and Delegitimising Violence
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Stefanie Kappler (Durham University)
  - Attributing Resilience, Legitimating Domination: From Slaves to Refugees
    
    Author: Luke Glanville (Australian National University)
  - Legitimation Practices in the United Nations Security Council
    
    Author: Jess Gifkins (University of Manchester)
  - “Legal, Humane, Aggressive”: Allegations, Acknowledgements, and Denials in Official Discourse Before Abu Ghraib
    
    Author: Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Sheffield)
  - Questioning the Warist Orthodoxy: Pacifist Critical Reflections on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
    
    Author: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
  - Bombing Brigands and Rebels
    
    Author: Elisabeth Schweiger (University of Stirling)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Theorising World Order
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Mate Szalai (Ca Foscari University)
  - Platform or Sovereign: Reconceptualizing Institutions of Global Governance
    
    Author: Sami Farhad (Zhejiang University)
  - Anarchic World Order: Theorizing Future World Politics Through Historical Context
    
    Author: Pranjal Kuli (North-Eastern Hill University)
  - The Problem of Ontological Pluralism in the English School: Neoevolutionism as a Solution
    
    Author: Mateusz Ambrożek (Vistula University, Warsaw)
  - How Individuals Relate to International Society: Imaginations About the Other and How it Results in "Reality"
    
    Author: Ryoichi Watanabe (University of Tsukuba)
  - Explaining States’ Cooperation Through International Regimes with Other States while Preparing for Conflict
    
    Authors: Perri 6 (Queen Mary University of London) , Eva Heims
- 10:15 → 11:15
  
  Conference event / Coffee and Networking Session
  
  Speaker: Dominic Hart (British International Studies Association)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Gender and Conflict
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Irene Piedrahita (University of Glasgow)
  - ‘Like flesh and a nail’: Rethinking the Nexus of Familial Ties and Armed Conflict
    
    Authors: Maria O'Reilly (Leeds Beckett University) , Hanna Ketola (Newcastle University)*
  - Jineolojî and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ): a Cartography on the Resistance of the Kurdish Women’s Movement to Femicide and Ecocide
    
    Author: Leticia Gimenez (San Tiago Dantas)
  - Gender Representation in Military Recruitment: A Comparative Analysis of German and U.S. Social Media Videos
    
    Author: Laura Homann (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
  - Reimagining ‘Negotiation’: Locating ‘Security’ in Afghan Women’s Narratives
    
    Author: Debangana Chatterjee (National Law School of India University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Global Health Politics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Cooperative World: North, South, and Beyond
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: João Terrenas (University Institute of Lisbon)
  - Is There a New 'Right to International Solidarity' in post-COVID International Society?
    
    Author: Ipek Ruacan
  - Putting Solidarity Projects in Context: Analyzing Cohesion in Pandemic Policies in CELAC and SAARC
    
    Author: Devika Misra (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Protection for Whom and From What? A Care Ethics Approach to the Role of Protective Clothing in Pandemic Times
    
    Authors: Katharina Krause , Katharina Wezel
  - Federalism in Times of COVID-19: An Analysis of the Paradiplomatic Actions of Brazilian Governors from 2019 to 2021
    
    Author: Debora Figueiredo M Prado (Federal University of Uberlandia)
  - Inequality and Exclusion : Addressing Global Health Disparities
    
    Author: Kividi Koralage
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  / Meet the Editors
  
  Speakers: Andrew Mumford (University of Nottingham), Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / The Future of Weapons, Technologies and Battlegrounds
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Nick Caddick (ARU)
  - Outer Space: An Emerging Battleground?
    
    Author: Akanksha Kalyan (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Towards Global Zero: Brazil’s Distinct Role in the Quest for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons
    
    Author: Geórgia Albuquerque
  - Imagining the Future Sky: Drone Technology and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Turkey
    
    Author: Zeynep Şartepe (Doctoral Researcher)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Theorising Global Power
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Jales Caur (University of Brasília)
  - Power Transition Theory and its Limitation in Analyzing China’s Rise as a Dominant Power
    
    Author: Jacy Magalhães (Universidade de Brasília)
  - When Agency Trumps Structure: Modern Problems and Historical Lessons from the UK to the US
    
    Author: Oksana Levkovych (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  - International Hypocrisy: The Case of US Foreign Policy
    
    Author: Michelle Bentley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  - Multicentric But Decentred: Order and Hegemony in the Land Below the Wind
    
