Name: BISA 2025 Conference
Start: 2025-06-17T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-20T19:55:00+01:00
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50 years and counting: reflecting on the discipline and profession of International Studies (past BISA Chairs, hosted at theTitanic Museum)

(Counter)solidarities in times of genocide. Historical and contemporary links of SEE societies with Palestine and Israel

(Re)Thinking Touristic Governance

Academic standards in the time of ‘Fast Research’ (RIS sponsored)

Accountability in Contemporary Conflict

Aesthetics and pop culture in poststructuralist IR

Africa and the political economy

Africa and the world

Africa: politics and power

Africa: State and Society

After Invasion: Expressing Security and Foreign Policy in IR

AI and the Decision to Wage War: Identifying and Mitigating Risks

Algorithmic Warfare: How Decision-Support Systems Reshape Military Practices and Regulation

Alternative Ethics of the International/Global

An exploration of the race, colonialism and the binaries and hybridities of IR theory

Anti-militarism in a time of genocide

Anticolonial Solidarities and Resistance

Anticolonial Solidarities and Resistance: Learning from Ireland to Palestine

Applied History and British Foreign Policy

Approaches to reparative and transformative justice in response to European imperialism: Shaping contemporary international relations

Arts and Conflict: Bodies, Landscapes, and Generations

Asian foreign and security issues

At the Frontiers of International Studies: the Emerging Prominence of Law, War Crimes and Genocide over 50 Year and New Research for the Future

Avoiding Armageddon: Coral Bell’s Contribution to International Relations

Base Women and Beyond I: Contemporary feminist research agendas on military/nuclear installations and their discontents.

Base Women and Beyond II: Contemporary feminist research agendas on military/nuclear installations and more than human resistance .

Beyond Linear Time: Memory and Temporality in International Relations

Beyond Postcolonial Critique: Theoretical and and Political Alliances between Hindutva and Zionism

Beyond the liberal international order

Beyond the Silk Roads: Navigating the complexities of Central Asian relations with the People’s Republic of China

Book Launch: A Century of State-Making in Iraq: Baghdad, Kurdistan, and the Development of the Constitution

Border Struggles: Criminalisation, Mobility and Solidarity

Bordering and migration control

Bridging Gaps: Advancing Latin American Studies in International Relations

Bridging the Gap: Navigating Communication Barriers in Global Health Politics

Bringing sexy back: relocating the sexual in International Relations

Building, Maintaining, and Changing Global Order(s)

Carceral Presents and the Neoliberal University

Carceral systems and the border

Causal Inquiry in International Relations

Championing Pedagogical Scholarship: The ASPIRE Network for Politics and International Relations

Change and stagnation in the politics of extractivism

Childing IR

China in the international political economy

Civil Wars and Non-State Actors

Climate leadership in a disintegrating international order?

Colonial Violence and the African Renaissance

Colonialism, counterterrorism and the emergency

Comparative and individual foreign policy strategies

Comparative Perspectives on Conscientious Objection in Turkey, Ukraine and Russia

Complicity with Genocide in Universities and Academic Spaces (Part 2): Silencing Palestine

Conflict & Technology in Insecure Territory

Conflict in South America: Trends and Developments

Conflict-Related Gender and Sexualized Violence in a Diverse World: Seeing and Feeling

Connections and Disconnections between Migration and Violence

Connectivity and collaboration: potential avenues for the future of WPS

Constructing and othering in framings of migration and mobility

Contemporary Approaches to the Dynamics of Women, Peace, and Security

Control and Resistance in Global Health

Creating Ontological Security in International Relations

Creative methods for bringing the climate into collective existence

Criminalising Ecocide: The Rome Statute and Beyond

Critical and transformative pedagogies in IR

Critical approaches to feminist foreign policy: ethics, politics, security, justice and diplomacy

Critical Drone Scholarship beyond the War on Terror

Critical perspectives on contemporary capitalist accumulation

Critical Perspectives on NATO

Critical research on the war in Syria

Critiquing Diplomacy and an anticolonial lens of treaty making

Cultural Artifacts get Political!: From Friendship and Immigration to Exceptionalism and Global Inequality

Culture, Politics, and Identity in the ‘Celtic Fringe’

