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)
11
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)*
12
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)
13
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)
14
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)
15
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)
16
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
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)
22
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
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)
24
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)
25
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)
26
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)
27
/
Coffee and Networking Session
Speaker:
Dominic Hart
(British International Studies Association)
28
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)
29
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)
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
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)
31
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
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)
33
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)
34
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
35
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)*
36
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
Geocultural Imaginaries and Foreign Policy in Post-2018 Ethiopia
Author:Katharina Newbery
(Addis Ababa University)
37
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)
38
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)
39
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)
40
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)
41
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)
42
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
