BISA 2025 Conference

17 Jun 2025, 09:00 → 20 Jun 2025, 20:45 Europe/London

Welcome to the event management area for #BISA2025. Here you can register for our conference in Belfast. We look forward to welcoming you at BISA 2025.

Tuesday 17 June

1 TU 17 Conference event / Public lecture by Professor Cynthia Enloe: What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military 'manpower'. Although this is open to all conference delegates you need to register in advance to attend at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-feminists-reveal-when-they-investigate-masculinities-tickets-1095161801429?aff=oddtdtcreator. The public lecture is organised in partnership with the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, the Centre for Gender in Politics and the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at Queen’s University Belfast.

Speaker: Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)

2 TU 17 Conference event / Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up - Sponsored by the Postgraduate Network

Wednesday 18 June

3 WE 18 Panel / An exploration of the race, colonialism and the binaries and hybridities of IR theory

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Leila Mouhib (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

4 WE 18 Roundtable / Anticolonial Solidarities and Resistance: Learning from Ireland to Palestine

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)

Participants: Azadeh Sobout (Queen's University Belfast) , Bill Rolston (Ulster University) , Shahd Abusalama , Malaka Shwaikh (University of St Andrews)

5 WE 18 Panel / Applied History and British Foreign Policy

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University)

Chair: Hillary Briffa (King's College London)

Discussant: William James (NTU Singapore)

6 WE 18 Roundtable / Arts and Conflict: Bodies, Landscapes, and Generations

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Chair: Pauline Zerla

Participants: Rachel Kerr (King's College London) , James Gow (King's College London) , Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University) , Zala Pochat (King's College, London) , Anna Katila (City University)

7 WE 18 Panel / Control and Resistance in Global Health

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Convener: GHWG Working group

Chair: Jana Fey (University of Sussex)

8 WE 18 Panel / Critical approaches to feminist foreign policy: ethics, politics, security, justice and diplomacy

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: Annika Bergman Rosamond (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)

9 WE 18 Panel / Emotions, Subjectivity and Fantasy

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of York)

10 WE 18 Panel / Environmental injustice and inequality in a degrading climate

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Ebony Young (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Leah Owen (Swansea University)

11 WE 18 Panel / From War to Peace: The Politics of the Troubles

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Michael Cox (London School of Economics)

Chair: Michael Cox (London School of Economics)

12 WE 18 Panel / Health(care) and its bordering mechanisms

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews)

13 WE 18 Panel / India: Politics, Diplomacy, Development

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Convener: Ivica Petrikova (Royal Holloway University of London)

Chair: Ivica Petrikova (Royal Holloway University of London)

14 WE 18 Panel / Lost in Transition? Movements and Contestations from South East Europe

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Convener: SEEWG Working group

Chair: Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol)

15 WE 18 Panel / Military encounters I: sites and spaces of CMS

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Laura Mills (University of St Andrews)

Chair: Laura Mills (University of St Andrews)

16 WE 18 Panel / Models of state building

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: david curran (Coventry University)

17 WE 18 Roundtable / Mourning, Migration and Maturity: the politics of (un)belonging

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)

Participants: Gurchathen Sanghera (St Andrew's) , Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast) , Marsha Henry (Queen's University Belfast) , Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)

18 WE 18 Panel / No united Ireland on a dead planet

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Christopher McAteer (York University, Toronto)

Chair: Christopher McAteer (York University, Toronto)

Discussant: John Barry (Queen's University Belfast)

19 WE 18 Panel / Outer Space and the Challenges of Economic Interests, Environmental Distress, and Legal Disputes

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University)

Chair: Sarah-Jane Pritchard (Lancaster University)

20 WE 18 Roundtable / Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Shirin Rai (SOAS)

Participants: Asma Abdi (University of Exeter) , Juanita Elias (University of Warwick) , Serena Natile (University of Warwick) , Laura Horn (Roskilde University, Denmark)

21 WE 18 Panel / Rethinking Nuclear Order: Survival, Victimhood, and Resistance

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University) , Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

Chair: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

22 WE 18 Roundtable / SPERI Presents… “Towards a Political Economy of organised violence: war, technologies, labour, and (re)production”

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Chair: Remi Edwards (University of Sheffield)

Participants: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield) , Vicki Reif-Breitwieser (University of Sheffield) , Beryl Pong (University of Cambridge) , Frank Maracchione (University of Kent and SPERI-University of Sheffield) , Elena Simon (University of Manchester)

23 WE 18 Roundtable / Subversive Pedagogies in Global Politics Roundtable

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Chair: Louise Pears (University of Leeds)

Participants: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow) , Monika Barthwal-Datta (UNSW Sydney) , Claire Timperley (Te Herenga Waka--Victoria University Wellington) , Brent Steele (University of Utah)

24 WE 18 Panel / Taking Seriously the Unserious in Resistance: The subversive force of pop culture in non-Western states

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Conveners: Colin Y. Yang (University of Bristol) , Sonja Nicholls (University of Bristol) , Elisa Wynne-Hughes (Cardiff University) , Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)

Chair: Colin Y. Yang (University of Bristol)

Discussant: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

25 / 15 minute transition

26 / Exhibition hall open

27 / Refreshment break

28 WE 18 Panel / Anticolonial Solidarities and Resistance

Sponsor: CPD/CST

Convener: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews)

Chair: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews)

29 WE 18 Roundtable / At the Frontiers of International Studies: the Emerging Prominence of Law, War Crimes and Genocide over 50 Year and New Research for the Future

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Chair: Gabriel Gow (University of Edinburgh)

Participants: David Bicknell (King's College London.) , James Gow , Elizabeth Brown (King's College London) , Maxwin Rayen (King's College London.) , Zala Pochat (King's College, London) , Gabriel Gow (University of Edinburgh)

30 WE 18 Panel / Base Women and Beyond I: Contemporary feminist research agendas on military/nuclear installations and their discontents.

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde) , Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast)

Chair: Marsha Henry (Queen's University Belfast)

Discussant: Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)

31 WE 18 Conference event / Book Launch: A Century of State-Making in Iraq: Baghdad, Kurdistan, and the Development of the Constitution

Speakers: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln), Moritz Mihatsch (University of Cambridge), Sheraz Ibrahim (British International University, KRI, Iraq), Sherzad Ahmed Ameen (Salahaddin University KRI, Iraq)

32 WE 18 Roundtable / Bringing sexy back: relocating the sexual in International Relations

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Q Manivannan (University of St Andrews)

Participants: Q Manivannan (University of St Andrews) , Patrick Vernon (University of Birmingham) , Aine Bennett (Royal Holloway University of London) , Dean Cooper-Cunningham (University of Copenhagen) , Charlotte Weatherill (The Open University)

33 WE 18 Roundtable / Diagnosing Security or the Medicalization of Knowledge, Authority, and Resistance in IR

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Chair: Malte Riemann (Leiden University)

Participants: Alireza Shams Lahijani (University of Oslo) , Jana Fey (University of Sussex) , Norma Rossi (University of St Andrews) , Peter Marton (Corvinus University) , Stefan Elbe (University of Sussex) , Nina C. Krickel-Choi (Lund University)

34 WE 18 Roundtable / Gender-Based Violence, Organized Crime and Transitional Justice: A Comparative Roundtable on Colombia, Mexico, and Northern Ireland

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Chair: Yassin Brunger (Queen's University Belfast)

Participants: Claire Wright (Ulster University) , Daniela Suarez Vargas (Queen's University Belfast) , Diana Ortega Torres (Queen's University Belfast) , Aoife Clements (Queen's University Belfast)

35 WE 18 Panel / Governance, Infrastructure & Institutions in a Digital World

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

36 WE 18 Panel / How do museums, statues and cultural artefacts remember and forget?

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Shikha Dilawri (London School of Economics and Political Science)

37 WE 18 Panel / Hydropolitics in a Changing Climate

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Danielle Young (University of the Ozarks)

Chair: Michael Mason (London School of Economics and Political Science)

38 WE 18 Panel / International Politics of Cultural Heritage (RIS special issue)

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Conveners: Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University) , Elif Kalaycioglu (University of Alabama)

Chair: Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University)

39 WE 18 Panel / Japan’s emerging regional and global security role: new sources of national and international cooperation and legitimacy

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Convener: Chris Hughes (University of Warwick)

Chair: Chris Hughes (University of Warwick)

40 WE 18 Panel / Military encounters II: creating and imagining CMS

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Laura Mills (University of St Andrews)

Chair: Laura Mills (University of St Andrews)

41 WE 18 Panel / Peacekeeping and peace building in Africa

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: AISG Working group

Chair: Owen Greene

42 WE 18 Panel / Pulling on Threads: Exploring Trustworthiness and Trust within Relational Contexts

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: David Wilcox (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Nicholas Wheeler (University of Birmingham)

43 WE 18 Panel / Returning to Some Basic Questions: Social Reproduction and IPE of everyday life

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (University of Liverpool)

Chair: Stuart Shields (The University of Manchester)

44 WE 18 Panel / Revisiting Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University) , Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

Chair: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

45 WE 18 Panel / Space Warfare and its Impact on Security and Governance

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University)

Chair: Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University)