Cultures of Representation

Cyber-Strategy in South Asia

Decolonial, anti-racist and abolitionist pedagogies in International Relations Part I: Experiences, Experiments and Responses

Decolonial, anti-racist and abolitionist pedagogies in International Relations Part II: Frameworks and theories

Decolonising Pedagogy and exploring prose, poetry and narration

Development in an altering environment: tensions and contradictions

Diagnosing Security or the Medicalization of Knowledge, Authority, and Resistance in IR

Disappearances and Mass Graves: Exploring Repressive Violence and Human Rights Challenges

Discourses and practices of the international

Doctrine & Strategy

Dynamics of Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation in the International System - Part I

Dynamics of Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation in the International System - Part II

Effects of humanitarianism in action – from top down to grassroots approaches

Emerging frontiers in global governance and finance

Emerging Military Technologies in Theory and Practice: Critical Approaches to Knowledge and Governance

Emotional Hierarchies in International Relations

Emotions and non-state actors

Emotions, Subjectivity and Fantasy

Engaging Defence and Security policy through different stages of academic careers

Environment and Climate Politics: Another 50 years?

Environmental injustice and inequality in a degrading climate

European foreign policy issues

European Security and the War in Ukraine

European Security: National Foreign Policies in a Changing Context

Everyday challenges within places of sanctuary and hostile environments

Everyday narratives of crises

Everyday peace and local peace building

Existentialism for existential times? Contemplating the Anthropocene, and other catastrophes

Exploring the Climate-Nuclear Nexus

Facets of Friendship in International Politics

Feminist approaches to visual and technological world politics,

Feminist critical engagements with culture, art and world politics

Feminist perspectives on violence: visibility, survival and resistance

Financial regulation from past to present

Financing the future? Challenges in the political economy of climate

Foreign affairs, theoretical perspectives, and the domestic domain

Foreign and security policy in the Indo-Pacific

Foreign policy, identity, and domestic actors

Framing domination and narratives of colonial control

French Intervention in North Africa and the Sahel: Local, Regional and Global Security Trajectories

From Pixels to Politics: Popular Culture, Political Narratives and Communities

From War to Peace: The Politics of the Troubles

Future Peace: Peacemaking in an era of multipolar geopolitics, authoritarianism, and “new” actors

Gender Crossing Borders

Gender-Based Violence, Organized Crime and Transitional Justice: A Comparative Roundtable on Colombia, Mexico, and Northern Ireland

Gendering (counter)terrorism

Genocidal Conjunctures and the Politics of Futurity in the Middle East

Genocide: Issues, Debates and Responses

Geopolitical Challenges of US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

German foreign policy

Global Futures

Global Health Governance, Equity, and Justice: What can IR contribute?

Global Vulnerabilities and Challenges to Orders

Governance and Legitimacy in a Changing Technological Context

Governance, Infrastructure & Institutions in a Digital World

Governing and Problematizing Global Health

Governing collapse: States and state based governance in a changing climate

Great power security strategies

Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge and Technology for Sustainable Maritime Security in the South Atlantic

Health(care) and its bordering mechanisms

Hidden Spaces of Gender, Peace and Security

Hidden Spaces of Gender, Peace and Security: Panel Two

Home and Homemaking in International Relations

How do museums, statues and cultural artefacts remember and forget?

How fascism and whiteness encounter territory, property and land

How peculiar is post-Brexit Northern Ireland?

Human Rights: Legal and Non-Judicial Approaches

Hydropolitics in a Changing Climate

Ideas, History, and Agency in IPE

Identity and belonging in the UK Armed Forces

Imageries of Nation: Nationalism, Gender and Militarization

Immersive Platforms in Digital Society

Immigration Detention: Investigating the Persistence of a Failed Project

Indebtedness as a political condition

Indebtedness in, of and to the Global South

India and China in Global International Relations

India: Politics, Diplomacy, Development

Infrastructural violence and settler spaces of control, Palestine and beyond

Innovations and Puzzles in Queer International Relations

Insights on Türkiye: From diasporas to authoritarianism

Integrity and Accountability in Feminist Protection Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities for Quality of Governance

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Artificial Intelligence IR (Sponsored by QUB and BISA's Emerging Technologies WG)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Kurdish Conflict: Insights, Lessons, and Broader Implications for Middle Eastern Conflicts