    Author: Nia Deliana (International Islamic University of Indonesia)
  - Trust In Who? You?: Arafat, Rabin and the 1993-1994 Oslo and Cairo Agreements
    
    Authors: Nicholas Wheeler (University of Birmingham)* , David Wilcox , Asaf Siniver (University of Birmingham)*
- 14:00 → 15:30
  
  Roundtable / Plenary Roundtable Global IR: Reflections on the discipline
  
  Speakers: Carolina Moulin (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), John Hobson (University of Sheffield), Navnita Chadha Behera (Delhi University), Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University), Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui (Cornell University)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Accountability, Inclusivity and Sustainable Futures
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Sustainable World: Environmental Degradation, Development and Responsibility
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: David Duriesmith (Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Sheffield)
  - Advancing Inclusivity in Global Mineral Trade: The Role of Sustainable Practices and Technological Innovations in Quantifying Minerals in the Global South
    
    Author: Sandy Minkah Kyei (University of Portsmouth)
  - Governance and Dichotomies: Comparing Mineral Value Chains in India
    
    Author: Vidushi Bahuguna
  - Super-Networks in International Politics: The Right to a Healthy Environment Coalition
    
    Author: Andrea Schapper (University of Stirling)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Decolonising International Studies Teaching
  
  Sponsor: Reflexivity and Innovative Practice in Teaching and Pedagogy
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Sheffield)
  - Decolonising Higher Education: Professional Practice and HE Imaginaries
    
    Author: Perla Polanco Leal (The University of Manchester)
  - Global Palestine and the Politics of Solidarity: Decolonial Pedagogy and Praxis
    
    Authors: Amelia Caldecott , Aneta Brockhill (University of Exeter)
  - “Vou aprender a ler para ensinar meus camaradas”: Translating Texts on Race, Racism and IR as a Practice of Intellectual Emancipation in Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
    
    Authors: Vinícius Venancio , Jhader Cerqueira do Carmo
  - Decolonizing Knowledge: Embracing Diverse Epistemologies Beyond Eurocentrism in International Relations
    
    Author: Camila Santos Andrade (UFPB/University of Johannesburg)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Governance, Actors and Discourses on Borders and Mobility
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Connected Word: Borders, Mobility and Technology
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Maria Eduarda Diniz (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
  - Recognising Refugees in Brazil: The Political Use of the `Severe and Generalised Violation of Human Rights` Recognition Criterion
    
    Author: Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield)
  - The Response for Venezuelans Platform (R4V): A New Development of a Regional Perspective on Migration Governance or Business as Usual? Notes on Norm Diffusion and Financial Donors
    
    Author: Matheus Felten Fröhlich (University of Vale do Taquari)
  - Bordering During Health Emergencies: Looking Beyond the State
    
    Author: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Theorising Realism for the 21st Century
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Liam Stanley
  - Understanding the Impact of Sanctions on Iran’s Military power
    
    Author: Zeinab Nikookar (The Aga Khan University)
  - Imagining National Interest for a Plural World
    
    Author: Leon Sosnowski (King’s College London)
  - Future-Proofing Realism - How Ontological Security can Expand Realism's Explanatory Scope
    
    Author: Ernesto Kettner (University of Münster)
  - A Mechanic World: the Impact of the Newtonian Philosophy on the Realist Theory of International Relations
    
    Author: Jales Caur (University of Brasília)
Tuesday, 14 January
- 08:30 → 10:00
  
  Panel / Business and Finance in the Global Economy
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More a Just World: Inequality and Exclusion
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Ben Clift (University of Warwick)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Global Climate Politics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Sustainable World: Environmental Degradation, Development and Responsibility
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield)
  - Vulnerable research: climate politics, reflexivity and decolonisation
    
    Author: Charlotte Weatherill (Open University)
  - The Agropolis: Mapping a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agri-urban Development
    
    Author: Alison Hulme (University of Northampton)
  - Political Economy of Climate Finance Under the Paris Agreement
    
    Author: Abdulrasheed Isah (ETH Zurich)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Pop Culture, Social Media, and World Politics
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Seongwon Yoon (Hanyang University)
  - Memefication of Politics: The 'troll army' and Rise of Hindu Nationalism
    
    Author: Ananya Sharma (Ashoka University)
  - A Conceptual Framework to Classify the Extent of Co-existence Between Digital Authoritarianism and Digital Democracy within Political Regimes
    
