BISA 2025 virtual conference - Global political imaginations: towards a more inclusive world

Europe/London
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Welcome to the event management area for our inaugural virtual conference -#VirtualBISA2025. Here you can register for your place at the conference.

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3-day ticket
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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 AM 11:15 AM
      Conference event / Coffee and Networking Session
      Speaker: Dominic Hart (British International Studies Association)
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      / Meet the Editors
      Speakers: Andrew Mumford (University of Nottingham), Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh)
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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)*
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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 AM 11:45 AM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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)
    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      / Coffee and Networking Session
      Speaker: Dominic Hart (British International Studies Association)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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)
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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
    • 8:30 AM 10:00 AM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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 PM 1:30 PM
      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)
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)
    • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM
      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)