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 (UNSW))
  - Reimagining Transitional Justice through Cinema: The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin (2019) and Camptown Women in Postcolonial South Korea
    
    Author: Haneol Mun (Master of International Relations, Australian National University)
  - Truth Commission of the Sámi Experiences in Finland: Reckoning with Exclusion, Imagining Inclusion
    
    Author: Anna Katila
  - Epistemic justice and the Avoidance of War - The International Order as Epistemic Framework
    
    Author: Ernesto Kettner (University of Münster, Department of Philosophy)
  - 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 (independent)* , 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 (junior research fellow, HUN-REN CERS IWE)
  - Colonial Wastelands: Imperial Governance in the Migrant Agriculture Workers Regime
    
    Author: Erica Consterdine (Lancaster University)
- 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)
  - How Powerful are the Courts? A Study of Judicial Autonomy in India (2014-2022)
    
    Author: Swarati Sabhapandit (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University)
  - Of Rubble, Ruins and Razing: Choreographing the Destruction by Bulldozer Demolitions
    
    Author: Ananya Sharma (ASHOKA UNIVERSITY)
  - Financialisation of caste in India: an intersectional approach to financialisation of poverty
    
    Author: Ujan Natik (University of Manchester)
  - 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)
  - 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
  - The Problem of Ontological Pluralism in the English School: Neoevolutionism as a Solution
    
    Author: Mateusz Ambrożek (Vistula University, Warsaw)
- 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)*
  - It’s all in the Family: Gender, the Everyday, and Canadian Defence Policy
    
    Author: Leigh Spanner (Saint Mary's 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 (master's degree student at San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP))
  - Reimagining ‘Negotiation’: Locating ‘Security’ in Afghan Women’s Narratives
    
    Author: Debangana Chatterjee (National Law School of India University (NLSIU))
  - Gender Representation in Military Recruitment: A Comparative Analysis of German and U.S. Social Media Videos
    
    Author: Laura Homann (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
- 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 (ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and University of Beira Interior)
  - 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
  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)
  - Towards Global Zero: Brazil’s distinct role in the quest for a world free from nuclear weapons
    
    Author: Geórgia Albuquerque (UnB)
  - Imagining the Future Sky: Drone Technology and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Turkey
    
    Author: Zeynep Şartepe (Doctoral Researcher)
  - Outer Space: An Emerging Battleground?
    
    Author: AKANKSHA KALYAN (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - "The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Relations: Implications for Peace, Conflict and Security"
    
    Author: Sara Torabian (PHD student of Islamic University of Tehran Center)
- 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 - UnB)
  - MULTICENTRIC BUT DECENTRED: ORDER AND HEGEMONY IN THE LAND BELOW THE WIND
    
    Author: Nia Deliana (International Islamic University of Indonesia)
  - 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)
  - Trust In Who? You?: Arafat, Rabin and the 1993-1994 Oslo and Cairo Agreements
    
    Authors: Nicholas Wheeler (University of Birmingham)* , David Wilcox (n/a) , Asaf Siniver (University of Birmingham)*
  - International Hypocrisy: The Case of US Foreign Policy
    
    Author: Michelle Bentley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- 14:00 → 15:30
  
  / Plenary Roundtable. Global IR: Reflections on the discipline
- 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)
  - Accountability and Legitimacy in Corporate Environmental Governance: A Critical Examination of Transnational Initiatives
    
    Author: Johnny Kallay (Universidade de São Paulo)
  - 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: Baris Celik (University of Sheffield)
  - Decolonizing Knowledge: Embracing Diverse Epistemologies Beyond Eurocentrism in International Relations' field
    
    Author: Camila Santos Andrade (UFPB/University of Johannesburg)
  - 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
- 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)
  - The role of the immigration agenda for the far right: a case study of Donald Trump’s Populist Radical Right government (2017-2020)
    
    Author: Andressa Gabrielly de Lacerda Mendes (Interinstitutional Graduate Program in International Relations San Tiago Dantas (Unesp, UNICAMP, PUC-SP))
  - 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 - UNIVATES)
  - 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
  - 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, Department of Philosophy)
  - A mechanic world: the impact of the Newtonian philosophy on the Realist theory of International Relations
    
    Author: Jales Caur (University of Brasília)
  - Understanding the Impact of Sanctions on Iran’s Military power
    
    Author: Zeinab Nikookar (Master’s student at The Aga Khan University (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, UK))
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)
  - Rethininking the relationship between states and financialisation: A state transformation approach
    
    Author: Teck Chi Wong
  - Passive in Name Only? The Deployment of Democratisation and Disintermediation as Legitimising Narratives for Passive Asset Managers
    
    Author: Dan Wood (University of Warwick)
  - Falling Off the Map: Tracing Uncharted Financialization in Iran
    
    Author: Ida Nikou (SUNY SBU)
  - THE POWER OF BUSINESS IN CRISIS: DISCLOSING THE PARADOXICAL PROSPERITY OF BUSINESS GROUP IN ECUADOR
    