46 Roundtable / Special roundtable celebrating the work of Dr Emma Hutchison

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Chair: Marcelle Trote Martins (University of Manchester)

Participants: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast) , Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland) , Pauline Zerla , Karin Fierke (University of St. Andrews) , Chaeyoung Yong (University of St Andrews) , Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)

47 WE 18 Panel / The Aftermath of COVID-19 I: States, Borders and Global Infrastructures

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Convener: GHWG Working group

Chair: Andreas Papamichail (Queen Mary University of London)

48 WE 18 Roundtable / The Future of Security Studies

Sponsor: European Journal of International Security

Speakers: Andrew Mumford (University of Nottingham), Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (University of Loughborough), Jason Ralph (University of Leeds), Ruth Deyermond (King's College London), Timothy Edmunds (University of Bristol)

49 WE 18 Roundtable / The Role of Elites in Ontological Security Studies

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Chair: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford)

Participants: Ben Rosher (Queens University Belfast) , Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick) , Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of York) , Jonny Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Martin Kirsch (University of Cambridge)

50 WE 18 Panel / Trade Politics from Above and Below

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: James Scott (King's College London)

Chair: Marc Froese (Burman University, Canada)

Discussant: Marc Froese (Burman University, Canada)

51 / Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group Annual General Meeting

52 / Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group Annual General Meeting

12:15 Lunch - Sponsored by the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE)

53 WE 18 Roundtable / Causal Inquiry in International Relations

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Chair: Adam Humphreys (University of Reading)

Participants: Ludvig Norman (Stockholm University) , Hidemi Suganami (Aberystwyth University) , Charlotta Friedner Parrat (Swedish Defence University) , Adam Humphreys (University of Reading) , Joey O'Mahoney (University of Reading)

54 WE 18 Panel / Climate leadership in a disintegrating international order?

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)

Chair: Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)

55 WE 18 Panel / Conflict & Technology in Insecure Territory

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

56 WE 18 Roundtable / Critical Perspectives on NATO

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Sorana-Cristina Jude (King's College London)

Participants: Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen) , Sorana-Cristina Jude (King's College London) , Annika Bergman Rosamond (University of Edinburgh) , Michael Mulvihill (Teesside University) , Chloe Barker (Newcastle University)

57 WE 18 Panel / Disappearances and Mass Graves: Exploring Repressive Violence and Human Rights Challenges

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: Iosif Kovras (University of Cyprus)

Chair: Iosif Kovras (University of Cyprus)

58 WE 18 Panel / Everyday peace and local peace building

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

59 WE 18 Panel / Exploring the Climate-Nuclear Nexus

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Matthew Rendall (University of Nottingham) , Franziska Stärk (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg)

Chair: Laura Considine (University of Leeds)

Discussant: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)

60 WE 18 Panel / French Intervention in North Africa and the Sahel: Local, Regional and Global Security Trajectories

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Conveners: Marine Gueguin (Leeds Beckett University) , Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu (Dublin City University)

Chair: Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu (Dublin City University)

61 WE 18 Panel / Great power security strategies

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Convener: Larry Attree (Rethinking Security)

Chair: Larry Attree (Rethinking Security)

62 WE 18 Panel / Ideas, History, and Agency in IPE

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Conveners: Oksana Levkovych (London School of Economics and Political Science) , David K. Johnson (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Chair: Chris Clarke (University of Warwick)

Discussant: Chris Clarke (University of Warwick)

63 WE 18 Panel / Indebtedness as a political condition

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

Chair: Mustapha Pasha (University of Aberystwyth)

Discussant: Mustapha Pasha (University of Aberystwyth)

64 WE 18 Panel / Islam and Islamism

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Regine Schwab

Chair: Geoffrey Swenson (City, University of London)

65 WE 18 Panel / Law and War: New Challenges

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: ILPG Working group

Chair: James Gow

Discussant: James Gow

66 WE 18 Panel / Meet the Editors of the Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Security, and International Affairs

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Speakers: Andrew Mumford (University of Nottingham), Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh), David Mainwaring, Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham)

67 WE 18 Panel / Middle Space Powers and Non-State Actors in Outer Space

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University)

Chair: Cameron Hunter (Copenhagen University)

68 WE 18 Panel / Past and Emotions: Trauma, Nostalgia, and nationalism

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Chaeyoung Yong (University of St Andrews)

69 WE 18 Conference event / Professor Michael Cox War Studies keynote - Belfast Days: Teaching War - Living Peace, 1972-1995 SPONSORED BY POLITY

Speaker: Michael Cox (London School of Economics)

70 WE 18 Roundtable / Reflections on gender, peace and security with Northern Ireland’s feminist activists and peacebuilders (Sponsored by the Centre For Gender in Politics at QUB)

Speakers: Avila Kilmurray (Social Change Initiative), Charmain Jones (Women’s Spaces Strengthening Women's Role in Peacebuilding), Cynthia Enloe (Clark University), Danielle Roberts (Reclaim the Agenda/Alliance for Choice), Louise Coyle (NI Rural Women’s Network (NIRWN)), Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast), Tara Grace Connolly (All Ireland Women’s Forum/UN Youth Delegate)

71 WE 18 Panel / Remaking military identities?

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Hannah Richards (University of Bristol)

Chair: Hannah Richards (University of Bristol)

72 WE 18 Panel / The Aftermath of COVID-19 II: Management, Discourse and the Everyday

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Convener: GHWG Working group

Chair: Christopher Long (Queen's University Belfast)

73 WE 18 Panel / The IPE of Industrial strategy, global value chains and production

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working group

Chair: Julia Calvert (University of Edinburgh)

74 WE 18 Roundtable / The Iceberg and the Freezer: The Planetary Politics of Freezing and Thawing

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Chair: Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Alister Wedderburn (University of Glasgow) , Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London) , Cameron Harrington (Durham University) , Albert Van Wijngaarden (University of Cambridge) , Danielle Young (University of the Ozarks)

75 WE 18 Panel / The spaces and place of migration

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)

Chair: Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)

76 WE 18 Panel / War and the Lessons of History

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Wooyun Jo (Loughborough University)

Chair: Wooyun Jo (Loughborough University)

77 WE 18 Panel / War in Ukraine: New Interpretations

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Mike Williams (Syracuse University)

Chair: Mike Williams (Syracuse University)

78 / 15 minute transition

79 / Refreshment Break

80 WE 18 Panel / (Re)Thinking Touristic Governance

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Elisa Wynne-Hughes (Cardiff University)

Chair: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast)

81 WE 18 Panel / Aesthetics and pop culture in poststructuralist IR

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: PPWG Working group

Chair: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire)

82 WE 18 Panel / Africa: politics and power

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: AISG Working group

Chair: Fikir Haile (Acadia University, Canada)

83 WE 18 Panel / Algorithmic Warfare: How Decision-Support Systems Reshape Military Practices and Regulation

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Conveners: Jasper van der Kist (University of Antwerp) , Rupert Barrett-Taylor (Alan Turing Institute)

Chair: Jasper van der Kist (University of Antwerp)

Discussant: Matthew Ford (Swedish Defence University)

84 WE 18 Panel / Alternative Ethics of the International/Global

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Convener: EWPG Working group

Chair: Natasha Saunders (University of St Andrews)

85 WE 18 Panel / Base Women and Beyond II: Contemporary feminist research agendas on military/nuclear installations and more than human resistance .

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast) , Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde)

Chair: Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde)

Discussant: Hannah Partis-Jennings (Loughborough University)

86 WE 18 Panel / Conflict in South America: Trends and Developments

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Tara Zammit (Kings College London)

Chair: Tara Zammit (Kings College London)

87 WE 18 Panel / Critiquing Diplomacy and an anticolonial lens of treaty making

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)

88 WE 18 Panel / Dynamics of Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation in the International System - Part I

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Conveners: Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg, Germany) , Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

Chair: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

Discussant: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

89 WE 18 Panel / Everyday narratives of crises

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford) , Marcus Nicolson (Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research, Italy)

Chair: Ben Rosher (Queens University Belfast)

Discussant: Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick)

90 WE 18 Panel / Financing the future? Challenges in the political economy of climate

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group (bisa)

Chair: Christopher McAteer (York University, Toronto)

91 WE 18 Panel / Foreign and security policy in the Indo-Pacific

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Chris Brown (London School of Economics)

92 WE 18 Panel / Governing and Problematizing Global Health

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Convener: GHWG Working group

Chair: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)

93 WE 18 Panel / Indebtedness in, of and to the Global South

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

Chair: Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Samuel Knafo (University of Sussex)

94 WE 18 Conference event / Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Artificial Intelligence IR (Sponsored by Queen's University Belfast and BISA's Emerging Technologies Working Group)

Speakers: Dr Deepak Padmanabhan (Queen's University Belfast), Mike Bourne (Queen's University Belfast), Prof. Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster), Dr Sandra Scott-Hayward (Queen's University Belfast), Toni Erskine (Australian National University)

95 WE 18 Roundtable / Introduction to Book Publishing

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Chair: Juliet Dryden (BISA)

Participants: Isobel Cowper-Coles (Palgrave Macmillan) , Fiona Richman (The Oxford Publicity Partnership) , Don Jacobs (Georgetown University Press) , John Haslam (Cambridge University Press) , Atifa Jiwa (Bloomsbury)