    Author: Sahngmin Shin (University of St Andrews)
  - TikTok Tradwives: Femininity, Reproduction, and Social Media in the Settler-Colony
    
    Authors: Lindsay Day (University of Sydney) , Kate Scott (University of Sydney)
  - The Hegemony of Islamism and Anti-Secularism in Turkish TV Series
    
    Author: Caglar Ezikoglu (University of Birmingham)
  - The Militarisation of Culture and Cultural Production: Susan Strange, Stuart Hall, and a Review of the Knowledge Structure
    
    Author: Conwright Jamal Simon (University of Sheffield)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  
  Panel / Power, technology and the international
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Connected Word: Borders, Mobility and Technology
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
- 10:15 → 11:45
  
  Roundtable / Imagining A More Inclusive Security Agenda
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Chair: Elisabeth Schweiger (University of Stirling)
  
  Participants: Harmonie Toros (University of Reading) , Laura Aumeer (Conciliation Resources) , Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester) , Enyseh Teimory (United Nations Association UK)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Economic Cooperation, Supply Chains, and Security
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Sara Torabian
  - Bridging Innovation and Infrastructure, or Not: Chinese Investments in Israel's High-Tech Sector and Complementarity with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
    
    Author: Sinan Haskan
  - Taiwanese Semiconductors: A "Shield" for Taiwan and a Strategic Asset in the Sino-American Rivalry
    
    Authors: Pamella Simão , Jacy Magalhães (Universidade de Brasília)
  - The impact of Russian-Ukrainian War on the Black Sea Economic Cooperation: Adapting Economic Cooperation to Security Challenges
    
    Author: Pinar Akgül
  - The Vulnerability of the Geopolitical Union: Regulatory Mercantilism, Cybersecurity and the Security of Semiconductor Supply Chains
    
    Authors: Ben Farrand (Newcastle University) , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  - Securitized Interdependence: The Rise of Geoeconomic Alliances in Global Supply Chains
    
    Author: Zhou Liao (Samsung Global Research China)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Power, Control and Piracy: Sea and Space
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  - Countering Conflict, insecurity & Vulnerability: The Role of the (Indian) Navy in the Red Sea
    
    Author: Anuttama Banerji (National Maritime Foundation)
  - Outer Space: The Definition of a Space Pirate
    
    Author: Fiona Naysmith (Open University)
  - There is no Space Court, Right?: Learning from Climate Change Litigation and the South China Sea Arbitration in Creating a more Inclusive Space Governance
    
    Author: Marjan Ajevski (Open University)
  - What are the Building Blocks of Global Naval Power Projection?
    
    Author: Jon Dannemann (University of Sheffield)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Theoretical Innovations in International Relations
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: David Duriesmith (Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Sheffield)
  - The Discursive Tradition of Political Islam: Notes on Media Construction of an Islamist Ethos in Tunisia
    
    Author: Leonardo Pagano Landucci
  - Imaginative Ruptures in the Coloniality of Time: Tanya Tagaq’s 'Retribution' and the Continuum of Colonial Violence
    
    Author: Christopher McAteer (York University)
  - Causal Criteria in International Relations Research
    
    Authors: Joseph O'Mahoney (University of Reading) , Adam Humphreys (University of Reading)
  - Towards an Inclusive Cosmos: Decolonial Critique of ‘Survival Imperative’ in Space Exploration
    
    Author: Bhargavi PBA (University of Delhi)
  - Futures in Dispute: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Latin America
    
    Author: Jonathan de Assis (Institute of Public Policy and International Relations)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Transforming Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding: Gendered and Decolonial Perspectives
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Helen Turton (University of Sheffield)
  - More women in peacekeeping: Path to combating sexual abuse and exploitation?
    