International Orders and Ordering

International Politics of Cultural Heritage (RIS special issue)

Interrogating security from a relational standpoint: perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

Interrogating the 'wisdom' of counterterrorism methodologies

Introduction to Book Publishing

IPE of Finance

Islam and Islamism

Japan’s emerging regional and global security role: new sources of national and international cooperation and legitimacy

Keynote: Professor Roland Bleiker (Queensland) - Seeing and Sensing World Politics

Kurdish Activisms: Art, Memory, and Self-Defence in the Struggle Against Oppression

Laboratories or worldmakers? What are the Balkans in and for International Studies?

Law and War: New Challenges

Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Traces and haunting

Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders

Local productions of security

Lost in Transition? Movements and Contestations from South East Europe

Margins, Militaries, and Militarization in Russia's War Against Ukraine

Maritime Governance and Security: Zones, Hotspots, and Practices

Masculinities in Conflict and Peacebuilding

Mediated militarisms, militarised mediations: politics, practices, phenomena

Meet the Editors of the Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Security, and International Affairs

Methodological considerations in peace and conflict

Methodologies and future directions for Queer(ing) Conflict Research

Michael Cox War Studies keynote - Belfast Days: Teaching War - Living Peace, 1972-1995

Middle East foreign policy and security

Middle East Politics: Authoritarianism, Violence, and Solidarity

Middle Space Powers and Non-State Actors in Outer Space

Militarism in Popular Culture: Comparative perspectives

Military Assistance and Alliance Building

Military encounters I: sites and spaces of CMS

Military encounters II: creating and imagining CMS

Models of state building

Mourning, Migration and Maturity: the politics of (un)belonging

Mundane Affects: making sense of banal, ordinary and non-spectacular lifeworlds

Narrating Security: Security narratives in policy and practice

Narratives and the Making of US Foreign Policy and National Security

Narratives, Ideologies and Discourses in a Time of Crisis

Nations, Borders, Security

Navigating Gender, Caste, Race, Ethnicity in the Postcolonial South Asia

Neo-liberal militarisation and the "progressive" way of war

New actors and issues in global finance and fintech

New advances in theoretical and historical IR

New challenges and approaches in global IR pedagogy

New Directions in Development

New methods of migration control

New perspectives on transitional justice

New Technology and Military Innovation

New theoretical and methodological approaches to emotions

No united Ireland on a dead planet

Norms, Politics and Law: Processes, Intentions and Impacts

Nuclear Deterrence and Coercion in the era of strategic competition

Nuclear Weapons and Regional Security: Ideas and Challenges

Objects and Projects of Climate Politics: International Studies and the Politicization of a Climate Governance Object?

Objects of state interest: from diaspora engagement to transnational repression

On Decolonial IR: Perspectives from India

Ontological security between existentialism and psychoanalysis: The anxiety of the liberal international order

Open Access Publishing in International Studies

Operationalising peace building and stabilisation

Ordinary Affects of Global Reactionary Politics

Outer Space and the Challenges of Economic Interests, Environmental Distress, and Legal Disputes

Panel - A "NewSpace" Race? The Ultimate High Ground? Or an Orbital Wild West? The Narrative Construction of Space Power

Participatory Action Research and the Future of IR

Partisans and Rebels

Past and Emotions: Trauma, Nostalgia, and nationalism

Peace and Conflict on the African Continent

Peace, Conflict, and Development

Peacekeeping and peace building in Africa

Pedagogical approaches to nuclear politics

Performing Alternative Worlds

Perpetual Crisis, World (Re)Ordering and Peace: Perspectives from the Margins

Perspectives on British (I)PE

Planetary Politics: Foundations and Crisis

Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches

Policy, Politics, and Development

Politics and Development in the Indo-Pacific Region

Politics of the Mediterranean: Maritime security, political space and colonialism

Pop culture and IR: violence and/in popular culture

Post-Graduate Network Reception

Power Shifts and their Implications

Power, alliance and security in Asia

Power, State, and International Relations with South East Europe

Preventing 50 More Years of Neocolonialism in Aid? Interrogating and Disrupting Neocolonial Humanitarian Relationships within Europe and Beyond