96 WE 18 Panel / Neo-liberal militarisation and the "progressive" way of war

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)

Chair: Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex)

97 WE 18 Panel / A "NewSpace" Race? The Ultimate High Ground? Or an Orbital Wild West? The Narrative Construction of Space Power

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Convener: Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University)

Chair: Tegan Harrison (Cardiff University)

98 WE 18 Roundtable / Planetary Politics: Foundations and Crisis

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Chair: Anthony Burke (The University of New South Wales)

Participants: Stefanie Fishel (University of the Sunshine Coast) , Cameron Harrington (Durham University) , Hannah Hughes (Aberystwyth University) , Charlotte Weatherill (The Open University)

99 WE 18 Panel / Queering the Carceral State: Race, Gender and Sexuality

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Conveners: Aine Bennett (Royal Holloway University of London) , Patrick Vernon (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Marsha Henry (Queen's University Belfast)

100 WE 18 Roundtable / Revolution Vs Evolution: Debating Technology and the Character of War

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Chair: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (University of Loughborough)

Participants: Mike Williams (Syracuse University) , Neil Cooper (Kent State University) , Jean-Francois Belanger (Royal Danish Defence College) , Anthony King (University of Exeter)

101 WE 18 Panel / The Middle East in the International System

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Raslan Ibrahim (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Chair: Raslan Ibrahim (Geneva Graduate Institute)

102 Panel / The Russo-Ukrainian War and Beyond

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Wooyun Jo (Loughborough University)

Chair: Wooyun Jo (Loughborough University)

103 WE 18 Panel / Transnationality, identity and belonging

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Selin Sivis (University of Bristol)

104 WE 18 Panel / Violence, non-violence and resistance

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)

105 / 15 minute transition

106 WE 18 Roundtable / 50 years and counting: reflecting on the discipline and profession of International Studies (past BISA Chairs, hosted at the Assembly Hall at the Assembly Buildings Conference Centre)

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Chair: Mark Webber (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Chris Hill (University of Cambridge) , Richard Whitman (University of Kent) , Barry Buzan (LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science)) , Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (University of Loughborough) , Chris Brown (London School of Economics) , Ruth Blakeley (University of Sheffield)

107 WE 18 Roundtable / Championing Pedagogical Scholarship: The ASPIRE Network for Politics and International Relations

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Chair: Andreas Papamichail (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Hillary Briffa (King's College London) , Louise Pears (University of Leeds) , Anna Plunkett (Kings College London) , Madeleine Le Bourdon (University of Leeds)

108 WE 18 Panel / Cyber-Strategy in South Asia

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

109 WE 18 Panel / Dynamics of Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation in the International System - Part II

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Conveners: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent) , Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg, Germany)

Chair: Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

Discussant: Thorsten Bonacker (University of Marburg, Germany)

110 WE 18 Panel / Emerging frontiers in global governance and finance

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

111 WE 18 Panel / Everyday challenges within places of sanctuary and hostile environments

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Alba Priewe (University of Warwick)

112 WE 18 Panel / Gender Crossing Borders

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: GIRWG Working group

113 WE 18 Panel / Governing collapse: States and state based governance in a changing climate

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group (bisa)

Chair: Stanley Wilshire (University of Manchester)

114 WE 18 Roundtable / Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Chair: Marianna Karakoulaki (University of Birmingham)

Participants: Marianna Karakoulaki (University of Birmingham) , Noemi Bergesio (University of Bologna, Italy) , Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University) , Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool) , Pat Rubio Bertran (Aston University)

115 WE 18 Panel / Methodological considerations in peace and conflict

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)

116 WE 18 Roundtable / Methodologies and future directions for Queer(ing) Conflict Research

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Participants: Jamie Hagen (University of Manchester) , Pınar Erdem (University of Bremen) , Samuel Ritholtz (Oxford University) , Dean Cooper-Cunningham (University of Copenhagen) , Andrew Delatolla (Leeds University)

117 WE 18 Panel / Middle East Politics: Authoritarianism, Violence, and Solidarity

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Yasmeen Mekawy (Northwestern University in Qatar)

Chair: Yasmeen Mekawy (Northwestern University in Qatar)

118 WE 18 Panel / Militarism in Popular Culture: Comparative perspectives

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

Chair: Emma Brewis (University of Leeds)

119 WE 18 Panel / Narrating Security: Security narratives in policy and practice

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Convener: Thomas Martin (Open University)

Chair: Thomas Martin (Open University)

120 WE 18 Panel / New Technology and Military Innovation

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Joe Murphy (The University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Joe Murphy (The University of Edinburgh)

121 WE 18 Roundtable / Objects and Projects of Climate Politics: International Studies and the Politicization of a Climate Governance Object?

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Chair: Columba Peoples (University of Bristol)

Participants: Olaf Corry (University of Leeds) , Columba Peoples (University of Bristol) , Hannah Hughes (Aberystwyth University) , Ina Möller (Wageningen University)

122 WE 18 Roundtable / Perspectives on British (I)PE

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Chair: Inga Rademacher (City University of London)

Participants: Remi Edwards (University of Sheffield) , Ben Rosamond (University of Edinburgh) , Scott James (King's College London) , Scott Lavery (University of Glasgow) , Johnna Montgomerie (University of British Columbia)

123 WE 18 Panel / Re-thinking International Relations and Development

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Convener: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

Chair: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

124 WE 18 Panel / Studying emotions: Insights from disciplines beyond IR

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)

125 WE 18 Panel / Temporal Security in International Relations

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: Georg Löfflmann (Queen Mary University of London)

Chair: Georg Löfflmann (Queen Mary University of London)

Discussant: Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick)

126 WE 18 Roundtable / The 2024/25 Strategic Defence Review: Submissions and Reflections

Sponsor: Astropolitics Working Group

Chair: Chloe Barker (Newcastle University)

Participants: Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University) , Benedict Baxendale-Smith (King's College London) , Sorana-Cristina Jude (King's College London) , David Dunn (University of Birmingham) , Michael Mulvihill (Teesside University)

127 WE 18 Panel / Theorising non-violence and the possibility for repair

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol)

128 WE 18 Panel / Totality, Smallness, Intimacy, Gigantism: Rethinking the Politics of Scale

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: Musab Younis (University of Oxford)

Chair: Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

129 WE 18 Panel / Tragedy and Irony: Just War and Intervention

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Convener: EWPG Working group

Chair: Seán Molloy (University of Kent)

130 WE 18 Panel / War and Nature I: On the Eco-Social Costs of Warfare and Military Build-Up [Panel 1]

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Conveners: Esther Marijnen (Wageningen University, Netherlands) , Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)

Chair: Jan Selby (University of Leeds)

Discussant: Jan Selby (University of Leeds)

131 WE 18 / Titanic galleries open – Free museum entry in your own time for all three-day and Wednesday ticket holders

132 Conference event / BISA 2025 Reception

Thursday 19 June

133 TH 19 / Navigating Critical Approaches to IR: Troubleshooting your PhD. This event is sponsored by the QUB School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy & Politics, and the QUB Mitchell Institute. Although this is open to all conference delegates you need to register in advance to attend at https://indico.bisa.ac.uk/e/troubleshootingyourphd

134 TH 19 Panel / Approaches to reparative and transformative justice in response to European imperialism: Shaping contemporary international relations

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Conveners: Asha Herten-Crabb (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Laura Kotzur (Freie Universität Berlin)

Chair: Laura Kotzur (Freie Universität Berlin)

135 TH 19 Panel / Beyond the Silk Roads: Navigating the complexities of Central Asian relations with the People’s Republic of China

Sponsor: East Europe and Eurasian Security Working Group

Conveners: Frank Maracchione (University of Kent and SPERI-University of Sheffield) , Giulia Sciorati (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Chair: Frank Maracchione (University of Kent and SPERI-University of Sheffield)

136 TH 19 Roundtable / Bridging Gaps: Advancing Latin American Studies in International Relations

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Chair: Brigitte Weiffen (The Open University)

Participants: Brigitte Weiffen (The Open University) , Pia Riggirozzi (University of Southampton) , Raquel Gontijo (PUC Minas, Brazil) , Thais Doria (University of Warwick) , Andrea Oelsner (University of San Andrés)

137 TH 19 Panel / Building, Maintaining, and Changing Global Order(s)

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Conveners: IIRG Working group , Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London)

Chair: IIRG Working group

138 TH 19 Panel / Creative methods for bringing the climate into collective existence

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Hannah Hughes (Aberystwyth University)

Chair: Charlotte Weatherill (The Open University)

Discussant: Charlotte Weatherill (The Open University)

139 TH 19 Panel / Critical Drone Scholarship beyond the War on Terror

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Emil Archambault (University of Durham) , Karia Hartung (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Chair: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)

Discussant: Emil Archambault (University of Durham)

140 TH 19 Panel / Discourses and practices of the international

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: PPWG Working group

Chair: Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)

141 TH 19 Roundtable / Engaging Defence and Security policy through different stages of academic careers

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Chair: Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln)