    Author: Nicole Fankhauser
  - Unveiling Gender in UN Peacekeeping: An Analysis of the Brahimi Report (2000)
    
    Author: Raquel Losekann
  - What does WPS means for the Balkans? An analysis on the implementation of the WPS Agenda in post-conflict arrangements
    
    Author: Maria Eduarda Diniz (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Dialogues in Non-Western IR
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Cooperative World: North, South, and Beyond
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Amya Agarwal (Centre for Global Cooperation Research)
  - The Role of Whiteness in the Construction of the Other and the Self in International Relations
    
    Author: Carolina Antunes Condé de Lima
  - Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty: The Anti-Colonial Roots of Indonesian Political Economic Thought
    
    Authors: Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad (Universitas Indonesia)* , Lena Rethel* , Poppy Winanti (Universitas Gajah Mada)* , Moch Faisal Karim (Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia)
  - From a Global to a Pluriversal IR? IR as Inter-Cosmological Relations
    
    Author: Giorgio Shani (IInternational Christian University)
  - Finding Agency in Active-Non-Alignment: Latin American Regional Solidarities in the Aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
    
    Author: Devika Misra (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Reconnecting 'Nature' and 'Society' through Cosmologies: Towards a Pluriversal IR of Normative Dialogues across Universes
    
    Author: Quang Dũng Phạm (IInternational Christian University)
- 14:00 → 15:00
  
  / Coffee and Networking Session
  
  Speaker: Dominic Hart (British International Studies Association)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Power and Authority in the Global Economy
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Perla Polanco Leal (The University of Manchester)
  - From a Monolithic to a Flexible Creed: Fed's Reactions to the Great Depression and the Great Recession
    
    Author: Maria Clara Togeiro (State University of Campinas)
  - The Power of Business in Crisis: Disclosing the paradoxical prosperity of business group in Ecuador
    
    Author: Maria Sol Parrales (King's College London)
  - Capital "Flows/Mobility" as a Misleading Metaphor
    
    Author: Oleksandr Valchyshen (UMKC)
  - The role of the Bank for International Settlements in the Global Financial Architecture: the socialisation of peripheral countries
    
    Author: Pelin Akkaya Yerli
  - Falling Off the Map: Tracing Uncharted Financialization in Iran
    
    Author: Ida Nikou (SUNY SBU)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Sustainability, Development and Capital
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Sustainable World: Environmental Degradation, Development and Responsibility
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Mohit Sharma (South Asian University)
  - Latent SDGs in EU Global Gateway Strategy
    
    Authors: Rugmini Devi (University of Kerala) , Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau* , Pierre Mazzega (University of Toulouse)
  - The Role of Gender Norms in Climate Change Resilience – Variegated Social Reproduction Solutions During Drought in Rural Zimbabwe
    
    Author: Susanne Kozak (Monash University)
  - The Guarantor State: Theorizing state-capital relations in Indian infrastructure finance
    
    Author: Manasi Karthik
  - Uniting to Develop: Assessing Regional Integration Efforts to Foster Security in North-East Africa
    
    Author: Natalia Piskunova (Moscow State University)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / The Global Politics of Britain
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Connected Word: Borders, Mobility and Technology
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield)
  - An Unexpected Success Story: Brexit Negotiations in the field of Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters
    
    Authors: Benjamin Martill (University of Edinburgh) , Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University) , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  - How is race implicated in the Grenfell Tower fire? Race and housing in post-empire austerity Britain.
    
    Authors: Maryam Nahhal (Johns Hopkins University) , Maryam Nahhal (Johns Hopkins University)*
  - The Making of Neoliberal Families: Social Conservatism and the Privatisation of Housing
    
    Author: Kate Cherry (University of Sussex)
  - Beyond Diversity and World Inclusion Politics: Shifting from Quantitative to Qualitative Representation in Global Politics
    
    Author: Aboabea Akuffo (University of Oxford)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Transnational Actors and Global Governance
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More a Just World: Inequality and Exclusion
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Malte Riemann (Leiden University)
  - Marginalized Elites and Narratives of (In)Justice in the WTO: Feminist-Informed Multi-Sited Ethnographic Insights
    
    Author: Lisa Samuel (Florida International University)
  - The Worth of Nations: The Historical Construction of Market Economies
    
    Author: Alice Chessé (McGill University)
  - 'We Can Only Support, Grudgingly’ : US Foreign Policy, Cold War Politics, and the Negotiations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women at the United Nations
    
    Author: Natali Cinelli Moreira (University of Sao Paulo + King's College London)
  - Foreign Private Lobbying as A Multitasked Mission
    
    Author: Yue Lin (University of California, Berkeley)
  - The IMF’s Climate Change Policy Trilemma: Unecological Assumptions and Technocratic Climate Governance
    
    Author: Ben Clift (University of Warwick)
Wednesday, 15 January
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / Caste, Religion, and Identity in Indian Politics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More a Just World: Inequality and Exclusion
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Ujan Natik (University of Manchester)
  - Reading the Visible Invisibility of Caste in South Asian Electoral Politics- The Case of 2024 Indian Loksabha Elections
    