    Author: Maria Sol Parrales (King's College London)
- 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)
  - Political economy of climate finance under the Paris Agreement
    
    Author: Abdulrasheed Isah (ETH Zurich)
  - 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, Centre for Global Economic and Social Development)
  - Inclusive and Sustainable Climate Change Governance: Gender Perspectives
    
    Author: Harini T R (Loyola College)
- 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)
  - TikTok Tradwives: Femininity, Reproduction, and Social Media in the Settler-Colony
    
    Authors: Lindsay Day (The 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)
  - Using ‘netnography’ to find everyday conceptions of ‘the economy’
    
    Author: Jessica Underwood (University of Warwick)
- 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)
  - Narrative-Practice Interplay in The Integration of Technologies in Public Spaces and The Consequences for Digital Security
    
    Author: Rebecca Hartley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  - Digital Borders and Collective Memory: Social Media's Role in Shaping Historical Narratives in India
    
    Author: Kirti Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  - Blockchain Technology and Cross-Border Transactions in Africa
    
    Author: Abdulbasit Imam (Kwara State University, Malete)
  - A Conceptual Framework to Classify the Extent of Co-existence Between Digital Authoritarianism and Digital Democracy within Political Regimes
    
    Author: sahngmin shin
  - Challenges of Hate Speech in the AI Era
    
    Author: Rebeca Rabêlo (Universidade Estadual da Paraíba)
- 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 (Student)
  - Securitized Interdependence: The Rise of Geoeconomic Alliances in Global Supply Chains
    
    Author: Zhou LIAO (Samsung Global Research China)
  - 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 Law School, Newcastle University) , Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)
  - 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: Jacy Magalhães (Universidade de Brasília - UnB) , Pamella Simão
- 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: Baris Celik (University of Sheffield)
  - Countering Conflict, insecurity & Vulnerability: The Role of the (Indian) Navy in the Red Sea
    
    Author: Anuttama Banerji (National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi)
  - 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 Law School)
  - Low tides in international security: The pirate framing and the challenge concerning maritime piracy
    
    Author: Thiago Thierry (IRI/PUC-Rio)
  - Outer Space: The Definition of a Space Pirate
    
    Author: Fiona Naysmith (Open University (FBL))
  - 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: Giorgio Shani (International Christian University)
  - The discursive tradition of Political Islam: notes on media construction of an Islamist ethos in Tunisia
    
    Author: Leonardo Pagano Landucci (Master's student)
  - Futures in Dispute: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Latin America
    
    Author: Jonathan de Assis (Institute of Public Policy and International Relations (IPPRI-Unesp))
  - Imaginative ruptures in the coloniality of time: Tanya Tagaq’s 'Retribution' and the continuum of colonial violence
    
    Author: Christopher McAteer (York University, Toronto (PhD student))
  - 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)
- 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: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  - More women in peacekeeping: Path to combating sexual abuse and exploitation?
    
    Author: Nicole Fankhauser
  - Hamas, Terrorism, and the Question of Palestine
    
    Author: Gabriel Brasilino (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
  - Decolonising Peace(building) Interventions: Entreaties, Apathy and Despair
    
    Author: Babatunde Obamamoye (Australian National University)
  - Unveiling Gender in UN Peacekeeping: An Analysis of the Brahimi Report (2000)
    
    Author: Raquel Losekann (Estudante)
  - 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 / Whiteness and Western dominance in knowledge production: Perspectives from the South
  
  Sponsor: Towards a more cooperative world: North, South, and beyond
  
  Convener: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)
  
  Chair: Amya Agarwal (Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg)
  - 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)
  - Rethinking ‘Peace’: “Strategic Depth” Doctrine in Turkish Foreign policy Discourse
    
    Author: AIMAN UROOJ (Department of Political Science, University of Delhi)
  - Contesting the territorial sovereignty of ‘imagined’ Khalistan: Analysis of ‘Panth’, ‘Granth’, and Sikh Sovereignty.
    
    Author: Mohit Sharma (South Asian University, New Delhi)
  - Securitizing Climate Change: Global North Knowledge Production and Its Implications for the Global South
    
    Author: Varun Mohan (National Institute of Advanced Studies)
- 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 (Ph.D student in Economics at the State University of Campinas/Sao Paulo, Brazil)
  - Turning Points in the Global Political Economy through the Liz Truss Interlude
    
    Author: Dillon Wamsley (University of Sheffield)
  - From e-CNY to BritCoin: Assessing the Global Power Dynamics of Central Bank Digital Currencies
    
    Author: Thais Araripe (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
  - 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
- 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, New Delhi)
  - The Role of Gender Norms in Climate Change Resilience – Variegated Social Reproduction Solutions During Drought in Rural Zimbabwe
    
    Author: Susanne Kozak (Monash University)
  - UNITING TO DEVELOP: ASSESSING REGIONAL INTEGRATION EFFORTS TO FOSTER SECURITY IN NORTH-EAST AFRICA
    
    Author: Natalia Piskunova (Moscow State University)
  - Latent SDGs in EU Global Gateway Strategy
    