Participants: Alex Neads (University of Durham) , Kristen Harkness (University of St Andrews) , Patrick Finnegan (University of Lincoln) , Amy Mumby (University of Lincoln)

142 / Exhibition hall open

143 TH 19 Panel / Existentialism for existential times? Contemplating the Anthropocene, and other catastrophes

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of York)

144 TH 19 Panel / Financial regulation from past to present

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

145 TH 19 Panel / Governance and Legitimacy in a Changing Technological Context

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

146 TH 19 Roundtable / Home and Homemaking in International Relations

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick)

Participants: Julia Welland (University of Warwick) , Pauline Zerla , Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex) , Chana Rose Rabinovitz (Queen Mary University of London) , Shirin Rai (SOAS)

147 TH 19 Panel / Imageries of Nation: Nationalism, Gender and Militarization

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Khushi Singh Rathore (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

148 TH 19 Panel / Immigration Detention: Investigating the Persistence of a Failed Project

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Cetta Mainwaring (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Cetta Mainwaring (University of Edinburgh)

149 TH 19 Roundtable / Pedagogical approaches to nuclear politics

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Chair: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)

Participants: Anne Harrington (Cardiff University) , Emily Faux (Newcastle University) , Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde) , Carolina Pantoliano (University of Glasgow)

150 TH 19 Panel / Performing Alternative Worlds

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working group

Chair: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working group

151 TH 19 Panel / Power, State, and International Relations with South East Europe

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Convener: SEEWG Working group

Chair: Nina Djukanović (University of Oxford)

152 TH 19 Panel / R2P, Intervention, and Conflict Management

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Samuel Jarvis (York St John University)

153 TH 19 Panel / Regions, Norms and Power

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Laura Southgate (Aston University)

Chair: Laura Southgate (Aston University)

154 TH 19 Roundtable / Reimagining Development Aid: Challenges and Alternatives in EU and UK International Development Assistance

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Chair: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

Participants: Ivica Petrikova (Royal Holloway University of London) , Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth) , Jack Taggart (Queen’s University Belfast) , Richard Whitman (University of Kent)

155 TH 19 Panel / Revisiting Realist Ethics

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Convener: Seán Molloy (University of Kent)

Chair: Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University)

156 TH 19 Panel / Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary bodies: feminism and beyond

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Lizzie Hobbs (London School of Economics)

157 TH 19 Panel / Seeing Resistance: Visual Narratives and Counter-Politics in Contemporary International Relations

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Raquel Silva (Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon)

Chair: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

158 TH 19 Roundtable / UACES Panel: What is the role of Professional Associations in advancing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Chair: Viviane Gravey (Queen's University Belfast)

Participants: Giada Lagana (Cardiff University) , Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester) , Shamsoddin Shariati (Maynooth University) , Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast) , Laura McLeod (University of Manchester)

159 TH 19 Panel / Vernacular and everyday securities in policy and practice

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Convener: Thomas Martin (Open University)

Chair: Thomas Martin (Open University)

160 TH 19 Panel / War and Nature II: On the Eco-Social Costs of Warfare and Military Build-Up [Panel 2]

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Conveners: Jan Selby (University of Leeds) , Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)

Chair: Esther Marijnen (Wageningen University, Netherlands)

161 / 15 minute transition

162 / Refreshment Break

163 TH 19 Panel / Asian foreign policy and security

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Alexander Schotthöfer (The University of Edinburgh)

164 TH 19 Panel / Carceral systems and the border

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol)

165 TH 19 Panel / Cultural Artifacts get Political!: From Friendship and Immigration to Exceptionalism and Global Inequality

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

Chair: Julian Schmid (Central European University)

166 TH 19 Roundtable / Feminist perspectives on violence: visibility, survival and resistance

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Alice Finden

Participants: Amya Agarwal (University of Sheffield) , Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick) , Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh) , Sladjana Lazic (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

167 TH 19 Panel / Genocidal Conjunctures and the Politics of Futurity in the Middle East

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: Sophie Chamas (SOAS, University of London)

Chair: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)

168 TH 19 Panel / Geopolitical Challenges of US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: USFP Working group

Chair: Georg Löfflmann (Queen Mary University of London)

169 TH 19 Panel / Global Futures

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working group

Chair: Borislav Tsokov (University of St Andrews)

170 TH 19 Roundtable / Global Health Governance, Equity, and Justice: What can IR contribute?

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Chair: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)

Participants: Anne Roemer-Mahler (University of Sussex) , Renu Singh (Durham University) , Pia Riggirozzi (University of Southampton) , Sridhar Venkatapuram (King's College London) , Peter West-Oram (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) , Stefan Elbe (University of Sussex)

171 TH 19 Panel / Identity and belonging in the UK Armed Forces

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Amy Hill (Newcastle university)

Chair: Tara Zammit (KCL)

Discussant: Tara Zammit (KCL)

172 TH 19 Panel / Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Traces and haunting

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Convener: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University)

Chair: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University)

173 TH 19 Panel / Margins, Militaries, and Militarization in Russia's War Against Ukraine

Sponsor: East Europe and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Ian Garner (Pilecki Institute, Warsaw)

Chair: Matthew Ford (Swedish Defence University)

Discussant: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)

174 TH 19 Panel / Navigating Gender, Caste, Race, Ethnicity in the Postcolonial South Asia

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Shipra Shukla (University of Delhi)

175 TH 19 Panel / Pushing the Frontiers: Reshaping Peace and Security Frameworks in Africa

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: Joan McDappa

Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)

176 TH 19 Panel / Reflections on Identity/Nationality, Positionality and Knowledge Production in researching (Counter-)Terrorism in the Global South

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Conveners: Akinyemi Oyawale (University of Warwick) , Emeka Njoku (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Emeka Njoku (University of Birmingham)

177 TH 19 Roundtable / Relationality in civil war: Toward a research agenda

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Chair: Anastasia Shesterinina (The University of York)

Participants: Tiina Hyyppä (University of Helsinki) , Finn Klebe (University College London) , Johanna Söderström (Uppsala University) , Hanna Ketola (Newcastle)

178 TH 19 Panel / Researching ‘Military Social Harm’

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

Chair: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University)

Discussant: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University)

179 TH 19 Panel / Rethinking ‘Security’ in Indo-Pacific

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Convener: Ahmad Umar (Aberystwyth University)

Chair: Michael Cox (London School of Economics)

180 TH 19 Panel / Seeing and Speaking International Relations

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Convener: IRSS Working group

Chair: IRSS Working group

181 TH 19 Panel / The (re)design of science-policy relations in environment & nuclear governance

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Hannah Hughes (Aberystwyth University)

Chair: Hannah Hughes (Aberystwyth University)

Discussant: Clare Stevens (Cardiff University)

182 TH 19 Panel / The Emotional Politics of Subjectivity in International Relations

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford) , Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick)

Chair: Brent Steele (University of Utah)

183 TH 19 Panel / The Evolving EU Security and Defence Policies

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Lucia Frigo (Royal Holloway, University of London)

184 TH 19 Panel / The ICC and Hybrid Courts: Processes of International Criminal Law

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: ILPG Working group

Chair: James Gow

Discussant: James Gow

185 TH 19 Panel / The Politics of Human-Machine Interaction in Military Technologies

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Conveners: Anna Nadibaidze (University of Southern Denmark) , Bibi Imre-Millei (Lund University, Sweden) , Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University) , Emil Archambault (University of Durham)

Chair: Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University)

Discussant: Natasha Karner (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

186 TH 19 Panel / The Sociocultural Life of Injury, Loss, and Recovery: Global South Contributions to Rethinking the International

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Convener: Madonna Kalousian (King's College London)

Chair: Vivienne Jabri (King's College London)

187 TH 19 Panel / The many Faces of Security

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Convener: Tadek Markiewicz (Uppsala University)

Chair: Tadek Markiewicz (Uppsala University)

12:15 Lunch - Sponsored by the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE)

188 Conference event / Prize giving ceremony - Lunch will be available in the room

189 TH 19 Roundtable / (Counter)solidarities in times of genocide. Historical and contemporary links of SEE societies with Palestine and Israel

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Chair: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University)

Participants: Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol) , Sladjana Lazic (University of Innsbruck, Austria) , Catherine Baker (University of Hull) , Nisan Alici (University of Derby) , Vjosa Musliu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB))

190 TH 19 Roundtable / Bridging the Gap: Navigating Communication Barriers in Global Health Politics

Sponsor: Global Health Working Group

Chair: Jana Fey (University of Sussex)

Participants: Katharina Wezel (University of Tuebingen) , Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield) , Stefan Elbe (University of Sussex) , Anne Roemer-Mahler (University of Sussex)

191 TH 19 Panel / Childing IR

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Conveners: Caitlin Mollica (University of Newcastle) , Helen Berents (Griffith University, Australia)

Chair: Helen Berents (Griffith University, Australia)

192 TH 19 Panel / Comparative and individual foreign policy strategies

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Thomas Eason (Aston University)

193 TH 19 Panel / Constructing and othering in framings of migration and mobility

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Michael Toomey (University of Glasgow)

194 TH 19 Roundtable / Environment and Climate Politics: Another 50 years?

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Chair: Charlotte Weatherill (The Open University)