    Author: Ashna K Asok (University of Calicut)
  - Caste and Cyberspace: Towards an Anti-Casteist approach to Cyberspace
    
    Author: Anubha Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Transnational Ties: The Cultural and Political Influence of the Indian Diaspora on UK-India Relations
    
    Author: Madhurima Pramanik
  - Performativity of Islamic Veiling: Mapping Hijabophobia, and Locating the ‘Secular’ in Post-colonial India
    
    Author: Debangana Chatterjee (National Law School of India University)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / China, Power, and Geopolitics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  - China’s Diaspora policy in Italy: Democratization, Autocratization, and social justice
    
    Author: Nannan Li (Durham University)
  - Labour Migration as a Challenge to State-Centric Foreign Policy Discourse
    
    Author: Ratih Kabinawa (The University of Western Australia)
  - US Foreign Policy and Cross-Strait (In)stability: Insights from Complexity Theory
    
    Author: Tiago Luís Carvalho (Portuguese Air Force Academy Research Center and Orient Institute)
  - Power Politics and International Law in the Asymmetric-Balancing Interactions Between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea in the Twenty-First Century: Theories and Practices
    
    Author: Yue Liu (University of Edinburgh)
- 08:30 → 10:00
  
  Panel / Dialogues in non-Western IR
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Liam Stanley
- 08:30 → 10:00
  Panel / International Politics Beyond Anthropocentrism
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Sustainable World: Environmental Degradation, Development and Responsibility
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: David Duriesmith (Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Sheffield)
  - How Nature Produces Sovereignty: More-Than-Human Entanglement and Beyond
    
    Author: Ebony Young (University of Glasgow)
  - Carceral Waters: Greenwashing the Historical Violence of Hydropower in the United States
    
    Author: Bennett Collins (University of Aberdeen)
  - Transforming Security for Planetary Politics: Lessons from the Amazon
    
    Authors: Joana Castro Pereira (University of Porto) , Inês Ferreira de Sousa (NOVA University of Lisbon)* , João Terrenas (University Institute of Lisbon)*
  - Animals in IR: Governing the Flyways through animal cultures
    
    Authors: Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield) , Teresa Lappe-Osthege (Risk Policy Analysts)
  - Transforming Our World? Strengthening Animal Rights and Animal Welfare at the United Nations
    
    Authors: Andrea Schapper (University of Stirling) , Cebuan Bliss (Radboud Universiteit)*
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Constructing World Politics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  - Towards a Narrative Alliance? Russia’s and China’s Visions of a Better World Order
    
    Author: Intigam Mamedov (Northumbria University)
  - ‘Islamic State’ in Chinese State News Media: Reporting Terrorism within a Communist Regime
    
    Author: Qiang Zhang (University of Sheffield)
  - The Different Face of Populism in Armenian Politics: Nikol Pashinyan
    
    Author: Caglar Ezikoglu (University of Birmingham)
  - Homeland (In)Security and the Racialisation of the Arab in America
    
    Authors: Maryam Nahhal (Johns Hopkins University) , Maryam Nahhal (Johns Hopkins University)*
  - Geocultural Imaginaries and Foreign Policy in Post-2018 Ethiopia
    
    Author: Katharina Newbery (Addis Ababa University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Perspectives on Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Cooperative World: North, South, and Beyond
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Amya Agarwal (Centre for Global Cooperation Research)
  - Populism, Leadership and Institutional Pathways: Analysing Claims of Changes in Indian and Brazilian Foreign Policy-Making in the Contemporary Era
    
    Author: Devika Misra (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Crisis and Reconfiguration: The Impact of Sino-US Tensions on South America (2000-2020)
    
    Author: Filipe mendonça (Federal University of Uberlandia)
  - Whose feminisms? Producing German Feminist Foreign Policy at the intersection of civil society and diplomacy
    
    Author: Karoline Färber (King’s College London)
  - Analysis of Paradiplomatic Practices: A Study of Subnational Actors in Brazil
    
    Author: Debora Figueiredo M Prado (Federal University of Uberlandia)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Teaching International Studies Differently: Games, Visuals and Beyond
  
  Sponsor: Reflexivity and Innovative Practice in Teaching and Pedagogy
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield)
  - Extended Security Imaginations: Virtual Reality in International Relations
    