Problems without Passports: Transnational Threats and Security Challenges

Producing enemies

Protests: Cases, Lessons, Critiques

Proximity and/or Distance: Navigating Ethics and Methodology when Researching Militarized Spaces, Subjects and Participants

Public lecture by Professor Cynthia Enloe: What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military 'manpower'

Pulling on Threads: Exploring Trustworthiness and Trust within Relational Contexts

PUSHING THE FRONTIERS: RESHAPING PEACE AND SECURITY FRAMEWORKS IN AFRICA

Queering the Carceral State: Race, Gender and Sexuality

R2P, Intervention, and Conflict Management

Re-Enchanting IR from Central and Eastern Europe

Re-thinking International Relations and Development

Reconciliation, forgiveness and peacebuilding

Reflecting on 50 years of security scholarship

Reflections on gender, peace and security with Northern Ireland’s feminist activists and peacebuilders (Sponsored by the Centre For Gender in Politics at QUB)

Reflections on Identity/Nationality, Positionality and Knowledge Production in researching (Counter-)Terrorism in the Global South

Reflections on training military personnel for peace operations

Reform, feminism and radical critical thinking: Affective identity of female veteran scholars re-encountering the military institution

Regions, Norms and Power

Regulating Threats through Artificial Intelligence: Transformations in Governance and Security

Reimagining Development Aid: Challenges and Alternatives in EU and UK International Development Assistance

Reinventing the West through the Balkans: Balkanization, Euro-Atlantic Policies, and the (Western) Balkans

Relationality in civil war: Toward a research agenda

Relations between Global North and Global South

Religion meets Time: Colonial and decolonial hi/stories

Remaking military identities?

Representation, Legitimacy, and The Future of the International System

Researching in a world on fire: What are we doing?

Researching ‘Military Social Harm’

Resisting Complicity with Genocide in Universities and Academic Spaces (Part 1): Activism and Pedagogy

Rethinking Knowledge Production on Africa beyond data sources: Addressing the Systemic Silence of Africa’s original theoretical contribution and innovation

Rethinking Nuclear Order: Survival, Victimhood, and Resistance

Rethinking Ontological (In)Security: Towards New Theoretical Horizons

Rethinking war knowledges: Weapons, practices, peacekeepers

Rethinking ‘Security’ in Indo-Pacific

Returning to Some Basic Questions: Social Reproduction and IPE of everyday life

Revisiting Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament

Revisiting Realist Ethics

Revolution Vs Evolution: Debating Technology and the Character of War

Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary bodies: feminism and beyond

RUSSIA AND THE WEST: identity construction; disinformation and Western policy dilemmas.

Russian foreign policy and regional influence

Science Fiction, Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Future war – New Avenues for IR Research?

Screening event: ”RIVERBULLS (a Letter to Vladimir Putin)” — Documentary filmmaking as a form of artistic and non-artistic research

Secrecy and the (re)making of the global (dis)order

Securing the future? Environmental security in the 21st century

Security agents beyond the state

Security governance in policy and practice

Security policy & practice: lessons from the Good Friday agreement

Seeing and Speaking International Relations

Seeing Resistance: Visual Narratives and Counter-Politics in Contemporary International Relations

Shaping International Order? Opportunities and challenges to the EU’s global influence

Simulation in IR pedagogy: Promises and perils

Societal resilience and challenging power

Solidarities and revolutions: Queer, feminist and other forms of resistance organising

Southern Strategies: Foreign Policy Perspectives of Global South States

Sovereignty, democracy and protest movements in global politics

Space Warfare and its Impact on Security and Governance

Spaces of refuge in the corridors of Higher Education

Spaces of support and resistance between and beyond borders

Spatialities and Relationalities of the International

Special roundtable celebrating the work of Dr Emma Hutchison

SPERI Presents… “Towards a Political Economy of organised violence: war, technologies, labour, and (re)production”

Splintered Realities and Digital War: Infrastructures of Conflict and Community

State, state-making and the policing of race

Stigma and Discourse in Nuclear Politics

Studying emotions: Insights from disciplines beyond IR

Subversive Pedagogies in Global Politics Roundtable

Taking Seriously the Unserious in Resistance: The subversive force of pop culture in non-Western states 1

Teaching emotions in Politics and IR

Teaching Terrorism and Counterterrorism. Activities for the Classroom.