Participants: Danielle Young (University of Leeds) , Christopher McAteer (York University, Toronto) , Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds) , Ebony Young (University of Glasgow)

195 TH 19 Panel / From Pixels to Politics: Popular Culture, Political Narratives and Communities

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)

Chair: Danièle Andre (La Rochelle, France)

196 TH 19 Panel / Hidden Spaces of Gender, Peace and Security

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Sorana-Cristina Jude (King's College London) , Maria O'Reilly (Leeds Beckett University)

Chair: Hanna Ketola (Newcastle)

197 TH 19 Panel / Immersive Platforms in Digital Society

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Chair: Ciaran Gillespie (University of Surrey)

198 TH 19 Panel / International Orders and Ordering

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working group

Chair: Borislav Tsokov (University of St Andrews)

199 TH 19 Panel / Ontological security between existentialism and psychoanalysis: The anxiety of the liberal international order

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Andy Hom (University of Edinburgh) , Nina C. Krickel-Choi (Lund University)

Chair: Nina C. Krickel-Choi (Lund University)

200 TH 19 Roundtable / Open Access Publishing in International Studies

Sponsor: European Journal of International Security

Chair: Kieran O'Meara (University of St. Andrews)

Participants: Andrew Mumford (University of Nottingham) , Marianna Karakoulaki (University of Birmingham) , Jack Holland (University of Leeds) , Mark Salter (University of Ottawa / Security Dialogue) , David Mainwaring

201 TH 19 Panel / Preventing 50 More Years of Neocolonialism in Aid? Interrogating and Disrupting Neocolonial Humanitarian Relationships within Europe and Beyond

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: Cecelia Lynch (UC, Irvine, USA)

Chair: Callum Smith (Queens University Belfast)

202 TH 19 Panel / Relations between Global North and Global South

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

203 TH 19 Panel / Rethinking Knowledge Production on Africa beyond data sources: Addressing the Systemic Silence of Africa’s original theoretical contribution and innovation

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Conveners: Francis Ethelbert Benyah (University of Copenhagen) , Aboabea Akuffo (University of Oxford) , Pearl Puwurayire (Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany)

Chair: Faisal Garba Mohammed (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

204 TH 19 Roundtable / Science Fiction, Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Future war – New Avenues for IR Research?

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Chair: Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University)

Participants: Qiaochu Zhang (University of Southern Denmark) , Samo Zilincik , Tom Watts (Royal Holloway University) , Linda Ruppert (University of Freiburg, Germany)

205 TH 19 Panel / Spaces of support and resistance between and beyond borders

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Heather Johnson (Queens University Belfast)

206 TH 19 Panel / State, state-making and the policing of race

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster)

207 TH 19 / Teaching & Learning Cafe

Speakers: Akinyemi Oyawale (University of Warwick), Alice Finden, Christopher Featherstone (University of York), Erin Hannah (King's University College at the University of Western Ontario), Ilan Baron (Durham University), Kavi Abraham (Durham University), Norma Rossi (University of St Andrews), Shambhawi Tripathi (University of St. Andrews), Valentina Amuso (UCL)

208 TH 19 Roundtable / Teaching Terrorism and Counterterrorism. Activities for the Classroom.

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Chair: Alice Martini (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Participants: Louise Pears (University of Leeds) , Julian Schmid (Central European University) , Raquel Silva (Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon) , Carl Gibson (University of Nottingham)

209 TH 19 Panel / The Political Dimensions of Humanitarian Food Crises

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Conveners: Caitriona Dowd (University College Dublin) , Kristina Tschunkert (University of Manchester)

Chair: Kristina Tschunkert (University of Manchester)

210 TH 19 Roundtable / The Politics of Antagonism - Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Poltiical Identity

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Chair: Georg Löfflmann (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Georg Löfflmann (Queen Mary University of London) , Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen) , Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick) , Ben Rosher (Queens University Belfast) , Frank Stengel (Universität Kiel, Germany)

211 TH 19 Panel / The Politics of UN Peacekeeping: Doing, Knowing, Speaking and Training for Peace Operations

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Conveners: Moa Peldan (Swedish Defence University) , Anastasia Prokhorova (European University Institute)

Chair: Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Marsha Henry (Queen's University Belfast)

212 TH 19 Roundtable / UK security policy: Refreshing or disintegrating reviews?

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Chair: Hillary Briffa (King's College London)

Participants: Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh) , Richard Reeve (Rethinking Security) , Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester) , Owen Greene (University of Bradford)

213 TH 19 Roundtable / What Should be Done? Who is to Blame? Navigating Individual, Collective, and Institutional Responsibility in War

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Chair: Mitja Sienknecht (European New School of Digital Studies, Germany)

Participants: Valerie Morkevičius (Colgate University, USA) , Toni Erskine (Australian National University) , James Pattison (University of Manchester) , Chris Brown (London School of Economics)

214 / 15 minute transition

215 / Refreshment Break

216 TH 19 Panel / After Invasion: Expressing Security and Foreign Policy in IR

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)

Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)

Discussant: Bohdana Kurylo (London School of Economics and Political Science)

217 TH 19 Roundtable / Avoiding Armageddon: Coral Bell’s Contribution to International Relations

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Chair: Toni Erskine (Australian National University)

Participants: Benedict Moleta (ANU) , Michael Cox (London School of Economics) , Gregory Stiles (University of Sheffield) , Nicholas Wheeler (University of Birmingham) , Cornelia Navari (Emeritus, University of Birmingham)

218 TH 19 Roundtable / Beyond Linear Time: Memory and Temporality in International Relations

Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Chair: Chaeyoung Yong (University of St Andrews)

Participants: Askel Bagge Hvid (University of Copenhagen) , Ritu Vij (University of Aberdeen) , Phuong Anh Nguyen (University of St Andrews) , Jonathan Blom (University of Copenhagen) , Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London) , Karin Fierke (University of St. Andrews)

219 TH 19 Panel / Genocide: Issues, Debates and Responses

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: ILPG Working group

Chair: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)

Discussant: Henry Lovat (University of Glasgow)

220 TH 19 Panel / How peculiar is post-Brexit Northern Ireland?

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: Giada Lagana (Cardiff University)

Chair: Giada Lagana (Cardiff University)

221 TH 19 Panel / Integrity and Accountability in Feminist Protection Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities for Quality of Governance

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Conveners: Sabrina White (University of Leeds) , Camille Maubert (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Outi Donovan (Griffith University, Australia)

Discussant: Sabrina White (University of Leeds)

222 TH 19 Panel / Kurdish Activisms: Art, Memory, and Self-Defence in the Struggle Against Oppression

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Nisan Alici (University of Derby)

Chair: Nisan Alici (University of Derby)

223 TH 19 Panel / Middle East foreign policy and security

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Eyup Ersoy (University of Birmingham)

224 TH 19 Panel / Mundane Affects: making sense of banal, ordinary and non-spectacular lifeworlds

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast)

Chair: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast)

Discussant: Christine Agius (Swedish Defence University)

225 TH 19 Panel / Nations, Borders, Security

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Convener: Zeng Ee Liew (University of Surrey)

Chair: Zeng Ee Liew (University of Surrey)

226 TH 19 Panel / New theoretical and methodological approaches to emotions

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Convener: EPIR Working group

Chair: Marcelle Trote Martins (University of Manchester)

227 TH 19 Panel / Perpetual Crisis, World (Re)Ordering and Peace: Perspectives from the Margins

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Conveners: Siddharth Tripathi (University of Erfurt, Germany) , Patricia Rinck (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Chair: Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol)

228 TH 19 Panel / Proximity and/or Distance: Navigating Ethics and Methodology when Researching Militarized Spaces, Subjects and Participants

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Bibi Imre-Millei (Lund University, Sweden) , Elin Berg (Swedish Defence University)

Chair: Hannah West (Anglia Ruskin University)

229 TH 19 Conference event / Publishing in War and Security Studies: Sponsored by War Studies

Speakers: Andrew Mumford (University of Nottingham), Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University), Michael Williams (University of Syracuse), Wooyun Jo (Loughborough University)

230 TH 19 Panel / Secrecy and the (re)making of the global (dis)order

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: Elspeth Van Veeren (University of Bristol)

Chair: Jamie Hagen (University of Manchester)

231 TH 19 Panel / Securing the future? Environmental security in the 21st century

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Danielle Young (University of the Ozarks)

Chair: Danielle Young (University of the Ozarks)

232 TH 19 Panel / Security governance in policy and practice

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Convener: Larry Attree (Rethinking Security)

Chair: Larry Attree (Rethinking Security)

233 TH 19 Panel / Solidarities and revolutions: Queer, feminist and other forms of resistance organising

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)

234 TH 19 Panel / Spatialities and Relationalities of the International

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working group

Chair: Kieran O'Meara (University of St. Andrews)

235 TH 19 Panel / The IPE of global environmental governance

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

236 TH 19 Panel / Thinking about Gender, Security, and Foreign Policy in Contemporary Global Politics

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Khushi Singh Rathore (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