    Author: Seongwon Yoon (Hanyang University)
  - Reimagining Security Studies Education: A Non-Compartmentalized Pedagogical Approach
    
    Authors: Norma Rossi (University of St. Andrews) , Malte Riemann (Leiden University)
  - Visual Writing - Advanced Visual Skills as Transferable Pedagogy
    
    Author: Yoav Galai (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  - Teaching International Relations in Eurasian context: Experience of Introducing Gamification into Classes in Armenia, Tajikistan and Russia in 2018 – 2022
    
    Author: Natalia Piskunova (Moscow State University)
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Panel / Violence, Conflict, and Culture
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Nick Caddick (ARU)
  - Art, Peace and the Curation of Entangled Histories of Violence
    
    Author: Stefanie Kappler (Durham University)
  - Emotions and Knowledge Production in Conflicts: Applying a critical perspective
    
    Author: Sybille Reinke de Buitrago (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy)
  - “It’s the Slums in the Global Debate!”: the F20 Project as an Act of Global Political Imagination
    
    Author: Raquel Santos (IRI/PUC-Rio)
  - Confrontation and Construction of Identities: Narratives of Palestinians and Israelis in the Conflict Scenario.
    
    Authors: Michel Gherman (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) , Karina Stange Calandrin (Universidade de São Paulo)
  - Lulled into Inaction: Understanding the Passivity of Russian Society During War
    
    Author: Olga Vlasova (King's College London)
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Roundtable / Plenary Roundtable: The rise of far right around the world
  
  Speakers: Aida Hozic (University of Florida), Chenchen Zhang (Durham University), Karin Narita (University of Sheffield), Michael C. Williams (University of Ottawa), Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Comparative Studies of World Politics
  
  Sponsor: Theorising the Past, Present and Future of World Politics
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  - Comparing Economic Reality with Consumer Perception: Effect on Public Trust on Business/Government in the United States
    
    Author: Amogh Aryan (Texas Tech University)
  - How to Measure Democracy in Latin America?
    
    Author: Andre Araujo (São Paulo State University)
  - European Populism: Anti-Globalization and Anti-War Discourses in the Context of the European Parliament Elections of June 9, 2024. Case Study: France, Italy, Poland, Romania
    
    Author: Stefan Marosan (Babeș-Bolyai University)
  - What Explains Equity-Enhancing Reforms Under Centre-Right Governments? Evidence From Brazil
    
    Author: Daniel Alves (King's College London)
  - What Can Small State Studies Tell us About Protostates? The Cases of the Palestinian Authority and Syrian Kurdistan
    
    Author: Mate Szalai (Ca Foscari University)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Peace and Conflict in World Politics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Secure World: Conflict, Insecurity and Vulnerability
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Helen Turton (University of Sheffield)
  - Autonomous War, and the Impending Ontological Upheaval
    
    Author: Mark Gilks
  - Children and Other Forms of Violence: a Comparative Analysis of Children Involved in Organized Crime and Armed Groups in the Americas
    
    Author: Júlia Henrique Lira (San Tiago Dantas)
  - Naming and Overcoming Violent and Statist Reflexes: An Anarcho-pacifist Contribution to Critical Terrorism Studies
    
    Author: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University)
  - Politics of Making EU Energy Sanctions for Russian Full-Scale Invasion to Ukraine: Structure Defines Agency?
    
    Author: Ihor Moshenets (Central European University)
  - Moving Beyond R2P: Atrocity Prevention as a Field of Practice But Not (yet) a Field of Inquiry
    
    Author: Ben Willis (University of Plymouth)
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Panel / Power, Development, and World Politics
  
  Sponsor: Towards a More Cooperative World: North, South, and Beyond
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Matheus Felten Fröhlich (University of Vale do Taquari)
  - Corporate Financialization and Global Value Chains: Case Studies in Argentina
    
    Author: Ignacio Juncos (National University of Cordoba)
  - Ignoring Inequality: Economists in the Struggle for Postcolonial Development
    
    Author: Alice Chessé (McGill University)
  - The Expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Around the World and the Inclusion of American Countries
    
    Author: Vitor dos Santos Bueno (Universidade De Brasília)
  - Country Ownership in Foreign Aid Beyond the Aid Negotiation Stage: The Use of Donor- and Recipient-Based Delivery Channels in Aid for Trade
    
    Author: Andrea Gimeno Solaz (University of Edinburgh)