    Authors: Pierre Mazzega (LISST, CNRS / University of Toulouse II, Toulouse, France) , Rugmini Devi (Department of Political Science, University of Kerala)* , Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau*
  - The Guarantor State: Theorizing state-capital relations in Indian infrastructure finance
    
    Author: Manasi Karthik
- 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)
  - Beyond Diversity and World Inclusion Politics: Shifting from Quantitative to Qualitative Representation in Global Politics
    
    Author: Aboabea Akuffo (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK)
  - 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 (Kate Cherry)
- 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)
  - 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)
  - The Worth of Nations: The Historical Construction of Market Economies
    
    Author: Alice Chessé (McGill University)
  - 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 (Christ College (Autonomous) , University of Calicut)
  - Caste and Cyberspace: Towards an Anti-Casteist approach to Cyberspace
    
    Author: ANUBHA GUPTA (Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi)
  - Transnational Ties: The Cultural and Political Influence of the Indian Diaspora on UK-India Relations
    
    Author: Madhurima Pramanik (Research Scholar)
  - Performativity of Islamic Veiling: Mapping Hijabophobia, and Locating the ‘Secular’ in Post-colonial India
    
    Author: Debangana Chatterjee (National Law School of India University (NLSIU))
- 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: Jessica Ré Phillips (SOAS, University of London)
  - 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)
  - China’s Diaspora policy in Italy: Democratization, Autocratization, and social justice
    
    Author: Nannan Li (Durham University)
  - Understanding India's and Japan's responses to China-US competition: Network choices and state transformation
    
    Author: Aaron Magunna (University of Queensland)
  - 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)
- 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
  - De-essentialising “Strategic Essentialism” in Post-Colonial Discourse: A case of Turkiye
    
    Author: AIMAN UROOJ (Department of Political Science, University of Delhi)
  - From a Global to a Pluriversal IR? IR as inter-cosmological relations
    
    Author: Giorgio Shani (International Christian University)
  - Reconnecting 'Nature' and 'Society' through Cosmologies: Towards a Pluriversal IR of Normative Dialogues across Universes
    
    Author: Quang Dũng Phạm (International 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)
  - Swatantra Party Leaders' Mid-Century World-Ordering Visions: 'One World', Nuclear Ban, and Liberal Internationalism in the Cold War
    
    Author: Sanjeet Kashyap (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- 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)
  - 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 (ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and University of Beira Interior)*
  - 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)*
  - How nature produces sovereignty: More-than-human entanglement and beyond
    
    Author: Ebony Young (University of Glasgow)
- 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: Jess Gifkins (The University of Technology Sydney)
  - Towards a narrative alliance? Russia’s and China’s Visions of a Better World Order.
    
    Author: Intigam Mamedov (Postdoctoral researcher, 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 (Institute for Peace and Security Studies, 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, Duisburg)
  - 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)
  - Between geopolitics and pragmatism: Turkey, China and Kurdish people
    
    Authors: Edoardo Lavezzo (University of York) , Baris Celik (University of Sheffield)
- 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)
  - 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)
  - Research observatories: creating spaces for an engaged and affective pedagogy of autonomy
    
    Author: Tatiana Teixeira (INCT-INEU/OPEU)
  - Extended security imaginations: Virtual Reality in International Relations
    
    Author: Seongwon Yoon (Hanyang University)
  - Visual Writing - Advanced visual skills as transferable pedagogy
    
    Author: Yoav Galai (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  - Reimagining Security Studies Education: A Non-Compartmentalized Pedagogical Approach
    
    Authors: Norma Rossi (University of St. Andrews) , Malte Riemann (Leiden 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)
  - Lulled into Inaction: Understanding the Passivity of Russian Society During War
    
    Author: Olga Vlasova (King's College London)
  - Emotions and Knowledge Production in Conflicts: Applying a critical perspective
    
    Author: Sybille Reinke de Buitrago (IKriS & IFSH)
  - “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: Karina Stange Calandrin (Universidade de São Paulo/Universidade de Sorocaba) , Michel Gherman (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)*
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  / Plenary Roundtable. The rise of far right around the world
- 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)
  - What can Small State Studies tell us about protostates? The cases of the Palestinian Authority and Syrian Kurdistan
    
    Author: Mate Szalai (Ca Foscari 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)
- 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 (Independent)
  - Moving beyond R2P: Atrocity prevention as a field of practice but not (yet) a field of inquiry
    
    Author: Ben Willis (University of Plymouth)
  - 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 (Post-Graduate International Relations Programme ‘San Tiago Dantas’ (UNESP/UNICAMP/PUCSP))
  - 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)
- 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 - UNIVATES)
  - 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 (UnB))
  - Corporate Financialization and Global Value Chains: Case Studies in Argentina
    
    Author: Ignacio Juncos (National University of Cordoba)
  - 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)
  - The "Global Gateway" initiative as an instrument of strategic autonomy of the European Union
    
    Author: Aleksandar Milosevic (University of Belgrade - Faculty of Political Science)
  - Ignoring inequality: Economists in the struggle for postcolonial development
    
    Author: Alice Chessé (McGill University)