237 TH 19 Panel / Tools of Statecraft, Diplomacy, and Technology in US Foreign Policy

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: USFP Working group

Chair: USFP Working group

238 TH 19 Panel / US-China Tech Race: Actors, Strategies and Outcomes

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: Yvette To (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Chair: Catherine Yuk Ping Lo (Maastricht University)

239 TH 19 Panel / Unravelling migration narratives: examining policy and legal structures globally

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Timothy Edmunds (University of Bristol)

240 TH 19 Roundtable / War in the Middle East: Global and Regional Perspectives

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Speakers: Amnon Aran (City, University of London), Andrew Payne (City St. George's, University of London), Katerina Dalacoura (LSE), Sam Rose (Director of UNRWA, Gaza)

241 TH 19 Roundtable / “Dedicated to those friends with whom, out of a different loyalty, I must now openly disagree” – the political stakes of ‘beefs’

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol)

Participants: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) , Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University, Canada) , Koshka Duff (Nottingham) , John Narayan (KCL) , Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)

242 / 15 minute transition

243 TH 19 Conference event / Keynote: Professor Roland Bleiker (Queensland) - Seeing and Sensing World Politics SPONSORED BY THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY

Speaker: Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland)

244 TH 19 Conference event / Belfast Blitz History Talk by Scott Edgar, Editor of Wartime Northern Ireland

245 TH 19 Conference event / Contested Heritage: Curating conflict in and about Northern Ireland. The panel will be sponsored by the Journal of War and Culture Studies who will be funding an accompanying drinks reception. Although this is open to all conference delegates you need to register in advance to attend at https://indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/530/

246 / Ethics and World Politics Working Group Annual General Meeting

247 TH 19 Conference event / Environment and Climate Politics on the Brink: social enterprise visit and working group reception

Friday 20 June

248 FR 20 Panel / AI and the Decision to Wage War: Identifying and Mitigating Risks

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Convener: Toni Erskine (Australian National University)

Chair: Nicholas Wheeler (University of Birmingham)

249 FR 20 Roundtable / Carceral Presents and the Neoliberal University

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Chair: Neslihan Yaklav (Queen's University Belfast)

Participants: Sarah El Bulbeisi (Orient Institut Beirut) , Umut Yildirim (Geneva Graduate Institute) , Isabel Käser (Universität Bern) , Paniz Musawi Natanzi (The University of Pennsylvania)

250 FR 20 Panel / China in the international political economy

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

251 FR 20 Panel / Comparative Perspectives on Conscientious Objection in Turkey, Ukraine and Russia

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Convener: Dina Bolokan (Universität Basel)

Chair: Dina Bolokan (Universität Basel)

252 FR 20 Panel / Critical and transformative pedagogies in IR

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Madeleine Le Bourdon (University of Leeds)

253 FR 20 Panel / Ruminations on war, violence and unmaking of political space in a time of permacrisis

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Conveners: Tiina Hyyppä (University of Helsinki) , Birgit Poopuu (Tallinn University)

Chair: Tiina Hyyppä (University of Helsinki)

254 FR 20 Panel / European Security: National Foreign Policies in a Changing Context

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Lucia Frigo (Royal Holloway, University of London)

255 FR 20 Panel / Facets of Friendship in International Politics

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Convener: Felix Berenskötter (King's College London)

Chair: Felix Berenskötter (King's College London)

256 FR 20 Panel / Feminist critical engagements with culture, art and world politics

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (University of Edinburgh)

257 FR 20 Panel / Foreign affairs, theoretical perspectives, and the domestic domain

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Geoffrey Swenson (City, University of London)

258 FR 20 Panel / Hidden Spaces of Gender, Peace and Security: Panel Two

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: Hanna Ketola (Newcastle)

Chair: Heidi Riley (University College Dublin)

259 FR 20 Panel / How fascism and whiteness encounter territory, property and land

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Akanksha Mehta (Goldsmiths)

260 FR 20 Roundtable / Laboratories or worldmakers? What are the Balkans in and for International Studies?

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Chair: Catherine Baker (University of Hull)

Participants: Maja Davidovic (Cardiff University) , Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol) , Agata Domachowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University) , Vjosa Musliu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB))

261 FR 20 Panel / Local productions of security

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Alice Finden

262 FR 20 Panel / Norms, Politics and Law: Processes, Intentions and Impacts

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: ILPG Working group

Chair: Melek Saral (Social Sciences University of Ankara and University of Warwick)

Discussant: Melek Saral (Social Sciences University of Ankara and University of Warwick)

263 FR 20 Panel / Nuclear Weapons and Regional Security: Ideas and Challenges

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford) , Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)

Chair: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

264 FR 20 Panel / On Decolonial IR: Perspectives from India

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Convener: Abhishek Choudhary (University of Delhi)

Chair: Abhishek Choudhary (University of Delhi)

265 FR 20 Panel / Operationalising peace building and stabilisation

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: david curran (Coventry University)

Chair: david curran (Coventry University)

266 FR 20 Panel / Participatory Action Research and the Future of IR

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Juan Mario Díaz (University of Sheffield)

Chair: Juan Mario Díaz (University of Sheffield)

267 FR 20 Panel / Peace, Conflict, and Development

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Convener: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

Chair: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

268 FR 20 Panel / Power Shifts and their Implications

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: Robert Ralston (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Hillary Briffa (King's College London)

269 FR 20 Roundtable / Resisting Complicity with Genocide in Universities and Academic Spaces (Part 1): Activism and Pedagogy

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster) , Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick) , Leila Mouhib (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) , Amira Abdelhamid , Simon Campbell (Aston University)

270 FR 20 Roundtable / Security policy & practice: lessons from the Good Friday agreement

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Chair: Sean McGearty (Maynooth University, Ireland)

Participants: Marie Breen-Smyth (Surrey; 2021-2024 Independent Reviewer of National Security Arrangements for Northern Ireland and of the Justice and Security (NI) Act 2005) , Fionnuala ni Aolain (former UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Honorary Kings Counsel, Regents Professor, Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society (University of Minnesota); Professor, Queen's University of Belfast) , Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University) , Catherine Turner (Durham University) , Davy Beck (Asst Chief Const, Police Service of Northern Ireland)

271 FR 20 Panel / Technological Trends and Future War

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Neil Cooper (Kent State University)

Chair: Neil Cooper (Kent State University)

272 FR 20 Panel / The Troubles: A regional perspective

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Hannah West (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Hannah West (Anglia Ruskin University)

273 FR 20 Panel / War and Nature III: On the Eco-Social Costs of Warfare and Military Build-Up [Panel 3]

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Conveners: Esther Marijnen (Wageningen University, Netherlands) , Jan Selby (University of Leeds)

Chair: Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)

Discussant: Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)

274 / 15 minute transition

275 / Exhibition hall open

276 / Refreshment Break

277 FR 20 Panel / Academic standards in the time of ‘Fast Research’

Sponsor: Review of International Studies

Speakers: David Mainwaring, Lauren Rogers (University of Edinburgh), Monika Barthwal-Datta (UNSW Sydney/ International Studies Quarterly), Soumita Basu (South Asian University), Toni Erskine (Australian National University)

278 FR 20 Panel / Civil Wars and Non-State Actors

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Harry MacNamara (Loughborough University)

Chair: Harry MacNamara (Loughborough University)

279 FR 20 Roundtable / Complicity with Genocide in Universities and Academic Spaces (Part 2): Silencing Palestine

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University)

Participants: Heba Youssef (University of Brighton) , Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield) , James Foley (Glasgow Caledonian University) , Alice Finden (Durham University) , Andrew Delatolla (University of Leeds)

280 FR 20 Panel / Conflict-Related Gender and Sexualized Violence in a Diverse World: Seeing and Feeling

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Laura Sjoberg (Oxford University)

281 FR 20 Panel / Creating Ontological Security in International Relations

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Convener: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen)

Chair: Brent Steele (The University of Utah)

Discussant: Nina C. Krickel-Choi (Lund University)

282 FR 20 Panel / Gendering (counter)terrorism

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Xavier Mathieu (University of Sheffield)

283 FR 20 Roundtable / Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Kurdish Conflict: Insights, Lessons, and Broader Implications for Middle Eastern Conflicts

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Chair: Gunes Dasli (Loughborough University)

Participants: Cem Koc (Ulster University) , Nisan Alici (University of Derby) , Gunes Dasli (Loughborough University) , Hakan Sandal-Wilson (London School of Economics)

284 FR 20 Panel / New actors and issues in global finance and fintech

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

285 FR 20 Panel / New methods of migration control

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Samah Rafiq (King's College London)

286 FR 20 Panel / Nuclear Deterrence and Coercion in the era of strategic competition

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford) , Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)

Chair: Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

287 FR 20 Panel / Pop culture and IR: violence and/in popular culture

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Conveners: Moa Peldan (Swedish Defence University) , Elin Berg (Swedish Defence University)

Chair: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire)

Discussant: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)

288 FR 20 Roundtable / Problems without Passports: Transnational Threats and Security Challenges

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Chair: Hillary Briffa (King's College London)

Participants: Jessie Hamill-Stewart (University of Bath) , Maria Nizzero (RUSI) , Jon Roozenbeek (King's College London) , Maria Julia Trombetta (University of Nottingham Ningbo China)