Technological Trends and Future War

Temporal Security in International Relations

The 2024/25 Strategic Defence Review: Submissions and Reflections

The (re)design of science-policy relations in environment & nuclear governance

The Aftermath of COVID-19 I: States, Borders and Global Infrastructures

The Aftermath of COVID-19 II: Management, Discourse and the Everyday

The Emotional Politics of Subjectivity in International Relations

The European Union and its foreign relations

The Evolving EU Security and Defence Policies

The Future of Security Studies

The Future of the ‘English School’ Approach to International Studies: Continuity, Adaptation, and Transformation in a Global World.

The global dynamics of counterterrorism

The Global Politics of Tourism: Contemporary Reflections

The ICC and Hybrid Courts: Processes of International Criminal Law

The Iceberg and the Freezer: The Planetary Politics of Freezing and Thawing

The IPE of global environmental governance

The IPE of Industrial strategy, global value chains and production

The many Faces of Security

The Middle East in the International System

The Myths of Certainty: Myth, Magic, and Uncertainty in International Relations

The Political Dimensions of Humanitarian Food Crises

The Politics and Practice of Human Rights and Humanitarianism

The Politics of Antagonism - Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Poltiical Identity

The politics of diasporas and and diasporas within global politics

The Politics of Human-Machine Interaction in Military Technologies

The Politics of Speaking and Thinking Climate Change: Who, What and How?

The Politics of UN Peacekeeping: Doing, Knowing, Speaking and Training for Peace Operations

The Present and Future of World Order

The Role of Elites in Ontological Security Studies

The Russo-Ukrainian War and Beyond

The Sociocultural Life of Injury, Loss, and Recovery: Global South Contributions to Rethinking the International

The spaces and place of migration

The state, politics and governance of political violence

The Third Nuclear Age: Understanding and Addressing Contemporary Nuclear Challenges

The Troubles: A regional perspective

Theoretical approaches to peacebuilding

Theorising non-violence and the possibility for repair

Thinking about Gender, Security, and Foreign Policy in Contemporary Global Politics

Tools of Statecraft, Diplomacy, and Technology in US Foreign Policy

Totality, Smallness, Intimacy, Gigantism: Rethinking the Politics of Scale

Trade Politics from Above and Below

Tragedy and Irony: Just War and Intervention

Transatlantic Security Challenges during Trump's Second Mandate

Transatlantic storms and Anglo-American relations: How the UK-US alliance weather crises

Transnational governance from metropoles to diaspora and back

Transnational Repression and Diaspora

Transnationality, identity and belonging

UACES Panel: What is the role of Professional Associations in advancing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

UK Defence at a Crossroads: Place, Policy, and Global Influence in the Strategic Defence Review

UK security policy: Refreshing or disintegrating reviews?

Ukraine Studies, War, and Beyond

Understanding Identities in the Middle East: The Role of Structure and Agency

Understanding peacekeeping operations

Unravelling migration narratives: examining policy and legal structures globally

US-China Tech Race: Actors, Strategies and Outcomes

Vernacular and everyday securities in policy and practice

Violence, non-violence and resistance

Visual Iconicity, Methodology, and Interdisciplinary Approaches

War and Nature I: On the Eco-Social Costs of Warfare and Military Build-Up [Panel 1]

War and Nature II: On the Eco-Social Costs of Warfare and Military Build-Up [Panel 2]

War and Nature III: On the Eco-Social Costs of Warfare and Military Build-Up [Panel 3]

War and the Lessons of History

War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives

War in Ukraine: New Interpretations

War, civilizational narratives and international order

Wargames, Peacegames: The increasing relevance of 'Serious Games'

We walk through gardens: 'rooting' IR scholarship in caring ecologies

What next for Lebanon?

What Should be Done? Who is to Blame? Navigating Individual, Collective, and Institutional Responsibility in War

What's wrong with IR Theory...and how to fix it

Whose labour makes the international: extractive and gendered labour practices

Why Wars Occur and How They End?

Women, Agency and the Dynamics of Civilian Protection

World order and collective organic intellectuals

“Dedicated to those friends with whom, out of a different loyalty, I must now openly disagree” – the political stakes of ‘beefs’

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