289 FR 20 Roundtable / Reflections on training military personnel for peace operations

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Chair: david curran (Coventry University)

Participants: Sukanya Podder (King’s College London) , Gena Sturgon (Coventry University) , Georgina Holmes (The Open University) , Anastasia Prokhorova (European University Institute)

290 FR 20 Roundtable / Reinventing the West through the Balkans: Balkanization, Euro-Atlantic Policies, and the (Western) Balkans

Sponsor: South East Europe Working Group

Chair: Liridona Veliu Ashiku (University of Notre Dame)

Participants: Catherine Baker (University of Hull) , Sladjana Lazic (University of Innsbruck, Austria) , Maria Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast) , Liridona Veliu Ashiku (University of Notre Dame)

291 FR 20 Panel / Religion meets Time: Colonial and decolonial hi/stories

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)

292 FR 20 Panel / Societal resilience and challenging power

Sponsor: East Europe and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Victoria Hudson (King's College London)

Chair: Victoria Hudson (King's College London)

293 FR 20 Panel / Southern Strategies: Foreign Policy Perspectives of Global South States

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Conveners: Thais Doria (University of Warwick) , Nicholas Lees (Department of Politics, University of Liverpool)

Chair: Nicholas Lees (Department of Politics, University of Liverpool)

Discussant: Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

294 FR 20 Panel / Splintered Realities and Digital War: Infrastructures of Conflict and Community

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Matthew Ford (Swedish Defence University)

Chair: Shane Brighton (Queen's University Belfast)

Discussant: Shane Brighton (Queen's University Belfast)

295 FR 20 Roundtable / Teaching emotions in Politics and IR

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Chair: EPIR Working group

Participants: Simon Koschut (Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen) , Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of York) , Amanda Beattie (Aston University) , Naomi Head (University of Glasgow) , Norma Rossi (University of St Andrews)

296 FR 20 Roundtable / The Future of the ‘English School’ Approach to International Studies: Continuity, Adaptation, and Transformation in a Global World.

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group

Chair: Kieran O'Meara (University of St. Andrews)

Participants: Mateusz Ambrożek (Vistula University, Warsaw) , Seán Molloy (University of Kent) , John Williams (Durham University) , Aleksandra Spalińska (The University of Sussex)

297 FR 20 Panel / The Myths of Certainty: Myth, Magic, and Uncertainty in International Relations

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: Aishling Mc Morrow (Queen's University Belfast)

Chair: Aishling Mc Morrow (Queen's University Belfast)

Discussant: Aishling Mc Morrow (Queen's University Belfast)

298 FR 20 Panel / The politics of diasporas and and diasporas within global politics

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Marius Mehrl (University of Leeds)

299 FR 20 Panel / Transatlantic Security Challenges during Trump's Second Mandate

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)

300 FR 20 / Working group convener meeting

301 FR 20 Panel / World order and collective organic intellectuals

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Stuart Shields (The University of Manchester)

Chair: Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (University of Liverpool)

302 / Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group meeting for workshop consultation

12:15 Lunch - Sponsored by the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE)

303 FR 20 Panel / Accountability in Contemporary Conflict

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Convener: ILPG Working group

Chair: James Gow

304 FR 20 Roundtable / Anti-militarism in a time of genocide

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Chair: James Eastwood (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Charlie Thomas (Queen Mary University of London) , Chris Rossdale (University of Bristol) , Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster) , Izadora Xavier (IRC-BIRTS, Freie Universität)

305 FR 20 Roundtable / Beyond Postcolonial Critique: Theoretical and and Political Alliances between Hindutva and Zionism

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Andreas Papamichail (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews) , Howie Rechavia-Taylor (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Ida Roland Birkvad (London School of Economics and Political Science) , Darcy Leigh (University of Sussex) , Akanksha Mehta (Goldsmiths) , Shikha Dilawri (London School of Economics and Political Science)

306 FR 20 Panel / Change and stagnation in the politics of extractivism

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Christopher McAteer (York University, Toronto)

Chair: Yelda Ercandirli (University of Leeds)

307 FR 20 Roundtable / Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group -Early Career Paper Prize 2025

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Niharika Pandit (Queen Mary University of London)

Participants: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews) , Priya Dixit (Virginia Tech) , Lucy Rebecca Cannon (University of Warwick) , Asad Zaidi (University of Westminster)

308 FR 20 Panel / Connections and Disconnections between Migration and Violence

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Arpita Chakraborty (Dublin City University)

Chair: Arpita Chakraborty (Dublin City University)

Discussant: Mirna Guha (Anglia Ruskin University)

309 FR 20 Roundtable / Criminalising Ecocide: The Rome Statute and Beyond

Sponsor: International Law and Politics Working Group

Chair: Suwita Hani Randhawa (University of the West of England)

Participants: Ievgeniia Kopytsia (University of Oxford) , Alex Hoseason (Aston University) , Martin Crook (University of the West of England) , Suwita Hani Randhawa (University of the West of England)

310 FR 20 Panel / Critical perspectives on contemporary capitalist accumulation

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

311 FR 20 Panel / Culture, Politics, and Identity in the ‘Celtic Fringe’

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Convener: Robert Saunders (State University of New York)

Chair: Cahir O’Doherty (University of Groningen)

Discussant: Michael Toomey (University of Glasgow)

312 FR 20 Panel / Effects of humanitarianism in action – from top down to grassroots approaches

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Miriam Bradley (University of Manchester)

313 FR 20 Panel / Feminist approaches to visual and technological world politics,

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond (University of Edinburgh)

314 FR 20 Panel / Foreign policy, identity, and domestic actors

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: MARIANNA Charountaki (University of Lincoln)

Chair: Giulia Sciorati (London School of Economics and Political Science)

315 FR 20 Roundtable / Future Peace: Peacemaking in an era of multipolar geopolitics, authoritarianism, and “new” actors

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Chair: Roger Mac Ginty (Durham University)

Participants: Kodili Chukwuma (Durham University) , Oliver Richmond (University of Manchester) , Shrishti Rana (University of St Andrews) , david curran (Coventry University)

316 FR 20 Panel / German foreign policy

Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: FPWG Working group

Chair: Rachel Herring (Aston University)

317 FR 20 Panel / Narratives and the Making of US Foreign Policy and National Security

Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Working Group

Convener: USFP Working group

Chair: Georg Löfflmann (Queen Mary University of London)

318 FR 20 Panel / New challenges and approaches in global IR pedagogy

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Blake Lawrinson (University of Leeds)

319 FR 20 Panel / Peace and Conflict on the African Continent

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)

320 FR 20 Panel / Power, alliance and security in Asia

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Catherine Jones (University of St Andrews)

321 FR 20 Roundtable / Reflecting on 50 years of security scholarship

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Chair: Thomas Martin (Open University)

Participants: Karin Fierke (University of St. Andrews) , Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast) , Jamie Barrow Gaskarth (The Open University) , Jan Selby (University of Leeds) , Michael Cox (London School of Economics)

322 FR 20 Roundtable / Spaces of refuge in the corridors of Higher Education

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Chair: Amanda Beattie (Aston University)

Participants: Kate Schick (Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington) , Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex) , Laura Mills (University of St Andrews) , Elena Sohanpal (Aston University) , Laura McLeod (University of Manchester) , Luke Marlow (Aston University)

323 FR 20 Panel / Stigma and Discourse in Nuclear Politics

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Conveners: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University) , Aniruddha Saha (University of Oxford)

Chair: Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University)

324 FR 20 Panel / The state, politics and governance of political violence

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Rabea Khan (Liverpool John Moores University)

325 FR 20 Panel / Transnational governance from metropoles to diaspora and back

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Sarah Gharib Seif (University of St Andrews)

326 / 15 minute transition

327 / Refreshment Break

328 FR 20 Panel / Beyond the liberal international order

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Ilan Baron (Durham University)

329 FR 20 Panel / Bordering and migration control

Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Pia Riggirozzi (University of Southampton)

330 FR 20 Panel / Colonialism, counterterrorism and the emergency

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Amna Kaleem (University of Sheffield)

331 FR 20 Roundtable / Connectivity and collaboration: potential avenues for the future of WPS

Sponsor: Security Policy and Practice

Chair: Florence Waller - Carr (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Participants: Danielle Roberts (Reclaim the Agenda) , Jamie Hagen (University of Manchester) , Punam Yadav (Univarsity College London) , Laura McLeod (University of Manchester) , Florence Waller - Carr (London School of Economics and Political Science)

332 FR 20 Roundtable / Decolonial, anti-racist and abolitionist pedagogies in International Relations Part I: Experiences, Experiments and Responses

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Leila Mouhib (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Participants: Pinar Emine Dönmez (De Montfort University) , Marcia F. Camargo (Federal University of São Paulo) , Heba Youssef (University of Brighton) , Luke Bhatia (The University of Manchester)

333 FR 20 Panel / Doctrine & Strategy

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Martin Thorp (Loughborough University)

Chair: Martin Thorp (Loughborough University)

334 FR 20 Panel / Emerging Military Technologies in Theory and Practice: Critical Approaches to Knowledge and Governance

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Conveners: Ishmael Bhila (Paderborn University, Germany) , Natasha Karner (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

Chair: Natasha Karner (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

335 FR 20 Panel / European Security and the War in Ukraine

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: ESWG Working group

Chair: Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth)

336 FR 20 Panel / Global Vulnerabilities and Challenges to Orders

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Convener: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University)

Chair: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University)

337 FR 20 Panel / Infrastructural violence and settler spaces of control, Palestine and beyond

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London)

338 FR 20 Panel / Innovations and Puzzles in Queer International Relations

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Convener: GIRWG Working group

Chair: Laura Sjoberg (Oxford University)

339 FR 20 Panel / Maritime Governance and Security: Zones, Hotspots, and Practices

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Conveners: Catherine Jones (University of St Andrews) , Charlie Pearson (Queen's University Belfast)

Chair: Catherine Jones (University of St Andrews)

Discussant: Timothy Edmunds (University of Bristol)

340 FR 20 Panel / New advances in theoretical and historical IR

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: John Williams (Durham University)

341 FR 20 Panel / Policy, Politics, and Development

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Convener: Ivica Petrikova (Royal Holloway University of London)

Chair: Ivica Petrikova (Royal Holloway University of London)

342 FR 20 Panel / Producing enemies

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Mustapha Pasha (University of Aberystwyth)

343 FR 20 Panel / Russia and the West: identity construction; disinformation and Western policy dilemmas.

Sponsor: East Europe and Eurasian Security Working Group

Convener: Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)

Chair: Andrew Mumford (University of Nottingham)

Discussant: James Headley (University of Otago New Zealand)

344 FR 20 Roundtable / Reform, feminism and radical critical thinking: Affective identity of female veteran scholars re-encountering the military institution

Sponsor: Critical Military Studies Working Group

Chair: Ross McGarry (University of Liverpool)

Participants: Hannah West (Anglia Ruskin University) , Sophy Antrobus (Freeman Air and Space Institute, Kings College London) , Amy Hill (Newcastle university) , Annie Geisow (Oxford Brookes University) , Nancy Taber (Brock University)

345 FR 20 Panel / Rethinking Ontological (In)Security: Towards New Theoretical Horizons

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Conveners: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick) , Nicolai Gellwitzki (University of York)

Chair: Anne-Marie Houde (University of Oxford)

346 FR 20 Panel / The European Union and its foreign relations

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: IPEG Working Group

Chair: IPEG Working Group

347 FR 20 Roundtable / The Global Politics of Tourism: Contemporary Reflections

Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Chair: Audrey Reeves (Virginia Tech)

Participants: Debbie Lisle (Queen's University Belfast) , Sarah Becklake (Leibniz University Hannover) , Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) , Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University, Denmark) , Kristin Lozanski (Kings University College at Western University)

348 FR 20 Panel / The Politics of Speaking and Thinking Climate Change: Who, What and How?

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Convener: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group (bisa)

Chair: Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London)

Discussant: Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London)

349 FR 20 Roundtable / The Third Nuclear Age: Understanding and Addressing Contemporary Nuclear Challenges

Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group

Chair: Ludovica Castelli (University of Leicester)

Participants: Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow) , Luba Zatsepina (Liverpool John Moores University) , Andrew Futter (University of Leicester) , Carolina Pantoliano (University of Glasgow) , Shivani Singh (Aberystwyth University) , Cameron Hunter (University of Copenhagen)

350 FR 20 Panel / Understanding peacekeeping operations

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Daeun Jung (University of Warwick)

351 FR 20 Panel / Visual Iconicity, Methodology, and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Working Group

Conveners: Marianna Espinós Blasco (Ulster University) , Janica Ezzeldien (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Léa Lamotte (University of Bern)

352 FR 20 Roundtable / We walk through gardens: 'rooting' IR scholarship in caring ecologies

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Chair: Q Manivannan (University of St Andrews)

Participants: Karoline Färber (King’s College London) , Madita Standke-Erdmann (King's College London) , Emma Murphy (University of Notre Dame) , Q Manivannan (University of St Andrews)

353 FR 20 Panel / Women, Agency and the Dynamics of Civilian Protection

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Aurélie Broeckerhoff (Coventry University)

Discussant: PKPBG Working group

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355 FR 20 Panel / Border Struggles: Criminalisation, Mobility and Solidarity

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Cetta Mainwaring (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Cetta Mainwaring (University of Edinburgh)

356 FR 20 Panel / Colonial Violence and the African Renaissance

Sponsor: Africa and International Studies Working Group

Convener: Lesley Masters (Nottingham Trent University)

Chair: Tarela Ike (Teesside University)

357 FR 20 Panel / Cultures of Representation

Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group

Convener: Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London)

Chair: Stephan Engelkamp (King's College London)

358 FR 20 Roundtable / Decolonial, anti-racist and abolitionist pedagogies in International Relations Part II: Frameworks and theories

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Chair: Heba Youssef (University of Brighton)

Participants: Amira Abdelhamid , Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) , Jenna Marshall (KCL) , Marianela Barrios Aquino (University of Portsmouth)

359 FR 20 Panel / Emotional Hierarchies in International Relations

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Anne Flaspöler (Durham University) , Alice Finden , Kavi Abraham (Durham University)

Chair: Karin Fierke (University of St. Andrews)

Discussant: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)

360 FR 20 Panel / Framing domination and narratives of colonial control

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Convener: CPD Working group

Chair: James Eastwood (Queen Mary University of London)

361 FR 20 Panel / IPE of Finance

Sponsor: International Political Economy Working Group

Convener: Scott James (King's College London)

Chair: Scott James (King's College London)

362 FR 20 Panel / Interrogating security from a relational standpoint: perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

Sponsor: East Europe and Eurasian Security Working Group

Conveners: Birgit Poopuu (Tallinn University) , Benjamin Klasche (Tallinn University, Estonia)

Chair: Birgit Poopuu (Tallinn University)

Discussant: Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol)

363 FR 20 Panel / Interrogating the 'wisdom' of counterterrorism methodologies

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Ritu Vij (University of Aberdeen)

364 FR 20 Roundtable / Masculinities in Conflict and Peacebuilding

Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group

Chair: Philipp Schulz (University of Bremen)

Participants: Sara de Jong (University of York) , Henri Myrttinen (University of Bremen) , Fionnuala ni Aolain (former UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Honorary Kings Counsel, Regents Professor, Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society (University of Minnesota); Professor, Queen's University of Belfast) , Heidi Riley (University College Dublin) , Pınar Erdem (University of Bremen) , Kara Hooser (The Ohio State University)

365 FR 20 Panel / Military Assistance and Alliance Building

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Marissa Martin (King's College London)

Chair: Marissa Martin (King's College London)

366 FR 20 Panel / New Directions in Development

Sponsor: Global Politics and Development

Convener: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

Chair: Melita Lazell (University of Portmsouth)

367 FR 20 Panel / Ordinary Affects of Global Reactionary Politics

Sponsor: Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group

Conveners: Elisabeth Moerking (University of Bristol) , Alister Wedderburn (University of Glasgow) , Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)

Chair: Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol)

368 FR 20 Panel / Regulating Threats through Artificial Intelligence: Transformations in Governance and Security

Sponsor: International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Conveners: Anne-Sophie Jung (University of Leeds) , Laura Jung (University of Graz, Austria)

Chair: Laura Jung (University of Graz, Austria)

Discussant: Anne-Sophie Jung (University of Leeds)

369 FR 20 Panel / Researching in a world on fire: What are we doing?

Sponsor: Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Conveners: John Barry (Queen's University Belfast) , Charlotte Weatherill (The Open University)

Chair: John Barry (Queen's University Belfast)

370 FR 20 Panel / Rethinking war knowledges: Weapons, practices, peacekeepers

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Chris Brown (London School of Economics)

371 FR 20 Panel / Shaping International Order? Opportunities and challenges to the EU’s global influence

Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Convener: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)

Chair: Alister Miskimmon (Queens University Belfast)

Discussant: Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway)

372 FR 20 Panel / Simulation in IR pedagogy: Promises and perils

Sponsor: Learning and Teaching Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Catherine Jones (University of St Andrews)

373 FR 20 Panel / Sovereignty, democracy and protest movements in global politics

Sponsor: British International Studies Association

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Louis Stockwell (University of Warwick)

374 FR 20 Panel / The Politics and Practice of Human Rights and Humanitarianism

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Nancy Annan (Coventry University)

375 FR 20 Panel / The global dynamics of counterterrorism

Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Convener: CST Working group

Chair: Marine Gueguin (Leeds Beckett University)

376 FR 20 Panel / Theoretical approaches to peacebuilding

Sponsor: Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

Convener: PKPBG Working group

Chair: Dylan O'Driscoll (Coventry University)

377 FR 20 Roundtable / Understanding Identities in the Middle East: The Role of Structure and Agency

Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Chair: Zeidon Alkinani (Georgetown University in Qatar)

Participants: Abdulla Al-Kalisy (University of St. Andrews) , Ghadeer Awad (University of Michigan) , Wassim Nabouls (University of St Andrews) , Zeidon Alkinani (Georgetown University in Qatar)

378 FR 20 Panel / Why Wars Occur and How They End?

Sponsor: War Studies Working Group

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Simon Rushton (University of Sheffield)